[GRLUG] Any industrial folks around?

[Mike Williams]

I worked for Diamond Phoenix, doing warehouse automation and carousels 
some years ago, but they were a Windows shop. I know their stuff at the 
time ran RS232 out the serial port into a gadget that converted it to 
RS485, which handled multiple devices on the same network segment. We 
also did some conveyor control stuff through Allen-Bradley PLC's, and I 
was fascinated by the ladder logic they used. I'm afraid I never had a 
chance to learn to write it though.

On 07/05/2011 12:15 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> Have a potential project to create a few conveyor controller 
> applications - does anyone do/support them currently?
>
> Need things like:
>
> 1) Debugging capability and/or IDE
> 2) RS232 management & debugging support
> 3) Operator GUIs [HMIs]
> 4) Web status pages (3&4 may be combined)
>
> My biggest problem is that I have never seen a debug-capable 
> environment that was as usable as VBA from a simplicity standpoint, so 
> what options might exist in OSS?
>
>     Lee
>
>


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