cardosocea
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If you already have that much experience with AB, why would your company want to do a 180 degree turn around.
That just sounds counter-productive!
At a certain point, the expertise in a certain platform isn't valuable enough because of the price they charge for it.
There's also the fact that AB is very limited in what and how you can do things, which is not the case with Siemens. I can't say for sure in this case as I haven't seen the software, but am willing to bet that it has very little to no reusable code, which is not the standard with Siemens kit.
On code reuse alone, the savings can be colossal... although it would imply people start thinking differently.
We are looking to get away from the Rockwell money pit that we have found ourselves in. We have been presented with a great opportunity to upgrade many of our antique machines (roughly 75% obsolescence) and want to check out our options for the future. Plus it's a new toy to play with, and who doesn't love new toys? And cookies, who can argue with cookies?
I was going down the same road a couple of months ago, had a chat with Siemens rep in the area and they cut us a pretty sweet deal on parts for the upgrade, plus test bench (much, much better than a starter kit). Have you done the same?