DrMaryStone

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    I'm very new to sysmac. I am trying to display the current date and time in the corner of each of my HMI pages. I saw a button labeled date and time. It is asking for a variable for behavior. Do I need to write some basic structured text or FB in plc to get date and time and pass it over? I figured the button would update itsself since when I placed it on the screen it had the current date and time and refreshes every time I leave the page and come back. 

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    36 minutes ago, gclshortt said:

    I would start with where the information is stored in the PLC. Can you monitor the location in the PLC and see the information that you want to display?
    Remember that the HMI is simply a reflection of the information that is currently in the PLC.

    Regards,
    Garry

    36 minutes ago, gclshortt said:

    I would start with where the information is stored in the PLC. Can you monitor the location in the PLC and see the information that you want to display?
    Remember that the HMI is simply a reflection of the information that is currently in the PLC.

    Regards,
    Garry

    Hi gclshortt. Thanks for the advice. I did find an internal variable names shuttle position for each of our motors. I am currently writing a mapping sequence to move them to global variables I can access through the HMI. My next step is to figure out how I want to display this information on the HMI. Any tips? 

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    I am fresh out of school and new to automation programming. My employer has asked me to come up with a way to show through the HMI the position of an encoder. Are there any HMI tools that do this in sysmac? Again I have limited experience. 

     

    Thanks