Re: Shop Floor Automation/Production Monitoring

Mike,

We do a lot of integration with the shop floor with our Alliance
SerialConnect and Alliance Series TCP/IP products. You can connect PLCs,
scales, barcode scanners, barcode printers, handhelds, etc. to the AS/400.
We support digital I/O, RS232, RS485, RS422 and other interfaces to the
AS/400. If you need shop floor data collection take a look at the EDAS CE
and related devices at Intelligent Instrumentation
(http://www.instrument.com). You can get more information about our products
here: http://www.PATownsend.com. You can contact me off-line if you would
like to discuss.

Patrick
(800) 357-1019.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Naughton" <mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:35 AM
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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