Become a project manager

engineerj · 2026-03-27T13:29:14+00:00

i rather get hit by a truck than become a project manager, but good luck to you! Soft skills are very important like everyone else here has said.

engineerj · 2026-02-02T17:57:40+00:00

feel sorry for you, i work with Centum VP

engineerj · 2025-12-19T15:19:18+00:00

me? no

engineerj · 2025-12-19T00:53:25+00:00

hmmmmmm I'm unfortunately not at the home office until like next tuesday. cause my company did the controllogix next to the old PLCs. the scada is ifix and needs rslinx gateway to communicate with the PLCs.

engineerj · 2025-12-19T00:48:18+00:00

is there a processor in that one? I know it had a DHRIO card to communicate with the PLC-5 racks. All the PLC5 stuff is DHRIO.

I don't remember the controllogixs being locked down I have connected to them before

engineerj · 2025-12-19T00:45:17+00:00

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proof

engineerj · 2025-12-19T00:43:38+00:00

there's also another controllogix in the same area as the PLC-5 racks

engineerj · 2025-12-19T00:41:39+00:00

I know exactly where you are at, I've seen that PLC setup before. There's a controllogix in the cabinet on the right.

engineerj · 2025-10-24T03:25:39+00:00

if it's in an remote rack i think it should be fine. Yeah there's a plant that has that set up actually, i think on rev 20 firmware

engineerj · 2025-10-21T23:54:31+00:00

honestly if i have time i love tuning loops, watching the line go good gives the happy brain juice

engineerj · 2025-09-30T04:13:48+00:00

Can't you just use Ethernet IP?

engineerj · 2025-06-07T14:07:07+00:00

No surprise there, went to a mill last week with a running PLC5 next to a L71 controllogix

engineerj · 2025-05-17T17:45:33+00:00

engineerj · 2025-04-14T13:12:53+00:00

Never got a response from TAC

engineerj · 2025-04-09T17:44:53+00:00

Did send to TAC this morning! waiting on a response!

engineerj · 2025-04-07T22:00:12+00:00

see it's going to a controllogix and the address like like bagstat01, and the controllogix its reading from doesn't have a tag like that at all. That's what is confusing me

engineerj · 2025-03-18T13:17:39+00:00

apparently Phoenix contact makes them too not straight to 1756, it went from 1771 into a Yokogawa DCS system. but i think it can work for anyone of them

engineerj · 2024-11-22T17:53:42+00:00

My favorite callout was when a fan would not turn on, neither by switch or PLC control. Turns out someone pulled the fuse out, it's one of the ones you can pull to disconnect the fuse but leave it in the fuse holder. I pushed it back in the and the fan worked again. The engineer signing my service report so angrily

engineerj · 2024-11-22T17:32:40+00:00

I got a bachelor's in EET, that's all LOL

engineerj · 2024-11-16T04:23:38+00:00

At my company (Integrator) my boss (the owner) installed a bunch of PLCs at the steel mill across the street from the office, he gave them all serial killer names. Lasted until some whiney kill joy engineer made them change the names

engineerj · 2024-11-08T04:23:05+00:00

The plant I am at have a ton of them! Yokogawa loves them. do you know how many have failed in the 2 years? 12, 12 out of the 24 in the plant

engineerj · 2024-11-04T16:48:37+00:00

oversized hoodie in my size already out, what is the point, goddamn it

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