Background:
Maintenance tech 3 years at current factory.
New position in controlls group.
I thought i was intermediate plc user before i got job in controls group and now realize i have alot to learn.
Plant has allen bradley 5,500, 5000, microlgix plcs.
All allen bradley are net work together.
I would assume 100s of individual plcs.
Im fine with writing logic and understanding condition and in order to make other conditions fire.
From office to go online with equipment the paths are hard for me to understand.
My plant uses a host file to name the ip addresses line locations. Makes the 2nd part path easy. Understanding the drill down to the actually processor of equipment is another animal. The equipment i work on today had 6 drill downs. I understand first 2. Plant/line/ then lost.
I was afraid to try open the last saved program on server. Iwas under the impression program makes map it out if the first time opening that path on new desktop. Also i herd that comments dont come up in some instances depending on how you open program
Desktops at equipment if you open the last saved program on our server. Go online. No issues.
Is there a property page i can go to on who active that shows its current path? I can only find title of program and node address. Be nice to see each drill down i can see path.
Im not even sure what information i need to put on forum so that those of you with experience can help.
Our plant is crazy. We have many networks. 1 I some what do understand. Information on how to build specfic part. Some equipment uses this network and some dont.
Breaks each line into x quadrants. Each quadrant has up to 25 nodes. To verify you are on correct proccesor have some one hit input see if address goes high.
Any helpful advice would be great.
I wish it was as simple as tracing the networking hard connections to relate to network path on desktop. But plant i think is to big to do this.
Thanks
Maintenance tech 3 years at current factory.
New position in controlls group.
I thought i was intermediate plc user before i got job in controls group and now realize i have alot to learn.
Plant has allen bradley 5,500, 5000, microlgix plcs.
All allen bradley are net work together.
I would assume 100s of individual plcs.
Im fine with writing logic and understanding condition and in order to make other conditions fire.
From office to go online with equipment the paths are hard for me to understand.
My plant uses a host file to name the ip addresses line locations. Makes the 2nd part path easy. Understanding the drill down to the actually processor of equipment is another animal. The equipment i work on today had 6 drill downs. I understand first 2. Plant/line/ then lost.
I was afraid to try open the last saved program on server. Iwas under the impression program makes map it out if the first time opening that path on new desktop. Also i herd that comments dont come up in some instances depending on how you open program
Desktops at equipment if you open the last saved program on our server. Go online. No issues.
Is there a property page i can go to on who active that shows its current path? I can only find title of program and node address. Be nice to see each drill down i can see path.
Im not even sure what information i need to put on forum so that those of you with experience can help.
Our plant is crazy. We have many networks. 1 I some what do understand. Information on how to build specfic part. Some equipment uses this network and some dont.
Breaks each line into x quadrants. Each quadrant has up to 25 nodes. To verify you are on correct proccesor have some one hit input see if address goes high.
Any helpful advice would be great.
I wish it was as simple as tracing the networking hard connections to relate to network path on desktop. But plant i think is to big to do this.
Thanks