pallen3
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I have a request from a customer to outfit about a half dozen assembly stations with a way to enter a "bypass" code. The hitch is that the bypass codes for all the stations needs to be set/reset from one central location. Most likely the main HMI for the PLC.
I had a Rockwell sales guy in this morning that had originally suggested something called PanelView Component. But apparently addressing that many IP addresses (More than 6) isn't possible for the CompactLogix platform. So he bumped us up to a ControlLogix. But since the little PanelViews don't work with ControlLogix, he bumped those up to PanelViewPlus 600s. Which means it's going to cost me way, way too much for such a seemingly simple thing.
Can a CompactLogix really only handle one or two Ethernet/IP connections reliably? Would 10 HMIs really bring one to its knees?
I was curious if anyone on this board had done something similar in that past, and what hardware they may have used.
My other option is to use a PC to interface with the hardware and pass any relevant data back to the PLC via OPC. But if I can do it simply and directly, I'd much rather go that way.
I had a Rockwell sales guy in this morning that had originally suggested something called PanelView Component. But apparently addressing that many IP addresses (More than 6) isn't possible for the CompactLogix platform. So he bumped us up to a ControlLogix. But since the little PanelViews don't work with ControlLogix, he bumped those up to PanelViewPlus 600s. Which means it's going to cost me way, way too much for such a seemingly simple thing.
Can a CompactLogix really only handle one or two Ethernet/IP connections reliably? Would 10 HMIs really bring one to its knees?
I was curious if anyone on this board had done something similar in that past, and what hardware they may have used.
My other option is to use a PC to interface with the hardware and pass any relevant data back to the PLC via OPC. But if I can do it simply and directly, I'd much rather go that way.