Hello all, I am looking for advice as I set myself for this new career path. I need advice on a couple of things. What sort of tooling will I need? I have written down Laptop, side monitor, wire crimpers, extra wire/connectors, etc. The work involved will be basically adding our gateways to existing systems to monitor machine data, OEE for example. We work well with EIP AB, MODBUS, OPC UA, and MTCONNECT. We use serial or ethernet to begin communications. So the main question:
What tools do you recommend and cabling?
When I come across protocols that we do not support what is the best way to monitor that data? Adding our own I/O that runs to a small PLC then back to the gateway? What type of I/O or PLC would you recommend?
What Software would you recommend? Wireshark? I doubt I need studio as we will only be pulling tags not adjusting any logic.
Thank you all
What tools do you recommend and cabling?
When I come across protocols that we do not support what is the best way to monitor that data? Adding our own I/O that runs to a small PLC then back to the gateway? What type of I/O or PLC would you recommend?
What Software would you recommend? Wireshark? I doubt I need studio as we will only be pulling tags not adjusting any logic.
Thank you all