Vacuum Chamber Faceplate | Custom Web Control | WinCC Unified & V8

Custom Web Control

About Vacuum Chamber Faceplate

Vacuum Chamber Faceplate is a read-only Custom Web Control that gives operators a complete view of a vacuum chamber recipe at a glance. It combines a recipe status banner, a segmented step progress strip, action and recipe timers, temperature and pressure instruments, and shared-pump interlock chips. Every value is driven by mapped chamber process values, so the faceplate always reflects the live state of the process.

Key Features

• Recipe status banner: Shows the current state text selected by statusTextId from the statusTexts list, with recipeBusy, recipeDone and recipeError handled in order of priority.
• Segmented step progress: Displays activeRecipeStep against totalRecipeSteps for recipes of up to 15 steps.
• Action and recipe timers: actionTimeRemaining and recipeDuration appear in dedicated cards, while actionTimeRemainingSec drives the progress track.
• Temperature instrument: Compares actualTemp with targetTemp and shows the signed deviation.
• Pressure instrument: Compares actualPressure with targetPressure on a logarithmic scale suited to vacuum ranges.
• Interlock chips: waitingForOtherChamber and vacuumIsolatedByOther show shared-pump status at a glance.

Customization

Chamber name, panel headings, tag names, units, row labels and chip texts are set as properties in the engineering tool, so one faceplate design can serve several chambers. The unknownStateText property provides a fallback banner message for unmapped status IDs, and backgroundColor sets the faceplate base color. The control has no runtime settings panel and no commands, keeping it a clean operational view.

Use Cases

Well suited to vacuum coating and heat-treatment lines, recipe supervision at operator panels, control room overview displays, and multi-chamber installations where chambers share one roughing pump.

Compatibility

Works with WinCC Unified (TIA Portal) and WinCC V8. Bind each property to the matching PLC or HMI tag in the engineering tool.

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## Current version: v1 (2026-10-18)