Revolution Byte

10/23/2015

Enterprise-level Oil and Gas SCADA system designed fully in Ignition by Inductive Automation and integrated for a Texas-based Oil and Gas company. - 40,000 Devices - 14,000 Sites and Facilities - 11 Million Tags - 2,000 concurrent users

http://www.revolutionbyte.com/projects/major-oil-and-gas-scada-system

09/27/2015

Legacy SCADA = More Expensive = BETTER (Does that make any sense to you??)

09/17/2015

Just like Kepware, Autosol Communication Manager (ACM) is another popular I/O communications platform that provides industrial automation data to your SCADA system.

ACM is highly used in the Oil and Gas sector. Its a great and robust IO server with excellent scheduling functionality. Its main drawback, however, is that it relies on OPC-DA technology. That can be a true pain to setup!

Here's a detailed tutorial on how to connect ACM to Ignition by Inductive Automation

http://www.revolutionbyte.com/blog/connecting-ignition-to-autosol-communication-manager

OPC-DA (A.K.A Classic OPC) relies on Microsoft's COM and DCOM technologies to exchange data between automation hardware and software. It can prove to be truly frustrating to configure DCOM properly for new users of Ignition and/or Autosol Communication Manager (ACM). OPC-DA requires a well-configure…

09/17/2015

Being a huge fan of Ignition by Inductive Automation and seeing how their conference is in a few days.. I think this sarcastic blog post is worth your read - Inductive Automation:

http://www.revolutionbyte.com/blog/upgrading-legacy-scada-system-to-ignition

Upgrading your legacy SCADA system to Ignition is bad for you. So is upgrading your legacy Rockwell PLC5 and SLC. So is automated reporting. If your system can produce computerized reports, stop it immediately. If it can produce on demand and periodic reports, obviously you're trying to make your em…