I have been using Opto 22 controllers in my automation setup for a while now and I’m looking to get some insights or advice on how to optimize the overall system. I am running a mix of analog and digital inputs/outputs, and while everything works fine, I feel like there’s room for improvement in terms of efficiency and maybe even integrating some additional features.
Anyone here has experience with streamlining large setups? I’d love to hear about any best practices or tips you might have, especially when it comes to programming strategies, reducing latency, or integrating with third-party systems. Also, has anyone here worked on similar setups in a manufacturing environment? Curious to know how you handled scalability.
You have asked a great question and its very open ended and hard to pin down.
Everyone’s process is different, everyone’s skill level is different, everyone has different end goals and on top of all that, programming is as much about art as it is about science.
But with that said, there are a few more resources that you have not listed (not sure what the generative AI one was about) that you might find more helpful than those two.
I’m in the process of re-writing those first two with sprinklings of the Node-RED thread along with some Codesys (and possibly some Ignition) tips. Not even close to having a finish date for that job as its huge.
There are some tweaks that will change based on if you are using PAC Display or groov View or Node-RED as your primary HMI (or all three or none of them).
Other things that might change the path you take is if you are primarily using PAC Controllers or EPIC or if you have RIOs in the mix.
Other ways the optimization path might change is if you have any remote I/O and what sort of connection they are via, ADSL, cable, Starlink, 3G or 5G etc.
How much, if any, serial I/O you have is also a big big factor that needs to be considered.
Please take a solid read or deep skim of those three docs and lets continue the conversation, I know there will be a few others stop by to continue the conversation.
I’m looking forward to the tips as I’m sure I will be able to flesh them out and add them to the new revision of the doc.
