Janice Colmer
Janice has worked at Opto 22 for more than 15 years and is part of the marketing team that strives to share new and relevant content with the automation industry. She enjoys books, camping, country music, and spending time with family and friends.
The results are in from Automation World magazine's 9th annual Leadership in Automation program.
Opto 22 has once again been recognized as a First Team supplier in automation for 2020. Hundreds of Automation World subscribers cast their votes during the past year which required them to write-in their ballot choices. Over two dozen categories were featured, representing a wide variety of automation technologies, software, and products used by today's manufacturing professionals across the discrete, batch, and continuous process manufacturing industries.
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Topics:
Energy management,
PACs,
Awards and recognition,
mobile,
IIoT,
Data acquisition,
groov EPIC,
HMI,
Automation World
Take advantage of more opportunities to learn about Inductive Automation's Ignition software, part of the groov EPIC system.
Opto 22 will be sponsoring and participating in three Ignition-related events in Orlando in February. If you plan on attending the annual ARC Industry Forum, you'll want to extend your visit that week to include one or more of these Inductive Automation events.
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Topics:
MQTT,
Ignition Edge,
groov EPIC,
Ignition,
Discovery Day
Cost-effective automated reconciliation for petroleum distribution terminals (PDTs) improves safety and accounting.
Meet Blendtech, a division of PT Industrial Electric and supplier of Terminal Automation Systems (TAS). A TAS is commonly used to automate the processes at petroleum distribution terminals to keep them running efficiently and in compliance with government regulations.
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Topics:
Case studies,
Oil & gas,
Node-RED,
groov EPIC,
HMI
Watch these new groov EPIC videos for tips on using your Modbus TCP devices with groov View, PAC Control, Node-RED, and Inductive Automation's Ignition software.
Opto 22 engineer Ben Orchard is back in the Opto 22 studio with several new video lessons on communicating to Modbus TCP devices with a groov EPIC processor.
For each lesson, Ben is using a groov EPIC Learning Center (GRV-EPIC-LC) along with a Modbus SATEC P130 power meter, which is measuring the voltage and frequency of the mains power in our studio.
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Topics:
Modbus,
PAC Control,
Node-RED,
groov View,
groov EPIC,
groov EPIC Learning Center,
Ignition
The end of 2019 is quickly approaching, and the Opto 22 team is once again preparing for the holidays.
As we look back on 2019, it was another EPIC year that included exciting new features and changes for the groov EPIC system. Here's a recap of some of the highlights and our upcoming holiday schedule.
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Topics:
groov EPIC,
holiday hours,
holiday schedule
This newly released video walks you through using a serial to USB converter with your groov EPIC PR1 controller.
In our latest video, Applications Engineer Ben Orchard is back to give you step-by-step instructions for reading serial data via the EPIC's USB port with a RS-232 to USB converter.
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Topics:
Training,
serial,
groov EPIC,
groov EPIC Learning Center
Three more companies join the OptoPartner program to give you cutting-edge IIoT product solutions.
Do you need help integrating, installing, or updating your Opto 22 system? An OptoPartner can help. OptoPartners have a proven track record of working with Opto 22 industrial control products (like the groov EPIC system).
And if you need help on an industrial internet of things (IIoT) project, contact one of our IoT OptoPartners.
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Topics:
IoT,
IIoT,
groov EPIC,
system integrator,
OptoPartner
If you are using PAC Control with either SNAP PACs or groov EPIC, please be aware of an urgent bug fix related to how the control engine configures PID loops.
The issue affects:
If you are using PID loops, check your strategy after updating to make sure everything works as you expect.
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Topics:
Updates,
Firmware,
PAC Control,
groov EPIC,
snap pac
The latest SNAP PAC firmware release is now available for the SNAP PAC system.
If you are using any of the following SNAP PAC system controllers or brains, you'll want to take a look at the new R10.0h update:
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Topics:
Firmware,
PAC Manager,
snap pac
