The Fast Way To Configure Point IO On Devicenet
While software configurable devices on DeviceNet save you having to set DIP switches manually, you get into trouble when you power on your network and there are multiple devices that need to have their address set for the first time. Each of these devices typically defaults to address 63, [...]
VIDEO PREMIERE at Manufacturing in America 2019
Our team is very excited to be back this year for the Manufacturing in America event hosted by Siemens and Electro-Matic. We will be joined by over 3,200 manufacturing executives, engineers and enthusiasts gathering inside Ford Field in downtown Detroit on March 20th and 21st. We will participating in [...]
Siemens S120 Acyclic Communication Block
When working with Siemens Sinamics S120 drives, it's common to have to home/reference the drives at a known location. The drive should be referenced during commissioning, after replacing the motor, or after any event that would cause the position of the encoder to differ from the actual position of [...]
Byteswapping in Siemens S7
When dealing with communication between two devices, often times we need to swap the bytes in the incoming/outgoing words to have the data correctly represented on both devices. Rockwell has the handy SWPB function to do this for you in ladder logic, but as far as we know Step [...]
Siemens Random Number Generator
It was brought up to us a while ago that it might be useful to have a block for Siemens that generates a random number in order to simulate noise or other various random conditions. We searched online to try and find an example but found that most of [...]
“Unable to Copy Block” Error in Siemens Step7
As s Certified Siemens Solution Partner we are used to working with Siemens software and have received extensive training. But we are still human beings and as we all know, errors can occur and sometimes it is a struggle to figure out what is going, especially if you are [...]