Camsoft Gaphical Operator Interface, anyone use it?

[Maxim]

http://www.camsoftcorp.com/prod11.asp

Anyone have experience with this item?

I would like to automate some pilot scale process machinery and would like to be able to turn off relays, motors, etc and maybe even some stepper/servos and have input from thermocouples, transducers and the like.
Can I use a data logger with this too? Is there some way to operate this over a ethernet/LAN/web?

Does the $500 price mean I can have it on several machines at once?

Thanks in advance.

[DSL PWR]

$500 only gets you the software. You will also need I/O cards.

[Maxim]

I understand I need the cards themselves (which don't seem to be to cheap either). What is the difference between this, and say, labview?

[Karl_T]

Originally Posted by Maxim [URL="http://www.camsoftcorp.com/prod11.asp"] I would like to automate some pilot scale process machinery and would like to be able to turn off relays, motors, etc and maybe even some stepper/servos and have input from thermocouples, transducers and the like. Can I use a data logger with this too? Is there some way to operate this over a ethernet/LAN/web? Does the $500 price mean I can have it on several machines at once? Thanks in advance.

You can easily do all this and more with Camsoft. There was a fella that goes by murphy625 that used this package for a large factory automation project. He was a regular here, but I see his last post was in April. You might email him. I know he loved it.

Labview is a much less capable and a less expensive package.

You can only run one instance of Camsoft per purchase. There is a printer or USB hardware key that must be in place. I move this key around all the time to three different computers/machines.

Karl