Hello friends, welcome back to our tutorials on PLC ladder logic programming. Today we will talk about batch process control and take one project from our factory to understand, implement, and simulate. So without any further delay, let’s jump into the tutorial by asking what is batch process is if it is different from other online processes. Well! The batch process is defined as a process that starts by operating continuously till the end of the cycle without any interaction with the users. For you guys, it’s cool to know that most of the processes you might meet in the industry of batch-type processing. Do you like me to give an example? Well! The Silo cement process is a batch process, and food and beverages manufacturing are also good examples of batch processes. So what do we have tod ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hi, my friends, and I hope you are doing great today! We have today one interesting topic that you have seen everywhere you go, but you might not notice it! That is what the so-called binary coded decimal (BCD) is. So what’s that? Well! When you are waiting for your turn at the front of a wicket in the bank. You see 7-segmented displays that show numbers in digits. So how do these counter displays work? The BCD is the idea behind how these displays work. Numbers can be represented in many formats. Some of these formats are readable for the public which is the decimal pr the digits 0, 1, 2, .., 9. On the other side, there is another number format which is not readable to general people. Still, it is essential for computation and computer processing like binary format and hexadecimal formats ...
Hello, my friends and welcome back with one new tutorial of our ladder logic programming series. Today I am bringing one exciting project which you can see everywhere, in your home, work, and public places, which is an elevator. We will design a solution using plc ladder logic programming, which drives the elevator. Our elevator is composed of 4 floors and has all capabilities of large-scale elevators. So let’s get started and save time and jump into our tutorial.
Elevator Project
As you can see, Everyone figure 1 depicts the complete scene of the project and tells that the elevator we will manage has four floors to visit. On the first floor, there is only one outer request to call the car from any floor above, i.e. from floor 2, floor 3, or floor 4. While on the second floor, there are ...
Hi, my friends, and welcome back to enjoying together learning and practicing PLC ladder logic programming with a new project from the actual industry. Today my friends, we will continue the bottle line project to complete the capping and filling of the bottling line. As usual, we will describe the requirements as the clients ask us to do. Then we list all the inputs and outputs we will use to make our design work. Afterward, we write the ladder logic program into two sub-tasks. We make one to perform the filling and the second for the capping process. So, without further delay, buddies, let’s jump into the work.
Filling and capping project
Let me introduce the project as two processes we have been requested to implement here. We are filling bottle process in which we need to control the ...
Hello friends! We hope you are very well! Today we are here for complementing our knowledge with one of the most important topics in PLC programming and practice its implementation in PLC ladder logic programming. Our topic today is about counters which help us to know the production size at any time, the repetition of specific tasks and events. Many real-life situation problems need counter like garage capacity should be tracked by using counters to report how many cars are inside and if there is room for incoming cars or it's full. Another critical problem is to count the repetitive tasks and events in manufacturing. Furthermore, counting products and pieces for taking an action like performing maintenance, stop operation, turn over to next prod ...
Hello friends, I hope you all are fine. Today, we are starting a new tutorials series on Ladder Logic Programming, used in PLC. It's our first tutorial in this series, so we are going to have a look at the detailed introduction to PLC and ladder logic. After welcoming every one of engineers, technicians, students, and hobbyists who have come to read this article willing to learn PLC programming, I would like to introduce one of the most used programming languages of PLC. The language we introduce here is a visualized language that connects and combines graphical symbols in logical flow same as the way we wire electrical circuits and that is the secret behind its simplicity not only in implementation but also in diagnosing problems.
Ladder Logic Pro ...
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 friends, I hope you are very well; today in this tutorial, we will practice conditional jumping for performing some code at the occurrence of some conditions. Like any other programming language, jumping is one of the most common approaches to transfer the execution from its sequential mode to run different processes or instructions marked by a label and bypassing the lines of codes in between the last executed transaction before the jump instruction and the labeled instruction whom the program is going to move to. The good thing about this technique is shortening the scan cycle of the program due to not running the whole program. However, using jumping techniques in coding is very dangerous. It would help if you were careful of missing some op ...
