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- Windows, real time
- PID loops
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- Replacing people
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- Software quality
- Where do we go from here?
- Why pay?
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Citect communicating with mySQL database
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By Michael Griffin on 10 November, 2007 - 8:49 pm -
By Michael Griffin on 10 November, 2007 - 8:49 pm -
In reply to Nathan Boeger: 4096 columns is not normally a serious limitation. For most...
By Nathan Boeger on 10 November, 2007 - 2:50 pm - MySQL 5 has a hard limit of 4096 columns, but the actual limit is less depending on the amount of...
Monitoring distance between cars/vehicles
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By Nathan Boeger on 10 November, 2007 - 8:49 pm -
By Nathan Boeger on 10 November, 2007 - 8:49 pm -
Or even more high tech - a laser rangefinder. Hard to interface to an automated system on a car,...
We are in the middle of design for one of the most complex fish hatcheries ever to be built in North America. Our engineering consultant is recommending standard PLC and SCADA alarm and control system but one of our staff is really pushing a WinPLC based system...
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By Michael Griffin on 10 November, 2007 - 8:48 pm -
By Michael Griffin on 10 November, 2007 - 8:48 pm -
In reply to Bruce Durdle: Sorry. I guess I didn't get the joke at first. I was looking at the...
By Nathan Boeger on 10 November, 2007 - 2:51 pm - Cumon Walt, he's not looking for a broad stroked BS answer about PACs, he's asking about a specific...
By Roy on 10 November, 2007 - 2:51 pm - Jeff,
Like most others I wouldn't like to rely on a PC based system. A PC is fine for display if...
Hi: I have a small plant that needs to control the caps for better PF to avoid Power company PF charges.
Is Iconics better than Wonderware, Citect, Intellution?
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By Nathan Boeger on 10 November, 2007 - 2:49 pm -
By Nathan Boeger on 10 November, 2007 - 2:49 pm -
From a customer's perspective it's good that WW support would give you the benefit of the doubt....
By SM on 10 November, 2007 - 12:03 am - Try contacting them on a holiday or one of their holidays. They have holidays that are a few days...
I'm having some diffculties in getting the signals of the PLC back to the DCS
Pallets moving on a conveyor take too long to coast to a stop without any braking system. A very low cost braking method is needed.
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By Phil Corso, PE on 10 November, 2007 - 2:39 pm -
By Phil Corso, PE on 10 November, 2007 - 2:39 pm -
Responding to Art Terpstra's 09-Nov (01:11) question... this subject has been covered in great...
By William Hinton on 10 November, 2007 - 2:38 pm - Search “dc injection braking” to find complete systems or simply design your own.
There is an...
By Roy on 10 November, 2007 - 2:37 pm - You could experiment with a crude form of DC injection using just a diode and resistor into one...
Is there an easy way to convert RSLogix 500 files to ABB Freelance files
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By Curt Wuollet on 10 November, 2007 - 2:37 pm -
By Curt Wuollet on 10 November, 2007 - 2:37 pm -
Hear, hear!
Sometimes a particular feature can make an enormous difference in solving a particular...
working of SPPA-T1000
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By Curt Wuollet on 10 November, 2007 - 2:32 pm -
By Curt Wuollet on 10 November, 2007 - 2:32 pm -
I would address only the hdd issue:
What else would you use? Commodity hard drives are an...
Trying to find an elegent solution to use RSView State display
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