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Hello all,
I'm a young guy fortunate enough to have the opportunity to design a HMI for an industrial heat treating oven. I'm fairly new to the game, I've dabbled with Honeywell HC900's and PLC's (Eaton ELC, mainly).
I'm looking for suggestions on a nice HMI software and hardware setups that I can get my feet wet with, and not drown.
I'm looking for the ability to map a touchscreen and interface it with a PLC to start and stop motors, display process variables (mainly temperature and vacuum measurements), open and close valves/solenoids. As a bonus, PID control (with 4-20ma output) would be awesome. Though, I could always use a good old fashion PID controller to control heating if its too complicated to work in with the HMI.
Also, im working on a budget (of course, right? ). The boss is letting me go out on a limb here with something new. (I'm tired of those big ole 30mm A-B push buttons and pilot lights!) So hopefully I can pull through on this and take a step into the future.
Any help, comments, and corrections are welcome and appreciated!
Thanks to everyone in the community in advance. I have no idea what I would do without helpful and insightful communities such as this one at control.com. I'm looking forward to learning, growing, as well as helping where possible.
Brad
I'm a young guy fortunate enough to have the opportunity to design a HMI for an industrial heat treating oven. I'm fairly new to the game, I've dabbled with Honeywell HC900's and PLC's (Eaton ELC, mainly).
I'm looking for suggestions on a nice HMI software and hardware setups that I can get my feet wet with, and not drown.
I'm looking for the ability to map a touchscreen and interface it with a PLC to start and stop motors, display process variables (mainly temperature and vacuum measurements), open and close valves/solenoids. As a bonus, PID control (with 4-20ma output) would be awesome. Though, I could always use a good old fashion PID controller to control heating if its too complicated to work in with the HMI.
Also, im working on a budget (of course, right? ). The boss is letting me go out on a limb here with something new. (I'm tired of those big ole 30mm A-B push buttons and pilot lights!) So hopefully I can pull through on this and take a step into the future.
Any help, comments, and corrections are welcome and appreciated!
Thanks to everyone in the community in advance. I have no idea what I would do without helpful and insightful communities such as this one at control.com. I'm looking forward to learning, growing, as well as helping where possible.
Brad