Re: [foxboro] Obsolescence and unavailability of 6 X 8 annunciator keypads
- From: "Lowell, Timothy" <Timothy.Lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:12:55 -0500
Well, they have FoxPanels, but it doesn't stay out of the way as you are
suggesting. It takes up way too much screen real estate to be useful. I suppose
you could dedicate a screen to FoxPanels, but that's a bit excessive.
Tim Lowell
Control Systems Engineer
Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company | 19100 Ridgewood Parkway | San Antonio,
TX 78259
210-626-4929 (w) | 210-439-5914 (c) | timothy.lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx
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From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Corey R Clingo
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:04 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Obsolescence and unavailability of 6 X 8 annunciator
keypads
I suppose we could build an onscreen annunciator that nestled in the extra
space on a widescreen that Foxview cannot use :)
Corey
From:
Terry Doucet <doucet427@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
<foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
03/16/2011 10:39 AM
Subject:
Re: [foxboro] Obsolescence and unavailability of 6 X 8 annunciator keypads
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It is interesting that touch screen never really took off with process
controls and I suspect your statement about Operators not wanting to lean
forward is the key impediment. The plant where I saw them used the most
had CRT's in panels so the Operator stood in front of the touch screen and
manipulation was then quite easy.
A couple of sites where I visited never used the modular or alarm
keyboards and always used qwerty keyboards for Operators to enter data.
Flashing points on overview graphics were used to get the Operator to the
point in alarm.
FoxView on Windows does allow the soft modular keyboards but I have not
seen them in too many sites. Perhaps a reasonable solution would be for
Foxboro to allow this application to run on Windows (no AW or WP or FV
license required) and connect via USB to the AW or WP stations. A
windows computer is probably much less expensive that the GCIO and Modular
Keyboard.
Terry
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