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Exit Poll -- Did you increase your knowledge of Industrial Automation?

rscasny — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:52:29 GMT

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Winners announcements for the experimenting with Industrial automation

embeddedguy — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 09:52:00 GMT

Hi all,

Final results for the challenge are available on the page

Congratulations to the Grand price winner, runner up, third price winner and everyone who took part.

/challenges-projects/design-challenges/experimenting-with-industrial-automation/dc/dc/69/experimenting_with_i

Timeline and Deadlines - Experimenting with Industrial Automation

rscasny — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:02:16 GMT

Just a quick note for all the participants in Experimenting with Industrial Automation.

All the kits were shipped. I believe there was only one participant who had a shipping snag. I think that has been rectified.

The following is our timelines for this activity:

Application Period	14th November 2023
Application Deadline	22nd December 2023
Applicants Selected	5th January 2024
Extra Credit Blogs Due	12th March 2024
Final Summary Blog Due	14th March 2024
Winners Announced	March 2024
Prizes Shipped	March 2024

We have now gone to individual scoring of the extra credit blogs. These blogs can generate a lot of points. So, I encourage you to write them in addition to the final project.

Good luck.

Randall

The element14 Community Team

Software Licensing

pandoramc — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:32:19 GMT

Recently I was checking the HMI and Modicon Device usage with the official Schneider Electric software, unfortunately, I got stuck with the following situation,

The operator terminal does not allow the interface upload since my software is in trial version, provided by the official Schneider web portal.

According to documentation, we require a Professional license to do it. I am not able to acquire a license, which is a bit expensive to use only in the challenge, and I worried about this because I think the Modicon M251 has the same mechanism.

Someone know how we can use the software with special licensing for the challenge? This brings a new challenge since the license was not considered in the original project.

Experimenting with Industrial Automation - Challengers Announced

rscasny — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:20:57 GMT

The following members are the official challengers for the Experimenting of Industrial Automation program:

embeddedguy - Overhead tank monitoring for smart home/industry
kmikemoo - Training Bay Ventilation Automation
pandoramc - Academic Automation Conveyor for industrial Processes
rahulkhanna - Smart Factory Automation System
rsc - Water Tunnel Controller Upgrade

We have shipped most of the kits. We are shipping the last part today (i.e., ZBRRH)

The remaining timeline of the program is:

Extra Credit Blogs Due 12th March 2024
Final Summary Blog Due 14th March 2024
Winners Announced March 2024
Prizes Shipped March 2024

Good luck!