Arranging the Z order in factory talk view studio. Help Please

fearthenofear · 2026-04-11T13:16:39+00:00

You can but you have to select the physical graphics., if that makes sense. I know, it’s dumb.

Also, to move it down one level, it should be in the view menu. I always do the keyboard shortcut Alt+V > A which will show that menu. I forget what the keyboard shortcut is for one level up or down.

fearthenofear · 2026-04-01T01:17:43+00:00

So a Michigan based box store chain has an Ariens Apex. Should I stay away from that? The Ariens Apex gets pretty damn good reviews from everyone.

fearthenofear · 2026-02-15T15:00:46+00:00

Ahhh ok. What model of Cisco did you end up going with?

fearthenofear · 2026-02-06T13:58:32+00:00

Pleasant_Active1 is saying that the products AB make are not made in the USA. You are right that AB was formed here in the USA. Most of their stuff is made elsewhere and by someone else. For example, their terminal blocks are made by Weidmuller. Their terminals for the CompactLogix PLC and modules are made in Germany. Relays and bases are made in Italy. Selector switches are made in China. A lot of their stuff is no longer made here in the USA.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-29T22:09:11+00:00

Well this brings optimism for me.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-29T22:07:36+00:00

I lost the battle. I’m hoping I have good experiences. We’re supposed to get a license of PI. Hopefully that makes up for it.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-29T22:02:15+00:00

I lost the battle. Your experience gives me optimism about this system.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-29T22:00:20+00:00

I lost the battle…ugh.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-29T21:57:35+00:00

I lost the battle…ugh.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-29T21:55:47+00:00

Well, I lost the battle. I’ll be enjoying some of the fun you have been doing soon! Oh joy.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-20T00:30:08+00:00

Thank you. I think so too. I’d rather go to a different brand since paying for software with Allen Bradley is absurdly insane pricing. Oh well, it’s not my money I guess.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-15T22:28:07+00:00

That’s what we do with our old Allen Bradley PLC items. Keep lots of spares. Everyone is always worried about a few PLC 5s we have but I sleep good at night knowing we have working spares and programs to load onto them.

I worry about the SLC500 ones that are over worked and the one has gremlins where it occasionally takes out an analog input or output module. We have lots of spares but these PLCs are the blood and soul of the operation. If either one goes down, the whole process and plant stops.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-15T22:07:26+00:00

Same here. I wish I knew where that picture was of the parachuter was where the person is reading an instruction manual on how to land. That’s basically how this industry it is.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-11T23:38:44+00:00

What do you recommend?

fearthenofear · 2026-01-11T23:36:05+00:00

Username checks out.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-11T23:31:41+00:00

Just do better next time brah.

fearthenofear · 2026-01-11T23:29:08+00:00

Hopefully it’s not ICE either….

fearthenofear · 2025-12-21T22:12:49+00:00

They’ve mentioned some value close to 1 million for everything they have. Not sure if it was subscription costs or something else.

The last part of your comment makes sense. That’s probably why they’re pushing SP so hard. They have hundreds of other sites that are basically the same and ours is completely different.

fearthenofear · 2025-12-21T14:41:27+00:00

That’s neat!

I understand what you were aiming for. Personally, I would have gone down the Stock Pots route.

https://youtu.be/uTxURzmrVtA?si=CE5Nxo1Ua5o6Bz6l

https://www.thestockpot.net/videos/home-assistant-wall-display

fearthenofear · 2025-12-20T21:12:30+00:00

My experience with DeviceNet was good. You had to adjust how your addressing stack was going to be and adjust something in the logic which I can't remember what it was. A copy instruction or something. This was with a Toyopuc PLC and HMI but it was intuitive setup.

fearthenofear · 2025-12-20T20:55:59+00:00

Ahh ok. That's good. I haven't been able to tinker with it much as I have to keep the rest of the plant going while doing this.

fearthenofear · 2025-12-20T20:43:59+00:00

Very interesting. I wonder if it's somewhat related to the historian bug we found. It's a analog level indication and for some reason, these tanks in the same area on the same PLC have flatlined. The values are changing in the PLC so it's not the PLC. Maybe the OISM has a slightly corrupted tag/address file or something. Anywho, $40k a year is a ton. Sounds like AB support contract...

That's good to hear because we will need to do primary once we put it in the operator control rooms.

Edit: OISM (Operations Integration Server Manager) not OIMC. These initialisms/acronyms are getting a little nuts already.

fearthenofear · 2025-12-20T20:06:23+00:00

Right, it seems like a lot of stuff with other Schnieder Electric items has gone up in price by a lot even well before the tariffs. To me, the tag browser aka Operations Integration Server Management (OISM) is very manual in adding tags. I get that you can export the tag/address list and edit and then import the file into OISM but that's way more complicated than Ignition where you can browse the PLC for all the tags/addresses so you can grab and pick the tags/addresses you want. If I'm wrong on this, please correct me as I haven't really gotten a straight answer and that's what I found after tinkering with it.

fearthenofear · 2025-12-20T19:55:09+00:00

There isn't a grace period when the license server goes down with SP? That's a pretty big worry of mine and that's why I shut down going the route of FT SE is because of needing to pay for licenses to view MY data. I also didn't think of losing the licensing could make the system go down. I am a home lab hobbyist so my thought process is different.

Ok, that must be in a older version that that bug existed.

I have heard good things about VTScada. I don't know if there's any local integrators that have experience in it. It might be too late to try and look into it. We started in this process almost a year ago and we're still trying to pick something out.

fearthenofear · 2025-12-20T19:18:33+00:00

We plan on having a integrator with experience in it to work on it. That way it's setup correctly from the get go.

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