Re: [foxboro] IACC versus ICC
- From: cleddon@xxxxxxx
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:14:06 -0500
If this is your first attempt at IACC and you are not familiar with programs
such as FoxCAE and you are converting online, I would probably recommend that
you go ahead and run the scripts on the code you already have. The automation
of the conversion through SED and AWK combined with the other command line
tools will be significantly quicker than learning and correctly implementing
IACC.
I am not aware of your system configuration but if you are going to FCP's then
8.X is somewhere in the mix and an AWXP will hosting the processors with a Mesh
network is in the background. If this is all new, then you don't need the
added complexity of IACC to divert you from the end goal of getting online and
stable.
After the implementation of the ICC solution, take your time and experiment
with IACC and regenerate the same blocks in IACC to get experience with the
program. You can generate the CSD's and link the blocks to build a second set
of compounds to compare with the first. The real strength of IACC is realized
in a production environment where you don't have any legacy code to work from
but you have hundreds or thousands of blocks to generate and a well defined set
of primitives to reference. The exercise of learning IACC is considerable but
IACC can be very useful after you have learned all of the tricks.
Of course I am assuming you don't have a lot of time available before the new
code needs to be operational (less than a month). If so, and you are planning
to go IACC for all future mods you may be able to pull it off. I was assuming
about 2 weeks for the code conversion and installation using ICC.
Hopefully your system includes a test bed for offline code development and
testing since the new 8.X systems no longer support virtual CPs.
CDLeddon
Invensys Foxboro Atlanta
770-331-4303
-----Original Message-----
From: Shaun.Goldie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 9:12 PM
Subject: [foxboro] IACC versus ICC
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Hi there
I am about to embark on collapsing a CP30A and Modbus Plus Gateway into
a FCP270
Does anybody have a justification for staying with ICC (or not)
At NZS we don't use FoxCAE but I figured that the above job justifies
going to IACC
Normally we would use ICCdrvr scripts and they work well especially as
this job is online and progressive compound by compound
ON the surface introducing IACC is the biggest risk on this job and
creates plenty of opportunity for stuffups
There is no doubt the IACC visualisation of the configuration is the
standard expected these days but with ICC/scripts we have the power
Shaun
NZ Steel
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