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Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers Yesterday, 09:25 AM

Replies: 31 Programmers who go off script Views: 1,221 Posted By cardosocea Sure... let me know when the cross reference... Sure... let me know when the cross reference takes parameters and connections in account and I'll consider it.

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers March 3rd, 2021, 08:02 AM

Replies: 14 Need Language for spec Views: 565 Posted By cardosocea Maybe I'm overthinking this, but aren't you... Maybe I'm overthinking this, but aren't you effectively looking for a fully configured PLC rack? You can force outputs and read inputs, so the wording of programming will imply an additional cost and...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers March 3rd, 2021, 03:39 AM

Replies: 3 IFix invert property Views: 288 Posted By cardosocea I don't have iFix to test now (good riddance),... I don't have iFix to test now (good riddance), but I think that option needs to be read along with the "enable output" option. The enable output, as far as I remember allows you to write to the...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers March 2nd, 2021, 06:19 AM

Replies: 15 OPC Servers Views: 697 Posted By cardosocea Never used them, but Matrikon shows up every time... Never used them, but Matrikon shows up every time I look for anything protocol related. I've used IGS, but it's always the previous Kepware version repackaged as new IGS model.

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 27th, 2021, 06:57 AM

Replies: 1 Cannot change bool value online in step 7 Simatic manager siemens Views: 205 Posted By cardosocea The program can be locked by password? ... The program can be locked by password? https://support.industry.siemens.com/tf//WW/en/posts/d0a1-funtion-not-permitted-in-current-protection-level/51743?page=0&pageSize=10

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 27th, 2021, 04:20 AM

Replies: 14 AOIs Views: 556 Posted By cardosocea Lower engineering costs and development time are... Lower engineering costs and development time are a benefit with an actual dollar value. Sadly, the functionality has been half assed and the benefit is reduced, but there's still a benefit.

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 26th, 2021, 10:30 AM

Replies: 9 PowerFlex 753 Ethernet and physical button control?? Views: 368 Posted By cardosocea Thank you. This seems to be exactly what I want. Thank you. This seems to be exactly what I want.

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 26th, 2021, 10:06 AM

Replies: 14 AOIs Views: 556 Posted By cardosocea You don't have to use all the members of a UDT in... You don't have to use all the members of a UDT in your AOI... A machine I worked in Siemens was developed like this. A DB held all the configuration data and was passed onto different FBs and...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 26th, 2021, 07:23 AM

Replies: 14 AOIs Views: 556 Posted By cardosocea Maybe I'm not understanding this, but if this... Maybe I'm not understanding this, but if this information is now in separate tags, you'd create a UDT to hold the same information. You wouldn't keep two copies and move them in the software onto the...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 26th, 2021, 07:21 AM

Replies: 9 PowerFlex 753 Ethernet and physical button control?? Views: 368 Posted By cardosocea Any indication of which parameters it would be to... Any indication of which parameters it would be to do this? Going through the manual it's not quite clear which it would be.

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 26th, 2021, 06:21 AM

Replies: 14 AOIs Views: 556 Posted By cardosocea Why not create a UDT for common or configuration... Why not create a UDT for common or configuration parameters and instead pass the entire UDT (one parameter) instead of all of them separate? You could also copy the UDT into a local variable...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 26th, 2021, 06:19 AM

Replies: 9 PowerFlex 753 Ethernet and physical button control?? Views: 368 Posted By cardosocea Yes, This is something I'm considering, but it's... Yes, This is something I'm considering, but it's for operators to manage in the event of a failure so it's a guaranteed call to myself because the site is down. I'll look into how hard it would be to...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 25th, 2021, 05:18 PM

Replies: 9 PowerFlex 753 Ethernet and physical button control?? Views: 368 Posted By cardosocea PowerFlex 753 Ethernet and physical button control?? Hello, I'm setting up an application where I'll have a couple of Powerflex drives commanded from a PLC on a network. However, we want to be able to run the drives manually in the event of...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 25th, 2021, 05:14 PM

Replies: 15 Trigger by encoder suggestions Views: 995 Posted By cardosocea Context switching. Context switching.

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 24th, 2021, 07:09 AM

Replies: 6 Asset Centre Views: 418 Posted By cardosocea In my experience with PLC technicians and version... In my experience with PLC technicians and version control what he doesn't want is to have to do the check in and check out process as well as documenting the change and not so much the tracking to a...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 23rd, 2021, 07:37 AM

Replies: 20 How to Allow user to select 2 outputs from HMI but not more! Views: 760 Posted By cardosocea From what you're saying, your logic has to keep... From what you're saying, your logic has to keep track of a selected pump as the reason for this to exist is to allow group control of the pumps (start, stop, etc...). So why not add up all the...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 22nd, 2021, 07:07 AM

Replies: 4 Soft IO question Views: 313 Posted By cardosocea Something like the Intellis valves from westlock?... Something like the Intellis valves from westlock? Although they don't have a separate control for the solenoid, it all runs on the field network.

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 18th, 2021, 03:33 AM

Replies: 12 OPCUA server for monitoring Windows 10 PCs condition Views: 567 Posted By cardosocea I use this to get status from my Stratus Server. ... I use this to get status from my Stratus Server. I think the unease of using a commercial SNMP solution packaged for data centers may be what's now happened with SolarWinds. Granted, there are...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 15th, 2021, 10:17 AM

Replies: 11 Junction Box Vs Industrial Control Panel? Views: 649 Posted By cardosocea Following up from Jesper, in my experience when... Following up from Jesper, in my experience when you have a panel that is just transferring signals from 2 core to a larger multicore, instead of calling it a junction box they tend to be called...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 5th, 2021, 09:18 AM

Replies: 14 Studio 5000 Logix Emulate Views: 732 Posted By cardosocea Is one of those things the byte order in a COP... Is one of those things the byte order in a COP instruction? I was playing with one of those in the simulator and couldn't get the right order between the raw data and formatted data structure,...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers February 1st, 2021, 07:33 AM

Replies: 11 Arranging multi-station code in single PLC Views: 529 Posted By cardosocea FBD doesn't lend itself to complex Boolean logic... FBD doesn't lend itself to complex Boolean logic though... Plus, at least in the Rockwell world, it's annoying having to instanciate Boolean logic blocks as they're Add on instructions and not part...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers January 26th, 2021, 04:33 AM

Replies: 14 TIA V13 adding new code, load error message Views: 614 Posted By cardosocea By then it's already too late. The compare tool... By then it's already too late. The compare tool should be used before doing any change (where possible, which seems to be this case).

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers January 26th, 2021, 03:18 AM

Replies: 4 CompactLogix TON or RTO - Can you change Preset from 100 ms to 100.2 ms , etc. Views: 403 Posted By cardosocea Just curious, why would you want microsecond... Just curious, why would you want microsecond precision in a PLC? I'm just thinking that if you need that accuracy, the PLC is not the tool for the job, but can't really think of an application where...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers January 25th, 2021, 05:40 AM

Replies: 9 Hart Simulator Views: 976 Posted By cardosocea Looking at Rockwell's distributor, a HART gateway... Looking at Rockwell's distributor, a HART gateway is 1500$. 4 channels and the ability to do multi-drop. ...

Forum: LIVE PLC Questions And Answers January 21st, 2021, 07:54 AM

Replies: 26 Just a little curious Views: 1,728 Posted By cardosocea Isn't this something that would be reason to... Isn't this something that would be reason to withold payment?

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