Hello all.
I mainly work with Siemens PLC's and panels for our machines. But now I am faced with a pilot project that has to be as price friendly as possible.
This pilot project must consists of a machine that needs to log and store values from the process(PLC) to the PC (PC is a must) in csv format or directly xls, so that the technician will be able to open the csv on this computer and see the production info.
So my first thought was a S7-1200 PLC and WinCCflexRT license and logging license to visualize the machine and log the data. But the licenses are well over 1k€.
So is there an alternative to WinCC Flexible RT that I could use in this project? The PLC must be a S7-1200 because of some other profinet nodes.
Any input would be great. Thank you.
Cheers
Aleix
I mainly work with Siemens PLC's and panels for our machines. But now I am faced with a pilot project that has to be as price friendly as possible.
This pilot project must consists of a machine that needs to log and store values from the process(PLC) to the PC (PC is a must) in csv format or directly xls, so that the technician will be able to open the csv on this computer and see the production info.
So my first thought was a S7-1200 PLC and WinCCflexRT license and logging license to visualize the machine and log the data. But the licenses are well over 1k€.
So is there an alternative to WinCC Flexible RT that I could use in this project? The PLC must be a S7-1200 because of some other profinet nodes.
Any input would be great. Thank you.
Cheers
Aleix