I am responsible for an old plant that we use their CA buildings for storage. It has an old CH30 Omron with 4 remote racks. All in all about 25-30 cards. It runs 5 glycol units and a floor temperature control system, it runs another 5 compressor system for 2 massive controlled atmosphere buildings as well as 2, 200HP ammonia compressors for blast freezers. All controlled by one, very old XP machine running what IM sure is a shady version of RSV32.
Iv had troubles with this system over the years. Loosing com cards, power supplies and such. Parts are extremely hard to get and I or they have 0 spares for anything.
Iv been preaching to them for years to get something started and not to wait until D-Day because that day, I don't want to hear about it. Its always a scramble when this goes down as millions of dollars of product are at risk. I can't believe they won't bite the bullet and upgrade. They just think I can "make it work" every time!
Worst part is, I have their backups, ghosted XP machine and all as I used to work in this plant before it got de-commissioned, but should I really just hand it to them? They have no software, licenses or anything.
Iv already given it to them once and got it all up and running for them after they purchased the building from the old owner who stripped even the code from the PLC's and the RSV32 application from the PC and left the system unusable. I wasn't compensated even a bit for it. They have no idea how big of a deal it is to just be handed a working project to start up a de-commissioned refrigeration system of this size.
Would you give it to them?
Its time to upgrade!!!!!