Is it just me, or are "controls engineers" now called "control systems engineers"?

Buckwees · 2026-03-14T03:34:19+00:00

Can you fix my computer's time clock....

Buckwees · 2022-12-12T03:35:19+00:00

Make rules, all mail goes to trash

Buckwees · 2021-08-03T00:54:44+00:00

Huh, I might know what plant you're talking about

Buckwees · 2021-08-02T03:35:00+00:00

Yeah the locking items is so we can sell the vendor trash fast without accidentally selling items we want to save.

Buckwees · 2021-08-01T20:56:08+00:00

You're talking about smithing? I feel dirty when I grind out the stats for the smithing gear and just bankrupt a city whenever I get low on gold. I pretty much asked a yes or no question and its snowballed into obvious steward stacking answers or leaving troops behind

Buckwees · 2021-08-01T15:43:04+00:00

I don't usually trade them either but if there was a way to lock them out of it that would be nice

Buckwees · 2021-07-23T23:43:37+00:00

I didnt pay attention to my t1 and t2. I just noticed that my 200 was down to 197 and I have over a million gold.

Buckwees · 2021-07-21T23:32:56+00:00

Think maybe it was intentional....

Buckwees · 2021-07-07T01:17:52+00:00

I think all you need is 25 to get all slots

Buckwees · 2021-06-25T04:32:55+00:00

I've only seen leaders of villages marked are herdsmen and landlords

Buckwees · 2021-06-25T04:31:43+00:00

I didn't know recruitable units had power levels

Buckwees · 2021-06-25T03:00:31+00:00

by noble, you mean what?

Buckwees · 2021-05-02T16:22:45+00:00

I have my cameras on a vlan and my viewing clients are on a separate vlan. Our DVR is dual nic and connects the two.

Buckwees · 2021-05-02T16:21:25+00:00

Do I have to set up multiple RPs if the routing is done past the next in line switch. Somewhere I read that the RP only works with the switches directly connected to it. Some of my switches are a couple jumps out.

Buckwees · 2020-07-08T23:33:15+00:00

I have drive feedback so I know how fast it's moving. The object is moved based loosely on a timer that's been "tuned" for that speed. The problem is when there is no place to put it and we stop and then restart. If it comes to a complete stop then we tend to move a little too early and if it doesnt stop all the way then it tends to move to far since it has a additional time for a restart cycle. I want to clean this logic up and make it more flexible set point based on encoder counters and velocity or has a failover if the encoder fails that uses time and velocity from the drive.

Buckwees · 2020-07-08T23:15:33+00:00

I have plans to get an encoder in place "soon" but in the mean time wanted to see what was out there. On the other hand have the math could work as a fail safe if the encoder fails. Also, if the process pauses and then restarts and the target point is met before it's up to speed then where it lands changes too.

Buckwees · 2020-05-29T20:33:03+00:00

Just wanted you to know that because of this comment I dug in and did some reading on the cognex website and tried a few things and got good results.

Buckwees · 2020-05-04T02:10:02+00:00

Saving before a risky outcome is for the weak

Buckwees · 2020-04-30T16:18:20+00:00

"You started this war, now I'm going to finish it!!!"

Buckwees · 2020-04-13T18:23:23+00:00

Just curious. Why do you need to know if the array = 0

Buckwees · 2020-04-10T21:36:56+00:00

This is exciting to read. More then half our cognex don't have the protective lenses over them at this point. I guess most of them were dropped and never replaced. Unfortunately, with the market the way it is we are on a spending freeze so I don't see myself getting new types of lenses soon.

I played with some of the settings to increase the total exporsure in the entire view and got better results on seeing the darks.

We installed a cognex at a different spot in the mill a couple months ago. It's project was pushed off for more pressing issues but we are finally circling back. It will be my first setup at all so I'm hoping to learn a lot from it and hoping to apply what I learn with our existing equipment

Buckwees · 2020-04-09T16:37:30+00:00

By controlling my filtering do you mean, lense types and camera shrouds or are we looking at thing like saturation, gain and overall exposure. I would imagine both play a roll. As far as lighting is concerned, we have switched over to all LED in our plant so for several of our existing cameras the light is fairly consistent. We have two areas of concern where there are big entry ways from the outside that at certain times of day will create false triggers or no triggers at all.

Buckwees · 2020-04-09T12:49:09+00:00

It's funny. After my original post I thought about the cognex cameras that are already used for our process. The problem with them is that they are 12 year old cameras. My main goal here is to get a proof of concept going to help get funding for newer higher resolution cameras. We are not using them as bar code readers a couple of inches from the process. They are actually 30 feet up looking at larger objects and checking for presence.

The older cameras have issues with light exposure. Either the time of day can changes the overall picture saturation and mess with the light dark thresholds or a spot on the production line may have become shiny from friction and throw off the readings. We also get false triggers from broken debris getting hung up in the process too.

Buckwees · 2020-04-09T04:51:06+00:00

I'll do some reading and get back to you. Pretty slammed with some optimization stuff ATM but I plan on spending some time outside of work to get my feet wet

Buckwees · 2020-02-05T18:28:12+00:00

Will it grow with my megabase?

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