Re: [foxboro] Foxray or Integrity?

Tom,
We're a small site, with a a small DCS budget. It's impossible for us to 
follow all the" latest" IPS developments like Infusion etc....

We have a mesh system with P90 boothost, ZCP270's, CP60's and unix 
stations. Our budget will probably allow us to change the unix boxes 
sometime next year or so for P92's and that's it. So we're stuck with the 
8.4.x for a number of years to come.
For us FoxRay was a good and affordable solution, I'm sure Limeware also 
has an infusion solution, but you'll have to check that with them.


Rgds,

Dirk Pauwels - DCS/MOC coordinator 
Engineering dept.
Hexion Specialty Chemicals
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Wrote
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Fox IA's move to Windows was a hybrid, Windows with a nutcracker "Unix" 
shell environment that allowed Foxboro to have a Windows offering without 
having to move all of their applications to Windows native apps.  In that 
move, a lot of the functionality for remote access and applications was 
lost as well as breaking a lot of the UNIX shell script functions that 
users had optimized their systems on.  There was assurances from Foxboro 
that Unix, and even Solaris on the MESH would continue to be available. We 
can now all see how that is going to work out.  Now the list is split 
about half and half with Unix and Windows users, and most of us are still 
bemoaning the fact that the system is moving back to a more closed system, 
much like the Video-Spec/MicroSpec system of old where you had to get 3rd 
parties to extract data from the system in order to be able to document 
the software applications and graphics embedded in the system.

If Foxboro planned to stay with Window 8.x and keep the remaining 
utilities, then Foxray would be a viable long-term alternative, because 
the hooks Foxray and other packages use to pull data from the Fox IA 
system are still mostly intact.

But we can all see that the long term direction for Invensys control
systems is IEE which utilizes Wonderware's InSQL database as the 
repository for all configuration and process data.  This, again, is a 
proprietary database with the configuration embedded in a way that users 
can't USE it. It isn't really a secret and Alex can correct me if I am 
wrong. 

Regards,
Tom VandeWater
Control Conversions, Inc.
Kapolei, HI

 



 
 
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