Re: Shop Floor Automation/Production Monitoring

["Michael Naughton" <mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have any experience with how it would communicate with the sensors?
I'm guessing (this will be a learning experience for me) that they will be
TCP/IP addressable, but I have no clue beyond that. I assumed (oh, well)
that we'd need some kind of specialized software to communicate with them
and make their information available to the rest of the system.

There may also be time considerations -- if there's a solution already out
there that we can get up and running that much sooner, that might look
like a good option. We're very much of a do-it-ourselves shop, but there's
only so much we can do, and there are times when management is wiling to
spend money to get things faster.

Thanks!

midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>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.



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