Citect SCADA with Rockwell ALMD Instructions

[Ian S]

Is it possible to use Rockwell ALMD instructions with Citect SCADA 7.2?

Obviously, I could simply tag up to the .InAlarm bits, but this renders the use of ALMD fairly pointless. I was wondering if it is possible to to get Citect simply to subscribe to the CompactLogix for Alarms and Events, as one would with FactoryTalk View SE.

Cheers,
Ian

 

[mgcurtis]

Did you ever find out the anser to this question? Im having the same problem now.

Thanks,

 

[Ian S]

The Rockwell alarm instructions will only only work with their own Factory Talk View SE, unfortunately.

 

[mgcurtis]

That is rather unfortunate, but understandable to get people to buy their equipment. Thanks for the info

 

[Ian S]

It's a shame, because I find the ALMD and ALMA instructions very useful, but mainly only when I've got an FTView SE SCADA.
Even without View SE though, I like them, because they have all the timeout, deadband, acknowledgement and disable functionality built in. If I've got just a PanelView or another SCADA attached, I can still use them by mapping to these bits in the traditional manner.
The downside is that they take up about 1k memory each when you're only using a fraction of the full functionality. However, if program size is not an issue, then it saves you the trouble of "rolling your own".