bigvicfella
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Good Afternoon All.
We have a 5 generator power station at site, with each generator controlled by an Allen Bradley SLC 5/02 PLC. These all connect to the station Master PLC which is an Allen Bradley SLC 5/05. An ethernet output is taken from this PLC and sent to a PC that has RSLinx software on it. This PC allows constant monitoring of the generator parameters.
Seperately, a modem is connected to the comm port on the Master PLC and this is activated each day to provide a seperate and consolidated snapshot of the data collected over 24 hours. This data is fed to a third party monitoring program that takes the Allen Bradley data and converts it into a format that can be imported into a diary run under Microsoft Access.
We wish to get rid of the modem set up and have acquired a Perle IOLAN module to interface between the com port on the PLC and an ethernet connection. What we need now is the software that would (say) interrogate the PLC at a certain time each day, download the data then convert it to a format that could either be dumped to / imported into a Microsoft Access Database. Hopefully, as automated as possible!
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated
Regards,
Vic
We have a 5 generator power station at site, with each generator controlled by an Allen Bradley SLC 5/02 PLC. These all connect to the station Master PLC which is an Allen Bradley SLC 5/05. An ethernet output is taken from this PLC and sent to a PC that has RSLinx software on it. This PC allows constant monitoring of the generator parameters.
Seperately, a modem is connected to the comm port on the Master PLC and this is activated each day to provide a seperate and consolidated snapshot of the data collected over 24 hours. This data is fed to a third party monitoring program that takes the Allen Bradley data and converts it into a format that can be imported into a diary run under Microsoft Access.
We wish to get rid of the modem set up and have acquired a Perle IOLAN module to interface between the com port on the PLC and an ethernet connection. What we need now is the software that would (say) interrogate the PLC at a certain time each day, download the data then convert it to a format that could either be dumped to / imported into a Microsoft Access Database. Hopefully, as automated as possible!
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated
Regards,
Vic
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