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I just wanted to know if it was going to run on Windows 7 if I tried to move it.
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I tried to call them for help once since a customer had a PC die running an old version on XP. We have some customers running Wonderware.
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Ignition has outstanding support and free online training. There are some things that are weird about all of them. I am still new to it, working on my 2nd application. that was 600 bucks.Īnother vote for Ignition. If you use the Schneider OPC then you can click on the tags. A great way to marry old school modbus data collection and cutting edge client environment to get plots on to people's iPhones etc.
They can also do cloud metrics monitoring style web based dashboards using google's Angular javascript framework and the AmCharts plotting library. We are starting to include a mangoES device () () in our control panels for the sole purpose of e-mailing automatically generated plots to the operator. Took a while to figure out that process!! My only gripe with the Magelis panels / vijeo designer is that to make a plot I have to make it the size I want on the screen, set the font size and number of decimals for the y axis, then look up the number of horizontal pixels on the plot area, and then set the datalogging period to correspond with the desired x axis time scale. Probably will default to citect in the future (or maybe wonderware will be included in schnieder support) if the ignition experiment doesn't work for us.įor touchscreen panels I want to switch to Red Lion so we don't have to **** around with licenses for Vijeo designer. Still have schneider support because we use Unity heavily. We dropped our wonderware and allen bradley support contracts. Going forward we are going to try ignition for a small project and then assuming that goes well hopefully will be using it wherever we have the freedom to choose for the client. Generally I believe wonderware is more modern that citect, but it costs us significantly more due to the support contract to get the development software, and the licenses are more expensive too. Citect is stuck in the 90s.but at least it works as advertised, is solid and reliable, even if it is a bit kludgy. I only briefly played with a version 7.5 trend screen demo but I feel that it is layers of hacks on top of their existing infrastructure.
the citect alarm screen prior to version 7.5 is an embarassment. The citect trend tool (process analyst) is the most useable I have worked with so far. How can it be so hard to export the data that makes a trend to an excel or CSV file? They must make it so difficult to try and up-sell some other product. The factory talk trend tool is underwhelming. The factory talk alarm system was great too. I guess that is what happens when your product is made up of dozens of acquisitions instead of designed to work together bolt on integrations everywhere. Too bad schneider doesn't have a tag picker in their HMIs that can read the tags out of the PLC. The advantage of having factory talk read the tag database out of the PLC more or less outweighed all of the other nuisances. Generally we try and work with whatever in house know how the customer might have in the region so if they already have 8 plants with citect we will use citect.īoth citect and Factory talk worked extremely well for us with multiple display clients.
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We have used Wonderware intouch with and without archestra and wonderware system platform, the wonderware historian, Citect, iFix, Factory Talk SE (network distributed), Factory Talk ME, Factory Talk historian (Osisoft Pi), and vijeo designer with magelis panels.Īll of these packages drive me crazy in different ways, and I wasn't on the wonderware system platform project so I don't have first hand experience with it, except when I had to go fill in for a weekend during commissioning and couldn't figure out how to add a tag.