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Did anyone on here go to the CHicago Automation Fair at McCormick Place?.....If you did what did you think of it?
Rick Densing said:I went yesterday. I am assuming that the reason to go is the seminars, which I did not attend. At least I hope so.
Other than Rockwell products, I saw very little in the way of demonstration items. The Rockwell booths were crowded and hard to qet your questions answered. I did see some items that I did not know existed.
I stayed about an hour and a half.
danw said:>I am amazed at how the staff of the McCormick Place can feed 7-10,000 people with such efficiency @ lunch
Truly a prodigious feat. Incredible. I likewise am amazed. At 12:15 today, zenith of the lunch hour, there was no waiting. I counted 21 server tables! Incredible. I'd guess that the seating area for lunch was nearly equal in area to the exhibit area.
I'm an instrument guy so I was in awa of the massive E&H 10" coriolis meter they brought in a on skid. What a monster.
>1756-XXXH Hart analog input/output cards now a fully supported Rockwell product
I missed that. I saw the Prosoft Hart module, but not the Rockwell.
I did see that Kevin Roach (an RA VP whose identity is apparently sometimes confused with Ken Roach, a participant on this forum) doing a presentation, but didn't stay.
Dan
Yes, at low levels. Furnace pressure or clean room positive pressure control by any chance?val_99 said:As far as necessity in zero reset - it is always a problem with low level pressure transmitters. Specially involved in air flow measurement. Always have to readjust it.
Since tags are very basic elements in tag based systems, the ability to change a tag name should only reside at an engineering level. To me, that's development level access, not operator level access. A tag name changed inadvertently on a tag based system could make an expensive batch worthless without its accompanying data.val_99 said:And secondary - even entering Tag ID into Hart transmitter directly from HMI - isn't it much easier?
dmroeder said:I'm amazed at the scale of the whole thing. I can't imagine the money involved in that whole thing.
curlyandshemp said:I heard from our distributor that the two lunches cost approx $750K