Re: FoxCAE Enhancements

I don't know exactly how to put this, but every time I use FoxCAE for any serious work I feel like I have to beat the software into submission. It is very non-intuitive. Window conventions, icons, etc. are weird. It occasionally crashes! It is possible to go into the sheet editor and modify

AW70 System Monitor Question

I have an AW70 that I do not have the necessary privileges to set the time, make configuration changes, etc. in the system monitor. The AW70 hosts a local system monitor and I would like to be able to add these privileges to it without having to re-make and re-install a commit disk. Does

Putting ECBs on/off line without using System Monitor

Does anyone know of a way to put ECBs on and off line without using the System Monitor? I would like to be able to do this from a program or script file but do not know of a way to do it. Regards, David Johnson

Thanks to all for the Modbus info.

I will attempt to summarize the responses I got about communications with a PC using the Modbus Integrator and send it to Duc to put on the web page. Thanks to all who replied. David --- This list is neither sponsored nor

[NOT] using in.routed with I/A [was Ethernet Networking Question]

that get included with the systems. Regards, David Johnson Premier System Integrators (256) 355-1732 --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers

RE: Trouble with phasing blocks in an AB Integrator30

[Summary: I can't get an Integrator 30 to read from a PLC with Period 3, Phase 1. Tim Lowell suggested that I leave the COMPOUNDS PERIOD 1 PHASE 0 and then phase the ABSCAN and following blocks to reduce station loading. ] Tim, I did attempt to use a PERIOD 1 PHASE 0 on the compound, and

Re: Back on the Soap Box

To add to what Neil just said, what about having to EPROM the FBMs, do we have to have redundant I/O too? David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work

Some notes about the conference.

Hello all, For those of you attending the conference, here are a few items of note. I am speaking as a member of the steering committee here, so bear with me. First. There will be a welcome reception Sunday night at the Westin. This should provide everyone with an opportunity to do a little

An interesting note on quality.

Here's a little something I found in the Invensys annual report that I thought might be of interest to those of you on the list. We are aggressively applying Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma quality improvement practices in manufacturing, project engineering, administration and the supply chain.

Event triggered data collection

Hello all, I was wondering if there is a good way to do event triggered data collection in the legacy (Informix) historian. Ideally I would like to place a value in the historian only when a counter increments. Is there a way to do this at the historian configuration level, or do I need to

AB KF2 at 19.2 Kbaud?

I have noticed that most of the Allen-Bradley KF2 modules I come across in the field are running at 9600 baud. I also know of some instances where a Foxboro Integrator 30 is communicating with AB KF2s at 19.2 Kbaud. Is there any reason not to run the baud rate at 19.2K? You sure get a lot

AW51B, blinktask and 24 bit color

Hello all, I need to know if it is possible to get the blinktask to respond correctly to a SBus video card that supports 24 bit color. When the station boots, I get a blinktask warning and some highlighting doesn't work. I think it's possible to tell the workstation to use only 256 colors,

Alex's colon and other disturbing things.

At 10/17/00 03:43 PM, Bo Stear wrote : Can anyone actually believe that Alex Johnson lost his COLON? I can believe it. I lost my ass once in a poker game. By the way, The Southeastern Users group meeting is Nov. 2nd and 3rd, a Thursday and Friday. It will be at the Embassy Suites in

RE: [Digest] Email from AW51B to MS Exchange

Chad, Make sure that SMPT is turned in MS Exchange. You can sometimes get more information by telneting into the Exchange Server. If port 25 doesn't work try port 110 that should be the POP3 port. here's a copy of my session AW51B1# telnet mailhost 25 Trying 192.168.1.1... Connected to

Re: File system error massege

If you suspect a disk is full, first you need to determine which mount point is full. From vt100 mode try the following df -k / df -k /usr df -k /var df -k /opt df -k /tmp If any of these are show 100% under the capacity, then that's the file system with the problem. Start looking for the

MKS toolkit vi (a new thread!)

pages that work (Hell Foxboro!) and some other nifty utilities and features, including vi vi for windows (viw). It's been very helpful to me and cost less than $500 for a single user developers kit. Regards, David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Return Receipt Notification to the mail list.

to worry about automatic notification. Just a thought. David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers

What the future holds.

Hey gang, I just got this in my weekly ARCwire email and thought some of you might be interested. [ Invensys Software has announced a new ability to deliver open, unified automation and information solutions for process, batch, discrete, and hybrid manufacturing applications. The common

Re: telnet_mail and a poke at contact information.

). If this is a real security concern then we should start sending PGP authenticated signatures with the messages, and do we really want that? I am also sending Mark Holts latitude and longitude to our spy satellites to see if he is really there. Regards, David Johnson Of course I'm who I say I am

More on Archestra

James Kahlden gave a link to Wonderware's website about ArchestrA http://www.wonderware.com/Aboutus/news/archive/010626-ArchestrA.htm And today my Managing Automation issue had an article about it. http://www.managingautomation.com/Scripts/WebObjects.exe/ma.woa/4/wo/a5c87UX