I only briefly played with a version 7.5 trend screen demo but I feel that it is layers of hacks on top of their existing infrastructure. the citect alarm screen prior to version 7.5 is an embarassment. The citect trend tool (process analyst) is the most useable I have worked with so far. How can it be so hard to export the data that makes a trend to an excel or CSV file? They must make it so difficult to try and up-sell some other product. The factory talk trend tool is underwhelming. The factory talk alarm system was great too. I guess that is what happens when your product is made up of dozens of acquisitions instead of designed to work together bolt on integrations everywhere. Too bad schneider doesn't have a tag picker in their HMIs that can read the tags out of the PLC. The advantage of having factory talk read the tag database out of the PLC more or less outweighed all of the other nuisances. Generally we try and work with whatever in house know how the customer might have in the region so if they already have 8 plants with citect we will use citect.īoth citect and Factory talk worked extremely well for us with multiple display clients.
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We have used Wonderware intouch with and without archestra and wonderware system platform, the wonderware historian, Citect, iFix, Factory Talk SE (network distributed), Factory Talk ME, Factory Talk historian (Osisoft Pi), and vijeo designer with magelis panels.Īll of these packages drive me crazy in different ways, and I wasn't on the wonderware system platform project so I don't have first hand experience with it, except when I had to go fill in for a weekend during commissioning and couldn't figure out how to add a tag.