Siemens S7-300 drivers

[lesliemcg]

Hi all
is there a package available out there to be able to get data from a S7-300 PLC using visual basic.net
I would like to use this for a display only to show a machine performance on a stand alone application
i.e. machine speed, thermocouple temps etc.
I am not looking for writing values into the registers from a PC screen.
Scada packages make this application far too expensive as I would like to only see values and not write / change them
thanks guys
lesliemg

 

[PLucas]

I believe the program you are looking for is 'prodave' have a look at this page and see if it fits your bill.

http://omarz.htmlplanet.com/What_is_Prodave.htm

Paul

There are 10 types of people in this world.....
Those that understand binary and those that don't!

 

[lesliemcg]

thanks for your quick reply Paul
it was very helpful
lesliemcg