Using Postman to Test API Calls
Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs, and is an extremely useful tool for testing any call that your SCADA system uses, including any API’s you’ve created in your SCADA system.
InFluxDB: Parallel Data Logging with WinCC OA NextGen Archiver
Siemens ETM released patch 3 for WinCC OA version 3.17, today. You can download WinCC OA V3.17 P003 via our Knowledgebase software download section.
Doom and WinCC OA get Embed Together
One of the best things about working for KAASM is my ability to try different things and to be as creative as possible with both my solutions and with some of the tutorials I put together.
WinCC OA: Creating Dashboards with Web Technologies
WinCC OA has the ability to embed HTML/JS/CSS into a project. These features are essential for creating modern dashboards. In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to use modern web libraries to interact with WinCC OA.
DevOps: Continuous Deployment Using Git, Jenkins, and WinCC OA
In the IT world, you would NEVER, EVER, EVER make edits to a production system without going through the proper development quality assurance procedures. In the industrial world for some reason, it is acceptable to not test in isolated development environments for issues or changes in a production runtime system. There are many reasons for this…time, availability of tools, “know-how” etc. With the IT and OT worlds converging at an exponential pace, we want to help our industry adopt DevOps practices by showing the tools that are available now. DevOps tools can be leveraged in modern industrial data management software packages like WinCC Open Architecture.
DevOps: Integrating Jenkins into WinCC OA
Over the past few weeks, we have been showing how to use the DevOps practices and tools inside of WinCC OA. Today we will take one big step further and integrate Jenkins into the development process. This tutorial expects you tot have a few things and understand a few others:
DevOps: Working with Separate Environments to Minimize Downtime
As the role of DevOps becomes more and more prevalent in the world of automation and industrial SCADA/MES/IIoT software, one of the first steps that should be taken into consideration is setting up different levels of environments for your developers to utilize.
DevOps: High-Speed Programming Unit Tests
WinCC Open Architecture (OA) has supported Unit Tests for quite a while now, however, when Siemens released version 3.16, one of the new features was High-Speed Programming. This new feature set included a tool for project documentation and the ability to auto-generate templates for faster creation of code. In this blog, we are going to look deeper at the new way to run and write Unit Tests inside of the graphical editor (GEDI).
Is TDD the Future of SCADA/MES Development?
As SCADA, MES and HMI projects become larger, more complicated, and interact with many different systems, the time has come to start thinking about adopting TDD and Unit Tests into your development lifecycle.
WinCC OA: Setting up Chronograf with InfluxDB
With the release of WinCC OA 3.17, one of the newest and biggest changes is the addition of the NextGen Archiver. The NextGen Archiver runs on an InfluxDB database and is a great way to store your data. InfluxDB is one of the fastest-growing time-series databases in the market, which means there are already some fantastic tools that can be used to visualize your data coming out of WinCC OA. The tool I’m going to show today is Chronograf. Chronograf is the user interface for stand-alone instances of InfluxDB, but can also be used to inside of OA.