IndustrialVB

"Visual Basic With Industrial Connections"

THE SOLUTION TO COSTLY PROPRIETARY AUTOMATION SOFTWARE.

Discover How To Build A HMI/SCADA Application With Visual Basic Today!

Some Advantages of Using Visual Basic For Your HMI/SCADA Application.

• Visual Basic provides the optimum solution for developing HMI and SCADA applications.

•  Numerous training courses, books, and 3.3 million Visual Basic programmers available.

• If budget, maintenance, and time are factors in your HMI decision-making process, Visual Basic is the clear winner over proprietary industrial automation software.

• Join the thousands of industrial manufacturing companies who have chosen Microsoft Visual Basic as their HMI/SCADA solution.

• Minimize the learning curve, out-of-pocket expenses, maintenance expenses, and break the dependency link to the proprietary industrial automation software that runs up the cost of doing business.

• Visual Basic is the most widely used development environment in the world and the industrial automation community is waking up to the appeal of the inexpensive, well-supported, large developer base that Visual Basic provides.

• No run time fees or royalties.

• ActiveX Controls specifically developed for industrial automation.

The book with step by step instructions that are easy to follow in building industrial applications.

Creating Human Machine Interfaces Using Visual Basic

ISBN 0966312066

4th Edition Now Available, includes extra 45 page chapter on building htm web pages, using the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad.

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$59.95 plus S&H

• Learn how to use Visual Basic to develop your own HMI/SCADA application with the 4th Edition of Creating Human Machine Interfaces Using Visual Basic. 248 pages of illustrated, step-by-step instructions provide you with real-life sample applications utilizing Visual Basic and the best industrial automation add-on components available.

• Evaluation Demo copies of the add-on tools by Global Majic Software, Reichard Software and CimQuest communications drivers are downloadable as well as sample projects created in the book.

Book Contents 

Another story of how one company saved millions on software and improved productivity. 

When asked to build an application for a chemical processing company, I declined their generous monetary offer to their disbelief. Explaining that if I were to do so I would be no better than the people that had sold them their proprietary software. They would always be dependent on me to solve any problems or modify the applications with additional expenses. However, I would help train their employees and build an application. The finished product would be theirs to distribute to other plants and sell if the need arises. There would no longer be any Run Time fees or expensive upgrades to budget for in the future. Their employees built a HMI/SCADA application with input from the operators concerning graphics and controls layout. With suggestions and input coming from various departments, quality control, purchasing, data analysis, etc. they completed their first application to the approval of management. Management now wanted me to help them with the remaining seventeen identical machines. Again I declined. I explained that they had trained employees that had just finished an application to their approval and the application was theirs to do as they wished. They asked “You mean we can copy the application and install it on the remaining machines for free”? They went on to build more applications on different machines throughout the plant and discard the proprietary software that was a burden on their budget. Take control of the software that controls your plant or the proprietary software will control your profits.

$39.95 plus S&H

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• Add greater functionality to your Access applications by adding a Human Machine Interface (HMI) up front for sending and receiving data with the plant floor. 

• This book walks you through the building of an application that loads recipes into a PLC and logs data received from the PLC. If you have MS Access then the rest of the tools are here to create the Juice Plant recipe management application.

• Evaluation Demo copies of the add-on tools by Global Majic Software, Reichard Software and CimQuest communications drivers are included with the book as well as a CD with the sample projects created in the book.

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An inexpensive solution to a plant mangers dilemma in getting the data he needs.

This fellow wants to know how many widgets were produced on each shift schedule. He is tired of reading reports that are suspect and some he can’t read due to careless handwriting. I suggest polling the machines on a shift-by-shift basis and sending the results via E-mail to all the managers for their review every morning. Yea, sure I’ve heard that before, but we can’t afford the software and someone to manage it. I bring to his attention that he already uses Microsoft Office for several tasks in the plant. So why not just use MS Access and create a simple application that will get the data from the machines and put it in a database for all to use. He is wondering how to get that done inexpensively. I suggest getting the book Creating HMI/SCADA Industrial Applications Using MS Access and put someone to work on the project. And when the application is done it is yours to duplicate for the other plants or machines with out paying Run Time fees or expensive upgrades on proprietary software that could bust your budget. Hey, he’s thinking, there are other ways we can use MS Access to help in this plant’s process control and data collection.

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