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Application Showcase / Turbine HMI

« on: March 21, 2020, 01:56:14 PM »

I am new to advancedHMI, but not turbine controls. I am a contract field engineer who did controls system installation and commissioning for years. My intial effort at a HMI to control a small turbine communicating with a Domore PLC simulator.

The turbine I choose was a solar saturn 750KW unit. It only uses 3 analog signals and only had 10 alarms or "Malfunctions". I had a set of electrical drawings for this turbine and wrote the Domore code to control it.

Both the Domore simulator and the AdvancedHMI are free software. See the attached files for samples of the three screens.

Main Screen

Includes the turbine controls and enough data for the operator to make desicions. When the Malfunction indictor in the upper right turns red the operator select the alarm screen in the lower left. If he wants to understand the turbine operation he selects the trend button. This page still need a watt reading.

Alarm Screen

The alarm logic is done in the PLC. there is a current alarm window and a historical alarm window. I might put the reset button on this page too.

Trends

If the operator needs to see how the turbine has been operating he goes to this screen.

There is also a data logging function so older trends are available through excel.

Thanks for all the Help from Advancedhmi!!  I hope I can make this product commercial.
 

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Support Questions / Basic Label or General House keeping Problems

« on: March 08, 2020, 09:29:51 PM »

I want to put 11 basic labels on the main form. When I add those, even to the original main form, no mods, I have problems.


After adding 11 basic labels and before  running  debug I save and and then rebuild the solution, then I ran debug, everything worked. Is saving and then rebuilding the correct procedure after mods?

The solution ran, then I closed visual studio and reopened.  I had the following error shown in the attached pictures.

Any suggestions for troubleshooting. Are my procedures wrong? Is it a code problem?

Johnny

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Open Discussion / Commerical Questions about AdvancedHMI Projects.

« on: February 22, 2020, 02:58:44 PM »

I dont see any commercial discussions in this forum but they are at least as important as technical questions.

I suppose the sales pitch for advnacedHMI is "free software", no license problems and can be used on any PC with any monitor.

Are customers receptive to the above? What kind of customers?  I know I am  as  a developer, I am a one man shop with modest income, no way I can buy a rockwell license and a wonderware license.  I used to have a big customer that gave me all the licenses I needed.

Does anyone have large corporate customers, the kind with big IT departments with lots of rules? Are there problems?

The closest competitor is Automation Direct C-more?

Is there some web site to market our HMIs on? Or a site with want ads for advancedhmi programmers?

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Support Questions / Using the control messagelistbybit as an alarm display.

« on: February 16, 2020, 07:18:32 PM »

I tried to make an alarm display using the messagelistbybit control. Had a few problems:

The message list does not reset when a 0 is sent to the bit. I had 2 messages, bits 2 and 3. When I toggle between the two, they are on the same PLC rung but inverted, they changed position at the top of the list but did not clear. Is there a way to clear or erase messages? I was sending either 4 or 8, both alarms would have been 12, so both bits saw a 0 and did not clear.

Can I have more than 16 messages?  I am using modbus which has a 16 bit word. I suppose I could use two controls if needed.

Thanks in advanced.

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Open Discussion / Where to begin?

« on: February 02, 2020, 02:04:09 PM »

I am new to Advancedhmi. I have worked with controls, PLC's and hmi's for years but dont have a programming background. I try to follow examples on youtube of advancedhmi  but when something goes wrong I dont have the background to troubleshoot. 

What youtube tutorials should I try:
Visual studio windows forms?
Visual studio C#?
Visual studio VB?

thanks for the advice.

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Support Questions / Newbie Questions

« on: April 30, 2016, 09:16:06 PM »

couple of starter questions:

1. How is trending in Advancedhmi. Is it like, let's say wonderware, where i can view multiple points on the same trend and go back in time? Trending is the most important part of an HMI when it is time to troubleshoot.

2. Where is a good tutorial on visual studio 2015? I see a million tutorials for multiple kinds of visual basic or studio, has someone already waded through this and found a tutorial that gives me start with visual studio 2015?

thanks