John,
Thank you for taking the time to provide the information concerning Allen
Bradley PLCs. I thought it was very informative.
As of last week, my group will start to take on our facility's AB PLC
responsibilities in addition to our current Foxboro I/A support. I know little
about the Allen
The short answer is yes it can be and is done. The longer more difficult answer
will be how.
In short, we do this by capturing the alarm history file on a periodic basis,
searching for contents of the alarms for certain text (like C:B.HAIND). If a
message shows up that we are monitoring for, we
Would someone mind telling what OFHA is?
Thanks,
Neil Martin
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Subject:RE: Re: Scripts to backup CP database and CSA to an alternat
Author: "Murray; Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05/03/2000 8:57 AM
Hi Ron,
I have looked at
We use FoxView with the old historian and have no problems. I should also
mention that we do not use any relational database features other than to get
out the System Alarm, Operator Action Journal information, and Alarm History. I
don't think a Relational Database is needed for this stuff, we j
Marci,
There is no automatic backup for the horn.cfg. Each station that is configured
to trip a COUT or make a workstation sound basis a certain priority alarm, will
trip that COUT or make that sound whenever it receives an alarm with that
priority. If you want a backup, you will need to make s
What is OFHA?
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Subject:RE: Re: Scripts to backup CP database and CSA to an alternat
Author: "Stear; Bo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05/01/2000 8:58 AM
OFHA has some problems that won't be resolved. See CAR 100053 and you'll
find tha
Terry,
I am going through the same problem at the moment. We just purchased 5
replacement printers.
You can replace the HP Paint Jet with a Lexmark Optra45 printer that has a
minimum of 16MB of RAM. This printer emulates both PCL5 and Post Script 2. If
you want to print from a WP30 with norma
Con,
I am not exactly sure of your question, but may this will help. We often use
CALC as fancy switch blocks to be able to switch which controllers can cascade
to one another. This requires PRIBLK parameters to be set in the normal manner
and back initialization parameters to be linked using t
Pedro,
I am not exactly sure what you are asking, but maybe this will help. The way I
prefer to access the Foxboro remotely for my self is to first start up an
XWindows session (like VT100) and then open a second Remote DM screen. I start
these by doing the following:
1. Start up an XWindows
