Hi,
I am installing a Shihlin AX1n-40MR-ES into a Taiwanese machine tool at my factory. This will be the 3rd PLC purchased from the original manufacturer to put into this decades old machine due to obsolescence and battery failures. The manufacturer of the machine tool has always refused to share the ladder logic or any of the programming. Mainly I work in Automation Direct PLC's with occasional forays into AB. I am done with relying on the tool builder. I know this PLC is basically a Mitsubishi PLC and I will get the correct cable to extract the program (SC-09) but I would like to know the least expensive alternative of software to extract the program. I would be fine with a graphical representation of the ladder diagram and then I can develop a program using my own tools and hardware.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Greg
