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Are you considering upgrading to XP despite the noxious End User License Agreement and higher prices?
Part-time embedded training
As Microsoft's new software development tool .net will be launched soon, has anybody in the industry evaluated the impact it could put on
automation, especially the area of HMI...
automation, especially the area of HMI...
(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.
Embedded systems courses in and around Pune
Ok gentleman, this is what I see as the basics for my assumed task.
1) SharedMemoryManager ...
1) SharedMemoryManager ...
Creating homegrown PLC hardware
can anybody give me info about the best institute which provides embedded software training in mumbai (its contact details, if possible)?
What this industry needs is a truly open alternative, designed with open architecture, open protocols and "what is good for the customer" in mind. All the pieces are in place to build a solution for the community, controlled by the community and owned by the community. I am seeking volunteers ...
I want to have a training in embedded systems in India.
How do you rationalise situations in which machines replace workers?
What is the reason (except the commercial) of having so many "different" communication protocols instead of one common protocol?
Developing the best tools and practices to develop a new Generic PLC Ladder Editor.
I am soliciting information on what department should own the Scada control room.
I am concerned about a lack of advances in PC based HMI/SCADA. ...
(Originally posted Fri. 1/9/98) I am wanting to get into this whole automation field, but a chief
question concerns me (as I'm sure it concerns all of you):
How reliable IS a PC-automated system???
question concerns me (as I'm sure it concerns all of you):
How reliable IS a PC-automated system???
tell about the learning centers offering embedded course in chennai.
There was the suggestion of using a memory mapped file for sharing the data between processes, and the persistence being created by periodically
updating the associated disk file, as opposed to writing a memory block to disk.
updating the associated disk file, as opposed to writing a memory block to disk.
Can somebody point me to a place where i can obtain ANSI/ISA Standard S5.1-1984, formerly ANSI Standard Y32.20-1975 "Instrumentation Symbols and Designations" and Standard S5.2.
One of the problem of NT with real-time is that the system uses CLI/STI (CLear Interrupt/SeT Interrupt). Somebody say me that the kernel itself use hard-coded CLI/STI. As the kernel cannot be modified, this definitively prevent hard real-time under NT.
Can anybody confirm or invalidate this affirmation?
Can anybody confirm or invalidate this affirmation?
My latest article : "Why is Industrial Automation Declining?" is at http://www.jimpinto.com/writings/iadecline.html ...
Just to start out, below is a first idea about general data types - just to simplify interchange.
Living with bugs, missing features, unsupported versions? Have you been coerced to upgrade before you even got that last version working? I saw this article and it sounded so familiar I thought I would share...
Is there a way I can direct my vendors to a more standard, widely accepted programming style?
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?
I know everyone has their personal preferences, but I think it would be more interesting to discover which software is the worst...
One of the basic concepts of a PLC is that the data table is retained upon program stop, whether that be manually stopping the scan, or the actual powering down of the controller. Any thoughts on how to handle this?
People who have been regulars at Control.com and on the Automation List will recall that our principal mission as an organization is to encourage the advent of open control, in the sense of multi-vendor standards-based systems...
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