Logix Designer, RSLogix 500/5000, RSLinx, FactoryTalk and the faults you meet on a ControlLogix or CompactLogix line.
A 1024 PPR encoder on the tail roller of an 8 m belt, read in X4 by a 5069-HSC2xOB4, gives 652 counts for every 50 mm of belt, and a shift register that moves one cell every 652 counts knows where a carton is to within one cell whether the belt is running at 0.500 … Read more
Bit 0 of the PowerFlex 525 logic command word is Normal Stop, and it has to be sitting at 0 before bit 1 will ever start the drive. That footnote under the table in Appendix D of 520COM-UM001 is behind most of the drives that show a green connection in the I/O tree and still … Read more
Choose DOL or a drive, wire the stop so it works without the PLC, set the drive parameters and tags, then read the fault codes when it trips.
Write an AHU sequence on a CompactLogix: damper minimum position, supply fan VFD, chilled water PID, economizer changeover, compressor staging and BACnet.
Tag naming, rung comments, UDT and AOI descriptions, pass-through and L5X exports that keep a Studio 5000 or TIA Portal project readable years later.
Ladder, FBD, Structured Text, SFC and IL compared on real hardware: what Studio 5000 v33 and TIA Portal V18 support, and which one to pick per job.
How to pick discrete and analog I/O, get sinking and sourcing right, set RPI and electronic keying, wire a 4-20 mA loop and scale the raw counts.
Build a Logix Emulate chassis, run PLCSIM Advanced, test the HMI offline, and learn which parts of a machine you can trust a simulation to prove.
Create a new Studio 5000 Logix Designer project the right way: pick the controller, match the firmware revision, add I/O, write the first rung, download and go online.
A working map of Rockwell PLC software: Studio 5000 editions, RSLogix 500, RSLinx Classic against FactoryTalk Linx, View ME and SE, Emulate and firmware.
Build PLC batch control the ISA-88 way: procedure and phase breakdown, the phase state model, recipe parameters in a UDT, hold and restart logic.
PLC motion control step by step: motion group setup, coarse update period, axis scaling, MSO and MAM moves, homing, gearing and position error faults.