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Thanks and yes I did download that. It helps. Jstalman

Are there any goo resources out there in learning Rockwell's Structured text? Is it the same as all the other IEC 61131-3 Structured Text PLC's? Thanks in advanced for any information you can give me . Jstalman

I started a new job recently as an in house automation engineer. The company I am working for has a parent company in Japan that builds some of our machines whether we want them to or not. I was asked to choose a PLC to have them standardise on. They refuse to use Rockwell Products so my choices are Omron or Keyence. My initial choice would be Omron, but having never programmed or use either of the programming environments, (I drink mainly Rockwell Koolaid) i'm not sure. I know I have a vendor which supports the Omron product line very well, which is huge to me. Not so sure about Keyence support. So which would you pick? Thanks jstalman

Thanks Jeremy. I usually go with readability as well just was wondering if that was the right approach. I have a strong plant maintenance / service background and always want things to be easy for those guys now that I'm in the engineering side of things. I also assumed that about the UDT's I try to use / setup DINTS as much as possible again keeping it easy for those maintaining the machine down the line. jstalman

I have a couple of quick questions. Hopefully they are quick and easy. When creating a ladder logic program in Studio5000 (I use mainly 1769-L36ERM's), which of these provides a quicker scan time and less memory consumption. Using branches in 1 rung or individual rungs of code? I am using 8 SQO's in a indexing application they are all triggered by the same bit, so I had them in a branch circuit, but for readability sake I think it would be better as individual rungs. Then my curiosity kicked in and I was wondering what would be the best option for performance? My other question is when creating a UDT, is there a structure that is best to layout the UDT. For example list all BOOL, REALS then DINTs, then STRINGS, etc? Thanks for any feedback. jstalman

Has anyone used Microsoft Sourcesafe to track revisions changes in Wonderware Intouch (I use the Archestra Galaxy setup in Wonderware. ) and Rslogix 500/5000? My IT Dept. wants us to start using this and I was tasked to see if both software suites were capable. My Rockwell rep said that logix 500/5000 are capable and Wonderware stated it is untested so not supported. So I was wondering if any of you use it and if so what positives or negatives did you find using it. Thanks J.Stalman

Has anybody used Wonderware Intouch CE on a Maple Systems CE HMI? What were your results?

Ok here is my question I want to get the fault data from the myaxis.CIPaxisFaults function. I used a GSV to get the data but it wont let me break it down into the bit form. Any Ideas how I can get the specific fault code from this? Thanks in advance J. Stalman

Each machine is on the plant wide network. I was unsure if I could duplicate the IP's so I just gave each device its own (Servo, VFD, Point I/O, Safety Controller, HMI, PLC, managed switch) this is my first Ethernet / IP project. We also wanted to be able to look at each device remotely. Maybe I over thunk it, IT gave me 2 Subnet's worth of addresses for automation purposes. ? I'm not sure what you are talking about when you say Pusher_Extended_Time? Sorry, This is also my first Logix5000 project. I hope to learn more tomorrow at the Rockwell on the road classes i am taking on Ethernet / IP. I hope this clears it up a bit. If there is a better way please let me know I am always open for suggestions and improvement.

Hey Y'all, I have a Compactlogix Processor (1769-L36ERM) with a memory card in it. I was wondering if i could save my User Defined Data on this card. I want to use this to store my recipes but I have 20 machines that will be using the same recipes and I want a solution to keeping them all updated and the same. If I update 1 I want to update all 20 of them so they are all the same. Maybe there is a better way. Each machine has like 8 IP address assigned to the I/O which is different from machine to machine. Thanks for any help.

I have a project where I am using a small prox to count the teeth on a 64 tooth gear. My problem is i don't know how to set this up so I get RPM out of it. I do have the users manual, I still couldn't figure out how to get RPM. My processor is a Compactlogix L36ERM. Any Help would be great. J.Stalman

I am currently working on a project and was wondering what everyone's option of the Wonderware Intouch product is vs The Rockwell FactoryTalkView ME. I currently run FTV and I feel its just ok. I have a new project where I can run the Wonderware product it looks great but I'm not sure about ease of programmability, and if it is user friendly compared to FTV. So let me know what you think.

Thanks a bunch Ken worked great!

I have an application running a 1769-L36ERM, a industrial PC,two kentix 350 drives and a PF70 with the 20 comm Ethernet. I want the tag axis.actualposition which is coming from the servo drive to update alot faster on the Industrial pc, I am running FT 6.10 ME on the pc. Is there a way I can do this?

Thanks I'll have to look up the manual.