Seen from space, light from waste flare gas in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota is nearly as bright as all the lights from the city of Chicago.
That's a lot of energy going up in smoke.
That's a waste of resources, says Pioneer Energy President Dr. Robert Zubrin.
Topics: Case studies, Videos, Process control, Remote monitoring, optonews, PACs, OptoNews 2015-06-17
Our tech tip this week comes from Philip in the OptoForum, who shared his PAC Control subroutine code for determining the time the sun rises and sets at a specific latitude.
You could use HTTP requests over the Internet to get this data (discussed earlier in the same thread). But with this OptoScript code you don't need an Internet connection.
Topics: Tips, optonews, PACs, OptoNews 2015-06-17
Have you have been waiting for this one?
Now you can create a custom application to read from and write to tags in a PAC Control strategy running on any of our SNAP PAC programmable automation controllers:
That means you can access tags in the strategy like integer, float, and string variables and tables, as well as analog and discrete input and output points.
Topics: optonews, PACs, New products, Integrators, OptoNews 2015-06-03
That's when you're really glad you archived your strategy.
Topics: Tips, optonews, PACs, OptoNews 2015-06-03
You already know that the OptoForum is a great place to get your questions asked and answered.
It's also a great place to learn about using tables, subroutines, and pointers in PAC Control; built-in protocols like SNMP in SNAP PAC controllers; and more.
The new forum called 101 Mini-Lessons gets you started learning about a variety of subjects:
Topics: Tips, optonews, PACs, OptoNews 2015-05-21
Have you wondered if Opto 22 PACs and the PAC Project software suite would work for your application?
Or maybe you want to demonstrate the software to someone else—say, a customer or your boss.
Here's a great free way to test it out: the PAC Project Demo, now with an additional demo screen and a small library of artwork pieces you can use any way you want to in your own HMI project.
Topics: Process control, optonews, PACs, OptoNews 2015-04-15
Do you have legacy SNAP Ultimate or SNAP Ethernet I/O units on B-series mounting racks? Now you can upgrade these I/O units to SNAP PAC with the new SNAP-PAC-R1-B controller.
The SNAP-PAC-R1-B is exactly like a regular SNAP-PAC-R1 except that it has a blue connector on the bottom that fits on a B-series rack. That means you can:
Topics: OptoNews 2015-03-04, PACs, New products, Migration