Believing in the essence of timers in ladder logic programming, we come today with a new tutorial in which we are going to show you all about timers, the types of timers, what’s inside timers’ block of parameters, variables, and bits. In addition, techniques for using timers will be explored, and for sure, we are going to practice what we learn using the simulator. So let’s get started with our tutorial.
Timers in ladder logic programming
Guys, this is not the first time we’ve talked about timers. However, this time we are going to look into timers deeply and use the glasses of practical approach. So figure 1 shows the most important types of timers in ladder logic from left to right: the on-delay, off-delay, and retentive timers. There are differences in functionality. However, they all ...
Hi Guys! hope you are doing great today! We come this time with a complete project to work out together starting from the point at which we sit with the client and receive the logical narratives that represent what they want to implement. We are going to start with a simple project this time and continue increasing the scale and complexity of the requirements through the incoming tutorials. The project we are going to implement today is one of the most common tasks that we can find in every place in our real life which is the control of the garage door. That could be found in private property or commercial buildings or public garages. Too many things need to be controlled in garage doors and several scenarios could come to your mind. However, take it as a rule of thumb that we design our p ...
The traffic light is one of the most important applications we see everyday everywhere we go back and forth. Controlling traffic signs was managed by people which was very problematic and headache on travelers and the officers as well. But nowadays, most traffic lights are controlled by automatic control systems. The brain that handles the complicated logic behind the traffic light control system is a PLC and one programmer like you guys has written its logic. So today we have come back to enjoy programming such a critical and large project by using ladder logic programming and for sure will apply the code and the logic we write into the simulator to check its correctness.
Problem we try to solve
First of all, the scene we captured below by figure 1 shows two ways to cross a ...
Hi Everyone! How are you doing, my friends? Today I bring a crucial topic for PLC programmers, technicians and engineers. We have been working together for a long time using ladder logic programming. We have completed together dozens of projects from real life and industry. One day I was thinking about what we have done in this series of ladder logic programming, and I came across that I missed talking about one essential topic ever. You know what? It’s the PLC troubleshooting and online debugging! After writing a ladder logic program for the project, you can imagine it should operate from the download moment 24/7. As usual, any system goes faulty one day. So we need to go through this matter, showing you how to find our PLC faults, troubleshoot, and go online with the PLC to figure out th ...
Hello friends, after completing that basic part of ladder logic programming, let us today go through one topic which is not essential to know to complete a PLC ladder program but it is important t have our code readable program and reusable pieces of code. That could happen by using what so-called a subroutine. So what is a subroutine? Well, it is a piece of code that includes a few rungs to perform specific tasks. that piece of code can be reused numerous times through the program when we need to call it for performing that task. That subroutine enables us to structure our code like building blocks so that the program will be readable very easy and also reusable later in other projects. The idea of dividing the program into routines to apply the divide and conquer technique is very crucia ...
Hi friends, how are you doing? Today will integrate all of what we have learned so far in this series to build the first project based on ladder logic programming. Because we all are interested in industry, we pick one industrial project, Bottle Filling and Capping Projects, which is very common today. The problem we are going to solve today is bottle filling and capping. We have learned all basics of ladder logic including contacts and coils operation, logic gates, rising and falling edges, timers, and counters. So, today we will utilize all of these components to implement a complete ladder program of filling and capping problems.
Operation and Logic of Bottle Filling and Capping Process
For simplifying the operation of the process of filling and capping, fig. 1 shows the process flow ...
Hello friends, hope you all are having fun with your lives. Today, I am going to share links related to PLC projects. I have shared few PLC projects on my blog so here on the post I am gonna compile a list and will post all the PLC projects posted till now. I will keep on updating this list so stay tuned.
All the PLC projects posted here are completely designed by our team so if you wanna copy them then you are most welcome but do mentioned the link of respective project as a favor. Its not a very big list rite now but I am gonna update more projects real soon and will update the list. So, let's get started with PLC projects:
PLC Projects
Here's the complete list of PLC projects posted till now on our blog:
Introduction to PLC.
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Hi friends! I hope you are doing well! Today we are going to learn and practice a new topic which is a very crucial technique in plc programming. the topic is called “latching”. We mean by Latching to keep the output running starting from the instance of giving a kick-off command until we hit a command to stop running of the motor. Imagine my friends, operator wants to start a motor by hitting a start push button and want the motor to keep running and leave and go for doing another task or job. And then it keeps running until the operator wants to stop it. The problem here is that, once the operator releases his hand away from the push button, the motor automatically stopped and that is not like what the operator wants to do with the motor. To clear the problem that we are going to solve, ...
Hi friends. Today we are going to go through one of the most commonly used topics in writing ladder logic programming which is using comparator operations. This includes the logical and mathematical comparison between variables to decide where the logic goes.
There are many comparator operations like equal (==), not equal (<>), less than (<), greater than (>), less than or equal (<=), greater than or equal (>=). All these comparator operations might be used in different logic scenarios while writing a ladder logic program. In this tutorial, we are going to go over each operator showing the input operators and output as well. In addition, we will practice some examples with the simulator to familiarize how to use them flexibly whi ...
Hello friends! I hope you are all very well! I am so happy to meet you today to continue learning and practicing PLC ladder logic programming. In an earlier part, we already have gone through the very basic logic gates of “AND”. “OR”, and “NOT”. Today we are going to resume the simulation of logic gates. We have started and gone through simulating the basic logic gates which are “AND”, “OR”, and “NOT” as they are the most important basic logic gates by which we can form other logic gates. However, because the logic of large-scale projects is getting more and more complicating, a lot of time we have to use the other functions to do tasks faster. For example, we have shown in the logic gates article that, XOR can be used to compare two inputs and ch ...
