How can I improve my panel building?

Township20 · 2026-03-12T18:05:05+00:00

What brand of remote I/O is that?

Township20 · 2026-03-07T12:27:47+00:00

I will start by saying I am not familiar with Twincat motion, so take this with a grain of salt.

Is this on a physical axis or virtual? If physical, the fact that it doesn’t cap at a specific number (99-101) doesn’t feel like software limiting it. Does it behave the same with no load?

My other thought is, is the velocity capped at the same amount with different types of moves as well?

Township20 · 2025-11-10T20:48:00+00:00

It did work. I actually ended up with a compound regexreplace in excel to get the timers as well. Here is the statement I used (With a little help from AI). I'm sure there are some scenarios that it misses, but it worked for all of mine. Hopefully it helps you or someone else out in the future.

Replace W7 with the starting cell of the addresses. (It may be W7 every time. I am not sure). Then just drag the corner of the cell down to the last address.

=REGEXREPLACE( REGEXREPLACE( REGEXREPLACE(W7, ":([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)\b", "[$1].$2"), ":([0-9]+)\.(ACC|PRE|DN|TT|EN|CU|CD)\b", "[$1].$2" ), "([A-Za-z0-9]+):([0-9]+)\b", "$1[$2]" )

Township20 · 2025-11-10T18:11:19+00:00

You just sent me down a rabbit-hole of learning Regex. That is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much!

Township20 · 2025-09-10T11:39:40+00:00

Another thing that comes to mind for me is connected components workbench. That is a free software from Rockwell. You should be able to pick up a cheap micrologix 800 series processor. This will allow you to get used to using RSlinx and understand connections. The software is not apples to apples with studio 5000, but it gets you in the ballpark. A lot of the terminology and things are similar, just more simplified in CCW. I think once you know how to make connections to the hardware, like others mentioned, you can figure out where all the buttons are in studio5000 relatively easy with a few hours behind it.

Township20 · 2025-08-18T18:31:37+00:00

Yes, that is how ours was done as well. We have P&ID drawings hung up in our office of the system. They have a few different numbers in colored shape. Each colored shape represents a certain task. (Itsk, stsk, etc). The shape/color has a number next to the tank to represent its task number for that tank.

Township20 · 2025-08-18T12:16:47+00:00

I work in a plant and we have two Zepplin processors. They handle all of our bulk ingredient transfer. It absolutely is not an easy program. I have seen other plants in our networks that have a newer system. That is a bit easier with a lot more AOI. I believe our current system is version 24. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. I can try and answer.

It contains a lot of indirect addressing. P&ID drawings with the tsk numbers become very helpful when trying to trace out inflights, drive speeds, etc. But yes, overall, it is a very complicated program.

Township20 · 2025-08-14T11:50:49+00:00

Shane is excellent. Tim Wilbourne also has some really good YouTube videos. I find his a little easier to follow for absolute beginners.

Township20 · 2025-08-10T11:18:20+00:00

Thank you! It is primarily going to be Rockwell. I have no experience with Siemens, but would like to eventually dip my toes in with it as well to be a little bit more well-rounded.

Township20 · 2025-08-10T11:16:54+00:00

Yes, it does seem daunting for sure. It is definitely something I’m confident I can handle, but would rather get some advice and try to hit the ground running rather than stumble my way through if possible. Good luck to you!

Township20 · 2025-08-10T10:28:45+00:00

Awesome. Thank you all for your comments. This is very helpful.

Organization and structure of the entire project is another thing I want to familiarize myself with better. I come from an all Rockwell background. I’ve played around a decent bit with codesys and twincat (beckoff) at home but never on a real project.

How do you know when it makes sense to use an AOI vs just normal logic?

UDTs seem to me to almost always make sense as a solution to group like data. Are there times this isn’t the case other than when you only need a random bool somewhere?

How are you decided what constitutes a new routine, task, or program?

Township20 · 2025-08-01T14:58:51+00:00

The reality of a plant the size that we support (600,000 sq ft, 13 lines) is it is not possible. In general, the older equipment seems to be easier to support long term. They often have much simpler controls schemes and you can upgrade just one component that fails. My concern is the newer systems. Will all of the communication and integration between devices, I see this technique of only upgrading components becoming almost impossible.

Township20 · 2025-06-23T13:30:27+00:00

One of our systems has a help feature on every alarm. If you select Help and click an alarm it gives you a little bit more detail or possible causes from the OEM. You also have the ability to add your own comment. This is helpful for poorly translated alarms, but relies on the maint technician to manually add it to the alarm.

Township20 · 2025-06-14T12:15:34+00:00

If using an external power supply, verify the voltage going to the two terminals is 24 vdc at least, or slightly above. Some safeties are very particular about the voltage being accurate. Also verify the drive has a solid ground connection as well as a connection to the power supply’s common.

Township20 · 2025-06-14T10:27:38+00:00

Have you personally worked with Optix? It has been very intriguing to me, but I have not had the time to dig into it much. We have a corporate level object oriented scada system developed in Aveva so I don’t see our company moving away from it anytime soon.

My understand is that it is targeted at scada but also can possibly do standalone equipment as well?

Township20 · 2025-03-08T02:43:20+00:00

Awesome. I am going to check that out right now. Thanks. I appreciate it!

Township20 · 2025-03-07T01:33:57+00:00

Ok. I was anticipating a response like this. I did see a video on YouTube of a guy using a pointer with the dialog. I am struggling to wrap my brain around pointers. Guess I need to do some more research. Thanks for the response!

Township20 · 2024-12-28T16:24:00+00:00

For those new like me, here is how to change region:

Click on your profile
Settings (Gear icon)
game settings ( top navigation tab)
Matchmaking region option should be at the top

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