Hi All!
I would like to ask for a little help. I’ve been developing LV RT application with PXI systems for 4 years. Now our company won a bigger assembly line project. The products will moved with a chain conveyor system between the assembly stations and the testbench. Rfid identification will be in each important location for storing state information. The system should communicate with tightening spindles over Profibus. There will be cylinders, optical sensors, 1-2 hundreds digital I/O signal and a testbench with RT PXI system.
What type of control system should we use? This is a typical PLC project but our NI sales manager recommended CompactRIO. I searched for customer’s solutions built with cRIO on the ni.com but i haven’t found similar projects. Mostly cRIO used for high speed daq and control with FPGA. Does cRIO able to deal with a lot of parallel tasks and communicate over Profibus, handle RFID readers? I think FPGA can make programming difficult.
Sorry for bad english
Whooly