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Recently I have been working on various HMI packages mentioned above, with extensive work on Intellution, RSView32 and Cimplicity. I was able to see a fundamental difference in the Database definition between IFix 2.1 (Intellution) and RSView+Cimplicity as mentioned below.
Can someone throw more light as to what would be the benefits of Ifix's implemetation over RSView and Cimplicity implementation? My observation is as under...
In Ifix, the database is defined in terms of blocks i.e. it has blocks for Analog Input, Analog alarm, PID, Totalizer etc... It further goes to define a block to block transfer for the control strategy. RSView and Cimplicity provides for only Tag OR Point database where you define the actual I/O coming from the field as either Analog point or digital point. While Cimplicity has a few facilities like totalizer and counters, it has primarily based on point addressing.
My question is whether it is really better in terms of programming HMI packages to have a structure used by IFix OR do the features available in RSView and Cimplicity suffice.
I hope my question is digestable!!!. For answering, you may need to go through the three packages database structures. Can we have a small discussion on the same please? This is for my (and other NERDS IN CONTROL) knowledge update. Not really a deciding factor for which package to use!!!
Alok
Can someone throw more light as to what would be the benefits of Ifix's implemetation over RSView and Cimplicity implementation? My observation is as under...
In Ifix, the database is defined in terms of blocks i.e. it has blocks for Analog Input, Analog alarm, PID, Totalizer etc... It further goes to define a block to block transfer for the control strategy. RSView and Cimplicity provides for only Tag OR Point database where you define the actual I/O coming from the field as either Analog point or digital point. While Cimplicity has a few facilities like totalizer and counters, it has primarily based on point addressing.
My question is whether it is really better in terms of programming HMI packages to have a structure used by IFix OR do the features available in RSView and Cimplicity suffice.
I hope my question is digestable!!!. For answering, you may need to go through the three packages database structures. Can we have a small discussion on the same please? This is for my (and other NERDS IN CONTROL) knowledge update. Not really a deciding factor for which package to use!!!
Alok