tom_stalcup
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We recently had half a dozen of our machines upgraded from Plc5's with Kollmorgen BDS servodrives to Logix5000's with AB drives with a sercos interface(works great!)
But....
Now I need to generate an I/O listing for the new CLX machines, and I'm not really sure what the best way is to generate something useful to the maintenance techs on the floor.
The i/o are being mapped to a different set of tags, and then these tags are being aliased by another set of tags, with the last set being the only ones with documentation.
Is there a simple way to generate a listing of all of aliased i/o tags used in the program, that will still reference the physical i/o on the cards? I can't think of one using the report options in the CLX, but I haven't had a whole lot of experience with some of the different options for displaying tags.
Right now, I'm exporting all of the tags to excel, and trying to arrange something that way.
Does anyone else have a different way of doing this, or is this pretty much the best way to go about it with the setup we are using?
And going along with the excel theory... The descriptions that take up more than one line have these nifty little $N symbols for every carriage return. Does anyone know how to filter the $N out of the descriptions in excel when I print them out? It looks kinda sloppy...
But....
Now I need to generate an I/O listing for the new CLX machines, and I'm not really sure what the best way is to generate something useful to the maintenance techs on the floor.
The i/o are being mapped to a different set of tags, and then these tags are being aliased by another set of tags, with the last set being the only ones with documentation.
Is there a simple way to generate a listing of all of aliased i/o tags used in the program, that will still reference the physical i/o on the cards? I can't think of one using the report options in the CLX, but I haven't had a whole lot of experience with some of the different options for displaying tags.
Right now, I'm exporting all of the tags to excel, and trying to arrange something that way.
Does anyone else have a different way of doing this, or is this pretty much the best way to go about it with the setup we are using?
And going along with the excel theory... The descriptions that take up more than one line have these nifty little $N symbols for every carriage return. Does anyone know how to filter the $N out of the descriptions in excel when I print them out? It looks kinda sloppy...
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