RE: An interesting note on quality.
I love it. Why is it that the result of almost any program by any management team anywhere is the elimination of manufacturing plants and the shift of production and engineering to China? I think it is a lesson for us all. Lose weight and move to China! Tim -Original Message- From: David Johnson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: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. During the year we cut the number of manufacturing plants by 22% and continued to shift production and engineering to lower cost countries: 20% of I/A Series(c) hardware is now produced in China." Bruce Henderson Invensys Intelligent Automation Division Chief Executive from the Invensys 2000 annual reportpage 29 I have a hard time reconciling sentence number one with sentences two and three in the above paragraph. Of course that could just mean SUN is manufacturing in China these days. :-o BTW if you want an Invensys annual report just go to the Invensys web site and e mail for one to be sent to you. It's more interesting reading than you might think. Regards, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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. During the year we cut the number of manufacturing plants by 22% and continued to shift production and engineering to lower cost countries: 20% of I/A Series(c) hardware is now produced in China." Bruce Henderson Invensys Intelligent Automation Division Chief Executive from the Invensys 2000 annual reportpage 29 I have a hard time reconciling sentence number one with sentences two and three in the above paragraph. Of course that could just mean SUN is manufacturing in China these days. :-o BTW if you want an Invensys annual report just go to the Invensys web site and e mail for one to be sent to you. It's more interesting reading than you might think. Regards, David --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Historizing objects other than C:B.P's
Nic, We historize some system information that is not otherwise available to the I/A system by scheduling a script to run (via crontab) that gets the info and then uses "omset" to send it to either a DM global or the "VALUE" parameter of a "REAL" block, both of which can be historized. Just ask if you want more detail. You still have to be able to get the information at a VT100 command line to use this method. Regards, Kevin FitzGerrell Process Control/Systems Admin Fairbanks Gold Mining, Inc. - Original Message - From: Nic Glenister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Foxboro DCS Mail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 1:04 AM Subject: Historizing objects other than C:B.P's > G'day guys, > > Has anyone out there had any experience with historizing objects that aren't > simple Compound:Block.Parameters? Is it even possible? In particularly, I > want to trend nodebus loading over a period of days, instead of just taking > a small snapshot. Or is there an easier way to monitor loading over an > extended period of time? > > Any help/ideas would be most appreciated. > > Nic Glenister > Foxboro Melbourne > > > > --- > This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All > postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty > is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated > through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the > list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to > your application of information received from this mailing list. > > To be removed from this list, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Foxboro DCS Mail List Photos at the I/A User Meeting
Regarding these photos: After looking at a detailed schedule for the meeting, the best time to do this is during the cocktail reception at the Hynes Ballroom, Monday 5-7PM. I will set up my camera on a tripod somewhere near the I/A Series System/Suites exhibit area (which is shaped like a hexagon). I will certainly not be able to stay at the camera the whole 2 hours and take pictures, but I'll leave a sign-up sheet so that anyone (or any TWO that is) can snap their picture and record their name/address. So...look for the camera, snap your photo, and chat with fellow list subscribers next Monday. h - Harry W. Forbes Foxboro Corporate Marketing C42-2E, 33 Commercial St Foxboro, MA 02035 USA +1 617.335.1474 (mobile) +1 508.549.6389 (office) +1 508.549.6788 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Historizing objects other than C:B.P's
You can historize station loading. We have done it. FoxDoc B0193AX, chapter 97 (Station Block) gives an excellent description of all the various Station parameters that you can trend. The address is CPLBUG_STA:STATION.. Is that what you mean? I'm not sure about any of the other stuff, such as all the counters you can access via the PERF button on Sys_Mgmt. I don't believe those are historizable, but I could be wrong. I hope to see you all at the Conference. I'm with Bo, I think we need online upgrades more than anything else by a long shot. We're in a situation where even during a complete refinery outage, we have to keep boilers running, so we don't really ever have a COMPLETE outage. At least now we can run one node at 6.1, and the other at 6.2, so that is an improvement, but I'd certainly rather have all stations at the same release level if I could. This is going to require an enormous effort on Foxboro's part, since it will force them to undo engineering decisions made at the very earliest stages of I/A development, so it is imperative we show solidarity on this issue. I'm glad to hear that Foxboro is revamping their development process. My recent experience has been less than encouraging, especially with FoxHistory 1.2 and FoxView/FoxDraw 99.2. Both of these products were more or less dead on arrival. Our local service people have told us to not bother loading FoxView/FoxDraw 99.2 at all. We are staying at 99.1, which is working pretty well. I think it is a travesty that the development group pours who knows how many person-hours into a release, and the service group loads it a few times, and it's so bad, they tell all their other customers not to load it. It sounds like Foxboro feels the same way, and they are trying to fix it. I hope that is true. I didn't have any choice with FoxHistory 1.2, since we had already bought it when I took the job. It was quickly replaced with 1.2B, then 2.0, then AIM*Historian 2.5, all of which have had either major problems or severe limitations. AIM*2.5 has been pretty good for the most part, with some minor irritations, and the usual lack of some important features that I have grown used to over the years in all Foxboro historian packages. Now AIM*Historian 3.0 is out. I don't know if it's any better, since I have not managed to obtain a copy of it. I would echo the person who wished Foxboro would release upgrades to customers without us having to beg and plead. See you next week. Tim --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Historizing objects other than C:B.P's
G'day guys, Has anyone out there had any experience with historizing objects that aren't simple Compound:Block.Parameters? Is it even possible? In particularly, I want to trend nodebus loading over a period of days, instead of just taking a small snapshot. Or is there an easier way to monitor loading over an extended period of time? Any help/ideas would be most appreciated. Nic Glenister Foxboro Melbourne --- This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Foxboro Company. All postings from this list are the work of list subscribers and no warranty is made or implied as to the accuracy of any information disseminated through this medium. By subscribing to this list you agree to hold the list sponsor(s) blameless for any and all mishaps which might occur due to your application of information received from this mailing list. To be removed from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe foxboro" in the Subject. Or, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
