We are investigating the level of adoption of programming standards amongst system integrators and PLC end-users in South Africa. We plan to compile the results and publish them in a forthcoming issue of SA Instrumentation & Control. Your answers will help to provide an overview of the current level of adoption of these tools in South Africa.
The closing date for responses to this survey is 2007/05/31.
The survey asks the following questions:
Respondent details
* E-mail address.
* Country in which respondent operates.
* Name of organisation on whose behalf respondent is responding.
* Site name (eg. Jhb Head Office/Wadeville polymer plant/...).
* Type of organisation (end-user/system integrator).
* Respondent name (optional).
* Respondent job function/job title (optional).
Questions
Q1. Has your organisation adopted any PLC programming standards? Y/N
Q2. Do the PLC programming systems which you use enforce compliance with that standard, or is compliance left to the programming team? Programming systems enforce/Compliance left to programming team.
Q3. If you have adopted a standard for PLC programming, what is that standard?
Q4. If you have adopted a standard for PLC programming, do you have any audit process to ensure compliance? Y/N.
Q5. If you have an audit process in place, could you briefly describe that? (eg. internal/external/how you go about it).
Q6. If you have adopted a standard for PLC programming, what percentage of your PLC projects fully comply with that standard? A. 100%, B. 0% C. Somewhere in between (give an estimate).
Q7. What percentage of clients state a requirement for PLC programming standard compliance? A. 100% B. 0% C. Somewhere in between (give an estimate).
Q8. If clients/potential clients state a requirement for PLC programming standard compliance, with which standards do they require compliance?
Q9. Please add any other comments that you would like to record on this subject (eg. how adoption of standards has helped or hindered projects/overcome skills deficits), please do so.
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