Support for Rockwell's FactoryTalk Alarms & Events
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arthur.gooch@andritz.com
FactoryTalk A&E allows controller-side alarm definition. Timestamping comes from the controller, so sequence of events is not affected by PLC-HMI communications.
If Ignition could support FactoryTalk Alarms, it would remove a major argument for using FT View SE as the HMI on a controllogix system.
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nick.minchin
Just because nano can open in a terminal window to edit documents doesn't mean you shouldn't use Word or other fully featured word processor though. I personally don't see how this is a major argument to use a crap product?
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Michael Flagler
nick.minchin: The reason it's required is that in power plants and I'm sure other industries, events can occur milliseconds apart so all alarms on these systems are GPS timestamped from the PLC with the precise time they occurred and pushed from the controller to the HMI with that exact timestamp so that operations can determine exactly what caused something to trip/shutdown when so many events happen in quick succession (faster than the HMI can poll the PLC)
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nick.minchin
Michael Flagler I probably jumped on that comment a little quick haha, but that sounds super useful - I've never used them before
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Daniel Nord
Siemens have something similar called S7-PDIAG and SIMATIC ProDiag.
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jeff-teel
As Rockwell steps up their game, support for this functionality is becoming more and more important.
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Derekr
This is the only thing that Rsview can do that ignition cannot.
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nick.minchin
Derekr: However there's nothing else functionality-wise that Ignition doesn't completely wipe RSView (FactoryTalk) out of the picture with though...