You may want to check with OSI their position for long term support of = the API interface. At one time they were trying to move away from = support of that Foxboro interface and head towards OPC. Dave Williams Snr Power and Control Engineer Tel: +44(0)151350 4480 Fax: 4566 Other Tel: +44 (0)7799 657836 mailto:dave.g.williams@xxxxxxxxx > Shell UK Oil Products Limited > Registered in England > Registered number: 3625633 > Registered office: Shell Centre, London SE1 7NA >=20 > Correspondence Address: > Shell UK Oil Products Limited, > Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, > PO Box 3, Ellesmere Port, South Wirral,=20 > CH65 4HB, United Kingdom. >=20 > Internet: http://www.shell.com/uk -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Moore, Kenneth, Celanese/US Sent: 08 November 2007 13:27 To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Osi PI and AW51 which way? =3D20 Hey folks, Got a project in the works to add a PI historian to the site, there appears to be several ways of connecting PI to I/A.=3D20 We have a small installation, two WP51B (ver 6.3), one AW51B (ver 6.3), and one AW51F (ver 7.1). The F box is already running Aim* = historian.=3D20 What would be the best connection, Fox API, Aim API, or Aim OPC on a windoze box? Thanks Ken Moore Celanese Enoree, SC =20 =20 _______________________________________________________________________ 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 =20 foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Djoin to unsubscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Dleave =20 _______________________________________________________________________ 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: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave