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Thanks all, site visits are likely what we'll have to do. Networking is unfortunately not an option

Thanks for the responses, I should add these systems aren't networked (even locally).  We've considered the round-robin approach with hardware.  The PLCs do boot from a flash card but they are somewhat buried and we don't currently provide procedures for removal/disassembly to access them. I'm thinking we'll likely have to go the route of site visits to perform the upgrades.  I guess the real question I have is does Rockwell support any kind of enterprise licensing?  I haven't found too many white papers on licensing and their product pages seem to just show licensing per user.  I guess I should just go ahead and contact someone at Rockwell. Thank you again

Have a somewhat odd scenario where I'm supporting a system that uses a CompactLogix controller for one of it's subsystems.  The problem is we are considering making updates to the controller and there are over 100 instances of this system 'in the wild'.  Currently, we only have a few engineers licensed for RSLogix 5000 and do not have any Rockwell software installed on the system itself.  Ideally we'd like someway of automating downloading of projects to the CompactLogix (or even just providing a procedure), rather than having a tech visit every site and manually do this.  I'm aware of the lite edition but we unfortunately have a DeviceNet scanner that also requires updates and the lite edition of RSNetworx only supports 6 nodes (which we're over). Curious if anyone has any ideas or suggestions.  We don't have any contractual support with Rockwell currently and I'd like to seek advice from any seasoned controls engineers before contacting them.