Plan now to attend The Automation Conference & Expo this May in Chicago, Illinois—and save $100 on the cost of admission with your Opto 22 VIP code (see below).
The Conference focuses on the process industries, discrete manufacturing, and packaging, and this year it includes over two dozen educational sessions on:
Topics: Internet of Things, IoT, Machine builder, optonews, PACs, OEM, Events & conferences, Integrators, OptoNews 2016-03-16
Have you seen some of our newer high-density, high-speed, or multifunction I/O modules and wished you could use them in your legacy SNAP Ultimate or SNAP Ethernet I/O system?
Have you wanted to build an easy-to-use groov mobile interface for your legacy system?
Or wanted to log a lot more data locally?
Topics: optonews, PACs, Integrators, I/O, OptoNews 2016-03-02
What do you get with the free PAC Project Basic automation software suite?
PAC Project Basic offers flowchart-based control programming plus HMI development and runtime. It's suited for industrial automation, remote monitoring, and data acquisition applications in any field.
Topics: Process control, Discrete control, Remote monitoring, Machine builder, optonews, PACs, PAC Project, OptoNews 2016-03-02
If you're someone who likes to save time, you probably already know about keyboard shortcuts like CTRL+S to save or CTRL+F to find. But do you know about the shortcuts in PAC Control? Here are a few that can speed your programming.
Topics: Tips, optonews, PACs, PAC Project, OptoNews 2016-03-02
In 2012, explorer and filmmaker James Cameron did what no one had ever done before.
He piloted a one-man submersible to Challenger Deep at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the lowest spot on earth, 6.8 miles (10.9 km) below sea level.
Topics: Videos, optonews, Deepsea Challenge, PACs, PAC Project, OptoNews 2016-02-17
If you use PAC Control to develop your control programs, here's a question you may have: What the heck are IVAL and XVAL?
You see these terms in Simulation commands such as IVAL Set Analog Point, and you also see them when you inspect I/O points in Debug mode.
Topics: Tips, optonews, PACs, PAC Project, OptoNews 2016-02-03
We've talked recently about digital and analog totalizing: getting total running values for on-time, flow, power production, and so on.
The next step is using those totals in your PAC Control strategy—and in your groov mobile operator interface—to get the information you need.
Topics: Process control, Discrete control, Tips, optonews, PACs, PAC Project, OptoNews 2016-01-06
We've just released PAC firmware version R9.4c.
This updated firmware is for SNAP PAC controllers (S-series, R-series, and SoftPAC), SNAP PAC brains (Ethernet and serial), and G4EB2 and G4D32EB2 brains.
Topics: Updates, optonews, PACs, Firmware, OptoNews 2015-12-16
Have you seen some of our newer high-density, high-speed, or multifunction I/O modules and wished you could use them in your legacy SNAP Ultimate or SNAP Ethernet I/O system?
Have you wanted to build an easy-to-use groov mobile interface for your legacy system?
Or wanted to log a lot more data locally?
If so, we have a tip for you: check out the SNAP-PAC-R1-B programmable automation controller.
Topics: Updates, Tips, optonews, PACs, New products, Migration, I/O, OptoNews 2015-12-16
Do you use communication handles in your PAC Control strategy?
Or are you thinking, "What's a communication handle?"
In either case, this tip is for you.
A communication handle is a powerful type of variable in PAC Control. You'll use it for three main reasons:
Topics: Tips, optonews, PACs, PAC Project, OptoNews 2015-11-18