Miguels244
Diamond
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2011
- Location
- Denver, CO USA
I read with interest ABs adoption of the IEC 61131 language for their Micro8xxx controllers.
The controllers seemed quite competent for smaller controllers with a broad range of expansion capabilities.
I was also interested in the motion control and high speed counter capabilities of the platform, not for my current application, but for future use.
The platform claims IEC-61131 compliance.
This would be a refreshing change from Rockwell's traditional closed, expensive and bloated software.
Add that the programming platform is free and I was hoping for a real winner.
Since the majority of my experience is CodeSys on multiple platforms I was looking forward to using the system.
Sadly, upon installing the Rockwell software, which takes an entire DVD and a couple of hours, I found it to be poor.
An apt comparison to CodeSys would be to compare QBasic to a modern IDE.
Other vendors have adopted the IEC-61131 whole heartedly, Rockwell has not.
In fact I have used a single CodeSys installation with multiple vendors, often in the same system.
I think Rockwell missed a chance here.
I understand that Rockwell likes to keep it's ecosystem closed, but this was a missed chance.
Other than this it's an adequate low cost platform, no more, no less.
Just my 0.02
The controllers seemed quite competent for smaller controllers with a broad range of expansion capabilities.
I was also interested in the motion control and high speed counter capabilities of the platform, not for my current application, but for future use.
The platform claims IEC-61131 compliance.
This would be a refreshing change from Rockwell's traditional closed, expensive and bloated software.
Add that the programming platform is free and I was hoping for a real winner.
Since the majority of my experience is CodeSys on multiple platforms I was looking forward to using the system.
Sadly, upon installing the Rockwell software, which takes an entire DVD and a couple of hours, I found it to be poor.
An apt comparison to CodeSys would be to compare QBasic to a modern IDE.
Other vendors have adopted the IEC-61131 whole heartedly, Rockwell has not.
In fact I have used a single CodeSys installation with multiple vendors, often in the same system.
I think Rockwell missed a chance here.
I understand that Rockwell likes to keep it's ecosystem closed, but this was a missed chance.
Other than this it's an adequate low cost platform, no more, no less.
Just my 0.02