David, The AW51-Integrator will work fine as a way to communicate to AB SLC5/05's over Ethernet. Why don't Foxboro salespeople know all of the available options within their own family of products to a given problem? John Metsker General Mills, Inc -----Original Message----- From: David Standerfer [mailto:DStander@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 1:18 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] AW70 Connected to AB SLC 505 PLC's. Is anyone out there using this approach? If so, we are wondering if you = would recommend it to us. We are being pushed by a variety of people to = use this in a non-critical installation for a material handling system = that is geographically spread out.=20 The systems integrator that will be doing the bulk of the work for us has = been told by Foxboro that this is the only approach for what we want to = do. However, we do not have any AW70's on site and aren't looking forward = to jumping on the NT bandwagon. Our preference would be to stick with an = AW51 and connect it to the PLC's via ethernet. We are worried about the = robustness of the AW70 approach and about how much work we will have to do = to port our display standards over to the NT system. Any advice is = appreciated. Dave Standerfer Agrium US Inc. Kenai, Alaska _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave