Briankr32
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I work for a small company that is making its first foray into system integration. The whole project has been a mess. For example, my boss decided that since I attended PLC training, I should design the whole control system. I finally convinced him to hire a freelancer to draw the electrical schematics, but the project was already way behind at that point.
Now, as we wait for the control panel components to arrive, they want me to go ahead and begin programming the PLC before anything is even ready to run. I am reluctant to write the whole ladder logic before I can even test anything, especially since this is my first real project involving PLC programming. I prefer to test as I develop my program. Is it typical practice to write the program for a whole system before it is even ready to run?
Now, as we wait for the control panel components to arrive, they want me to go ahead and begin programming the PLC before anything is even ready to run. I am reluctant to write the whole ladder logic before I can even test anything, especially since this is my first real project involving PLC programming. I prefer to test as I develop my program. Is it typical practice to write the program for a whole system before it is even ready to run?