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- Software quality
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OPC Drops Communication every 3 hours or may be once in an hour
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By anon on 12 June, 2009 - 3:11 pm -
Mitsubishi(OPC Server)Redundant
Emerson(OPC Client)Redundant
No Message in Error log
...
By Fred Loveless on 12 June, 2009 - 2:50 pm -
So which is the OPC Client and which is the OPC server? Are you seeing any errors in the sytem or...
Legacy PC components and trying to find a company to support them.
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By Randy Clark on 12 June, 2009 - 1:03 pm -
If you need new XT - AT computer keyboards, Cherry Keyboards that continues to manufacture them...
Honeywell Experion -> Itanium HP-UX data communications bridge.
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By M Griffin on 11 June, 2009 - 6:42 pm -
In reply to hlliu: The "Experion system" is the SCADA/DCS system. The MES system can't...
Hi,
For option 2, I can't get your point. What is the meaning of "install a Modbus/TCP...
By pvbrowser on 5 June, 2009 - 2:36 am -
Traditional OPC is based on COM/DCOM. Thus it is tied to Windows.
But OPC XML-DA now uses web...
Solutions converge to the following:
Use your custom C sockets programs in the HP-UX end to...
By M Griffin on 3 June, 2009 - 12:58 am -
I would guess that you could implement one of the solutions that I outlined previously much more...
At first thank you everybody for your help.
We mainly have two types or brands of PLC or...
By Sulaiman on 31 May, 2009 - 2:13 am -
Hi,
I think Matrikon wil have a good solution for you. Try to contact it.
Regards,
Sulaiman...
By M Griffin on 29 May, 2009 - 7:18 pm -
What options does your MES system have for communicating? That is, you said "EXPERION(OPC...
Does your HP-UX based MES support OPC communications?.
What other alternatives different from...
By Andrey Romanenko on 29 May, 2009 - 8:19 am -
Hello,
Please consider our open-source Plantstreamer product. It works with OPC DA and stores...
Need help, I'm having a problem with my new project regarding automation...
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By myassin on 8 June, 2009 - 11:29 am -
Hi you can see at my blog for detail:
www.hmiplcomronvb.blogspot.com...
Configuration - internet browser PLC access
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By Curt Wuollet on 7 June, 2009 - 6:42 pm -
That's right, I'd forgotten about Moblin. I was a fan of SCO at one time and did several hospital...
By M Griffin on 7 June, 2009 - 4:15 pm -
In reply to Curt Wuollet: The Wind River purchase would likely be to support Intel's plans for x86...
By Curt Wuollet on 7 June, 2009 - 4:41 am -
This Wind River Intel thing is getting a lot of notice. People are speculating that this is the end...
When I open the Java console, I see the following string:
Exception in thread...
By M Griffin on 6 June, 2009 - 2:35 pm -
In reply to KirkC: I can't speak for any particular PLC, but most of them use a third party...
Walt Boyes:
> Just keep pinging the PLC over the Ethernet port. (grin) If you do it enough...
By Paul Wacker on 4 June, 2009 - 6:27 pm -
All that should be required is setting up port forwarding to direct these ports to the IP address...
Yes Paul it has Java applet and the port I was told were 502 and 20006 but I do not know how to...
By M Griffin on 4 June, 2009 - 12:16 am -
I would guess that your DSL router has the ports blocked. A lot of them have a built in firewall...
Trying to send data TO a GSE scale to activate a macro
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By Howard G on 5 June, 2009 - 9:30 am -
Finally managed to get access to the computer & scales & internet all at the same time.
...
By M Griffin on 28 May, 2009 - 9:45 pm -
> the code to send is the apostophe character, which I have tried sending both as text, and as...
By Howard G on 28 May, 2009 - 2:37 pm -
Thanks for replying. It is a macro that I want to invoke, but it's invoked by pressing the...
Tell me about the sink and source concept in drives (VFD,stepper motor ...etc)
We are facing problem while downloading tag number details on line in Experion PKS DCS.
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By James on 4 June, 2009 - 9:10 am -
It depends on your download strategy and what you will download.
It is a good question and very...
By arunmeyyappan on 2 June, 2009 - 11:21 pm -
My quiery is why do you want to inactivate the CM/SCM before downloading. Does it meant the System...
By Sulaiman on 2 June, 2009 - 1:59 am -
It is not clear what you were doing. If you did it from configuration studio, you should inactive...
Hello, i need help for a student project.
I have to make Unitelway communication between a PC and a TSX P67425 (TSX67).
I have to make Unitelway communication between a PC and a TSX P67425 (TSX67).
Need information on how to access source code for QNX applicaton
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By James Ingraham on 2 June, 2009 - 12:58 pm -
>It could have been written in anything.
True, but C would be the way to bet. Nearly...
By James Ingraham on 1 June, 2009 - 5:00 pm -
Perhaps a better forum to answer this question would be www.openqnx.com
You might also contact...
By M Griffin on 1 June, 2009 - 4:37 pm -
It could have been written in anything. There is no way to tell just by knowing the name of the...
By Curt Wuollet on 1 June, 2009 - 3:18 pm -
Almost certainly compiled C code for a realtime app. You can grep
for *.c or the like. but there's...
By Steinhoff on 1 June, 2009 - 2:34 pm -
Hello,
about what version of QNX you are talking? Is it the version 2.x/3.x, 4.2x or QNX 6.x?...
By William Sturm on 1 June, 2009 - 2:22 pm -
I'm no QNX expert, but I have a general idea what they are about. The software is probably written...
Can anyone tell me where I can find detailed information on IEC 60870-5-101 protocol.
Yokogawa CS3000 communication with a MS Excel application running on PC
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By M Griffin on 1 June, 2009 - 5:32 pm -
I think that Matrikon has a product that is meant for this. I don't know the name for it, but you...
By Andrey Romanenko on 1 June, 2009 - 4:30 pm -
Hello,
> OPC server functionality is not included in Yokogawa CS3000 package we have...
Hi, I wanna interface an ABB dcs system including AC450 and MP200/1 with another type of DCS systems
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By Rob on 28 May, 2009 - 8:46 pm -
Bad news I'm afraid. You need to upgrade the MP200's to use MB300. (MasterBus 200 is really...
I was wondering if anyone could me started on using Excel and DDE to collect data, plot it, and then archive some of the data.
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By costin on 28 May, 2009 - 6:46 am -
Hello,
> The basic requirements:
RSLinx Pro, or other version "greater than Lite"
...
How to do pci card projects
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By Ken Emmons Jr. on 27 May, 2009 - 8:50 am -
Hello,
Check out these guys:
http://www.plxtech.com/products/io/
I think once upon a time...
By Curt Wuollet on 26 May, 2009 - 4:30 pm -
Hi
You should perhaps give google another try. I have found the information you seek as I wanted...
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