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Well actually I'm a person and not a fan but either way.
I'm an old in-my-60's PLC guy and I recently had a project which spec'ed for a Weidmueller Web PLC. The Web PLC on it's own was not capable of handling the the process (solar panels with sun-tracking) so I did the entire project using the built-in Node-Red. I was told that it wouldn't work but it works amazingly well and the customer now has a web-interface to the PLC and is overjoyed that he can startup his system from his cell-phone.
So yes, I am a fan. The learning curve for a scan-inputs-do-logic-scan-outputs guy to the event driven Node-Red required me to change my way of thinking but Node-Red is really something.
So here's my question: I'm seeing Node-Red appear more and more in industry; Opto-22, Sick, Wago, Weidmueller, and others. What do you think the future is for Node-Red in industry? Is it a novelty or will this be something that everyone will have to know?
Cheers!
Yosi
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I'm an old in-my-60's PLC guy and I recently had a project which spec'ed for a Weidmueller Web PLC. The Web PLC on it's own was not capable of handling the the process (solar panels with sun-tracking) so I did the entire project using the built-in Node-Red. I was told that it wouldn't work but it works amazingly well and the customer now has a web-interface to the PLC and is overjoyed that he can startup his system from his cell-phone.
So yes, I am a fan. The learning curve for a scan-inputs-do-logic-scan-outputs guy to the event driven Node-Red required me to change my way of thinking but Node-Red is really something.
So here's my question: I'm seeing Node-Red appear more and more in industry; Opto-22, Sick, Wago, Weidmueller, and others. What do you think the future is for Node-Red in industry? Is it a novelty or will this be something that everyone will have to know?
Cheers!
Yosi
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