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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?
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Does anyone know of multiple vendors of USB modbus plus devices?
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It sounds like you have had some personal bad experience with this. Can you expand on what...
By JoeS on 25 September, 2009 - 2:39 pm -
USB is not suitable for SCADA communications. There is a reason why there is so little support for...
This module works fine. Only issue is to use the same USB port all the time. The driver only...
Problem connecting to Factorytalk historian server.
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Make sure you have the server name exact, and that the users names and computers to use the system...
from the Allen Bradley department...
Micrologix 1500 Serial Port Communications - Alter in Ladder Logic
Trying to change serial port setting with ladder logic.
Would appreciate recommendations for batch controllers for fuel loading
How the protocol is implemented in a PLC?
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By andrzej on 24 September, 2009 - 2:30 pm -
Hello,
Try the websites :
www.modbus.org
www.modbus.pl
Regards
Andrzej...
By Issac Issachar on 23 September, 2009 - 10:51 pm -
I ran across a Modbus app note on Modbus in Spanish just yesterday, modbus.rar
I can't read a...
By M Griffin on 23 September, 2009 - 2:02 am -
Your question is a big vague. The Modbus specs are on the Modbus web site. I believe the link is...
Quick panel to 1747-SN
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Thank you for your feed back
But can I buy a converter which has rs485 to Remote IO protocol...
The possibility is that what you want to do is impossible with the HMI you bought. Based on a quick...
from the application, engineering, automation department...
Interfacing Siemens S7-300 cpu 313C with ABB's compact HMI scadaHow to interface the Siemens S7-300 cpu 313C with ABB's Compact HMI SCADA?
How to print tag nos. and descriptions of historised points in TDC 3000
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Good starting point for documentation tool, but I don't think it allows you to query the history...
By Keepwalking's Eng on 22 September, 2009 - 9:31 am -
If you can do a Search in the Documentation Tool, you should get a click in Documentation Tool in...
Simatic panels with LAN connection to recipe database on a server.
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It would be quite easy to write a program that runs as a service on a PC that periodically runs a...
Thanks BryanJ,
That was useful. Any idea of how to make periodical export of a table or query?...
Access is a relational database whilst CSV is a flat file format of a snap-shot of data.
So if...
can any one post me the Download link to RSTrainer2000
Unable to pass information between two Allen Bradley systems.
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Thanks for the reply Ken. I don't usually use this forum for support and most of the time I get...
How to simulate multiple H1 PLCs with a just few PCs?
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By Buzby on 22 September, 2009 - 11:16 am -
Hi FloatinBoatin,
I never did simulate multiple H1 comms with a single computer.
It was not...
Configuring a Mitsubishi FX3 slave
What are the difference between PLC and motion controllers
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By Ken Emmons Jr. on 22 September, 2009 - 8:26 am -
I second this logic.
I've worked with high end motion (Delta Tau PMAC), intelligent drive motion...
Modern motion controllers are closer to PAC vs PLC because except possibility to perform complex...
This is like opening a can of worms. My opinion is those who were historically Motion Control...
By James Ingraham on 21 September, 2009 - 10:37 am -
> What all are the main difference between PLC and motion controllers? <
Well, the line is...
I'm looking for Back up software for PLCs and robots in plant
A question that has been on my mind for some time...
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By Edwin on 22 September, 2009 - 1:08 am -
Its very bad that companies charging for their own software. There are Companies like Baldor will...
By Jay Mackey on 21 September, 2009 - 9:25 pm -
In general, the free or near-free stuff tends to not be quite as good, or anywhere as near as good...
Need a PLC that runs on 12 volts and supports IEC 1131-3 Structured Text.
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By Jay Mackey on 21 September, 2009 - 10:54 pm -
ST no good for PLC? We use it almost exclusively (mainly because it is is the best implemented...
I have a S7 PLC network with PROFIBUS protocol. There are WinCC HMI PC. How to integrate additional field devices by extending PROFIBUS
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By dilip on 21 September, 2009 - 1:42 pm -
David and Rich,
Thanks for your contributions and support. In fact I have now obtained GSD file...
from the Automation List department...
Whether a PLC engineer really deserve for his extremely high hourly wages ?Whether a PLC engineer really deserve for his extremely high hourly wages?
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In this thread: Trolling....
By Lee Clore on 19 September, 2009 - 12:26 pm -
I would never tell someone how to buy services from a controls/programming vendor, but would...
The long-dormant PLC Archive is now on ControlWiki.com.
ASCII communication with AB make ML1400 on RS232.
I need to control a FC51 Danfoss VFD with LS PLC.
I need to start , stop & jog the drives.
I need to start , stop & jog the drives.
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Dear Mr.Bruce
Thank you for your help Finally we got it working
...
from the Process Automations department...
Installation guide for ACM 12 card in Yokogawa centum cs 3000 DCSStep by step Installation guide for ACM 12 card in Yokogawa centum cs 3000 DCS
xp with modsoft 2.61
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ok thanks for direct IO i will try it.
my computer turn on in dos mode. and its very bad way to...
choice of software for drafting PLC panel drawings and loop schematics
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By Abdul Ahad on 19 September, 2009 - 12:33 pm -
There are lot of different software available in the market but i prefer the Micro soft software...
I have used Aucotec's Elcad for sometime to produce electrical schematics and PLC I/O drawings with...
By James Ingraham on 18 September, 2009 - 10:12 am -
This topic has come a few times before, which I think is one reason people aren't replying much.
...
Do you have any idea about Control logix series PLCs of AB?
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Thank you my dear friend,
now our management is ready to buy the s/w from M/s AB for future...
By Trevor Ousey on 18 September, 2009 - 9:04 pm -
Actually to program any Rockwell product, CLX, PLC5, SLC5, Networx, you just need RSLinx lite,...
reading parameters using a twido plc and rs485 from the deepseap 5510?
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