Chris Elston

Download the ZIP file and read the document called "SETUP.DOC". Follow the instructions to add the JIC Electrical Symbols Menu to your existing AutoCad 2000 menus. This add-on does not affect or alter any of your existing menus. You'll be a

Updated Version 5.1 released April 21, 2008
Version 6.0 can be read online here: http://sites.google.com/site/automatedmanufacturingsystems/

Common Allen Bradley Cable Pin-Outs
1747-CP3_1756-CP3-PinOut
1761-CBL-AS03 & 1761-CBL-AS09 Cable Pin-Out
1761-CBL-PM02-PinOut
1784-CAK-PinOut
1784-CP10-PinOut
1784-CP3-PinOut
2711-NC21 and 2711-NC22 cables for the PanelView

This is a special EVMOVE USB that will allow you to move your floppy activation to a USB stick drive. Then you can EVMOVE from USB stick drive to an Industrial PC that does not have a floppy drive. You still have to have a source floppy like your laptop

Zip file contains RSS file and PDF file for those that do not have RS Logix 4.x version. Ever have a bunch of 3 phase motors and wanted to start them up one at a time so you don't dim the lights in the building? Check this sample out. Also shows some

Scada Guide from Allen Bradley's website.

This is an example of a spreadsheet using DDE to get data from a SLC500. We used RS LINX Single Node and a computer to read data from a SLC500. The spread sheet has alot of extra Visual Basic Scripting to handled file name & renaming. For example w

THIS PROGRAM IS RUNING IN MY HOME. I HAVE SLC5/04 24K Mem OS400 AND TOUCH SCREEN TOTAL CONTROL 10 1/2" COLOR. IT CONTROLS SPRINKLERS POOL PUMP LIGHTS WINDOWS BLINDS DOOR LOCKS......

This manual describes the maintenance and connection of the R–J3iB Mate robot controller (called the R–J3iB Mate).

This example shows a simple method to get data out of an Allen-Bradley PLC for display in a Visual BAsic program via RSLinx Professional.

Getting started with The Allen-Bradley SLC500 programmable controller and RsLogix500 software
Aim of this booklet :
To introduce the first time user to The Allen Bradley
Slc 500 plc RsLogix 500 software and RsLinx software.
The bookl

This wasn’t a normal “job” per say but more like helping our machinist staff from babysitting the Japax Wire EDM machine. For those of you that don’t know a wire EDM can take a long time to make cuts in a part sometimes. There was a part that we made t

Just a nice panel view application that was done on a index table machine. This panel view had manual functions for each motion and showed a picture of the index table and a status of each head.

How to use this file: Open up excel and change your symbols and description as you like to the corresponding addresses in the PLC. You can even add BIT or N registers if you want just add the address and follow the format provided. When finished in excel

Here is an Excel sheet which lists just about every combination Allen Bradley communication cable known to man. What an awesome reference! One of our MrPLC readers shared this with me and asked me to upload this for everyone. This is one of those got

PLC Communicator is a windows application that can be used to program Allen Bradley (PLC2) PLC's. Some of this programs details are listed below.
Main features
Simple and easy to use interface for quick programming and maintainence

This is an example RS View 32 application with a RS Logix 500 PLC program (Micrologix 1500). Basically it was an interface that captured the peak lbs reading from five load cells. Each time the station cycled RS View would log the peak lbs of force for

This is a demo of a simple temperature sensing demo that utilizes a Micrologix 1000 PLC and an Analog Devices Inc. AD590 temperature transducer. This demo should help with the understanding of analog inputs on the Micrologix PLC.

This file for Siemens 200 PLCs will create a rolling average of the last 100 scans worth of an analog input.

Demo Version. Read/Write data points in the PLC. Monitor data points up to 10 times/second. Supported PLCs: FX series FX0 series FX2N. Connections made to programming port via SC09 programming cable and Palm Hotsync cable with simple adapter (wiring di

This is a sample clipped from a bigger program. This example uses a RAMP function to control an analog card 0-5V signal to a MicroMo DC controller. What the RAMP function does in this example is very useful to control an ACCEL or DEACCEL value to your an

PDF Booklet written by Dr. Stephen J. O'Neil that explains some of the design concepts of using motion control and how motion control really works. The PDF booklet is about 78 pages long. Enjoy!

Tech doc I got from an inside support guy from GE Fanuc. Helpful work around guide for getting CME working if you upgraded to service pack 2. Hopefully you haven't until everyone patches all their software.

This is another index table type machine that used a panel view 550. This panel view controlled a high pot tester three IA servos and a Unson Leak Tester module. All the automation heads had manual functions and run one cycle buttons. There was also a

Classic example of a FIFO (First in First Out) Load and Unload.
Application was bottles coming down a conveyor system at a "variable" rate and sporadic. Sometime 10 bottles would be grouped together all in single file others they would be spaced out oneisy twoisy.
A photoeye was used in a vision cell up stream this photo triggered the vision system and loaded the FIFO at the same time.
A photoeye was placed downstream next to an air blow off nozzle. This created a "zone" at which you could load and unload the FIFO and keep track of bad bottle in-between your zone. Bottle QTY could vary between the vision photoeye and reject photoeye.
The vision system was triggered and part status was loaded into N7:0. A 1 means good part a 2 means bad part. The 1 or a 2 was loaded into a FIFO and placed into N7:1 at the reject air station. If the FIFO status equals 1 at reject it was allowed to pass if equal to 2 the air nozzle was turned on under a timed blow off.
This was a field installed retrofit project that involved a 10 point Micrologix 1000 that cost $72.00 4 Keyence Vision systems and 2 Banner EZ-Beam photoeyes. Cake work.