In the previous section, we showed you how to document addresses, rungs, and program pages and how to generate a simple report.
There are other documentation features that are very powerful.
In the project tree,
“Rung Comments/Page Title” Editor: Each of the entries that we entered in the previous section is shown here. This editor allows us to add additional entries all from one place.
“Address/Symbol” Editor: the address descriptions and symbols we entered during program development.
As with the “Rung Comments/Page Title” Editor, address descriptions and symbols can be edited, updated, added, or deleted in bulk from this editor to save time.
We will introduce three new bit instructions and how a logic branch is executed.
We will program a couple of rungs to demonstrate some common bit functions that will be used in the next example program.
These instructions can be found in the “BIT” tab of the instruction selection window.
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We will quickly show other instructions that can be used that are like those instructions we have already used.
Timer/Counter instruction tab:
TON: Timer On-delay
TOF: Timer Off-delay
RTO: Retentive Timer On-delay
RES: Reset
CTU: Count Up counter
CTD: Count Down counter
Compare instruction tab:...
In this control example, a ball mill is used to grind coarse sea salt into very fine salt crystals for use in baking. A salt hopper delivers coarse salt to the ball mill and after a period of 60 seconds in the mill, very fine salt is discharged from the mill to a collection hopper.
Since the moto...