A pusher divert with its trigger eye 1.20 m upstream and a 2780 ms delay in the program was diverting 97% of the 600 mm cartons and 61% of the 300 mm totes, and every tote it missed was hit on its back corner and spun onto the takeaway sideways. The 2780 ms was right … Read more
Zone accumulation, cascade start and stop, jam timers that do not nuisance trip, and driving a PowerFlex 525 over EtherNet/IP from a CompactLogix.
An eight-station rotary indexer on a 5069-L330ER. An SQO drives the station outputs, and on the first false-to-true transition the outputs light station one. Not station zero. Station zero never fires at all, and the operator wants to know why the first pot off the carousel is empty. That is not a bug in your … Read more
In this topic, we will see how the FFL (Fifo Load) command works and we will examine the Fifo command. The FIFO command is a command used in arrays. As the name suggests, it works with First In First Out logic. Also because arrays are used as local databases in PLC. With the FIFO command, … Read more