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  1. Hello Guys, I have a Mitsubishi A8000 series vfd with an encoder card and also encoder. With analog (0-10V) signal i can read back the current speed. The conveyor convey paper sheets. Occasionally they change the width of the paper but the the two type of paper is connected. We have a camera on the begging of the conveyor, and we would like to lets say cut it 2 meter later. But the position should be very precise otherwise we are not cut it in the good position. The cutting procedure would happen also an asynchronous motor or with servo motor.  Is it possible to write a tracking program and cut paper sheet in a good position ? My plane is to stop the CV in the position and waiting for the cut and go on.  The plc is Allen Bradley, control logix 5580. Any tip would be appreciated. Thank you so much. 
  2. I'm writing a PLC program (Q Series Mitsubishi PLC, GXWORKS 2 Software) for a package sorting machine. The logic of the machine is the following:   Packages are induced in the conveyor. A barcode reader scanner gets the package barcode. Barcode is send to our SMS (sorting management system), it calcules the exit and send it back to the PLC. Package travels to the calculed exit, then is derived into the chute.   The tracking of the products is done by an encoder and a shift register. This means that every memory address represents a physical position in the conveyor. Then, the shift register move the bits representing the packages along the memory buffer, till the bit arrives to an address that represents an exit, so the package can be derived.   My problem is not the tracking of the product, but the product ID tracking:   When a package enters in the conveyor, an ID is set for that product (1,2,...,n). The idea is that this ID is used to track the state of that package, for example if the package was derived in the correct exit, if it has a damaged barcode, etc.   My question is, how can I track this ID along in an efficient way. I was thinking in use the same shift register not moving a sole bit, but moving a larger number for example |1|0000011|, where the first bit acts like a flag that represents the existence of a product and the rest of the numbers is the product ID. When the flag gets to the exit address I can substract 10000011 - 10000000 = 00000011, to get the product ID.   Is any more efficient way to do this ?
  3. Platform:  Logix5000 I have a relatively simple task I am trying to complete.  I need to track the status of a 100 part sequence to see how many parts have been rejected.  Essentially, I need to keep track of the last 100 cycles and count how many parts of the last 100 have been vision rejects.  I have written most of the logic, using FIFO with an integer with an array of size of 100.  Where I am getting stuck a bit is how to accurately get the count of the array.  I did make a for statement which will count the array and add it to a counter if the first bit is equal to 1, but this doesn't seem to be a clean way to do it, as I would also need to clear that counter before running the for statement.     Thanks,