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- PC reliability?
- Windows, real time
- PID loops
- PCs vs. PLCs
- Replacing people
- MS 'monopoly'?
- Software quality
- Where do we go from here?
- Why pay?
- PC reliability?
- 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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Question about how to develop a software which is communicating on modbus/TCP
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Hi,
I tried again and got the value I wanted finally after I posted my question. I will test it...
By M Griffin on 23 March, 2009 - 1:00 pm -
Did you read the example on the Jamod website for "TCP Master HOW-TO"? They have a...
Thank you for your reply. I am sorry about my questions made you confused. I rewrited my previous...
By M Griffin on 20 March, 2009 - 3:23 pm -
You said: "I got the connection from my program to yours". There are actually several...
By Tommy on 19 March, 2009 - 10:57 pm -
Hi there,
Thank you for your help and I got the connection from my program to yours. But I got...
By M Griffin on 16 March, 2009 - 12:00 am -
Well, to start with you said you are trying to write the value 1 in register 23384, but it looks...
Thank you for your reply. Now, I want to write a simple program to test the communication with...
By M Griffin on 11 March, 2009 - 2:31 pm -
The Jamod web site has some very good explanations and examples. If there is something in...
Presently using the Honeywell TPS system, and not able to load the TPS software in the new PC.
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By Sulaiman on 22 March, 2009 - 2:07 am -
Hi Raul thank for sharing your experience,
Actually you should be able to use graphic in your...
By Rahul P Sharma on 19 March, 2009 - 11:44 am -
We have GUS systems installed on Dell GX1 Optiplex PCs declared obsolete by Dell way back and no...
By Sulaiman on 19 March, 2009 - 1:54 am -
You can use any pc to load as GUS console, as long as you configure LNP driver correctly.
Make...
I would like to know what HMI users are looking for in a rugged panel PC HMI?
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By GJ_ on 21 March, 2009 - 9:34 am -
I would say, No (I)PC! Lots of people here seems to have problems with the...
By M Griffin on 20 March, 2009 - 2:52 pm -
Is the CPU and graphics chip in a fanless system going to be fast enough to run MS Windows Vista or...
We always needed two Network Interface Cards. One to communicate with the PLC network, and the...
Thanks Herman, we agree with you that any rugged product should operate "out of the box",...
By Herman Chrisstoffer on 19 March, 2009 - 4:31 am -
In my experience the so called ruggedized pc's often have problems direclty out of the box. In my...
By Carl Ellis on 18 March, 2009 - 6:27 pm -
DB9 for serial, screw terminal for RS-485, RJ-45 for ethernet. RJ-45 for anything other than...
By Roy Matson on 18 March, 2009 - 4:34 pm -
No Hard drive to crash
Ethernet
Historical data stored in csv format on removable non proprietory...
(Originally posted Tue, 25 Aug 1998) I am interested if anyone in the group has any specific reasons why they are still buying PLCs and not PC based controllers.
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By Curt Wuollet on 19 March, 2009 - 2:51 pm -
I agree, but there would be enormous savings even for the big vendors if you could get even any two...
By M Griffin on 18 March, 2009 - 5:51 pm -
In reply to Curt Wuollet: Where I would see an open source/Free Software solution fitting in...
By Curt Wuollet on 18 March, 2009 - 3:57 pm -
Just curious, I may well be out of the printing business.
Regards
cww
...
By Curt Wuollet on 17 March, 2009 - 2:26 pm -
Yes, one trend that is promising is the use of Linux. Even stripped down to the minimum, it...
By Curt Wuollet on 17 March, 2009 - 1:44 pm -
Hi James
Man Roland?
Regards
cww
...
By M Griffin on 16 March, 2009 - 7:01 pm -
In reply to Curt Wuollet: I've also seen a lot of more recent equipment using "PC based"...
By James Ingraham on 16 March, 2009 - 2:21 pm -
I believe there's pretty much a consensus these days that PCs and PLCs both have their place. Both...
By Curt Wuollet on 16 March, 2009 - 12:05 am -
Hi
Apparently you have missed a few things in the past 10 years. There has been great progress...
dear Conrad,
my father keeps on chuckling every time he reminds me that by year 2000, according...
By Conrad Vinzens on 15 March, 2009 - 8:51 am -
It is now just about 10 Years ago that we had the first exchange on the issue PC vs PLC. (see the...
Is there a linear conversion function in PL7 Pro software?
Question about a MODBUS slave for WINCE (XScale)
Does anybody know of or use the Bailey (ABB) SEMAPI software on a Windows 2000/2003 machine?
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By Trevor Ousey on 18 March, 2009 - 6:28 pm -
Hi, we did look at upgrading semAPI as we went from a NT4 server to Win2k server and was not able...
Yes, we already use a 3rd party OPC Server at other sites to perform the same function so i'm not...
By Trevor Ousey on 17 March, 2009 - 5:25 pm -
There are a number of OPC IO Servers that do not need to use SemAPI, look at Matrikon or RoviSys....
By Adriel Michaud on 17 March, 2009 - 3:45 pm -
As the above poster has mentioned, in most instances you can connect directly to Bailey using an...
By H. V. Vasavada on 17 March, 2009 - 12:26 pm -
From : H.V.VASAVADA Date : 17th March, 2009
I have repeatedly posted on this forum that...
Elapsed Time Conversion
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By M Griffin on 18 March, 2009 - 4:53 pm -
If you are getting a double word (two words) and are looking at just the lower word as a signed...
none
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By Curt Wuollet on 19 March, 2009 - 2:51 pm -
I agree, but there would be enormous savings even for the big vendors if you could get even any two...
By M Griffin on 18 March, 2009 - 5:51 pm -
In reply to Curt Wuollet: Where I would see an open source/Free Software solution fitting in...
By Curt Wuollet on 18 March, 2009 - 3:57 pm -
Just curious, I may well be out of the printing business.
Regards
cww
...
By Curt Wuollet on 17 March, 2009 - 2:26 pm -
Yes, one trend that is promising is the use of Linux. Even stripped down to the minimum, it...
By Curt Wuollet on 17 March, 2009 - 1:44 pm -
Hi James
Man Roland?
Regards
cww
...
By M Griffin on 16 March, 2009 - 7:01 pm -
In reply to Curt Wuollet: I've also seen a lot of more recent equipment using "PC based"...
By James Ingraham on 16 March, 2009 - 2:21 pm -
I believe there's pretty much a consensus these days that PCs and PLCs both have their place. Both...
By Curt Wuollet on 16 March, 2009 - 12:05 am -
Hi
Apparently you have missed a few things in the past 10 years. There has been great progress...
dear Conrad,
my father keeps on chuckling every time he reminds me that by year 2000, according...
By Conrad Vinzens on 15 March, 2009 - 8:51 am -
It is now just about 10 Years ago that we had the first exchange on the issue PC vs PLC. (see the...
(Originally posted Tue, 25 Aug 1998) I am interested if anyone in the group has any specific reasons why they are still buying PLCs and not PC based controllers.
Modbus RTU Master Driver Needed for Testing Purpose
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By Mark on 12 March, 2009 - 12:20 pm -
What OS (Windows, embedded, etc.)?
What development platform (VB, C#, c++, etc.)?
What type...
Voltage free contact
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By JM on 12 March, 2009 - 7:32 am -
Voltage free contact means that the contact is free to carry whichever voltage you choose to...
Modbus Master RTU Driver
Looking for low-cost PID tuning software
can anyone help in my problem of receiving and sending sms from mobile phone to pc using nokia sdk 3.0.
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By K Grey on 10 March, 2009 - 4:09 pm -
Hi, I am assuming that you are trying to use an activex component or DLL call etc. to a module that...
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