Re: [foxboro] paperless printer at V8.8

From: "Pulas, Philip" <Philip.G.Pulas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:45:07 +0000

Matt,

Yes, I got the same good news today.  It sounds very promising and I hope to 
try it out soon.

Thanks,
Philip Pulas
Lead Engineer, Process Systems
Tesoro Golden Eagle Refinery

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Kinsinger, Matthew R
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 10:00 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] paperless printer at V8.8

It appears they have added a "message logger" to the "IA Series Tools Suite" 
which will allow a serial output of all alarm type messages. Available now or 
very soon (few months). See below

"""The Message Logger utility allows real-time capture of Process Messages 
(Alarms and Sequence), System Monitor messages, and Operator Action Journal 
messages - sent by the APRINT message system, which can be forwarded to a 
serial port or logged to ASCII files for later use with the Message Logger 
reporting feature."""

Matt Kinsinger
mkinsinger@xxxxxxx
330-825-1208 office
330-472-1454 ppg cell

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Pulas, Philip
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 10:36 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] paperless printer at V8.8

Scott,

I understand that it would work best if SysMon sees it online.  However, there 
is no "approved" USB-to-Serial converter and I sure do not have time to buy a 
bunch of different brands of converters and test each one out.  We thought we 
had one working, then it just stopped a few months later.

It's too bad that the serial printer was eliminated in I/A v8.8+.  I get the 
impression from the list that there are still a lot of us out there that use 
the "fake" serial printer to collect alarms, OAJ's, and smon logs.  The only 
upgrade path I'm aware of is going to a virtual printer, but that requires 
reprogramming of the software collecting the data (at least in our case).  Any 
possibility a PER would be approved to resurrect the serial printer in I/A 
v8.8+?

Thanks,
Philip Pulas
Lead Engineer, Process Systems
Tesoro Golden Eagle Refinery
Ph: (925) 372-3043
Email: philip.g.pulas@xxxxxxxxxxx
 
 
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- Re: [foxboro] paperless printer at V8.8
  - From: Kinsinger, Matthew R

Re: [foxboro] paperless printer at V8.8

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