We got 23 Batch mixer that can heat (with water, steam or oil) or be put in Cooling ( Water or Oil) and all the heat/cooling work with Pneumatic Valve Actuators on a 120vac solenoid.
For the Mixer, all the motor are mostly on Yaskawa A1000, P5 or G5 drive that could be controlled with their Analog input and their dry contact for drive fault. ( We can't go with Ethernet , some drive dont have any port).
Some of the batch we do, once it's started, should never stop mixing or heating before it's done, Some expensive batch could go up to 50-75k.
Most of the Temp probe are Thermocouple Type J (25% of them) or RTD PT100 (75% of them)
A average Tank would have:
2 Valves 120v IN
2 Valves 120v OUT
1 RTD Probe for temp reading
1 Motor 575v 3ph motor 50hp+
1 Drive Yaskawa A1000
My boss first idea was like a DCS Freelance 800 from ABB to deal with all these at the sametimes...
My personal guess would be with Small PLC like micrologix 1400 but many of them with added module for specific RTD / TC input which would take care of like 3 Mixer/PLC all together on a Ethernet Network on a Panelview plus 1k
I would go normaly with a Contrologix if it was only a matter of input/output
and a standard application but because it's like all separated application and for safety and easy and fast replacement thats why i would personaly go with these smaller PLC. I feel like it would be a bad idea i dunno to put all my 23 mixer RTD on 1-2 module only, and the day one of them fail would be the apocalypse lol
We got maybe a total budget of 40k-50k for the parts including connectivity and all atm...
Also.. Allen bradley, Omron, Red Lion, Schneider, siemens are brand that is prety common for us to buy where i am and have distributor already.
(Sorry for the big wall of text, just wanted to share all my point before asking for advice, Also im still a beginner about automation project, i only did some stuff with Rslogix or Zeliosoft and still learning Rslogix 5000)
So my question:
-what would be your personal preference for this type of application?
-Which Brand would you suggest?
-Do you have any advice or recommendation to give about this project ?
For the Mixer, all the motor are mostly on Yaskawa A1000, P5 or G5 drive that could be controlled with their Analog input and their dry contact for drive fault. ( We can't go with Ethernet , some drive dont have any port).
Some of the batch we do, once it's started, should never stop mixing or heating before it's done, Some expensive batch could go up to 50-75k.
Most of the Temp probe are Thermocouple Type J (25% of them) or RTD PT100 (75% of them)
A average Tank would have:
2 Valves 120v IN
2 Valves 120v OUT
1 RTD Probe for temp reading
1 Motor 575v 3ph motor 50hp+
1 Drive Yaskawa A1000
My boss first idea was like a DCS Freelance 800 from ABB to deal with all these at the sametimes...
My personal guess would be with Small PLC like micrologix 1400 but many of them with added module for specific RTD / TC input which would take care of like 3 Mixer/PLC all together on a Ethernet Network on a Panelview plus 1k
I would go normaly with a Contrologix if it was only a matter of input/output
and a standard application but because it's like all separated application and for safety and easy and fast replacement thats why i would personaly go with these smaller PLC. I feel like it would be a bad idea i dunno to put all my 23 mixer RTD on 1-2 module only, and the day one of them fail would be the apocalypse lol
We got maybe a total budget of 40k-50k for the parts including connectivity and all atm...
Also.. Allen bradley, Omron, Red Lion, Schneider, siemens are brand that is prety common for us to buy where i am and have distributor already.
(Sorry for the big wall of text, just wanted to share all my point before asking for advice, Also im still a beginner about automation project, i only did some stuff with Rslogix or Zeliosoft and still learning Rslogix 5000)
So my question:
-what would be your personal preference for this type of application?
-Which Brand would you suggest?
-Do you have any advice or recommendation to give about this project ?
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