Hi all, I'm an industrial electrician with a problem. I have been using SLC500 for years with basic functions, and have just started a new job where the only PLC's are 5000's. To top it off, they use devicenet, which I have never used before. I am eager to learn about this, but have a project they would like to do and I need your guys help to walk me through the process. They have a Panelview 1000 connected to a 5500 processor through devicenet. They use this tell the PLC what product to run by inputing the data manually. They would like to add a scanner to input all the data automatically. Please let me know where to start and what I should start reading up on to figure out how to do this. I will warn you guys, I am a beginner with PLC's. I know this is way above me right now, but with your help, I'm hoping you guys can bring me up to speed. This will be a long thread, and I'm sure I will be asking for a lot of examples to help me wrap my head around some of the things you guys say. Thank you all, and I look forward to hearing from you.