[foxboro] FW: AW: LINE PRINTER REPLACEMENT

 Add another; Realtime solutions has a great package "Control Database
archive.  In our system, the alarms are captured as a compound group
device, stored in MSSQL and accessed via a web based client.  Operator
actions and control configuration data is also stored in the same
database which allows for operator actions to be interleaved with
process alarms and block descriptions - great for incident
investigations, and MOC style tracking for control configuration
changes.


Stay warm :-)

Sean Meltvedt
Process Control Engineer
Flint Hills Resources Alaska LLC


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Subject: Re: [foxboro] AW: LINE PRINTER REPLACEMENT

And lets not forget our old friend Bo Steer from 2TSI.  They have a
simple, yet effective alarm printer replacement.  I can't remember the
name of it at the moment..., probably because it's after midnight here.
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I have seen most of the ones listed here and I must agree that PAS and
Logmate are the most robust.  PAS does so much more than the printer
replacement though.  If you want something that everyone can
use(engineers, operations, managers), go for PAS.  It also handles Loop
tuning and categorizes all of the alarms.
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Commercial over.  Hey, I didn't even get lunch!
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Glen Bounds
Invensys ME
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Sent: Wed 12/13/2006 2:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [foxboro] AW: LINE PRINTER REPLACEMENT



In the interest of fair disclosure, I just had lunch with Eddie Habibi,
President and Founder of PAS, and he gently reminded me that there is
another that should be on the list. :-)


So, in exchange for lunch and an interesting conversation, here's a new
compilation. Accusations of corruption will be filed properly (in my
Deleted folder). :-)



Re: Use a package like LogMate from TiPS (there are a million of

them) that can replace the printer and store the data on a PC.



I may have exaggerated slightly, but the list is now up to:



1)    AIM*Historian and AIM*Inform

2)    Plant State Suite from PAS (used commonly in our Alarm Mgmt Svc)

3)    Logmate from TIPS (pretty common in the states)

4)    IMAC from ICS(pretty common in EMEA)

5)    HAWK from PCS

6)    AlarmsOnLine2 from Ingolf Schulte



And you really haven't started looking yet.



There are lots of these "out there."







Regards,



Alex Johnson

Invensys Systems, Inc.

10900 Equity Drive

Houston, TX 77041

713.329.8472 (voice)

713.329.1700 (fax)

713.329.1600 (switchboard)

alex.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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Re: Use a package like LogMate from TiPS (there are a million of

them) that can replace the printer and store the data on a PC.



I may have exaggerated slightly, but the list is now up to:



1) AIM*Historian and AIM*Inform

2) Logmate from TIPS(pretty common in the states)

3) IMAC from ICS(pretty common in EMEA)

4) HAWK from PCS

5) AlarmsOnLine2 from Ingolf Schulte



And you really haven't started looking yet.



There are lots of these "out there."



Regards,

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Alex Johnson

Invensys Systems, Inc.

10900 Equity Drive

Houston, TX 77041

713.329.8472 (voice)

713.329.1700 (fax)

713.329.1600 (switchboard)

alex.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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On Behalf Of Schulte, Ingolf

Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:57 AM

To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: [foxboro] AW: LINE PRINTER REPLACEMENT



Hi Pablo,



This problem is solved by AlarmsOnline2. This software receives the

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Best Regards



Ingolf Schulte

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Customer Service Leuna

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I would like to replace our alarm line-printers with something that I

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I am aware of the difference between line and page printers, so I am

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for some piece of hardware that buffers the lines until a page completes

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then sends it to the laser printer. A valuable additional feature would

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I've been looking in the Internet but have found nothing like

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Other possibiliy I am studying is to configure the alarm printer in

COM1,

connect COM1 to COM2 with a null-modem cable, write a program that reads

COM2and buffers the lines until it completes a page and then sends the

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