I'm currently investing in possibilities to have a central engineering software / system for Codesys based controllers. Something like a DCS / SCADA depending on where you see the functionality. We plan to use more or less vanilla codesys.
The tool should support the following:
- Connect to multiple PLC's in a project to see its variables and debug it.
- Central Engineering capabilities (for example shared libraries in a project).
- Download the new code / binaries to the plc.
- Maybe have functionality to combine visualization elements and logic together.
- See the live status variables on all the systems (crosscommunication).
I see that codesys theoretically supports engineering of multiple PLC's, but I couldnt find to much functionality for a DCS type of operation, but that could be lack of knowledge.
Any tips from you? Is Codesys good enough for this and maybe there are some manufacturers which build around it? Or are there good tools on the market with Codesys support (and the engineering is separate, but download to codesys possible).
The use case is distributed energy installations like Heating pumps, Photovoltaics, etc. All these installations should have a PLC with codesys installed and run in one larger network, the PLC's are connected via VPN.
Thanks for your inputs
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I'm currently investing in possibilities to have a central engineering software / system for Codesys based controllers. Something like a DCS / SCADA depending on where you see the functionality. We plan to use more or less vanilla codesys.
The tool should support the following:
- Connect to multiple PLC's in a project to see its variables and debug it.
- Central Engineering capabilities (for example shared libraries in a project).
- Download the new code / binaries to the plc.
- Maybe have functionality to combine visualization elements and logic together.
- See the live status variables on all the systems (crosscommunication).
I see that codesys theoretically supports engineering of multiple PLC's, but I couldnt find to much functionality for a DCS type of operation, but that could be lack of knowledge.
Any tips from you? Is Codesys good enough for this and maybe there are some manufacturers which build around it? Or are there good tools on the market with Codesys support (and the engineering is separate, but download to codesys possible).
The use case is distributed energy installations like Heating pumps, Photovoltaics, etc. All these installations should have a PLC with codesys installed and run in one larger network, the PLC's are connected via VPN.
Thanks for your inputs
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