Industrial Automation, PLC, VFD, and Troubleshooting
In the first article of this series, we introduced the idea of separating physical PLC I/O from application logic.
Now we can address one of the most common questions in Allen-Bradley …
Read MorePLC Addressing: Rack/Slot vs Tag-Based
In a PLC system, every input, output, and internal memory location needs a way to be identified by the controller.
This identification method is called addressing.
In simple …
Read MoreIn Studio 5000 Logix Designer, I/O modules automatically create module-defined tags.
These tags are technically correct, but they are not always easy to read.
For example:
Local:1:I.Data.0Local:1:I.Data.1Local:2:O.Data.0Local:2:O.Data.1
These tags tell you where the signal …
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