Re: [foxboro] AW: LINE PRINTER REPLACEMENT

Matrikon makes one, too, though it is also an "alarm management" package 
(like PAS and TiPS).


For simple viewing and logging to files, Visual Alert from Erus for the 
price (a few hundred US $ last time I checked) is pretty decent.


Personally, I use the sLumberjack (tm) alarm logger -- "we log your alarms 
while you sleep"  (that would be two legacy historians and some shell 
scripts  :)


Corey Clingo
BASF Corporation






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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)

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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)

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Hi Pablo,



This problem is solved by AlarmsOnline2. This software receives the

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h AlarmsOnline2. The alarms are collected in a data base. The software

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needs only the Internet Explorer / Firefox ....=3D20



Best Regards



Ingolf Schulte

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System Service Engineer

Customer Service Leuna

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Invensys Systems GmbH Emanuel-Leutze-Str .11

40547 D=3DC3=3DBCsseldorf

Germany

E-Mail:  ingolf.schulte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

http://www.invensys-process-systems.de

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Hi everybody,=3D20



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

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have to keep repairing.... like a laser printer.=3D20



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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the possibility of retrieving a history file from the device on a

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port......=3D20



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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to a laser printer connected to LPT1.....=3D20



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