J
(Originally posted Fri. 1/9/98)
I am wanting to get into this whole automation field, but a chief question concerns me (as I'm sure it concerns all of you):
How reliable IS a PC-automated system??? Especially running under Windows 95 and the like? I realize that PCs are probably less reliable than PLCs, but if others are putting their $4-5 million (or more) factories in the hands of these PCs, I would think that reliability
would cross their minds more than once, and something convinced them that they are worth the effort.
I would like to know from all of you what you think about PC reliability. Please back up your opinions with specific examples, not just intuitive feelings (which is all I have right now), or what you think it probably is. If PCs have been failing you, let me know. If they have been running for 5 solid years with nary a problem, let me know that, too. This is my single biggest concern and I must get that out of the way before I continue.
Thanks in advance,
Dave Sanders
I am wanting to get into this whole automation field, but a chief question concerns me (as I'm sure it concerns all of you):
How reliable IS a PC-automated system??? Especially running under Windows 95 and the like? I realize that PCs are probably less reliable than PLCs, but if others are putting their $4-5 million (or more) factories in the hands of these PCs, I would think that reliability
would cross their minds more than once, and something convinced them that they are worth the effort.
I would like to know from all of you what you think about PC reliability. Please back up your opinions with specific examples, not just intuitive feelings (which is all I have right now), or what you think it probably is. If PCs have been failing you, let me know. If they have been running for 5 solid years with nary a problem, let me know that, too. This is my single biggest concern and I must get that out of the way before I continue.
Thanks in advance,
Dave Sanders