How to prevent people leaving programs open?

Hello,

We have 5 floating licenses for Studio 5000. Despite training people to disconnect from the PLC and close the software, we still have people leaving the programs open and walking away. This uses up our 5 licenses fairly quickly and then it's a manual process of me VNC'ing around to our various programming workstations to close the programs down.

Is there any way to set time limits, or some sort of auto close option that will shut down programs (rslogix5000 etc) after a certain amount of idle time?

Thanks

Look into using the "Task Scheduler" within Windows. You can set task to occur "Close Program" on Idle time.

I can look into that. I was hoping there was something Rockwell had available to handle it, like some auto checkin option for AssetCentre.

You may end up having to write a short script to handle the shutdown. I can't remember, but there should be sources online to guide with that.

This link has a pretty decent explanation:

https://www.sevenforums.com/general...program-using-task-scheduler-windows-7-a.html

Write a batch file with this in it:

TASKKILL /F /IM "RS5000.Exe"
TASKKILL /F /IM "LogixDesigner.Exe"

and then use the scheduler to call the batch file on idle time.

dburnum said:

This link has a pretty decent explanation:

https://www.sevenforums.com/general...program-using-task-scheduler-windows-7-a.html

Write a batch file with this in it:

TASKKILL /F /IM "RS5000.Exe"
TASKKILL /F /IM "LogixDesigner.Exe"

and then use the scheduler to call the batch file on idle time.

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Just be aware that this will NOT save the files. Rs5000 can probably recover them, but it isn't a clean shutdown if there is an open project.

Could also write a batch script that uses p***ec to remotely execute taskkill on all other workstations.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/pxexec.aspx