Advanced HMI
Typically I don’t do unsolicited free advertisements for companies or websites, but I really need to make an exception here for Advanced HMI. Advanced HMI provides a FREE open source HMI platform that runs on a PC. While they do …
Author: Frank
Electrical Engineer and business owner from the Nashville, Tennessee area. I also play music, Chess and Go.
Piezoelectric, Electromagnetic, and Electrostatic Devices: A Comparison
Today’s post is a guest post by SensComp, a manufacturer of ultrasonic sensors. They also provided this cool infographic: Which Is Better? Comparing Piezoelectric, Electrostatic, And Electromagnetic Devices For your electronic sensor application, selecting the right equipment matters. Do you …
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A Video on Videos
This is a video I made on how to study my other videos. I plan to include this with all of my video courses as a guide for how to navigate the material. I’ve found that scrolling the video back …
Online Courses and the Odyssey Projects
As the end of the month approaches I have been able to complete a few projects and make progress on a couple more. I have finally been able to make a couple of online training courses available online. I thought …
Videos and Online Training
As I’ve mentioned in my last few posts, I’ve been creating a lot of videos lately, and have been working on various online courses. The picture above is a Camtasia (the software I use for video editing) screen shot of …
My New Training Center
Well, after having my office destroyed by a tornado on March 3, I am on the road to a new training facility. This time instead of renting, I decided to buy a house and remodel it into a business place. …
Ladder Logic 309: Allen-Bradley Produced-Consumed Tags (Video)
Today’s post is a continuation on Jason Lafever’s questions on PLC to PLC communications. PLCs often have a need to send messages to each other, and all have some method of directly sending a message to read or write tags …
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CIP Tetra Integration
Most of the people who follow this blog know me as an instructor or trainer, and that is certainly what I have focused most of my efforts on lately. I do however still do some programming and systems integration work, …
Ladder Logic 308: Allen-Bradley’s MSG (Message) Instruction – Video
Today’s video is in response to a post I put on my Facebook automation forum, Automation Training. Jason Lafever asked if I would cover a bit on Allen-Bradley’s MSG (Message) Instruction, and cover Produced-Consumed Tags. I decided to split these …
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Ladder Logic 307: Data Average and Archive
Today’s post is in response to Yusuf Shaikh, who asked a question in a Facebook forum on PLCs. He asked “How to calculate average of drive current tag for every 15 seconds in Micrologix 1400 PLC?“ Of course there are …