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Following is my response to Davis Ray Sickmon after he responded to my inquiries about the Jaguar MMI he is working on. I decided to post it to the general list to see if anyone else is interested in participating.
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Thanks Davis for the information. I would be very interested in participating. I don't know anything about Visual Basic because I swore off
Microsoft products many years ago, so maybe I can help with the porting effort.
Like Mr. Joe Jansen, I also have a project at work in mind. I work in a complex that produces polyethylene and polypropylene plastic. and styrene. We also have a gas plant that produces the ethylene and propylene feedstock for the plastics plants. We have ABB Advant DCS systems in two plants, Foxboro I/A systems in two other plants and just installed an Allen Bradley
ProcessLogix in our Styrene plant. In addition we have just about every type of plc that Allen Bradley makes, including their new ControlLogix
system ( Not installed yet ). I guess what I am trying to say is that I've got a pretty good laboratory to play with.
My project is to develop a web based mmi for all of our Allen Bradley plc's. The first incarnation will be read only to provide troubleshooting
information for the maintenance techs. This will be the proof of concept stage. The next stage will be to add write capability to use for a full
operator interface. After that is done, my goal is to develop interfaces to the DCS systems to provide a universal operator interface to all of our systems. The idea would be to use the expensive Sun and HP workstations that Foxboro and ABB use only for the engineering and configuration and have the operator workstations be inexpensive browser based appliances.
I don't know how this dovetails with your plans, but, If you are interested let me know.
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Thanks Davis for the information. I would be very interested in participating. I don't know anything about Visual Basic because I swore off
Microsoft products many years ago, so maybe I can help with the porting effort.
Like Mr. Joe Jansen, I also have a project at work in mind. I work in a complex that produces polyethylene and polypropylene plastic. and styrene. We also have a gas plant that produces the ethylene and propylene feedstock for the plastics plants. We have ABB Advant DCS systems in two plants, Foxboro I/A systems in two other plants and just installed an Allen Bradley
ProcessLogix in our Styrene plant. In addition we have just about every type of plc that Allen Bradley makes, including their new ControlLogix
system ( Not installed yet ). I guess what I am trying to say is that I've got a pretty good laboratory to play with.
My project is to develop a web based mmi for all of our Allen Bradley plc's. The first incarnation will be read only to provide troubleshooting
information for the maintenance techs. This will be the proof of concept stage. The next stage will be to add write capability to use for a full
operator interface. After that is done, my goal is to develop interfaces to the DCS systems to provide a universal operator interface to all of our systems. The idea would be to use the expensive Sun and HP workstations that Foxboro and ABB use only for the engineering and configuration and have the operator workstations be inexpensive browser based appliances.
I don't know how this dovetails with your plans, but, If you are interested let me know.
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