Bridging SQL to PROFIBUS

Bridging SQL to PROFIBUS

A client required some data on his SQL database to be sent to his PLC. He had a few sensors inserting data directly into his SQL database and he needed this data to be processed by his PROFIBUS PLC controller so that the correct actions could be taken. The solution...
IDX 8 Historian

IDX 8 Historian

Industrial Data Historians are fairly commonplace. Generally, they fall into two categories: enterprise-class historians such as OSIsoft PI and Wonderware Historian, which bristle with features and carry a correspondingly enterprise-class price tag, and then there are...