Kepware Channels, Devices and Tags: the Structure to Get Right Before the First Tag

Five boxes in a row showing one value walking from the controller through the channel, the device, the tag group and the server tag, with four numbered red points below marking where the chain breaks

A SCADA client stores one string for every value it reads, and on the line I am about to describe that string is CLX_Line1.Bagger.Infeed.Belt1_Run. Four names, each chosen by a different person on a different day, and 684 more strings on that one device built the same way. Rename the tag group on a Friday … Read more

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