Wonderware Intouch

nil9178 said:

Hi all,
Have been using WinCC for some time and we are planning to switch over to Wonderware Intouch. Meanwhile I had Wonderware distributor at my office and few of the following points were confusing and he couldn't conclude properly......
1) Only PLC tags can be connected to Alarm. Memory tags can't be connected to Alarms ....
memory tags can be setup in alarming.

2) After 64 tags, the next available is 500. So if my application calls for 100 or 200 tags then I need to invest for 500... So aren't we out of competetion when other vendors have options for 128, 256 ????
yeah like I said, the tag licensing is ridiculous.
3) Incase of iFix and WinCC, without developer license we can still work for 120 minutes and later close the application. Again open the application and work for next 120 minutes ?? Can something similar happen in Intouch???
I dint think their is anyway around not purchasing a development license.
4) Intouch history tag logging is only for half the tag license. For ex: if we procure 64 tag Intouch, then we can have history logging for only 32 tags, like wise for 500 tags we can have history logging for 250 tags... Is this really correct and is this the way history logging is restricted ?????
thats kind of hard to believe, I dont think that is correct.
5) In WinCC we got basic pre-configured report view. We got to link history tags to this report viewer and thats it.... This option seems to be missing in Intouch.
its not missing, it costs. you can go hmi reports which they license by the amount of reports(and has a limit of 500 tags max), or you can go big time and get the other high end historian package that does all kinds of stuff for a boatload of money.
6) Intouch license would be in the form of Dongle .... Doesn't come in the form of Sofykey ...

ours was always a softkey that they send on a cd rom.

Moreover we are planning to use A2 DCS for few of our projects . Since A2 is combination of Wonderware + PAC , do we have the same kind of restrictions in A2 system as explained above for Intouch ???
cant help you here.

Thanx & Regards
Nil

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