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This course is specifically for the people who wants to kick start their training in Siemens PLC & HMI. We are using Siemens S7-1200 PLC and KTP 400 HMI along with Siemens TIA- Total Integrated Automation software for making tutorials. You will find high quality videos tutorials along with copy of presentation and PLC code used in the course.We are teaching programming in Ladder Logic with touch of FBD- Functional block Diagram.

I got an internship offer from a automation company and they use RsLogix 5000 to program Allen Bradley PLC's for most of their projects.I have programming experience before but only in MATLAB and Python. Also, I have knowledge on logic gates and Boolean function from taking my engineering classes at my school.Where should I get started on learning ladder programming and RsLogix 5000? I'm looking for something that is more practical.Yes, I did try to google but no luck. Most of the pdf that I found have no practical exercises.Please help me, guys.

Plcs.netmrplc.comThese sites were a godsend to me when I first started.I was lucky that the places that hired me saw my potential and allowed me to learn.Being that you have an internship you should also have that learning room.Learn the difference between your different commands.Its all inputs and outputs baby.Discrete Signals (digital inputs or outputs) just an on or off signalThen analog such as a temp element, or a motor drive speed reference. Are usually scaled as 4-20ma = 0-100% or 1-10v = 0-100% or something similar.Learn the difference between your communications protocols. Alot of stuff now is ethernet/ip which is very easy and just pure lovely data.

But there's still alot of rs232 dh485 profibus etc. Out there.Usually when you receive a digital signal you might want to output a signal to something else. Either move a speed reference to a drive and send a speed reference etc.Be careful about using double output coils. Be careful about latching outputs.

I try to avoid output latches unless there is a practical necessity. Watch out for double output coil syndrome (google it or look on those sites)I am by no means a full fledged professional yet but I have made my way nicely and I started from nowhere. Please pm me if I can be of any additional help!Good Luck!.Also does the company your working with have a rockwell tech connect contract?

You can search their knowledgebase for just about anything and call their tech support if you need a little hand holding. (Kinda sucks that rockwell makes you pay for support.Siemens on the other hand includes it.).

The below link will allow you to request a 5-day free trial to Rockwell Automation’s E-learning courses.Once you have a login, you can take a single course under that login. The one I would recommend is under ControlLogix and RSLogix5000 Software, the Project Configuration course.

It is based off an early version of the software, so not all the cool new features are taught, but the basic introduction to the software are covered. It is pretty boring, but I found the training to be extremely helpful to someone with no PLC or Logix5000 experience.Helped me out a TON when I got into logix5000, and I highly reccomend.I use logix5000 daily, so if you need any help or have any questions shoot me a PM.

I was in the same boat this summer and I HIGHLY recommend LogixPro. It helped me a TON. You get to actually build programs and see them run on graphical models, real things like factory assembly lines and complicated garage doors, etc. Also, look into what HMI software they use as this is just as big a part of it. But most of all don't stress too much.

No one outside of those in the industry know a thing about PLCs, no one teaches about them, so they'll probably give you plenty of training. Hell, I didn't know what a PLC was until my first day and the only programming experience I had was MATLAB. By the end of the summer I was working with 3 different PLC solutions and had learned to code in C#. You'll be fine. If you have experience with Matlab and Python, PLC programming will be a breeze. Most of the industry is dumbed down to cater to people that have never programmed a day in their life and there is no shorter learning curve than Rockwell. Rockwell does have the most manual start up of hardware (you have to manually flash firmware, set IP addresses, and configure drives), so you can try to find videos walking through getting connected to your first PLC and whatnot.The hardest part about ladder is learning the tricks to get around its limitations, which you will figure out quickly enough.

Just keep in mind that with Rockwell, you can use the CPT function to do math in easy to enter text format. Ladder (and Python for that matter) don't have switch-case constructs, so the concept of a state machine (programming where step 1 executes this code and then step 2 executes that code) has to be manually implemented. Most people use a variable to keep track of the current step and then at the beginning of each rung of ladder they check if that variable is equal to the step number for that rung.The automation industry uses lots of different acronyms and words to mean the same thing. Drive, VFD (variable frequency drive), Inverter, etc all refer to a device that controls a motor; a VFD is always running a dumb AC motor and controls the speed the motor spins by changing the AC electric frequency (if you plug an AC motor directly to power, it will run at 60Hz in the US and 50Hz in most of the rest of the world), but a Drive or Inverter could refer to something that runs a servo motor (a motor with position feedback).

HMI (human machine interface), Operator Interface, etc. Are all referring to the touch screen. PLC, Controller, etc are all the computer running the machine.

Ethernet/IP is not related to TCP/IP that regular computer networks use; the IP in Ethernet/IP stands for industrial protocol. I think they chose that name to be as confusing as they possibly could, it should really be EtherCIP since it is the ethernet version of the CIP protocol.DON'T PAY FOR TRAINING.

Rockwell training is pretty poor and costs thousands of dollars. Let your company pay for training if they want to. There is a program called RSTrainer that they sell that is just a collection of flash videos. Those things are uploaded to youtube all the time and cover actually using RSLogix 5000 (which was renamed Studio 5000 in the latest version, but they are the same thing).Don't forget how to do proper programming, Ladder is dying out in favor of Structured Text and ANSI C (Matlab is mostly ANSI C). If you just do ladder all the time, it makes you a bad programmer. It's like making a surgeon use safety scissors instead of a scalpel, it's messy and scaring. I would definitely try to get some formal training.

At the very least an introductory course. Your previous programming experience won't help you at all with ladder.

It's a different universe.The biggest pitfall you'll have to overcome is remembering to think about and consider the scan cycle when you're programming. It's not like a text-based programming language where the execution is only ever in one spot of your code at a time. In ladder, every single line or 'rung' of your code is being processed at blisteringly high speeds, and having one section of your code immediately undone by another section is much easier to do than you'd think.Another pitfall is thinking of your program like it's an electrical circuit. It only resembles one to make it easier for non-programmers to troubleshoot. But there are certain instructions that will execute even if the rung is false, and cause the problem I mentioned above. The OTE instruction is a good example.

If you have multipe OTEs addressing the same tag, that tag will only be 'true' (i.e. Have a value of 1) until it encounters a false rung with that OTE pointed to the same address. So, for example: TAG1 TAG2- -( )- TAG2 TAG3- -( )- TAG3 TAG2- / -( )-When TAG1 becomes true, TAG3 will become true and stay that way. The first rung will be evaluated as true, the processor will write a 1 to TAG2. The next rung will also be evaluated as true, because the value of TAG2 is 1, so 1 will be written to TAG3. The last rung will be evaluated as False, because it needs TAG3's value to be 0 in order to be true, so it will write a 0 to TAG2, but NOT to TAG3 because there is no instruction for TAG3 on this rung.

By the time it scans the second rung again, TAG2 will once again be true because it was made true on the first rung, and so TAG3 will remain 1 as long as TAG1 is 1. If that is the object of your program, then this will work.However, what if I reversed rungs 2 and 3? TAG1 TAG2- -( )- TAG3 TAG2- / -( )- TAG2 TAG3- -( )-If this were an electrical circuit, it wouldn't matter at all. But this is NOT an electrical circuit! Now, rung 1 will write a 1 into TAG2, but rung 2 will write a 0 into TAG2.

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By the time the processor scans rung 3, TAG2 will have a value of 0, so TAG3 will have a value of 0 regardless of what TAG1's value is. Just by switching two rungs, I've completely changed how the program operates. The obvious answer is to avoid 'double coils' like this completely. If I need to turn certain things on and off in a program in multiple places (I run into this a lot with sequential operations), I use the OTL and OTU instructions. These instructions do nothing if the rung is false, which means they can be used in multiple places, but be wary of this because you now have to manage the 'on' and 'off' parts. It's a lot more work.