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PLCs, Software & Programming, The Book

Ladder Logic 305: ASCII and Strings

Frank Feb 9, 2017 Tagged with Allen-Bradley, ASCII, PLC Hardware and Programming, PLCs, programming, Strings

Today’s post covers ASCII, string manipulation and how to deal with readable text in a PLC. …

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Controls Design, Documentation, Software & Programming

Tag Structures and Dotfields

Frank Sep 11, 2016 Tagged with Allen-Bradley, AOI, dotfields, programming, Symbols, tag structure, Tags, UDT

Today’s post is in response to an e-mail I received asking for my thoughts on Tag …

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PLCs, Software & Programming

Ladder Logic 106: One Shots

Frank Jul 9, 2016 Tagged with ladder logic, PLCs, programming

A one shot, or “differential”, is used to develop a signal that is exactly one scan …

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Software & Programming, Training

Why BCD?

Frank May 15, 2016 Tagged with 7 segment display, BCD, Binary Coded Decimal, hexadecimal, PLC Data Types, PLCs, programming, Siemens, Thumbwheel switch

Computers hate decimal. I mean, just because we have ten fingers and ten toes, we think …

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PLCs, Software & Programming, The Book

Request for PLC Information and Samples

Frank Mar 27, 2016 Tagged with Advanced PLC Programming, Allen-Bradley, Automation Direct, Books, General Electric, Idec, ladder logic, Mitsubishi, Modicon, Omron, Panasonic, platforms, PLCs, programming, Schneider, Siemens, Toshiba

I mentioned last week that I am working on what I believe is the first truly …

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PLCs, Software & Programming

Ladder Logic 402: Data Manipulation and Filtering

Frank Mar 12, 2016 Tagged with Automation Direct, Excel, Koyo, ladder logic, PLC Data Analysis, PLC Signal Filtering, PLCs, programming

In last weeks’ post, I discussed acquiring data using a PLC to capture values from an …

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PLCs, Software & Programming

Ladder Logic 401: Data Acquisition and Analysis

Frank Mar 6, 2016 Tagged with Automation Training, ladder logic, PLC Data Analysis, PLC Signal Filtering, PLCs, programming

Todays post is in response to a request by Quy Phan, who I met a couple …

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PLCs, Software & Programming

Ladder Logic 105: PLC Scanning

Frank Jan 8, 2016 Tagged with Allen-Bradley, ControlLogix, ladder logic, PLCs, programming, RPI, scanning, Siemens, tables

In my last post on PLC Memory Organization, I mentioned that I had not really covered …

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Ladder Logic 104: Memory Organization

Frank Dec 28, 2015 Tagged with Allen-Bradley, Automation Direct, Koyo, ladder logic, PLCs, programming, Siemens, Tags

One of the first decisions that needs to be made when designing a PLC system is …

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Software & Programming, Training

Advanced PLC and Industrial Training

Frank Dec 13, 2015 Tagged with Automation Training, education, PLCs, programming, training

I would like to make myself available to any company or group, worldwide, that desires truly…

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