I have a customer running the above. Its about a 10-15 year old installation.
They would like to upgrade the SLC 5/05. I would probably use a CompactLogix 5380 PLC for that.
The Wizcon is not so straightforward. Its running on a Windows XP machine and actually runs good and does what they need. They are using about 350 tags. I'd probably leave it alone except that when I upgrade the PLC I believe the tag references may need to change and possibly the comm driver. Is there a way to change the PLC and leave the tag references so that Wizcon would still find the right registers? Maybe "N7:11" is also named "N7:11" in the Studio 5000 PLC file?
I'd need the application side if I do need to update tags/driver. If I am doing that, perhaps I should upgrade the Wizcon to the latest version which is something called ControlMaestro by Elutions now. I have a European supplier working on a proposal for that. I'm expecting a high price and if thats the case I need to consider going to a different SCADA, something I am more familiar with. In that case I still almost need the Wizcon application software to de-construct screens and re-construct in something else.
Thoughts? Thanks in advance....
They would like to upgrade the SLC 5/05. I would probably use a CompactLogix 5380 PLC for that.
The Wizcon is not so straightforward. Its running on a Windows XP machine and actually runs good and does what they need. They are using about 350 tags. I'd probably leave it alone except that when I upgrade the PLC I believe the tag references may need to change and possibly the comm driver. Is there a way to change the PLC and leave the tag references so that Wizcon would still find the right registers? Maybe "N7:11" is also named "N7:11" in the Studio 5000 PLC file?
I'd need the application side if I do need to update tags/driver. If I am doing that, perhaps I should upgrade the Wizcon to the latest version which is something called ControlMaestro by Elutions now. I have a European supplier working on a proposal for that. I'm expecting a high price and if thats the case I need to consider going to a different SCADA, something I am more familiar with. In that case I still almost need the Wizcon application software to de-construct screens and re-construct in something else.
Thoughts? Thanks in advance....