Advanced HMI and Training
Several years ago I posted on Advanced HMI and described what it is, how you can get it and where I was at the time on developing a training HMI. The picture above shows where I am now. I finally …
Category: Hardware
Mechanical and electrical hardware
Simple Ladder Pulse
This morning I had someone send a ladder diagram on a dry-erase board with an attempt at creating a 10 second pulse to dispense something. It was much more complex than it needed to be and I tried to explain …
Machine Vision and The Vision Show
On October 12 this year at the end of a trip to the Northeast I had the pleasure of attending The Vision Show, a trade show that occurs annually in Boston, MA. You can check out my recap of the …
Beckhoff Video
This was last week’s Mastering the Machine video on the Beckhoff PLC platform and TwinCAT. I am working on the programming part, it should be out in a few weeks. If you want a copy of the document I showed …
PLCnext Webinar
Friday, November 19, 2021 was the one year anniversary of the Automation Academy, my system integration training website! I do these webinars every two weeks as live Zoom events, part of the Academy’s events. This webinar was on PLCnext, Phoenix …
The Future Of Smart Sensors In Manufacturing
This is a guest post from Keyence, a manufacturer of sensors, gauges and control devices. ********************************************************************************************** We live in an increasingly data-driven world, and the manufacturing and automation industries are no exception. As businesses in these fields strive to keep …
Webinars and YouTube
This is the latest Mastering the Machine video on YouTube, I have been doing these every two weeks for almost a year now. The topic was Pi-Plates and NodeRED and as usual I learned a lot from my guest, Jerry …
Ladder Logic 309: Allen-Bradley DDE/OPC Link to Excel
It’s been a while since I’ve added to the Ladder Logic series, so this post serves several purposes. It serves as the 7th video in the ControlLogix Odyssey series, it will be posted on YouTube as an ad, and it …
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The Case for Ladder Logic
Lately I have seen a lot of posts promoting Structured Text on forums and Linked In. Structured Text is one of the 5 (or 6) standard PLC languages described in IEC 61131-3. While I have used ST in the past …
More Fun with Enclosures
Two days before the tornado in March, I wrote a post about the enclosures I planned to market as part of my PLC training kit. With all of the turmoil and working out of my house for a few months, …