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Looking for the manufacturer of PLCs that are used in Jensen Textile machines
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By Nat Dizon on 6 February, 2012 - 3:00 am -
jensen plc is manufactured by cotas computer technology and was acquired by Vestas wind turbine...
Reliable hardware is solved but not software. If we are able to produce a hardware solution to most control problems, who will be its champion?
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By Charles Moeller on 5 February, 2012 - 2:23 pm -
James:
>> CharlieM: "Simpler is better."
> I think we'd all agree with...
By Vladimir E. Zyubin on 5 February, 2012 - 1:48 pm -
CharlieM > The human psychology and physiology is able to handle situational dynamics in a...
By Charles Moeller on 5 February, 2012 - 1:00 pm -
Vladimir:
CharlieM said:
>> My point is that there is a
>>more appropriate...
By Vladimir E. Zyubin on 5 February, 2012 - 3:40 am -
CharlieM > My point is that there is a more appropriate technology for process
> control...
By Charles Moeller on 4 February, 2012 - 9:33 pm -
The human psychology and physiology is able to handle situational dynamics in a parallel-concurrent...
By James Ingraham on 4 February, 2012 - 2:09 pm -
CharlieM: "The Bhopal disaster had nothing to do with electronic/electrical hardware, but was...
By James Ingraham on 4 February, 2012 - 1:50 pm -
CharlieM: "Simpler is better."
I think we'd all agree with that... up to a point. It...
By Charles Moeller on 4 February, 2012 - 1:12 pm -
Armin:
Charlie Said:>> The conversions to the space-domain
>>and back to the...
By Charles Moeller on 3 February, 2012 - 4:44 pm -
Armin:
>>> Vladimir said: It would be very interesting to talk about. Can you show the...
By Charles Moeller on 2 February, 2012 - 10:29 pm -
>> CharlieM said: There are certain impediments (I have a list) that are inherent in
...
By Vladimir E. Zyubin on 2 February, 2012 - 10:09 am -
CharlieM> There are certain impediments (I have a list) that are inherent in that type of...
Bill:
>>Charles said: "My point is that most
>>industrial and consumer...
Vladimir:
>So future (if it will be) is just to
>find domain specific language (aka 4th
...
By Vladimir E. Zyubin on 1 February, 2012 - 5:21 am -
> We can do better with an alternate technology but if we could, who would be
> its...
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>The word/concept you're looking for is
>a called a semaphore.
---- snip...
>CharlesM: "Before software, plant
>automation ran just fine."
>
...
> The tangled threads of linear-sequential operation tend to
> inhibit each other and may...
By James Ingraham on 31 January, 2012 - 2:34 pm -
CharlesM: "Before software, plant automation ran just fine."
Selective memory. Yes,...
---- snip--- see http://www.control.com/thread/1327707041#1328018928
James Ingraham said:
>...
Bill:
>> Charles said: "My thesis is that the problems of software can be cured by...
By Russ Kinner on 30 January, 2012 - 1:42 pm -
i presented a paper ath the 14th International Programmable Controllers Conference in Detroit in...
By James Ingraham on 30 January, 2012 - 11:29 am -
CharlieM: "I see software as an unneeded and complicating factor."
Don't we all. :-)
...
Ken:
>> Why do we convert everything to software in the middle?
>> Instead of...
Armin Steinhoff:
> if a FPGA (or CPLD) is the processing unit all processing is done in the
...
Dick Caro:
> Look at Grafcet
> Look first, then please share your impressions. It's NOT...
CWW:
I see software as an unneeded and complicating factor. One needs both software and hardware...
Ken,
The fundamental problems of TM-dominated systems persist-and will do so for as long as we...
Thanks for the encouragement, Ken.
I am enjoying this forum.
Regards,
CharlieM...
> Why do we convert everything to software in the middle?
> Instead of sampling and...
Armin Steinhoff:
I can appreciate your viewpoint, as more and more software seems to be...
CCW:
Why use a processor for simple tasks? The logic for most control tasks can be done in less...
Great thread, Charlie!
Back in the 1990s, Dick Morley hosted a series of "Chaos...
By Charles Moeller on 28 January, 2012 - 12:04 pm -
Thanks for your thoughts, CCW.
Relays are good for concrete conceptual understanding: ladder...
What do you think of the iPad and other tablets as HMI, monitoring and data collection tools?
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Ken E said...
>I had a similar thread and these were
>my opinions/observations about iPad...
> We are seeing them all over manufacturing plants.
Thanks, Walt. Your examples are the...
How to enter the escape character (027 dec, 1B hex)into the "Printer start string".
Main Automation Contractor Concept: Value Proposition vs. Value Destroyer
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In general, EPC contractors hire their own major automation contractor. If owner would like to keep...
Is there a good Open Source solution for SCADA on both Windows and Linux ?
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By avra on 18 November, 2011 - 5:37 am -
An open source SCADA available for Windows, Windows CE and Linux:
http://pascalscada.blogspot.com
...
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