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Introducing Opto22 SoftPAC (ESP)
- 1. Bienvenido a SoftPAC Controlador Virtual para el PC Control en Tiempo Real
- 2. Presentadora Mary St. John Director of Training mstjohn@opto22.com
- 3. ¿Porque estamos aquí? Visión General y Especificación Demo 1: Prueba de velocidad Demo 2: Ejecutar 64 Tareas Demo 3: Aprovechando el PC Preguntas
- 4. Que significa Soft PAC? Soft PAC Soft ware (No hardware) P rogramable A utomatización C ontrolador O sea: Software para un controlador virtual para la Automatización Industrial
- 5. ¿Porque SoftPAC? Utilizando las ventajas de un ordenador tipo PC: Memoria Espacio para archivos Velocidad Perfecto para OEMs Fabricantes de maquinas Aplicaciones de adquisición de datos.
- 6. SoftPAC Compatibilidad Compatibilidad de E/S: LED equivalente: Utilizar SoftPAC con cualquier procesador SNAP de E/S basado en Ethernet = “OFF” No se puede utilizar SoftPAC con procesadores serial. (SNAP-B3000 etc.) = Sin estrategia SoftPAC soporta todos los módulos SNAP = Estratégica en un rack de E/S (incluyendo serial) ejecutando
- 7. ¿Como se utiliza SoftPAC? Monitor SoftPAC Arranque / Paro del motor de control Cambiar como SoftPAC funciona Ocultar el monitor SoftPAC.exe Software ejecutable – El motor de control (PAC Control) Puede funcionar como servicio de Windows Arranca con el PC No requiere login
- 8. SoftPAC Demonstración #1 Demo 1 – Prueba de velocidad “TURBO” para el motor de control Ejemplo: Incremento de un contador en 3 segundos?
- 9. SoftPAC Especificaciones Especificaciones Ejecutar hasta 64 tareas (Charts) simultáneamente Asignación de 64 MB RAM, 8 MB NVRAM Para PAC Control Estrategias, charts, variables, etc. Operaciones de archivos solamente limitado al tamaño del disco duro local o almacenamiento en red Ver documentos 2020 y 1646
- 10. SoftPAC Demonstración #2 Demo 2 – Ejecutar 64 tareas > (Charts)
- 11. SoftPAC – Mas ventajas Generar y enviar correos electrónicos utilizando comandos PAC Control Emplea certificados de seguridad de Windows Puede ejecutar como un servicio de Windows Arranca con el PC No requiere login de un usuario Soporta todos los comandos Archivo/FTP El sistema de archivos de SoftPAC es el disco duro del ordenador donde ejecuta Concepto “Dropbox” o “Computación en la nube” sFileComm = "file:r,C:DropboxExampleExample.txt“
- 12. SoftPAC Demonstración #3 Demo 3 – Aprovechar la conectividad de red y la potencia de hardware del PC, vía SoftPAC. Otros Apps: Software “nube” como Dropbox, Box.Net o Google Drive
- 13. Precios Incluido como parte de PAC Project Professional 9.3 o disponible como licencia individual Licencia individual $399.00 USD por CPU
- 14. ¡Cómpralo ya! Para mas información Hoja de Producto – Form 2020 Pagina web Video y mas
- 15. ¡Gracias por su atención! Mary St. John – mstjohn@opto22.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/opto22 LinkedIn: http://op22.co/optolinkedin Twitter: @Opto22
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- Welcome everyone! Thanks for joining us today. I’m excited to be here to introduce you all to our newest programmable automation controller: SoftPAC!! Before I get started, a few housekeeping items: At the right of your screen should be a control panel. In this panel, you can “raise your hand” or leave questions in the chat module. If you do have questions during my presentation, please enter your questions in the panel, and I promise we’ll get to as many of them as time allows. I’ll also provide my email address at the end, so please feel free to drop me an email if you think of something later! Okay, let’s get started!!!
- First, a little bit about me. I’m Mary St. John, director of training here at Opto 22. Before my new gig in training, I spent about a decade on the firmware development team for the Control Engine that runs on our standard hardware PACs, which is also the heart of SoftPAC. So I can tell you more than you ever wanted to know about how the watch works, as they say. But in the interest of time, I going to hit the highlights and show you a few demos about my favorite parts.
- We’re especially excited to be releasing SoftPAC given our long history of PC-based control which dates back to the 80s when PCs themselves were new, and we’d developed muxxed I/O systems like Optomux and PAMUX that we’re designed for these new computers. As you know, today’s PCs have evolved immensely. With so many application and connectivity options, and more and more people making use of cloud-based applications, we’re especially excited to add this SoftPAC option as a another choice in the PAC product line. So, here’s the line-up for today. First we’re going to tell you all about the features and advantages to having this additional choice in the PAC product line. We’ll get into where and when you might want to choose PC-based control and highlight some features that could make your life easier. Then we have three demos to show you. First we will SHOW you some speed increases that SoftPAC can give you. Then we’ll expand on that with not just one faster-running chart, but 64 of them! Finally, in our 3 rd demo we’ll show you how to leverage that PC-based control to your full advantage.
- First of all, what is it? SoftPAC is a Software-based, Programmable Automation Controller. A “PAC” that runs on your Windows PC, and communicates to all your Ethernet-based I/O , just like our hardware-based PACs. And like our hardware PACs, you program SoftPAC using PAC Control , using simple flowcharts or many sophisticated OptoScript blocks . It’s your choice.
- Why might this be a good choice? Maybe you have an application collecting large amounts of data that you'd like to archive on your PC, on your network, or in the cloud? Or an application involving complex math, computational analysis, or advanced string handling? Or, perhaps you’re an OEM building a machine that already has a PC in it, and you’re trying to keep costs down. You might consider purchasing SoftPAC rather than a SNAP PAC S-series or –R-series controller, and lower your total costs. Also, SoftPAC can help reduce the load on your existing controllers or act as a data aggregator, which keeps tabs on the processing running on your other PAC Controllers and brains, perhaps calculating averages to be presented in PAC Display. If you change your mind later about how you want to distribute your logic, you can just run the PAC control strategy you developed using SoftPAC on the hardware-based pack of your choice.
- SoftPAC will talk to any of our Ethernet-based I/O units noted in the table on this slide. However, SoftPAC does not have support for our serial brains. All SNAP I/O modules, including serial modules, are supported as well. Also, like our hardware PACs, we have an LED equivalent in the form of an icon (a SoftLED?) to indicate when it’s SoftPAC is “off” (like when your hardware PAC is powered off). That color is grey. If the color of the icon is yellow or amber, that means the control engine is running but the strategy isn’t running yet, or a strategy doesn’t exist in the controller yet. Green means a strategy is running, just like with your hardware PACs.
- There are actually two software pieces to SoftPAC – the Montior, which lets you start/stop or change how SoftPAC is run. Kind of like your on/off switch on a hardware controller. Then there’s the SoftPAC.exe itself, which is the control engine. Hiding SoftPAC Monitor does not minimize it; it really hides it. No icon appears in the taskbar. To show it again, right-click SoftPAC icon in system tray. “ About” button shows version info for both SoftPAC Monitor and SoftPAC itself, if it is running. One of the options he SoftPAC Monitor gives you is the ability to run SoftPAC as a Windows service. This means no login is needed.
- Okay, now that I’ve told you a little about SoftPAC, let’s do a quick demonstration to show you the kind of performance increase you can see. In this first demo, I’m just going to have the PAC increment a variable as fast as possible, and see how high we counted in 3 seconds. Show logic in blocks Point out AllChartTotal Inspect controller to show it was an R1 Clear RAM, point out memory available Switch to SoftPAC, point out AllChartTotal Inspect controller to show SoftPAC Clear RAM
- Before we go on to Demo number two, I just wanted to mention most of the details we’re sharing with you are covered in form 2020, available on opto22.com. It includes one of our handy comparison charts. Here we have some obligatory gratuitous animation to show you a couple of relevant numbers, circled in red. Notice many of the values here in the SoftPAC column have a footnote. They’re going to vary widely depending on the Windows PC you’re using. Form 1646 goes into more detail on how the memory and file space is used by the various PACs. Keep in mind that the file operations are limited only by PC disk space – which could include volumes on a network. Also, “Flash memory” on the SoftPAC is implemented via file so you can have much more room for your persistent variables.
- For this second demo, I’m just going to expand upon that first demo, and show you how you can make use of all this extra memory including the option to run more charts. This strategy has a whole bunch of charts which, like the first demo, just increment some counters as fast as possible. * Add ntLoopCount to watch window so we can see all the counts increment for each chart After SoftPAC run, click on View Charts to show list above. Of course, not everyone has the need to run this many charts, and there are always many ways so program your particular project. But we know many of our customers logically divide parts of their system into separate charts. For example, Ben had his hospital in Australia organized with a chart per floor. Now he could use that same method for a much taller hospital! As you may recall, you can run up to 16 charts on the R1, 32 on the S2, and 64 on SoftPAC. Again, more choices.
- Besides the extra speed and performance due to extra memory I get with my PC, and the additional space file space we touched on, what else is there? Sending emails is a little easier, since Windows takes care of security certificates. As mentioned earlier, you can run SoftPAC as a service, so it’ll start when the PC starts up; no login from anyone is needed. But my favorite value-add is a combination of 2 things: First, how easy it is to log data with our file commands, Combined with the fact that your PC can run some cool programs on it, like cloud storage software Dropbox, Box.Net, or Google Drive, is something we’re going to show you in the next demo.
- By a quick show of hands, how many of your are familiar with dropbox? Google drive? I’m sure all of you have heard about “the cloud” and perhaps even considered storing data, or running various apps, on a remote server rather than locally. Here at Opto 22 we a very popular cloud-based application called dropbox. It’s helpful for sharing files and collaborating. You drop a file in the dropbox rather than emailing it as an attachment and having multiple versions floating around in different people’s inboxes. The files are automatically “synced” so everyone has the latest, automatically. Login and security is all handled by the app. For example, when I was working on these powerpoint slides, I had a couple other people look at them and make changes. I never emailed the file, just told my collaborators where in dropbox to find it. So in this third example, where going to take advantage of the easy-of-use from our cloud-based app, plus how easy it is to write to a file. Let’s check it out. Connect Demo 2 to Demo 3 Show “initialize variables” block where it initialized file settings Explain how I’m using the built-in FTP client in Firefox to look at the file area on my R1 and see the data that got logged Explain how I’m logged into this website, for dropbox, which lets me easily see my files from anywhere. Since I have it configured to sync to the location on my harddrive (shown earlier), when I write or update a file it instantly uploads into the cloud, and to everyone else who has this folder shared with me. Perhaps these values are how many widgets got produced at each of my 16 or 64 factories. So my boss can this information instantly on any of the devices supported by this app. I know he’s got dropbox on his computer, iPAD, iPhone, and he connects to the internet while he’s flying so just got this updated report for his isle seat on his flight to New York. Neat-o. If I hit unmute I know I’d hear a bunch of oos and ahs.
- As I mentioned before, please feel free to submit questions at any time, or email me later. We’ve also had interesting discussions on both LinkedIn and the OptoForums on our Opto 22 website. We encourage you to join in the conversation! --------------------------------------------------- What questions do we anticipate? QUESTIONS TO EXPECT: Some folks might ask, how is it different than PAC Sim? For starters it runs longer than 12 hours. Also, it has MMP, this is a big deal as you can share data via the scratch pad with other controllers or VB, .NET C++ etc. It can run as a service, so it will start up as soon as the PC boots, the operator does not even have to log in! Things like ftp and email are now fully supported. Lastly, PacSIM only runs 32 charts, while SoftPAC can run 64 charts. Question: How different than RuntimePC? Answer: mostly NOT NT anymore. Maybe NT really stood for “Not Trusted”! Ha. Ha. Question: Why are we selling this? (What about selling hardware?) Answer: To give customers choices. Ultimately, they’ll be communicating with some kind of Opto 22 hardware. Question: What about Linux? Answer: Currently we’re only supporting Windows.