Hi list, Intellution Fix is the validated supervision system for about 150 Siemens-PLC's on our pharmaceutical plant. Every week, we need about 50 printouts (trends) from the last week for quality control. This is a very time-expensive job. Can we automate this job ? Can this be done within Fix ? Are there other tools (use of Visual Basic) to do this ??? Tanx list !! JomO e-mail : [email protected]

 

I would suggest using the SQL blocks in FIX32 to send the data to a SQLServer Database. Then use VB (or some other tool) to generate the necessary reports. This has the advantage of giving you a platform to retain a lot of data as well as keeping it an open format. We've had luck with using a web server to generate web pages (ASP) out of the SQL server data. Personnel can then bring these up and print at leasure. Rick Hudson

 

Fix32 have a developer library name "FIXTOOLS", you can write a small program in VB to run a batch print job. rewards.

 

> Intellution Fix is the validated supervision system for about 150 > Siemens-PLC's on our pharmaceutical plant. Every week, we need about 50 > printouts (trends) from the last week for quality control. This is a > very time-expensive job. Can we automate this job ? Can this be done > within Fix ? Are there other tools (use of Visual Basic) to do this? Actually, yes this can be done from within the fix itself. You would just have to set up your reports and then (I'm pulling this from memory), you could probably use event (Timer) blocks and/or program blocks to execute the job. cya l8r Leon McClatchey mailto:[email protected] Linux User 78912 (Suse70 Box)

 

You can try Iconics TrendWorx+ with ReportWorx. It allows you to configure reports and build from you OPC tag browser the points that belong in the report. It will access the OPC historical Access tables and build the report including cover sheet, etc. These reports can be scheduled to happen on events , date/time , weekly, monthly, shifts, etc. It can be bolted on top of a Fix system. MarkM