Need a HMI platform

[balerjoe 0]

Wondering if any of you fine gentlemen have a HMI platform I could have. I thought maybe a Rsview 32 or wonderware. I am working on a project and don't have a one. I do have Rslogix 5000 & Emulate. I know this a tall order but you never know unless you ask. Thanks Joe

[TConnolly 13]

It used to be that you could download CiTect for free and it would run 1 hour. Then you had to shut it down and restart it for another hour. You can try that. CiTect is a good package and its fairly easy to use. Edited 12 Jan 2006 by Alaric

[Guest]

I used to work for an AB distributor ... we gave away a lot of free "demo" CD copies of RSView32 ... they work for a couple of hours and then shut down ... you can restart them as many times as you like ... I think there was a limit of how many tags you could use ... but there might be some (legal) tricks to work around that - depending on what you're writing ... anyway, I'd ask my friendly local distributor if I were you ... the old part number was 9398-VW32STCD ... the best people to talk to are usually the "PLC Specialist" or the "Software Specialist" ... in most branches, the counter sales folks probably won't have a clue about this particular item ... side note to mgvol and Ken Roach ... can you guys find this thing on the AB literature site? ... my old "order it here" link doesn't work anymore ... anybody USED to be able to order this online ...

[Spanner 0]

What's it used for? If it's going to be used as a user friendly method of Debgging a PLC Program (Or the likes of) while Building or something that isn't going to be used long term, and all you need is a user front end (I.E, You already have the IO Server) then You could Use Microsoft Excel and it's embedded VBA. I Used it once or twice with a CTI-2572 IO Server communicating with a TI-555 PLC and it's fine. Once the IO Server is set up right, you can use DDE commands to read and write (DDEpoke) to the PLC and if you've the time make a pretty nice little application!

[OkiePC 14]

I once used the RSView32 Demo License that Ron talked about. Mine had a 300 tag limit, and required RSLinx version greater than Lite. We had RSLinx Professional. I fell in love with the power of it right away. It had a few issues. Graphics editing is not intuitve at first, at least not for me with my AutoCad tendencies. But with that said, I was able to do incredible things for troubleshooting machinery in a very short period of time and barely tapped the potential. (This version included messenger Recipe Pro, TrendX, SPC, and RSSQL I think my distributor gave me a full install with a Demo License, if that's possible.) I went ot a three-day class on RSView32 in Oklahoma City. When I got back to work, I was eager to use this stuff so I would remember it all. I took a tire assembling machine overhead view Autocad drawing and imported it on the screen. I then re-drew each moving part as an RSView32 object with animation. I tested each piece using the included Animate DDE server. Once I had the model finished (2 8-hour days), I spent a couple of hours (about 6), filling in the details of each tag by finding the correct PLC address and scaling. In three days, I had an animated graphic representation of the machine at near-real time! (I set the refresh rate at 0.1 seconds using about 50 analog and 120 ditigal tags on DH+ at 57.6k so it was very quick and smooth.) Well my buddies at work were impressed. We had a group of visitors coming to look at one of the machines, and the team leader used my laptop for the demonstration. Right after their 15 minute dog and pony show, the machine stopped. On the screen, the model showed one of the turrets at about 45 degrees, but the turret was actually at about 90 degrees. I, naturally and instinctively, looked under the cover and saw the resolver chain was broken. That model became the centerpoint of the HMI Maintenance screen. Just can't say enough about how easy it is to create a high quality GUI that already has 95% of what you want to do with a Windows PC already done for you, and the interoperability to let you do the other 5% with VB, VBA, or whatever. Paul C.

[Camel 1]

Open source anyone??? http://pvbrowser.org/pvbrowser/index.php It has a windows version, but, you do have to know a fair bit about computers.

[yome 1]

Why not my little scada software ? http://forums.mrplc.com/index.php?autocom=downloads&showfile=516 It's exactly for the same reason I've decided to code my own soft: I was needed a scada software to debug my plc program and commercials softwares are (often) expensive...

[Nathan 7]

check out factorySQL and factoryPMI. They have 2 hour trials that can be manually reset as many times as you need. You would need to find an OPC server to talk to your PLC. I may be able to get you a registered version if you provide more info about the project. ---- Nathan Boeger Integrator, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Inductive Automation

[steve_33 0]

If your PLC supports Modbus, you might try SeeThru for PC HMI, data logging, etc. It goes for about $50 which is pretty close to free. http://www.tractrola.com Edited 21 Mar 2006 by steve_33