Wonderware InTouch 10.5 (now part of the portfolio) is a veteran Human-Machine Interface (HMI) software widely recognized for its long-standing market dominance and legendary backward compatibility. While it has been the "world's number one HMI" for over three decades, its aging architecture remains a point of contention among modern automation engineers. Core Features and Capabilities Situational Awareness Graphics
The architecture of InTouch 10.5 is fundamentally distributed, built upon three core components:
In the world of industrial automation, InTouch 10.5 was a reliable workhorse, but tonight, it felt more like a stubborn beast. Elias was trying to solve a persistent lag in the Historical Trend Wizard wonderware+intouch+105
Uses the Historical Logging Wizard to define which tags to log to the Wonderware Historian or a CSV file.
You are running v10.5 on an obsolete OS. A Windows Update will break the Sentinel driver. Set Group Policies to disable updates permanently. Wonderware InTouch 10
InTouch 105 suffers from memory leaks. Set up a scheduled task (via a script) to restart WindowViewer nightly at 2:00 AM during downtime. Use a master/slave redundancy model to swap between two PCs.
Enhanced Script Editor: Features auto-complete, syntax highlighting, and line numbering to increase engineering productivity. Elias was trying to solve a persistent lag
Tag Support: Capable of handling up to 60,000 tags with remote tagname referencing. Core Components
Running 15-year-old software comes with headaches. Here are the top issues for Wonderware InTouch 105 and how to fix them.