My son works at a place where the different types coatings are applied to drills, mills and other types of machine cutting tools to make them last longer. I observed him one day starting a new batch of tools to be coated. The machine he uses has an HMI screen. This machine uses Siemens controls. The HMI screen ask him about ten questions about the batch he was about to start. Type of coating, targets, are just some of the questions he answered on the screen. When he was done, a message came up on the screen and ask him if was sure of the selections he had entered were correct. He clicked “yes”. A message appeared on the screen “downloading to PLC”.
My questions are, will an Allen-Bradley PLC perform the same type of operation?
Is this a type of recipe?
Are the different variables my son chose from stored in the HMI device?
Is the HMI really downloading a new program into the PLC, or just changing values in registers?
Thanks,
Herb
My questions are, will an Allen-Bradley PLC perform the same type of operation?
Is this a type of recipe?
Are the different variables my son chose from stored in the HMI device?
Is the HMI really downloading a new program into the PLC, or just changing values in registers?
Thanks,
Herb