I have a fleet of aging equipment that uses lookout running on XP computers. these systems are stand alone units, most dont connect to the outside world and the few that do are with an autodialer and land line for alarms and shutdowns. i worked here for a number of years previously, left for about 8yrs and am back. most of these systems have been running since the early 2000s, arguably coming up on the end of their life cycle but due to service agreements we are responsible for keeping them running.
knock on wood, the Modicon controllers have been fairly reliable. XP computers are the current achilleas heel. i know previouisly VMs were tried, but there were some issues with the registries (computer talk over my head, but how it was explained to me) that Lookout uses since they are shared with the host machine.
so phase 1 of this is to get an HMI that runs on a more modern machine and cellular remote access.
Ignition seems to be the best solution at this time. any other options i should consider?
knock on wood, the Modicon controllers have been fairly reliable. XP computers are the current achilleas heel. i know previouisly VMs were tried, but there were some issues with the registries (computer talk over my head, but how it was explained to me) that Lookout uses since they are shared with the host machine.
so phase 1 of this is to get an HMI that runs on a more modern machine and cellular remote access.
Ignition seems to be the best solution at this time. any other options i should consider?