As you now know, the behavior of a basic PLC program is very straight-forward. However, you might be wondering how this translates to the control of real-world devices.
In the CompactLogix and ControlLogix line of Allen-Bradley PLCs, “Controller Tags” are automatically generated for all the available inputs and outputs present on the PLC unit or its expansion modules.
As you may know, we have created hundreds of very informative lessons on PLC programming.
We have worked in the Step7, TIA Portal and Factory I/O software environments.
In this lesson, we are going to not only introduce a new PLC but also a new PLC programming environment.
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In this lesson, we continue where we left off in the lesson titled: An Introduction to Allen Bradley Using Studio 5000 Logix Developer.
That lesson had us launching software, opening the create dialog and making some selections that created our base project.
We’ll start by opening and rev...
In this lesson, we are going to add a discrete output module and discuss the different configuration options and the information that can be found on various tabs.
We will have an in-depth discussion about the Configuration tab and the ability to change the state of each output when the proce...
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