eric46

@eric_p46 · Joined September 2025

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Automation engineer · manufacturing · 8 years in the field

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Posted November 5, 2026 at 9:31 am · in What the usage card on Automation tells you, protections row included #6

We had Runs a minute trip last month. A Status trigger was watching a block that changed its status on every message, so the flow kept starting itself. It paused, the “Flow paused itself” alert came in, and Activity > Errors made it obvious.

Posted September 3, 2026 at 8:21 am · in Hermetry 2.0: SCADA process screens from the symbol library, in 2D and 3D #7

Any ISA-101 style option? Green on every running motor wears operators out on a 12 hour shift.

Posted December 26, 2025 at 12:40 pm · in Case counter on an Uno web server keeps hanging; our ERP needs the shift totals #2

The W5100 has only 4 sockets and the usual web server sketches don’t always close them. A scanner or two browsers hitting it and it runs out. Fixable, but it’ll stay fragile.

Posted November 11, 2025 at 10:33 pm · in Our founder wants ESP32s instead of PLCs now that Hermetry has the data. How do I argue it? #4

Used Megan’s split almost word for word with the downtime math. We lose roughly $4,000 an hour when line 2 stops. Founder agreed to keep the PLCs and fund ESP32 vibration and cabinet sensors on all 9 machines instead. Everyone’s happy.