I have several hardened PC's running Exceed or GoGlobal. I believe GoGlobal has been withdrawn from sale so the only official Invensys choice is Exceed. The last migration project we had involved a local control panel with 20 or 30 pushbuttons, pilot lights and 10 analog panel meters. We trashed the panel and replaced it with an X-terminal. It saved a lot of money by avoiding the purchase of a bunch of migration I/O modules. Eric M. Pedersen Procter & Gamble Paper Products Company C&IS Engineering "Corey R Clingo" <clingoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 03/16/2005 10:14 AM Please respond to foxboro To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: (bcc: Eric Pedersen-EM/PGI) Subject: Re: [foxboro] replacing field Op panels Just throwing out some ideas; I haven't personally tried any of this. Each has its advantages and disadvantages "Industrial" environmentally-hardened PC with Ethernet running some Windows variant and Exceed/GoGlobal/VNC, or custom OS with X server, and remote DM/FV from an AW/WP. These can be had with solid-state flash disks (no moving parts), panel-mount form factors, and NEMA 4/7 enclosures. A special I/A environment could be set up to limit what the field operator could see/change. Panelview or something similar connected via FBM224/FDSI and Modbus. The Panelview would have to be capable of acting as a slave (polled device) unless the FDSI supports being a Modbus slave itself (I don't believe the FBM224 does). Other variations: OPC connectivity, for example, or using some fiber-optic KVM extenders to put only the monitor and any input devices in the field with the CPU (either a WP or a non-I/A PC) residing in the rack room. Corey Clingo BASF Corp. "BrianLong" <blong@xxxxxxx> Sent by: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 03/16/2005 11:42 AM Please respond to foxboro To: "Foxboro" cc: Subject: [foxboro] replacing field Op panels I have a need to remove a number of operator hardwired field panels. I want to replace them with a "display" panel. All I/O is wired to the I/A. If it was a PLC I would install a panelview, anyone got any ideas? Brian Long Arkansas Kraft _______________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 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