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 discussions and seminars about the [...]
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 the machine axis. Referencing the [...]
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 7 doesn't have a block [...]
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 them were in actuality not [...]
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 working on a time sensitive [...]
“This is an event that is helping to shape manufacturing in America and across the globe. You have all the key players in one place, and the discussions are focused on the issues that are driving the industry. If you want to be on the leading edge of manufacturing development, why wouldn’t you be [...]
