How can I use LabView to program a Rockwell Reliance Industrial Control System?

[EEninja]

I work with 60-170 ton portal cranes in an industrial environment. A number of our cranes have Rockwell Reliance control systems for the individual crane functions. Our current programming tools require us to use several different utilities to write a program, compile the program and send the program to a specific slot in the Automax rack (a slot which we are required to specify each time). Does LabView natively support Automax-based industrial control systems and can it streamline our development process in some way?

[CKap]

Hello,

With the LabVIEW Data Logging & Supervisory Control (DSC) module you have the ability to communicate with third-party PLCs. So if your devices are using modbus or OPC, then LabVIEW can talk to them. But besides that I dont know much about AutoMax based distributed system to comment on it.

Regards,

Chetan K

Application Engineer

National Instruments