Hi All,
On my site, the standard template for storing recipes in the PLC is to create a tag called PartRecipe which is an 2D array - for example lets say 100x30.
PartRecipe[0,0] corresponds to part number 0, characteristic 0 (height). PartRecipe[0,1] corresponds to part number 0, characteristic 1 (width).
PartRecipe[20,0] corresponds to part number 20, characteristic 0 (height).
I have to add descriptions to each characteristic on each part number (so on every part numbers [x,0] the description is height) however, I am unsure how to do this easily/quickly, as I don't want to have to go through each individual array value to add the description in manually - if there's 3000 descriptions to add manually it'll take ages.
Does anyone know of any way to do this? I think this has been done in other PLCs on site by the previous engineer but I can't seem to find anyway in Studio 5000 that'll let me do it.
As you can probably tell this is the first time I've ever had to do this (and I havent been using Studio 5000 for very long either) - in previous jobs I've been able to store recipes in a database in the SCADA system and pull the data out from there but we're not capable of doing that onsite at the moment.
On my site, the standard template for storing recipes in the PLC is to create a tag called PartRecipe which is an 2D array - for example lets say 100x30.
PartRecipe[0,0] corresponds to part number 0, characteristic 0 (height). PartRecipe[0,1] corresponds to part number 0, characteristic 1 (width).
PartRecipe[20,0] corresponds to part number 20, characteristic 0 (height).
I have to add descriptions to each characteristic on each part number (so on every part numbers [x,0] the description is height) however, I am unsure how to do this easily/quickly, as I don't want to have to go through each individual array value to add the description in manually - if there's 3000 descriptions to add manually it'll take ages.
Does anyone know of any way to do this? I think this has been done in other PLCs on site by the previous engineer but I can't seem to find anyway in Studio 5000 that'll let me do it.
As you can probably tell this is the first time I've ever had to do this (and I havent been using Studio 5000 for very long either) - in previous jobs I've been able to store recipes in a database in the SCADA system and pull the data out from there but we're not capable of doing that onsite at the moment.