Prince
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- Join Date
- Jun 2002
- Posts
- 284
OK! OK! I know! If I know the PLCs that doesn't mean that I can touch the HMI. But you know HMI Panels were fun and up to now very easy to work with, and now I have a problem with WinCC Flexible...
Up to know my projects with WinCC Flexible were Just normal Recepies, Data presentation or trends and WinCC had everything ready for me. just put the object in place, read the help file, parameter it and let it go. but this time I wanted to do something bigger. My customer asked me to make a Log of any Pipe that he produces in a database consisting of different fields including pipe_number, size and different conditions of production. I thought the hardest part will be tracking all the information to a record in a DB and I thought WinCC will have an object to Log these records and to show them on a Panel.
Checking the WinCC I could find a Data Logging system but it can just be shown in a trend. I saw that it can log the files in a .csv file but that will mean that I must write another application (Access or VB)to manage them. and the operator must open and manage the data from another program. my customer won't like it for sure. Isn't there a way to show them with WinCC? if not I am in a big trouble I am more in PLCs and Inverters than in PC software. I checked different ways using the installed Activixes in Access but they don't seem that easy to work with...
I am not an HMI proffessional but I think this problem is a classic problem in HMI industry. Can anybody show me the easy and common way to do this?
Up to know my projects with WinCC Flexible were Just normal Recepies, Data presentation or trends and WinCC had everything ready for me. just put the object in place, read the help file, parameter it and let it go. but this time I wanted to do something bigger. My customer asked me to make a Log of any Pipe that he produces in a database consisting of different fields including pipe_number, size and different conditions of production. I thought the hardest part will be tracking all the information to a record in a DB and I thought WinCC will have an object to Log these records and to show them on a Panel.
Checking the WinCC I could find a Data Logging system but it can just be shown in a trend. I saw that it can log the files in a .csv file but that will mean that I must write another application (Access or VB)to manage them. and the operator must open and manage the data from another program. my customer won't like it for sure. Isn't there a way to show them with WinCC? if not I am in a big trouble I am more in PLCs and Inverters than in PC software. I checked different ways using the installed Activixes in Access but they don't seem that easy to work with...
I am not an HMI proffessional but I think this problem is a classic problem in HMI industry. Can anybody show me the easy and common way to do this?