Axis Faults on a Logix Motion Axis: What AxisFault, MotionFault and the Attributes Are Telling You On a 1756-L83E, Axis_01.AxisFault reads 1, Axis_01.MotionFault reads 0, and the 2198-D032-ERS3 in the panel is showing FLT S54 – POSN ERROR. Somebody will now spend twenty minutes looking for a motion fault that does not exist, because the … Read more
Line 2’s palletiser infeed stops about once a shift with Infeed_Jam latched, the alarm log says “Infeed jam” with a time, and the 1756-L83E, the PowerFlex 525 and the 1756-IB16 feeding the discharge photo-eye all check out every time somebody looks. Whatever happens takes a few tens of milliseconds and happens hours apart, and the … Read more
At 02:30 on Sunday 25 October 2026 a logger in Berlin writes a row, and sixty minutes later it writes another row stamped 02:30, and the trend viewer draws the second hour on top of the first. Meanwhile the controller it reads from keeps its own idea of the time as a LINT of microseconds … Read more
Store a ControlLogix project to a 1784-SD2 card, pick the Load Image setting you need, and what an upload or a card restore will not give back at 3am.
Install a force on a 1756-L83E, enable it, then prove it is gone: the three FORCE indicator states, the GSV that reads force status, Remove vs Disable.
What a 1756-RM2 pair buys you, the design restrictions nobody mentions until commissioning, real switchover times, and when redundancy is the wrong answer.
The PLC does not run the model. What to publish, how the score returns as an advisory tag with a watchdog, and a pump anomaly detector on CompactLogix.
A repeatable PLC troubleshooting order: module LEDs, controller major faults, I/O connection status, forces, cross-reference, trends and Ethernet checks.
Read real scan times with GSV on a ControlLogix and the cycle time view on an S7-1500, then find what is eating them before the watchdog does.
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
If there are software or hardware errors in the PLC, you may not want to catch the error or stop your whole system due to the error. In these cases, you can use a fault routine to clear the fault and allow some part of your system to continue running. Failure routine runs the routines … Read more