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Sounds like you haven't been in the industry in a while or we just happen to hit different cross sections. The industrial automation company I worked for bough
by stonemetal 16y ago
Sounds like you haven't been in the industry in a while or we just happen to hit different cross sections. The industrial automation company I worked for bought off the shelf "Industrialized" PCs dropped in a motion controller card and went to town. Their older systems ran QNX(real time unix) with the GUI and all the data right there on the system. Their newer systems were Windows\In time(a real time windows addon) based. So yes there are people using windows to control the system. I have seen systems where there is no air gap between these windows based systems and the Internet. In fact I have remotely logged in to systems in plants via vpn and worked from home.
- pdx 16y ago> dropped in a motion controller card and went to town Perhaps we were working on systems of a different scale. Most of the facilities I controlled had on the order of 2000 - 5000 I/O points and stretched over several multistory buildings. It sounds like you're doing motion control of a pick and place machine or something similar. That's also fun, especially now that you can do so much with optical recognition.
- stonemetal 16y agoYeah we mostly did smaller systems. On bigger jobs we tended to do it as several smaller systems working together. The largest system we ever did was a several hundred I\O points but that was over maybe 20 systems(we did all product movement between machines in the place.)