We are building a 200 mcf natural gas plant with an Ignition build. (Obviously Ha)
The Control Room design is for 12 monitors for 1 workstation. I need help spec'ing a computer and video output options. We will have 50 vision windows with approximately 210,000 tags when all is said and done.
Any help would be appreciated.
That seems suboptimal. What happens if that one dies?
But if you must, you will likely need an engineering workstation mobo that can support DisplayPort 1.4 on at least one connector (to split to up to four displays), then two more add-on video cards for four monitors each.
(I really would not do this. Three workstations with keyboard/mouse sharing makes more sense to me.)
You do not need fancy GPUs for SCADA applications.
I totally understand and fully agree this is not the correct setup. After many meetings with Management they are set on this configuration. Our current setup for Plant 1 has 2 operator stations with 2 workstations and a quad monitor setup.
What does Mobo mean?
Motherboard.
You may also want to consider a very large single display
Our developers have ordered some 48" ultra wide screens to test.
Do you have a recommendation on a model of monitors to consider? What are you all using out there?
Around here, I use 55" TVs for our andons. Since this is a control room, I probably wouldn't recommend that.
I do know that more commercial grade stuff is made by Samsung and NEC. I think Sharp is in there, as well.
The commercial grade is important for the duty rating, you will pay more going from 16/7 to 24/7 but its worth it IMO. I've used Sharp monitors where i need 24/7 operation.
Our customers have been using 55" TVs in the control rooms. They used to use quad 27" monitors, but we now have them using the TVs with "virtual" quad screen layouts. They don't even worry about commercial grade since consumer grade are so cheap, they just have spares handy.
One customer recently asked me about 3 TVs connected to a single PC, which I need to test. My main concern is if the graphics card handles the triple 4K connections is that it has enough RAM. Otherwise, I think it will work fine.