Kevin Best

06/18/2019

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Have you ever been coding the same thing over and over again, and thought “man, there must be an easier way to do this!” Well, I have. And luckily, so has Rockwell! The XML import feature allows you to generate repeat code with ease. ...

Josh Zimmerle

05/02/2019

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PowerFlex VFDs are very adept drives capable of interfacing with a lot of options for control, configuration, and monitoring. However, this range of capabilities can be daunting and confusing for those unfamiliar with industrial VFDs, or new to Power...

Brandon Tanner

04/05/2019

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Allen Bradley PLC’s, both in RSLogix5000 and Studio5000, use a text-based language to assemble their ladder code. Each rung of contacts and coils can be translated to a line of code. This is a unique feature that gives the user several benefits...

Josh Zimmerle

02/20/2019

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Automation and control come in a lot of different varieties and flavors. On the surface, Arduinos, PLCs, and embedded controls all appear to do the same function. So how do you determine which is best for your application? In this post, I’ll...

Kevin Best

02/07/2019

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In this blog, I’ll walk you through the basic commissioning steps to get a brand-new Allen-Bradley PLC and HMI up and running. All the information covered here is also available in Rockwell’s help documentation, but I tried to distill out...

Kevin Best

01/12/2019

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Manually adding alarms in FactoryTalk View can be tedious. When you have a system with lots and lots of devices, as DMC often does, this can become nearly impossible. That’s why during one of our annual FedEx days, DMC engineers built a custom ...

Joe Kraemer

01/08/2019

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Creating tags in a Wonderware InTouch HMI project that connect to your Allen-Bradley PLC is quick and easy for small projects. However, on projects with hundreds or thousands of tags, it can become time consuming! To speed up this proces...

Lillian Walker

09/25/2018

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Have you ever been commissioning a new PLC late in the afternoon when something goes wrong? Yeah, us too. The other night, we faced the problem below and the solution blew our minds, so I had to share it. We were setting the IP Address on a new Al...

Frank May

08/03/2018

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So, you either had a system that was working and then a red light showed up, or you bought a used PLC and the fault light showed up. Here's how to fix the fault light.  If the "BATT" Light is Red You should replace the ...

Jirka Hladis

10/10/2017

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With most modern PLCs, all you need to start programming or troubleshooting is to plug in your laptop with a plain old ethernet cable. Older PLCs, however, tend to use a myriad of different cables and protocols. With a large number of legacy systems,...