martinav (Customer) asked a question.
Looking for a fairly professional looking small lab mounting for PLC + 3 valves
I'm looking for a portable table-top type of mounting/project board for a BRX 18 plus three valves and a couple other things. I'd like to have it fairly professional looking as it will be put on a roll card and move to various test stands to run cycle tests. Is there something pre-fab out there, or some nice ideas that will end up looking fairly descent? I want something clean and not like a home hack-job.
Thanks!
Are you looking for something enclosed when you can add some push buttons and other things?
These are fairly nice for tabletop enclosures:
https://www.automationdirect.com/adc/shopping/catalog/enclosures_-z-_subpanels_-z-_thermal_management_-z-_lighting/enclosures/consoles_-a-_consolets/operator_consolets#
I've mounted things to laminated wood, Lexan, fiber glass enclosures, etc. It depends on the look you're going for. You can make any of them look neat.
I was wanting mainly something to house the PLC, three pneumatic valves, and such. I'm still getting familiar with brackets, rails, terminals, etc. Advice on any of that would be great!
I'm also trying to find the basics on how to have an HMI on the PC. I dont really need any hardware switches and such if I can do it all on a laptop.
Thanks!
>I'm also trying to find the basics on how to have an HMI on the PC.
As mentioned in your post about HMI on the PC, AdvancedHMI can do the job.
AdvancedHMI is free, VisualStudio Community edition is free.
AdvancedHMI is written in one (or more) of the VisualStudio-supported languages.
You can do most of your HMI stuff in the VisualStudio/VB editor without programming. You CAN do some programming if desired/required, but simple buttons/lamp/text/numeric stuff - no programming required. Just drag,drop,resize, set parameters(colors/tags...) -- much like any other HMI dev software.
Also, Archie at (this forum) and (this forum) is the developer of AdvancedHMI and is (in my experience) very interactive with users and their concerns.