Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

David Dudley <[email protected]> · Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:50:20 -0400

Yes, I'd very much like to get in contact with your local expert.

We're looking at the AB ControlLogix and CompactLogix (particularly the
Compact) as well.  Also looking at the Siemens S7-300 and Yokogawa FA-M3
product lines.

They all definitely have advantages and disadvantages.
The real plus for the AB is it's support of CIP, which puts interfacing with
EPICS fairly easy.

The Siemens - well - it's Siemens - you either love them, or you don't.

Yokogawa certainly has an interesting product with the FA, for which there
is an actual EPICS IOC that directly executes on the thing (although I'm
told it's kind of expensive - I haven't seen any pricing on it).

The GE however, seems to have the kind of power and high point count
integration we're needing.  None of the other PLCs have high channel count
analogs (GE has 64 channel 16 bit), or high count Digitals (GE and Yokogawa
both have 64 bit DI's and DO's).

Other problem is space.  Only the GE is going to easily fit 19" rack spaces
efficiently.

Gotta expand my spreadsheet for comparison quite a bit.

David

On 7/17/09 3:22 PM, "Elliott Wolin" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We plan to use Allen-Bradley ControlLogix PLC's for our control system,
> but are using GE Fanuc core-duo cpu's for data acquisition. If you have
> any interest in the latter I can put you in contact with our local expert.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Elliott
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> David Dudley wrote:
>> I¹m over at BNL NSLS2 now, and have been given the task of providing
>> recommendations as to the types of PLCs to support.
>> 
>> I¹ve been looking at the GE PACSystems among others, and Bob has
>> suggested I should ask on the mailing list as to whether anyone has
>> experience in using the GE Fanuc family in accelerator controls.
>> 
>> David Dudley 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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