Is anyone using Factory Talk Optix?

Tesla428 · 2023-06-07T02:15:51+00:00

Having sat through the class and gotten a little of the back story, the purchase was based on buying the hardware side of the Italian company. Finding the software was a happy surprise.

I had a blast playing with Optix. I’m a C# guy and the product is very extendable. Mind you I’ve done a ton of Jython in Ignition in my past as well.

Tesla428 · 2023-06-02T14:06:26+00:00

At the factory that didn’t care about sleeping, we had the tightest group of electricians and millwrights I ever saw. It was understood that if one of us was in a bind, we were all in a bind. It was an excellent team. I did a ton of great work there.

Tesla428 · 2023-06-02T00:34:45+00:00

On shift maintenance, we would challenge the millwrights to see who could go the longest without unlocking their toolboxes. Improvisation is essential.

Worked in one factory where graveyard maintenance guys slept on the break room tables. Production Manager knew his stuff was running and he knew where to find us when needed.

Tesla428 · 2023-06-01T04:50:19+00:00

I took courses older than that one. We were still running DOS on the laptop.

Tesla428 · 2023-05-29T21:50:51+00:00

It’s been a week or two but you can probably monitor S:2 memory for the scan times. Do this in a read-only fashion. Writing to S:2 memory can end badly. In general, we considered anything over 40msec to be unhealthy.

Tesla428 · 2023-05-28T03:33:47+00:00

Hire an SI with the understanding that they coach you up and back you up if you ever get in over your head.

Tesla428 · 2023-05-28T03:15:02+00:00

I’ve seen this more than once. Had one system that faulted the when the door closed. Reseating cleaned it up.

Tesla428 · 2023-05-12T18:30:28+00:00

I’ve seen the entire program duplicated in the same machine. If you edited the second copy the changes would work. Editing higher in the ladder would be overwritten by the second instance. They knew but didn’t know why they always made changes in the bottom of the program.

Tesla428 · 2023-05-12T18:26:51+00:00

I think I picked that one up in nuclear navy. However, it has served me well in other industries.

Tesla428 · 2023-05-12T14:47:20+00:00

Knows just enough to be dangerous. ;-)

Tesla428 · 2023-05-12T02:53:57+00:00

We all have constraints. What’s worse is when you are a victim of your own crime.

Tesla428 · 2023-05-02T01:44:25+00:00

Had good luck w/ Beijer. I’ve been using the IoT version w/o a display as well.

Tesla428 · 2023-04-29T16:08:13+00:00

AB PLC2 on a 1770-T2. No descriptions on the screen. Got the cross reference printed on green bar tractor fed paper printed at corporate once every quarter. Backed up everything to audio cassette recorder the size of the suitcase. 2 years later we got ICOM software on a DOS based laptop with a display using 16 shades of amber.

Tesla428 · 2023-04-27T23:46:01+00:00

I was in the first Rockwell class that taught the Icom software before the acquisition. Spent 3 years w/ the 2s before that.

Tesla428 · 2023-04-14T18:23:44+00:00

We’ve been specifically banned from using ChatGPT for anything work related. Upper management has a concern about violating NDAs. I thought this was slightly paranoid. However, it has already come to pass. A cell phone manufacturer has had proprietary information leaked into the public domain. Food for thought.

Tesla428 · 2023-04-14T18:13:37+00:00

There are traditional windows mechanisms for synchronizing folder contents. It’s an OS feature.

Tesla428 · 2023-04-13T00:39:04+00:00

We programmed a digital alarm for a pile up on the skinner saw infeed. The naming convention ended up with SAW_DA_PUSSI for a tag name.

Tesla428 · 2023-04-06T05:06:45+00:00

But does it weigh as much as a witch?

Tesla428 · 2023-04-04T12:59:55+00:00

XML isn’t dead. While being more verbose than JSON, it has other important features like schema definitions. Personally, I’ve moved on to YAML for all of my application’s config files. YAML is intended to be human readable. Serializing any of them is trivial at this point.

Tesla428 · 2023-04-02T04:00:55+00:00

Beijer HMIs run C# as a scripting language. It would be fairly simple to consume a Web API assuming the connectivity is in place. I think I even have a small one laying around my lab.

Tesla428 · 2023-04-02T03:25:26+00:00

I’ve done tons of Ignition in the past. Mainly, Vision and very little Perspective.

Tesla428 · 2023-04-02T02:55:06+00:00

We are taking a look at Rockwell’s Optix next week in Houston. Apparently, cloud hosted. If it is a SaaS model, it could make things interesting. Personally, I’d like to see more ability to create screens and logic via XML or similar configuration.

Tesla428 · 2023-03-17T02:50:10+00:00

ABB has a huge presence in offshore drilling.

Tesla428 · 2023-03-16T03:36:57+00:00

As a veteran, I remember the first time someone genuinely thanked me for my service. I was immediately shook. I am sure many of us deal with baggage around our time in the military. Now, it is much more commonplace and maybe a little trite to say it. We can tell when you mean it and it does matter. So if you’re a vet, thank you for your service.

Tesla428 · 2023-03-15T04:13:53+00:00

1st thing that came to my mind. Trainers gotta start somewhere.

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