dbh6
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Good evening all.
One of our customers have been using TIsoft TI505 based plc's incorporated with wonderware versions 9.5. They are planning to make an upgrade to the latest wonderware version 10.6 aka 2012 R2. Problem is that the drivers such as TIDIR, CTI2572 although are compatible with wonderware 9.5 are not compatible with Wonderware 10.6. I have contacted wonderware for their workaround for this, and they mentioned that a third party OPC server such as Kepserver or Software toolbox can be used. I have downloaded the demo versions for both Kepserver and Software and tested them with Wonderware 10.6 and with a little massaging of wonderware item tags it works.
The little issue i faced getting kepserver or software toolbox which are really the same with wonderware 10.6 is data type mismatches with the item tag in wonderware that is usually used to reference tags that exist in the TIsoft PLC's. To correct this some items tags in wonderware had to be changed from Tag.0 to Tag/0 so that Kepserver or software toolbox can understand the nomenclature , but it was all syntax modifications.
So lastly i doubt their is a easier way to do this but is their a way to make it so that you can automate the changes by selecting some feature in kepserver or software toolbox as opposed to going through each item in wonderware and making the item tag modifications manually?? if it is a relatively small HMI application its fine, but their are some applications that have a high tag count and manually changing where the changes are needed could become very time consuming.
Let me know if anyone has done this before.
One of our customers have been using TIsoft TI505 based plc's incorporated with wonderware versions 9.5. They are planning to make an upgrade to the latest wonderware version 10.6 aka 2012 R2. Problem is that the drivers such as TIDIR, CTI2572 although are compatible with wonderware 9.5 are not compatible with Wonderware 10.6. I have contacted wonderware for their workaround for this, and they mentioned that a third party OPC server such as Kepserver or Software toolbox can be used. I have downloaded the demo versions for both Kepserver and Software and tested them with Wonderware 10.6 and with a little massaging of wonderware item tags it works.
The little issue i faced getting kepserver or software toolbox which are really the same with wonderware 10.6 is data type mismatches with the item tag in wonderware that is usually used to reference tags that exist in the TIsoft PLC's. To correct this some items tags in wonderware had to be changed from Tag.0 to Tag/0 so that Kepserver or software toolbox can understand the nomenclature , but it was all syntax modifications.
So lastly i doubt their is a easier way to do this but is their a way to make it so that you can automate the changes by selecting some feature in kepserver or software toolbox as opposed to going through each item in wonderware and making the item tag modifications manually?? if it is a relatively small HMI application its fine, but their are some applications that have a high tag count and manually changing where the changes are needed could become very time consuming.
Let me know if anyone has done this before.