In this lesson, we are going to learn how to connect our PLC program to the Factory I/O simulator. We will walk through the configuration process for connecting to a PLC or PLC simulator using the proper driver for our equipment. We will demonstrate how to associate our field devices, such as the stop and stop switches, to the addressing that we have within the PLC program. These steps will prepare the softwares for linking and testing our program in a simulated factory environment so let’s get started.
In this lesson, Factory I/O and our PLC program are now connected and we will start the factory simulation to see how our code checks out. We will discuss normally closed field devices and how they will function within our code. We will also discuss how the retro reflective sensor works and get i...
In the previous lesson, we had our PLC software connected to the Factory I/O software. We were able to start and stop the equipment, verify product counts passing by the retro reflective sensors, all using the Factory I/O animated simulation and our program.
One thing that we have not yet dis...
As you may know, there are several conversion instructions for use in most PLC programming softwares however, sometimes they can be a bit tricky to use.
In this lesson we are going to discuss converting and integer value to a real value using conversion instructions. However, there is no direc...
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