Implementation of Customised SCADA for Cartoner Packaging machine for Cost Effective Solution
Implementation of Cust omised SCADA for Cartoner Packaging machine for Cost Effective Solution Abstract – In Factory Automation engineers are looking for the use of Visual Basic for the implementation of SCADA applications for several reasons. Most of the SCADA applications require a very less number of user input parameters and data logging, monitoring and trending functionalities to be visualised by the user. In Industrial environment, there are times when traditional SCADA based solutions provide most of the functionality but at a much higher cost than budgets allow for small OEM customers. By utilizing Visual Basic's integrated event based user interface design and database connectivity functionality like SQL and adding off-the-shelf plug-in’s like ActiveX controls or DLL or MSCOMM components to produce frontend graphics, trending, communication, and alarming. Developers, OEMs, integrators, and users can create...