Jim Woodall
Member
Hi, I just joined the forum, to hopefully help point me in the right direction regarding a project I'm working on.
I'm a Windows application developer/database administrator for a manufacturing company. I set up a manuafcturing database for various process parameters.
Currently, these parameters are entered by hand. However, I've been working with maintenance & they tell me we have a Allen Bradley SLC-500 with an RS 232 port for serial communication.
I would like to write a small Visual Basic application to poll the SLC-500 to retrieve the data automatically & store it in our database. I only need a "read only" situation; I will not be attempting to write data back to the controller.
Is this a fairly simple task? Are there any dangers asscociated with doing something like this? Any resources that anyone can point me to? I know next to nothing about PLCs.
Any help anyone might provide would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
I'm a Windows application developer/database administrator for a manufacturing company. I set up a manuafcturing database for various process parameters.
Currently, these parameters are entered by hand. However, I've been working with maintenance & they tell me we have a Allen Bradley SLC-500 with an RS 232 port for serial communication.
I would like to write a small Visual Basic application to poll the SLC-500 to retrieve the data automatically & store it in our database. I only need a "read only" situation; I will not be attempting to write data back to the controller.
Is this a fairly simple task? Are there any dangers asscociated with doing something like this? Any resources that anyone can point me to? I know next to nothing about PLCs.
Any help anyone might provide would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim