surfandkite
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- Join Date
- May 2005
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Hi,
first of all I'm new to PLC's and want to check if I am proceding in the correct way. We have in our plant a production cell which make tractor components and we want to increase it efficiency (OEE). So what we want to monitor is actual run-time of the machine and log all stops into an oracle database. Ok for so far our wishlist.
The cell consists out of 3 machines all running on a siemens S7-300 plc with a 840D operator panel (connected to the plc by means of a serial cable I think this is called MPI, correct?) The 840D panels also have an ethernetport and we used this to hook up these machines to our intranet.
The next step of course is to be able to monitor the actual machine status. I've been reading arround and I guess that we need to use OPC server for siemens MPI which need to be installed on every machine (is this correct?)
Next step is to get an opc Client which can capture the required data into our oracle database.
Is this the correct way of handeling this problem?
Where can i download SIMATIC NET to try to install this.
Is there a risk in installing an opc server on the machines (if a do something wrong will the machine still operate?)
Any responce would be appreciated.
Thanks
first of all I'm new to PLC's and want to check if I am proceding in the correct way. We have in our plant a production cell which make tractor components and we want to increase it efficiency (OEE). So what we want to monitor is actual run-time of the machine and log all stops into an oracle database. Ok for so far our wishlist.
The cell consists out of 3 machines all running on a siemens S7-300 plc with a 840D operator panel (connected to the plc by means of a serial cable I think this is called MPI, correct?) The 840D panels also have an ethernetport and we used this to hook up these machines to our intranet.
The next step of course is to be able to monitor the actual machine status. I've been reading arround and I guess that we need to use OPC server for siemens MPI which need to be installed on every machine (is this correct?)
Next step is to get an opc Client which can capture the required data into our oracle database.
Is this the correct way of handeling this problem?
Where can i download SIMATIC NET to try to install this.
Is there a risk in installing an opc server on the machines (if a do something wrong will the machine still operate?)
Any responce would be appreciated.
Thanks