Hello, Just signed up and thought I would just jump right in and start asking questions. I work at a water plant as an operator, and am also working on obtaining my electricians license and instrumentation tech certification. I used to be a mechanical engineer and did a little control work with that.
My question is in regards to a SCADA system running on factory talk site edition (don't ask me which version, probably outdated even though we just got it). Im hoping to start working with a third party guy we use for the plc and scada work to begin rebuilding and improving our system one piece at a time.
What Im wondering is if it would be possible to have a pop up window or automatically bring up a special screen in the event of an alarm condition being activated. In this page or window i would like to have displayed a alarm message, the current value of the instrument that is in alarm, the alarm set points (maybe with some flashing red animation to show which set point high or low triggered the alarm), alarm acknowledge and reset buttons, as well as display a trend of the instrument value, and maybe some other random information.
From a simpletons mind like mine this seems easy enough for somebody who knows what they are doing. Like i said i'll be working with a third party guy for this but I know nothing about factory talk, so one i want to learn a little bit through the process, two i want to make sure I'm not sending us down a rabbit hole while the time clock is running.
Thanks and hopefully ill be posting a lot more questions and learning a lot from you guys.
My question is in regards to a SCADA system running on factory talk site edition (don't ask me which version, probably outdated even though we just got it). Im hoping to start working with a third party guy we use for the plc and scada work to begin rebuilding and improving our system one piece at a time.
What Im wondering is if it would be possible to have a pop up window or automatically bring up a special screen in the event of an alarm condition being activated. In this page or window i would like to have displayed a alarm message, the current value of the instrument that is in alarm, the alarm set points (maybe with some flashing red animation to show which set point high or low triggered the alarm), alarm acknowledge and reset buttons, as well as display a trend of the instrument value, and maybe some other random information.
From a simpletons mind like mine this seems easy enough for somebody who knows what they are doing. Like i said i'll be working with a third party guy for this but I know nothing about factory talk, so one i want to learn a little bit through the process, two i want to make sure I'm not sending us down a rabbit hole while the time clock is running.
Thanks and hopefully ill be posting a lot more questions and learning a lot from you guys.