Hello.
I'm an IT person (not an engineer), and not very familiar with PLC's or Red Lion units. Our company runs production lines, and I want to get a counter value from 4 spots on each production line every 30 seconds or so. We have a Red Lion PTV00000 on each production line, and our engineer tells me he can get the counter values from the PLC's on each line into the Red Lion. So now I need to get the data from the Red Lion to an external DB. I thought I'd write a C# program that would somehow pull the data from the Red Lion, and then push it to next place it needs to be. I looked at the Red Lion capability of synchronizing data to a SQL Server database, however it only sync's every hour or so, and I need the value every 30 seconds.
Has anyone ever done anything like this? Can I write a program in C# to reach into the Red Lion? Or, can I write a program in Crimson to push data out to a place it can be accessed by C#?
The end destination for the data is an IBM i (AS/400), which can be accessed via ODBC.
Thanks.
Mark.