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Tag Structures and Dotfields

By Frank Posted on September 11, 2016 Posted in Controls Design, Documentation, Software & Programming 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 Structure. In part, George Steel wrote: Great site, thanks for all your efforts. I am working on positioning my org to move from RS500 …

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Ladder Logic 104: Memory Organization

By Frank Posted on December 28, 2015 Posted in PLCs, Software & Programming 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 memory allocation and organization. In the early years of the PLC memory came at a premium… 1K (one kilobyte) of memory for the program …

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