harryting
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I had some issues with reliability on Point IO and wouldn't use it for critical application anymore. Hopefully this will be better as AB surely see a tons of competition with more adoption of Ethernet/IP.
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I had some issues with reliability on Point IO and wouldn't use it for critical application anymore. Hopefully this will be better as AB surely see a tons of competition with more adoption of Ethernet/IP.
The idea being that you can build your program with any I/O, say Flex, then if a customer changes to Point, you won't have to rework your program because both data types will have the exact same structure.
What issues?
For us, it is FlexIO that keeps faulting, or just giving incorrect readings (analog/TC modules). Since switching to PointIO, we haven't had any issues.
Why would a customer make a lateral move with the I/O like that? The new structure of Flex won't retroactively upgrade all the old Flex I/O out there, and the same goes for Point. Basically, this is only an advantage if a customer has this new kind of Flex and wants to change it out for this new kind of Point. Why would this ever happen?
New Logix5580 (L8) controller information is also posted on the front page of AB.COM
Here is more details:
http://ab.rockwellautomation.com/Programmable-Controllers/ControlLogix/5580-Controllers
http://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/pp/1756-pp001_-en-p.pdf
Ken Roach said:...The EtherNet/IP adapter already has USB and an SD card and a small dot matrix display, suggesting that it might have the underlying hardware available for a CompactLogix CPU as well.
mk42 said:...
- Controller-based change detection and logging enable added security
- Provides role-based access control to routines and Add-On Instructions
Have these been around for awhile, or is this new?...