Johnny Rotten
Member
Firstly, promise won't ramble on about WWI or WW(whatever).
Took the Siemens Logo course today. The course included the sofware, 120V Relay unit, and cable. The Relay unit has 8 digital inputs and 4 digital relay outputs at 10 Amps each.
It is upgradeable to 24 inputs, 12 outputs - max.
The software was amazing. We programmed in block which was different. Switching between block and RLL is one button.
Jumping the gun, I pulled the unit out and hooked it up to the PC - only to find out that is not needed. It can do full simulation through the software. It works very well.
Thinking back to all the time spent building a PLC simulator. How can any PLC manufacturer not include that in their software? The guy sitting beside me was an A/B guy, and yes A/B can do that as well, - after you pay $1700.00 Cdn. for the initial package and much much more for the ability to Simulate your programme. AD/Siemens would probably be the same, and Siemens is making the Logo. So what is the deal?
Cost of course $200.00 Cdn.
Siemens seems to be going for the 'break even' attitude on this deal just to get this into peoples hands. It works.
Well done Siemens - just put the Simulation into every software package.
Anyone could use this Logo software to write simple programmes, test them, and not touch a tool. Just change it to AD/AB, or whatever.
Johnny
Took the Siemens Logo course today. The course included the sofware, 120V Relay unit, and cable. The Relay unit has 8 digital inputs and 4 digital relay outputs at 10 Amps each.
It is upgradeable to 24 inputs, 12 outputs - max.
The software was amazing. We programmed in block which was different. Switching between block and RLL is one button.
Jumping the gun, I pulled the unit out and hooked it up to the PC - only to find out that is not needed. It can do full simulation through the software. It works very well.
Thinking back to all the time spent building a PLC simulator. How can any PLC manufacturer not include that in their software? The guy sitting beside me was an A/B guy, and yes A/B can do that as well, - after you pay $1700.00 Cdn. for the initial package and much much more for the ability to Simulate your programme. AD/Siemens would probably be the same, and Siemens is making the Logo. So what is the deal?
Cost of course $200.00 Cdn.
Siemens seems to be going for the 'break even' attitude on this deal just to get this into peoples hands. It works.
Well done Siemens - just put the Simulation into every software package.
Anyone could use this Logo software to write simple programmes, test them, and not touch a tool. Just change it to AD/AB, or whatever.
Johnny