Now let’s assume that I need to use the value counted by the counter somewhere else in the program.
In an industrial process, there may be a conveyor belt with an electric motor that moves the manufactured products from the factory floor to the warehouse.
I’m going to write a simple PLC program for this system with the following conditions:
1) The motor is going to turn on when the start...
Let’s assume that there are already 100 products in the warehouse and I need the counter to start counting from this preset value.
I have two conveyor belts, two sensors and a temporary product storage area. The products are passing in front of sensor number one on the conveyor belt and entering the storage area.
The products will then be put on the second conveyor belt, pass in front of the sensor number two, and transferr...
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