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- Windows, real time
- PID loops
- PCs vs. PLCs
- Replacing people
- MS 'monopoly'?
- Software quality
- Where do we go from here?
- Why pay?
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Retrofitting CNC controllers and want to use Linux
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By Vladimir Cheshmedjiev on 8 June, 2004 - 7:51 pm -
Hi,
I saw you are familiar with Hydrapath III. I would like to use milling machine MHP with...
By scott on 29 January, 2004 - 12:22 am -
Yes,
I am retrofitting a hydraulic Moog 3000. Does the "83" represent the year? I...
I am working to control a motor by RFOC algorithm using NN. Could you send me matlab files of simulation of RFOC. Thanks a lot!
Best regards,
Nguyen Quoc Vo.
Best regards,
Nguyen Quoc Vo.
I have been trying very hard to forecast what contortions
FOSS introducers will be exposed to before the inevitable adoption...
FOSS introducers will be exposed to before the inevitable adoption...
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By Michael Griffin on 25 May, 2004 - 11:01 am -
I will leave the philosophical discussions to others, and just discuss a few
practical points...
By Petr Baum on 24 May, 2004 - 12:06 pm -
Tim,
your response is quite interesting, but I think that it is based on a few serious...
By Jiri Baum on 24 May, 2004 - 11:18 am -
Hello,
I'm combining responses to about three of Tim Linnell's posts here.
I also get a bit...
By Curt Wuollet on 24 May, 2004 - 9:43 am -
Hi Tim
> On May 20, 2004, Curt Wuollet wrote:
>
>>Biting sarcasm
...
By Linnell, Tim on 21 May, 2004 - 5:36 pm -
On May 20, 2004, Curt Wuollet wrote:
> Biting sarcasm
> aside, and the point about leading...
By Linnell, Tim on 21 May, 2004 - 5:27 pm -
Jiri,
If you read my post, you'll see that I don't discuss morality. Curt does (perpetually)....
By Jiri Baum on 20 May, 2004 - 11:49 pm -
Hello,
On May 19, 2004, Tim Linnell wrote:
> Well, Curt, as we don't really have any viable...
By Curt Wuollet on 20 May, 2004 - 6:15 pm -
Hi Tim
You bring out one of the things that will drive adoption if experience in the rest of the...
By Jake Brodsky on 20 May, 2004 - 3:06 pm -
I see industrial automation products lagging behind IT for years to come. However, I envision the...
By Linnell, Tim on 19 May, 2004 - 11:22 pm -
Well, Curt, as we don't really have any viable OSS product offerings yet (other than at the...
By Rainer Lehrig on 19 May, 2004 - 10:39 pm -
I'm not good in weather forecasting more than a week. And I feel nobody is.
We have to do it.
...
I want to use the OPC Server part from the Wizcon Scada package. Anybody know how?
Looking for an opensource solution for a ControlMicrosystems ScadaPack32...
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By Rainer Lehrig on 17 May, 2004 - 3:50 pm -
Since ScadaPack32 uses Modbus/TCP you may use
http://pvbrowser.org
For Modbus support look...
An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in WindowsApplication2.exe
Additional information: QueryInterface for interface OPCAutomation.IOPCGroups failed.
Additional information: QueryInterface for interface OPCAutomation.IOPCGroups failed.
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By new2this on 7 May, 2004 - 11:27 pm -
This won't end your problems but try the KEPWARE site. Download the simple Kepware client 'Simple...
By mark on 28 March, 2004 - 2:49 pm -
Hi Koekoek, Someone monitoring this list MAY give you the answer you want but you can post your...
By Koekoek on 25 March, 2004 - 10:10 pm -
I suffer the same problem but I'm not a member of the OPC Foundation. Is there an other way to get...
By mark on 20 March, 2004 - 1:20 pm -
Hi Marcio,
I have not heard of the Disconnect issue (which doesn't mean it doesn't exist). I...
By Marcio Callejon on 18 March, 2004 - 12:52 am -
Mark,
I've already downloaded the new OPC Automation from OPC Foundation and It works fine. But...
By mark on 9 March, 2004 - 12:46 am -
Hello Marcio,
You are thinking right. The OPC Automation interface is not resolving to what is...
By Marcio Callejon on 4 March, 2004 - 2:47 pm -
I'm having the same problem with the OPC Automation when I use vb.net 2003. I checked that any...
Using Novotek OPC for connecting WinCC with SattCon PLCs via COMLI. We are able to read Digital I/Os. But we are not able to read Analog registers. It will be great help to us if any one can guide us.
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By Curt Wuollet on 29 April, 2004 - 2:59 pm -
Definition please: What do any of the products mentioned have to do with Open Control?
Regards
...
By Jorge Velez on 28 April, 2004 - 12:13 am -
You can send Tags from WinCC to others
http://www.gratisweb.com/picol/wintag.htm
...
By Anonymous on 7 April, 2004 - 6:23 pm -
Goran,
Thanks. I got help from Novotek Sweden and could proceed in the project successfully....
By Goran Andersson on 2 April, 2004 - 8:47 pm -
Hi
We at Novotek can probably help you.
Where did you buy the OPC driver.
Call me for contact...
Using OPC in VB.NET
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By Eric on 21 April, 2004 - 6:03 pm -
It may be too late now, but Visual OPC .NET from Visavi (...
By Gerry on 16 April, 2004 - 1:44 pm -
The problem is OPC uses COM and .NET doesn't.
There are ways around it. I didn't have time to...
By Bryan Steer on 16 April, 2004 - 1:22 am -
When you declare OPCSvrGroup in the line...
Dim OPCSvrGroups As OPCAutomation.OPCGroups
you...
By Mark on 16 April, 2004 - 12:32 am -
Hi Flouro,
From what I understand there is a problem when using the existing OPC automation...
Need a *simple* solution for OPC read/writes for remote servers.
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By Jeff Gobatto on 7 April, 2004 - 12:54 am -
Solution:
1. change the declaration of the OPC Server object to:
Private srvOPC as OPCServer
...
from the open source friendly system integrator's liabilities department...
A practical issue of FLOSS based automationHow to guarantee the integrity of the source
code of a control application based on FLOSS
code of a control application based on FLOSS
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By Jiri Baum on 20 March, 2004 - 1:31 am -
Seems to have been mutual... What I was trying to say was basically what Michael Griffin wrote -...
By Andrey Romanenko on 18 March, 2004 - 10:22 pm -
Michael,
Thank you very much for your input and please see my comments below.
On March 15,...
By Jiri Baum on 15 March, 2004 - 11:21 pm -
Is this really a problem? I had the impression that most clients prefer their applications...
By Peter Whalley on 15 March, 2004 - 7:59 pm -
Hi Andrey,
One option is to burn an image of the file system onto CD (or DVD if necessary) at...
By Michael Griffin on 15 March, 2004 - 6:41 pm -
Your situation has nothing to do with whether the software is genuine libre "open source"...
Can fuzzy or neuro fuzzy be used for control?
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By Yossi on 8 March, 2004 - 10:02 pm -
I implemented Fuzzy control in plc5 (Allen bradley) using leder diagram. I controled a mixture of...
PID temperature control in refrigerated warehouses
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By Syed on 17 February, 2004 - 10:19 pm -
I was browsing the internet and hit your site. I am a design engineer and have developed...
I would have thought that linux would be dominating automation by now. But half the links I follow even from this forum are dead. Has anyone actually used it for a commercial application?
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By Jiri Baum on 3 February, 2004 - 1:10 am -
On February 2, 2004, Michael Griffin wrote:
> The sort of industrial thermal transfer label...
By Michael Griffin on 2 February, 2004 - 10:34 am -
In reply to Jiri Baum's message of the 31st of January,
The sort of industrial thermal transfer...
By Jiri Baum on 31 January, 2004 - 12:30 am -
Postscript is often used in Linux as an intermediate format (rather like PDF), to be translated...
By GG on 29 January, 2004 - 10:44 pm -
AFAIK the main developer of kbarcode is working on ZPL translation in these days. He was able to...
we have a project already tac and we want to integrated with sauter via OPC.
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By Thomas on 31 January, 2004 - 9:51 am -
Sauter and TAC are both making bms systems
You can buy an OPC client from Sauter...I don't...
OPC Server for Messung make PLCs
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By Y.K.JARIWALA on 29 January, 2004 - 6:48 pm -
Hello Ashish
Yes we have the driver for messung PLC. Our SCADA package can communicate with...
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