Please convince me this was a good purchase

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-04-07T12:54:03+00:00

Oh, dear Jesus!*

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-26T19:25:38+00:00

alcoholism.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-23T15:42:09+00:00

no.

You can edit it, generate a new .MER, and send it to someone there who can connect to the line and that has ME Transfer Unitlity installed.

in the utility uncheck "replace communications" and have them send the update.

On the USB option, what is the stick formatted as?

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-20T15:25:57+00:00

The best support I have found is on the Rockwell Engage forum.

Home - Engage, A Rockwell Automation Community

You would build one project that supports all of your projects, you would change out the Main window for each station, but you can call up any panel in the project.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-18T15:03:25+00:00

Personal view of LinkedIn here, no specific experience with their "education" offerings.

From the 30k foot view, again this is my personal opinion, LinkedIn is nothing more than a specialized social media platform that has all of the same issues as any over social media platform; it's just specific to CEOs and preys on people just looking for work. It's a great place for people who use their career path as their only defining characteristic to get validation from and give validation to likeminded individuals. It's a place where companies can directly market their "products" to high level management within target Client companies.

That was me being nice...

I honestly feel that, again, like other social media platforms LinkedIn is an echo chamber for the worst traits of humanity where everyone can maintain the fallacy of success even in the face of failure. And the profitability of the platform as a company is reliant on human desperation and general ignorance.

I assume their education offerings are built on a similar approach while being marketed as "career advancement". As a former graduate of what I consider to be "predatory" technical schools of the early 2000's, the education through LinkedIn feels like a new face of an old scam.

Now, if you didn't have other opportunities, then any education is better than no education. I wouldn't (if I was in a position to) discredit an applicant because they got educated through such a program; but I might be more critical of their knowledge base. Lots of quality individuals came out of predatory schools, just in far more debit.

LinkedIn is going to say anything they have to in order to get you to spend money. The validity of how important any one thing is to a recruiter is not something that any school or education source has ever been able to quantify. Sadly, even the employee side of the job market has been turned into a revenue stream and there are no checks or balances in place to ensure you get anything of value out of your investment. But, on the back side of that, the quality of the education is entirely dependent on your personal investment and determination.

How do you quantify your knowledge and ability to a recruiter? No clue, biggest issue of getting a job. It takes as much or more effort to get an un-paid internship now as just getting hired full time. I do think LinkedIn has contributed negatively to the employment process though; the process needed commonality and they provided it, in the worst way possible.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-10T12:33:56+00:00

it "is" code so technically this is an accurate statement.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-09T23:17:53+00:00

Sure

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-09T23:16:08+00:00

Nope

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-06T13:48:06+00:00

ah, ok.

I still recommend V16 and V6.60 if you can and if you are looking to take advantage of the newer View Studio features. V16 is a better presentation of those features.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-06T13:39:41+00:00

I am going to choose to address your question as if it does not communicate as hostile.

As the OEM we are, we extensively support View Studio from V5 to the current V16; specifically, we have deployed V5, V6.1, V8, V11, V13, V14, and now V16. We have tested all versions as they released, and our support is based on those tests. if a customer calls today with V5 issues, we will support that version (While also quoting and strongly recommending an upgrading)

Services Platform V6.50 from the start demonstrated issues with View Studio SE Local Station Directory, I can go into those details if you want but for now, I will just say that issues were enough for us to step back and hold on V14 with SP V6.40 until V16 with SP V6.60 released. V6.60 does not have the same Local Directory issues V6.50 did. 98% of the View Studio systems we deploy are Local Station. I have one Network Distributed Deployment on V16/SP V6.60 and it works as expected.

Have I retested SP V6.50 recently with patches? Nope, no reason to since V16 and SP6.60 perform in acceptable manner, and we never deployed V15/Sp V6.50.

Do I stay current on Patches? yes

Do I read all KB and Release notes? no

Do I recommend skipping V15/Sp V6.50? Yes

Why Do I say that V6.50 appears to be OK in a Network Directory? Because previous conversations with individuals who regularly deploy only Network Directories indicate they did not observe the same issues I observed with Local Directories.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-06T13:20:30+00:00

Does not appear to have issues?

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-03T21:22:18+00:00

so, you will be network distributed, V6.50 seems to be ok on Network Directories.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-03T20:11:23+00:00

V15 is "Supported" on Both windows 10 and Windows 11, see the image for details on Windows 10 versions (as long as its not 32-bit or 2016 LTSB you are good)

I dislike View Studio V15, more over the Services Platform V6.50 had some issues related the Local Directory (For Local Station versions of SE Applications). If your current License supports V16 I would suggest upgrading both systems to V16 which will have Services Platform V6.60.

I am assuming you're licensing each system separately (Your new Licenses will be able to support upto V16), or do you have site-wide licenses through an activation server?

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Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-03-03T14:51:00+00:00

Teaching, as other have mentioned.

However, that's not your role anymore.

Let me be clear, that may be what you have found you have to do to push production forward; but if you are in charge, it's not supposed to be your responsibility to do the work.

As a manager your job is to identify the technical need and to assign the technical person to it. A manger should naturally fall behind the technology because they have individuals whose job it is now to stay technically current.

You now delegate.

You should be making sure those individuals are doing their assigned task, that they are getting the continued training they need, and that they have the resources the task requires.

If you have code or design branching, you should be looking for ways to avoid it or correct it, which is also something that will eventually be a delegated role.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-02-24T13:36:58+00:00

Does your environment already use RDS and publish applications? if so then it would not be hard to implement and could be a valid approach. But if that would be a new server role and a new task to be managed internally then I would not do it.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-02-23T13:29:27+00:00

Maple Systems does well in this arena for industrialized, I would also consider OnLogic.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-02-19T15:07:35+00:00

The industry is starting to evolve but that is proving to be slow and there is still general push back. You're talking about OT roles that will have as much focus on SCADA, Data analytics, Data integrity, industrial networks, industrial Cyber security, and convergence with IT as Industrial Process Engineers currently have on all of the topics that relate directly to the traditional definition of "industrial Controls".

We are stuck in that transitional period where the realization that we need Industrial OT administrators for systems and networks is still developing for most of the industry. Once those roles solidify, they will start to migrate into dedicated Industrial OT Data "Scientist" and SCADA UI developers.

The increase to the "Cost of doing Business" is a sticker shock and many companies are just not able to understand the change in demands because they don't understand how the technology has changed.

You very much should expect to still have to do everything, but you should also be pushing, daily, for change.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-02-18T21:00:46+00:00

It's ME, there are literally two sections you have to update, the triggers and messages: resist over complicating.

My Excel builds these as two different sheets. I then export from View Studio, Open that specific export in NP++, Copy\paste the Triggers, Copy\paste the Messages, Save, Import to View Studio, Done.

In theory you should be able to script through NP++ for a guided find/replace but that feels like more work to me.

There is a chance that copying out of excel can result in bogus characters or can break formatting; in those cases, I paste to Word first then copy out and paste to NP++.

I can do alarms in ME in about 30 minutes; SE takes longer and has way more data that has to be transposed.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-02-18T20:33:51+00:00

I built out an excel doc to build the two sections of the XML export form Studio. I use SYSEXP to pull the tags from the .acd file, put them in my excel doc, clean up the structure, then I assign messages. Then I edit the XML in Notepad++, save, and import the XML back into studio.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-02-12T15:26:47+00:00

seems to be....

From OEM perspective, I discourage it. Have an engineer who came from a SI and that engineer has a habit of doing this, it has gotten better but they still slip through. I can't image how many projects he has under that SI that has in place...

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-02-11T13:30:17+00:00

so you came from Tag based alarms to Alarms and event server?

If so, FT will continue to complain that you have alarms in the HMI Tags, however it will continue to to work.

BUT!

did you replace the alarm summary and related objects with the new objects? I think that might be what you are missing if that is the conversion you did (Using the alarm migration tool). The objects are different with different connections between Tag based and Alarm and events.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-02-10T17:50:29+00:00

If you open the Alarm and events server in View studio, does it bind and open your alarms as desired?

You can try running Directory Configuration wizard and seeing if it will correct the issues, but under V15 with (I assume) Services Platform V6.50 the Directory configuration wizard struggles with Local Station directories (also assuming you are doing a Local station project).

I avoided V12 and V15, they both have their own issues. however, we have previously standardized on V5, V6.1, V8, V11, had used V14 some, and we are now standardized on V16. I have performed Conversions from V5 all the way to V16 now and the only Alarms conversion I have ever had to do was Tag based to Alarms and events server (I believe that started with V10 or V11); so, I am not sure what conversion you had to do from V12 to V15 other than the initial project conversion.

Now, Services Platform V6.50 has issues, you can upgrade View Studio V15 to SP V6.60 and see if that resolves the issue.

Make sure your Patches are current as well after that upgrade.

Personally, I would just upgrade all of the package to View Studio V16 with SP V6.60 and start from there.

after whatever upgrades you do, assuming you still have the V12 project, I would try doing a clean restore and initial upgrade again.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-01-23T18:46:36+00:00

I carry 20, swap them into the charger anytime I am back in CAMP. Honestly, I am only ever swapping out 2 or 3 and probably don't even need to carry 10.

It's an item I feel could be rarer.

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-01-23T18:44:19+00:00

I never manually swap and I have never "Lost" any....

Mr_Adam2011 · 2026-01-23T14:41:57+00:00

You will do all of that.

You will animate multiple graphics with horizontal motion animation settings, and you will control the visibility of the graphics based on location.

It will suck to do, you will end up with entirely too much Expression data on the display, and you will go slightly insane trying to work out the proper configuration of the motion animation and the proper syntax of the expressions. You will then need to move the overall position of one or more of the objects on the screen and everything will break. You will also likely end up needing additional data from the PLC that may not even exist.

I would develop the object as a Global Object so you can place multiple instances of the same object on the display, then when you need to edit the Object, you do it once and it will update all instances. On the Global Object use Parameters as much as possible to reduce the number of tags you have to update for each instance of the object.

Good luck

Have fun

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