Hey, That are great news and im really proud of being part of this. Thanks to all committers for working so hard on this to make this happen :).
Great achievement, lets keep rocking the PLC world. Sebastian > Am 30.11.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Christofer Dutz <[email protected]>: > > Hi all, > > I'm just traveling home from another industrial PLC4X POC that went extremely > well. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to mention any names, but I am sure we > all know the company ;-) > > I think this was the first time I've seen PLC4X do some really heavy lifting > regarding PLC communication. Fortunately the were only some minor glitches in > the S7 driver, which I managed to fix quickly. > > What I really liked, was to get some performance data: on a S7-1500 we > requested 2600 separate addresses and were able to read these in 190-210ms. > When polling in 200ms intervals we didn't exceed the I/O limit of 20% on the > PLC. When we reduced this to 5% of the cycle time, the response times went up > a little (to about 400ms). But no PLC watchdog complaining about anything. > > The load on the client running PLC4X was marginal. > > Also we tested the Kafka-Connect plugin and it worked nicely ... We weren't > able to hit any performance bottlenecks anywhere. Giving a cluster the job to > collect data and seeing it distribute this load evenly to all the workers > makes me very confident, that this is a concept that scales well. > > Still the plugin needs a little optimization regarding configuration, but I'm > sure we'll be able to do that very soon. > > In the next weeks they want to slowly increase the load by adding more and > more PLCs and check for unwanted side effects. The final aim would be to > connect about 1600 PLCs locally ... And about 20k globally ... But let's not > get too excited and see what time brings. > > The more POCs we do, the more I'm deeply sattified with what we have created > :-) > > Chris > > > > Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> herunterladen >
