Python in Process Control?

[F. GEIGER]

I'm in the process of writing a Waterjet Control in Python (progress is
slow, 'cause I do it in my spare time). Again and again I am considering to
go the open source route with it. Until now I didn't dare to do so, because
still I cannot see how I could earn my living with open source software.
That's probably the reason, why I again and again postponed to ask here,
whether anyone would be interested in such a thing and helping to work on
such a thing resp.

As I intend to build an OPC server into "my product" (but have no idea how
to do that), I was triggered by this thread, as you guess. Perhaps this is
the right time to at least show interest in

- using an OPC server written in Python,
- helping out in working on it (well, I am an application programmer, so I
don't know if writing an OPC server would be beyond my capabilities),
- and to contribute application code for standard process control modules,
if such modules are planned (for now my app is written in wx/Python, can
load programs and check 'em for proper syntax; a dummy nc-processor
processes is and displays the jet movements in an PyOpenGL window).

The last point is probably also not an easy one, because each and every app
is different from the other. So what could standard app modules be?

Anyway, on interest I'll write up what I have so far (architecture, hardware
I
plan to use, screenshots) and load it up to my server.

Kind regards
Franz GEIGER

"Wolfgang Keller" <wolfgang.keller.nospam at gmx.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hello,
>
> is it that my know-how to use Google is insufficient or...
>
> ...does really noone use Python for industrial control applications?
>
> At least I didn't manage to find any publicly available modules for such
> things as OPC/fieldbus communication etc...
>
> TIA,
>
> best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Keller