Tony_P
Member
Hello,
This is my first time posting here, and I am also fairly fresh to the world of PLCs, but I would really like to learn more and get practice. This brings me to a problem we have been having at work (a winery):
We have a display that should show real time what production is looking like (e.g. cases so far, cases in current hour, etc.) but it is just displaying 0 for all the values. It used to work, but hasn't since someone changed out a PLC in the palletizer (this person, unfortunately does not work here anymore and I have no other resources to tap at work). My guess is that the previous palletizer PLC was tied to a photo eye that took the case count that was being displayed on the screen. Now I am trying to figure out how to get the controller to communicate with that PLC again.
Here are the specs on what I believe is relevant to the issue:
Display: InView 2706-P72C
Controller: Logix5561
Palletizer PLC (new): SLC 5/05
I am using InView Messaging Software to communicate to the display, and RSLinx to crawl the industrial network. I have been able to locate the controller on that network, but it is not responding to a Station Diagnostic query.
If there is any more information or clarifying needed, please let me know. Thanks!
This is my first time posting here, and I am also fairly fresh to the world of PLCs, but I would really like to learn more and get practice. This brings me to a problem we have been having at work (a winery):
We have a display that should show real time what production is looking like (e.g. cases so far, cases in current hour, etc.) but it is just displaying 0 for all the values. It used to work, but hasn't since someone changed out a PLC in the palletizer (this person, unfortunately does not work here anymore and I have no other resources to tap at work). My guess is that the previous palletizer PLC was tied to a photo eye that took the case count that was being displayed on the screen. Now I am trying to figure out how to get the controller to communicate with that PLC again.
Here are the specs on what I believe is relevant to the issue:
Display: InView 2706-P72C
Controller: Logix5561
Palletizer PLC (new): SLC 5/05
I am using InView Messaging Software to communicate to the display, and RSLinx to crawl the industrial network. I have been able to locate the controller on that network, but it is not responding to a Station Diagnostic query.
If there is any more information or clarifying needed, please let me know. Thanks!