Phoenixville, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/24/2010 -- The phrase “.NET PLC driver” lead Al Barnard, Owner of True Logic Group to www.ingeardrivers.com.

According to Barnard, “The challenges True Logic Group faced that caused the initial conversation with INGEAR were twofold. Firstly we wanted a simple more flexible object model that would allow dynamic controller IP changes. Secondly we were trying to overcome licensing issues associated with OPC communications.”

The primary reasons True Logic Group investigated the INGEAR product:

- Develop a next generation fully redundant system architecture that will allow the equipment to continue to operate after any single point of failure

- Develop a system that will transfer to backup modes of operation automatically without user intervention and will transfer back automatically when the problem is corrected

- Redundancy schemes must be predictable, repeatable, and reliable

- Develop or implement new communication drivers to eliminate problematic drivers

Barnard noted, “We originally used the INGEAR Allen Bradley Studio 5.1 for an application many years. We tried this product base on good recommendations from a colleague. For the last two years we have leveraged Visual Studio Dot Net and have focused our attention on the INGEAR Net.Logix.3 and the Net.ABLink 2 products (we are currently licensed for these three products). We’ve worked with two integrators who continue to use the INGEAR products with success. Word of mouth is important in this industry and a poorly developed product would quickly be weeded out. We now have a base product (with Ingear as that core technology) that we will implement as a starting point for all our custom data collection systems. We feel that over the next few years we should start to see the profits increase and the labor decrease.”

The INGEAR.NET software from CimQuest is a set of runtime free class libraries that simplify building, developing, and deploying connected systems for manufacturing applications using Visual Basic or Visual Studio .NET. It uses only three primary classes of .NET code:

- one of which manages the PLC,
- one manages the data that are read from or written to that PLC,
- one manages groupings of methods, properties, and events to optimize read/write operations on a collection.

It includes a direct Ethernet communication channel to the PLCs enabling developers to write HMI interfaces to PLC controls or acquiring data from them. No additional third-party components, drivers, APIs or tools, such as OPC Servers, are required. This simple programming model by CimQuest InGear contributes to faster response times and ease of use and ultimately – profitability.

CimQuest INGEAR
http://www.ingeardrivers.com
Chuck Karwoski
plc.net@ingeardrivers.com
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