blupony96

RSLogix Tag Name Confusion

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I am trying to learn the logic of a process at my new job. There are tag names that I can't make sense of because they end with _xva, _xvb, _xvu, _xvd, _xvo, _xvc, _zsm, _zsu, _zsc, _zso, _zsd and so on and so forth. I know they are associated with motion, but I need to make better sense of them. There are no descriptors. What do they mean and is there a resource available that I can reference?

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Those abbreviations have nothing to do with RSLogix5000, but rather are equipment identifiers from the ISA or ANSI and tend to come from P&IDs.  Example _zsc tends to be "Limit Switch Closed Position" and _zso tends to be "Limit Switch Opened Position".

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