We are getting vaguely qualified mentions and requests from potential customers in the F&B and chem area - Is it something IA is looking into ? I just came across marketing material which looks very promising :
https://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2021/7-module-type-package-resources/
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Pinging this since we have received several inquiries as well.
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Never heard of this. Might be a better question for sales / sales engineering.
Any update on this? Seems MTP is getting supported by more and more serious SCADA providers.
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Hi guys. Wanted to add that I have a project that would like to implement this functionality as well. Most major DCS offer some import tool for MTP filetypes. The MTPs are being developed by the OEM of separate process equipment. Once configured at the MTP level you can import the MTP for automated configurations of OPCUA process steps, alarms/events etc. Hoping we could find a rev that would include this at a later date. Makes commissioning a breeze. There would definitely be a business case imo opinion to include this functionality.
Can you tell me a little bit about how you imagine support for MTP in Ignition would look?
Is it something like: you have some kind of modular process equipment, the vendor of which is providing MTP file(s) for it. You import that file into Ignition somewhere, and then suddenly what? OPC connections are created automatically? Tags are created? More?