Re: Shop Floor Automation/Production Monitoring

Visual Age RPG will do that.  It'll play a .wav file,  play an animated .gif
 show a graph, use iSeries data, use RPG programs,  send an e-mail, any
number of things.  It is Windows-based but uses your in-house RPG skills.

Its free to you, there's no runtime costs, and uses existing skill sets.  

It is a total mystery to me why people scoff at it as a solution.   It works
  Its available right now.  Its supported by IBM.

Anyway, it does what you are asking for.
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 14:06:34
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Shop Floor Automation/Production Monitoring
 
We're looking into doing some type of shop floor automation or production
monitoring. The basic idea is that we'll have sensors on our machines that
are connected to software that will provide some sort of graphical display
of what's happening on the floor. We'd also like the ability to set
alarms, so if something goes out of bounds there would ba visual (and/or
audible) cues, and of course we'd like to have everything connected to our
database on the AS/400 -- both to get information about how to set the
alarms in the first place (based on the product being manufactured, etc.)
and to store history about the job's running conditions.

Several names have been mentioned: WonderWare, Intellution, and Patrick
Townsend Associates. Does anyone have any experience with any of these?
Any others we should look into?

Thanks very much in advance for any info you can pass along.

Mike Naughton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Judd Wire, Inc.
124 Turnpike Road
Turners Falls, MA 01376
413-863-4357 x444
mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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