Hello everyone,
so a few months ago i made a program that grabs data from any AB Ethernet PLC on the network at work. It can be used to grab a single tag or a UDT structure (UDTs with a little bit of extra code).
I was trying to push this to the company i work at to help implement a system for automating data gathering directly from the PLC. The current way is very inefficient since gathering machine stats is dependent on operators writing down correct information, which it never is, on a production page, which often get lost or not handed in, and putting that into the system manually.
My app worked pretty well but it was custom written, so from the looks of it they are deciding to go with Rockwell metrics software instead since it is "supported" software.
Since i developed the program on company time, it is technically company property so i cant post the final gathering software version that i made which grabbed data and saved it to a SQL database from over a dozen processors at the same time while doing daily backups of relevant machine stats daily and able to print off reports.
so i have decided to rewrite it and strip it down to the basics on my own time and post it online for anyone who wants it, since when i started i this whole project i couldn't find anything like it hence the reason why i made it, it is written in VB, and it uses the advancedHMI drivers for coms. So naturally there is no need for any AB software to get this to work.
i hope someone finds it useful.
regards,
Eggowaffles
github :