Ooouuu dahnuguy, to be a little OFFTOPIC, I could say your comparing betwen S7 and AB is amazing. Thank you for sharing with us your expirience.

KEEP WALKING!

Best regards,
Hristo Mihalev

Dear all

thanks for the feedback, its good to get more views from “the other side of the fence”.

Not too sure though if I “know the truth” now (as dahnuguysuggested), but I guess we can at least agree that we collectively proved that “Perception is the only reality there is”.

While we are perhapsbetter off toleave the search for truth in the capable hands of Mulder and Scully,here’s my version of it anyhow:
- If it is intuitiveness that you are after, go and buy yourself an iPad.
- If you want to make sure your Plant and millions of dollars worth of equipment is automated in a controlled and deterministic way, go and buy yourself a Siemens PLC.

They say that the dark side of the force is indeed a powerful one, nonetheless, I haven't given up hope that it is possible toeven convinceRockwellusersto see the light and join the (Siemens) Jedi camp.

fritz

Dear all

thanks for the feedback, its good to get more views from “the other side of the fence”.

Not too sure though if I “know the truth” now (as dahnuguysuggested), but I guess we can at least agree that we collectively proved that “Perception is the only reality there is”.

While we are perhapsbetter off toleave the search for truth in the capable hands of Mulder and Scully,here’s my version of it anyhow:
- If it is intuitiveness that you are after, go and buy yourself an iPad.
- If you want to make sure your Plant and millions of dollars worth of equipment is automated in a controlled and deterministic way, go and buy yourself a Siemens PLC.

They say that the dark side of the force is indeed a powerful one, nonetheless, I haven't given up hope that it is possible toeven convinceRockwellusersto see the light and join the (Siemens) Jedi camp.

Lucky123

After working on Siemens PLC for last few years, I can see why people find it hard to work on Siemens.Based upon my experience, It may take you a while to understand it. Moreover, if for a while if you switch away from it, then it makes you work harder to make yourself efficient on Siemens.

Where as developing an application on AB or any other PLC might be comparatively easier.

Though, I strongly agree that Siemens makes a better and Robust Product, even the software. Support and Customer Care is Awesome. Only thing is you just need to work on it for a longer period of time to understand it better.

hdhosseini

I am using SIMENS PLCs for a long time and , for me it is much easier
to find solution for automation tasks.AB is much easier to start from zero but
you have flexible and powerful tools in SIEMENS programming tools.

As I compare , the rate of module failure in much higher than SIEMENS
products.AB is really fragile in harsh environment.

This is only a feedback.
regards

What I mentioned is not the scientific fact, this is matter of preference and experience.

Of course, AB is also one of the leading brands in the international market.

Regards

Don Sigman

hdhosseini

I am using SIMENS PLCs for a long time and , for me it is much easier
to find solution for automation tasks.AB is much easier to start from zero but
you have flexible and powerful tools in SIEMENS programming tools.

As I compare , the rate of module failure in much higher than SIEMENS
products.AB is really fragile in harsh environment.

This is only a feedback.
regards

Really??? I can program any level of complexity faster and more straight forward in AB then in Siemens. Try a multi indirect address array in S7 and you will see what I mean.

Lucky123

Yes, I completely agree with you, you can make many things faster and straight, may be for smaller or medium sized applications. But you do not have SCL in AB, which can simplify hell lot of things when you have to deal with bigger plants and several other bigger complicated algorithams.