Kepware Advanced Tags

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Dearcommunity,

yet again I am troubling you with basic questions; unfortuntely the help document and the net search could not solve them.

Currently I am trying to set up a simple subtraction with advanced tags:

I subtract the current value minus the value from the memory tag into the derived tag (I run the expression every 5 minutes)

then I update the memory tag value to the current value tag using a link tag (every 5 min and 5 seconds)

Sometimes my calculation works but other times the memory tag is updated before the derived tag is executed; the executed tag is sometimes 10 seconds late.

Why is that? Can I set the order in which the tags are executed? I do not want to use a bigger time offset.

I could use the data logger but it just doesn't seem right to me that it doesnt the execute the tags at their specific time.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

Kepware User

Proper operations analysis and assessment requires industrial control applications to be able to deliver an array of data. Often times this data will require some form of calculation to be made. These calculations will help determine if operations are functioning properly and identify deficiencies which need to be addressed

The raw data TOP Server collects from your machines may not deliver that data you need in the format you want. TOP Server can convert data types and even scale to engineering units, but what if you need more advanced data such Cycle Time, Maximum Temperature, Downtime Reason, etc.?

The TOP Server Advanced Tags Plug-in provides added features to any TOP Server driver by performing simple analytics such as math, logic, and evaluation functions on other tags. Data bridging is also possible across protocols or within the same protocol using Link tags. Eliminate time-consuming scripting functions for analysis and bridging within your client application, saving you time and money and helping to improve decisions and efficiencies in your industrial control applications.

Perpetual License to use the server and drivers in this suite on a single computer with no artificial limits on number of devices, tags, or connected client applications. Includes 1 yr support & maintenance agreement.

To insure you get the most from your investment in TOP Server, we provide a variety of application notes/guides and how-to videos, since we know that sometimes it helps to see someone showing you how to do things.

The demo is the full product once licensed. Once a client application connects to the TOP Server, the TOP Server runtime will operate for 2 hours at a time. At the end of the 2 hour demo period, the demo timer must be reset by restarting the TOP Server runtime service.

We use Kepware as a client that reads data, from the two DA servers, and then writes this data to the DeltaV OPC server. (We also write data from DeltaV back to these servers but that seems to work fine)

This is accomplished using linked tags in the Kepware advanced tags.

Thanks for the reply.

I can confirm that our client is using Asynchronous writes.

I am dong some testing on a spare application station (live system) and have found that the writes begin to fail fairly quickly.

The Application station has a 5K Scale up and I am currently testing 800 points.

I setup a control module with 800 input parameters. 200 Floats, 200 INT, 200 UINT and 200 BOOL

When enabling the 800 writes per second, i immediately started getting a scrolling list of failed writes.

If i remove the 200 floats and 200 uints, the system recovers and i no longer have any fails.

Does the 2000 writes per second come with an asterisk and it is data type dependent.

Or maybe it is "Up to" 2000 writes per second.

I'll do some research on the client connection duration.

I am hesitant to use OPC Mirror since that is what we used several years ago and found it to be fraught with issues. Perhaps newer versions are hardened, but our original experience soured us on it.

In the communication settings for Kepware, I reduced the Max items per write from 512 to 400 and increased the write timeout from 1000ms to 2500ms.

So far I am a little over 600K writes and 0 failures with all 800 points.

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