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Created Date: November 07,2017
Created By: jvian
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We have been upgrading our DL260's with DoMore PLC's with great success and will continue for all our legacy DL205 installations. That said though for our new installations I am worried that the DL205 is ageing and will start becoming obsolete in the foreseeable future. A lot of newer PLC's are available with the releases of the Productivity P#000's, but the BRX is just not there yet with analog, remote IO and high speed options we require. Does anyone know the future of the DL205 hardware? Will the BRX be getting more IO options and/or features of a modular PLC? Or are there any plans for another DoMore hardware configuration to replace the DL205? Just trying to get a feel for where to plan our investments as smartly as possible. Ideally I would stick with DoMore and DL205 hardware since it is what is now our standard, rather than learn a new PLC and then have multiple platforms to deal with. Thanks in advance.
Created Date: November 07,2017
Created by: jvian
We have been upgrading our DL260's with DoMore PLC's with great success and will continue for all our legacy DL205 installations. That said though for our new installations I am worried that the DL205 is ageing and will start becoming obsolete in the foreseeable future. A lot of newer PLC's are available with the releases of the Productivity P#000's, but the BRX is just not there yet with analog, remote IO and high speed options we require. Does anyone know the future of the DL205 hardware? Will the BRX be getting more IO options and/or features of a modular PLC? Or are there any plans for another DoMore hardware configuration to replace the DL205?
Just trying to get a feel for where to plan our investments as smartly as possible. Ideally I would stick with DoMore and DL205 hardware since it is what is now our standard, rather than learn a new PLC and then have multiple platforms to deal with.
Thanks in advance.
Created Date: November 07,2017
Created by: BobO
DL205 will be there for a while. No worries on that.
BRX will be getting significant new expansions in Q1 and Q2. By the middle of next year, BRX should be able to replace everything that DL205 can and more.
Just so I understand, is the high speed limitation with BRX just the number of available I/O? BRX built-in functions are already more capable than the H2-CTRIO2.
Created Date: November 07,2017
Created by: Do-more PE
BobO pretty much said it all.
DL205 isn't going anywhere. BRX will continue to get more option modules throughout the next year and beyond. We have a lot of plans for the future, but we don't plan to retire the DirectLogic as a platform any time in the foreseeable future. We plan to keep it around as long as possible.
Created Date: November 07,2017
Created by: jvian
That's great news! We really are happy here with the DoMore and the DL205 setups and I have a presentation ready for building 3 new systems but needed to address the obsolescence.
And BobO, yes it is about available IO, not capability. So far the BRX looks like when it matures it will be our go forward platform. We do have instances where a brick would be perfect but mostly multiple rack systems with a fair amount of analog and high speed IO. Having the ability to use the same software for a brick and a modular system would be paramount. Right now I have to manage three different types of PLC's for the same purpose using the same SCADA interface for each. Any logic upgrades made have to be re-coded and integrated for each PLC type and in the SCADA. It is very laborious and prone to errors. My DoMore systems are the easiest.
Thank you guys for your replies.
Created Date: November 07,2017
Created by: BobO
And BobO, yes it is about available IO, not capability. So far the BRX looks like when it matures it will be our go forward platform. We do have instances where a brick would be perfect but mostly multiple rack systems with a fair amount of analog and high speed IO.
The only limitation with the planned HSIO module is that it must be used in the local base, so at most you can have 8 of them. If you 've used EBC100 with H2, you already know how to use the upcoming BRX based expansion.
Our vision for BRX was always to be highly scalable...from a -10 standalone brick, to a -36 brick with a handful of expansion modules, all the way up to multi-base modular systems with 1k or more I/O. One platform. Wide range of applications. All Do-more.