Multiple output combinations

I have an application that I'm hoping someone could offer some advise on. I have a device I need to control that is setup to process different parts.

- I have 5 outputs that will tell the device which part to process.
- I would like to use a combination of those 5 outputs to provide more than 5 possible parts

So,
[5 outputs] = [part #]
00000 = part 1
10000 = part 2
01000 = part 3
00100 = part 4
00010 = part 5
00001 = part 6
11000 = part 7
01100 = part 8
ext...

It seems silly to create many rungs each with 5 outputs for all the possible combination I can have here. Just looking for some tips on a better way.

I'm using an AB ControlLogix, and probably would like to provide a part number to select the proper combination of outputs (i.e. 7 = 11000).

Any help out there? Thanks in advance!

It seems to me you could directly use the Base 2 binary value to indicate the "number of parts". 5 bits allows values between 0 and 31.

00001 = 1 part
00010 = 2 parts
00011 = 3 parts
00100 = 4 parts
00101 = 5 parts
and so on.

You could just use a Masked Move (MVM) instruction to move a DINT tag value between 0 and 31 to an output module's lowest 5 bits.

Depending on the controller in the 'remote' device you could use similar decoding on that side.

Perfect ken, thanks a bunch!