janner_10
Lifetime Supporting Member
So after some hefty price increases by Rockwell this year, I have been tasked with finding some cost savings on hardware.
I spent a morning at Schneider's' place in Coventry this morning, chewing the cud with a couple of their guys.
We have used Rockwell kit for ever and a day, so a change is a big thing for us.
Our more complex machines will always remain Rockwell but for the more bread and butter panels, it was hard to not be impressed by their aggressive pricing.
They seem to have a solution for everything. I got a copy of SoMachine and a gratis license to take away and it seems fairly run of the mill Codesys, which I'm used to from a previous life working with Lenze PLC Designer.
It probably a weeks work translating from Studio 5000 to SoMachine, which is small fry in the scheme of things.
So whats the catch, because we can shave around 20% off the hardware costs of some bread & butter, copy and paste jobs that we may repeat 80 to 100 times a year because I can't find one yet. The annual saving from that is circa £20k +
We did a similar thing with B&R a couple of years ago and got our fingers burned with reliability issues and I don't want to be in the same boat again.
Any others in a similar boat?
I spent a morning at Schneider's' place in Coventry this morning, chewing the cud with a couple of their guys.
We have used Rockwell kit for ever and a day, so a change is a big thing for us.
Our more complex machines will always remain Rockwell but for the more bread and butter panels, it was hard to not be impressed by their aggressive pricing.
They seem to have a solution for everything. I got a copy of SoMachine and a gratis license to take away and it seems fairly run of the mill Codesys, which I'm used to from a previous life working with Lenze PLC Designer.
It probably a weeks work translating from Studio 5000 to SoMachine, which is small fry in the scheme of things.
So whats the catch, because we can shave around 20% off the hardware costs of some bread & butter, copy and paste jobs that we may repeat 80 to 100 times a year because I can't find one yet. The annual saving from that is circa £20k +
We did a similar thing with B&R a couple of years ago and got our fingers burned with reliability issues and I don't want to be in the same boat again.
Any others in a similar boat?