With the G3’s powerful alarm functions, you can notify the appropriate personnel of impending problems before they occur.

You can choose to email alarm messages, or use the G3’s SMS messaging function to text message one or several people simultaneously. With the built-in SMS relay facility, any response given to the original text message is relayed automatically to everyone on the distribution list. This allows a team of responders to know who has taken ownership of a given situation.

Cut support costs by updating your equipment from your home office. The G3’s standard Ethernet port allows you to update its database remotely. By enabling serial port sharing, you can also use the connection to download to any connected PLC or drive.

Gone are the days when you had to use PC based SCADA software to monitor your process. The G3’s built-in data logger allows you to monitor tags at an adjustable rate, and automatically time/date stamp them. The information is stored in simple CSV files, allowing you open them with any spreadsheet application, such as Microsoft Excel.

Interested in the sequence that occurred right before a machine failure? The G3’s event logger allows you to track changes to its data tags, providing critical information for troubleshooting.

With three serial ports standard, (up to five with optional expansion card), and an Ethernet port capable of running four protocols, the G3 is the most powerful communications platform available today. Feel free to pick the best-in-class PLC, drive, temperature controllers, etc. for your next machine. The Red Lion G3 will make sure they communicate seamlessly to one another.

While we do our best to create the most powerful interface on the market, we can’t always keep up with our customers’ imaginations. We’ve thus included a powerful programming system to allow you to implement any additional functionality that your application may need. The C-like programming language features blistering performance, advanced math capability, and provides direct access to many of the G3's unique features, like the CompactFlash card and the multiple serial ports. You can even create TCP/IP connections to extract data from websites!