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Shawn walks through adding a Mettler Toledo IND360 on Ethernet/IP to Studio 5000 for use with Compact and ControlLogix, and Imports and Tests the IND360 Faceplates for FactoryTalk View in Episode 31 of The Automation Show, Season 2.For any links related to this episode, check out the “Show Notes” located below the video.
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The Automation Show, Season 2 Episode 31 Show Notes: Links for more information about Mettler Toledo’s IND360: IND360 Distributed Control eBook * IND360 Industrial Weighing Solution * IND360 Ease of Integration White Paper * IND360 Downloads (EDS File) * IND360 AOI and Faceplates*
*** Links mentioned in episodeProgramming Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, episode 31 is releasing prior to episode 30 😉
Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Automation Show. Sean Tierney here from Insights and Automation. And today on the show we’re going to integrate the Indy three hundred sixty from Mettler Toledo into studio five thousand with Compact Logix five thousand three eighty, as well as into Factorytalk View Studio. And I think you guys are going to really enjoy this. This is a pretty cool integration here, and they did a great job, I think, with, uh, providing all the files that we need to make this happen. Now, that said, I do want to thank Mettler Toledo, who sponsored this episode, so we would make it completely ad free. So thank you to them. And with that said, let’s go over to the computer here and get started and let me press the right button here. Okay. So here we are on the computer. You can see I’ve got SES links open. You can see I have well getting ready for another in-person hands on class. Um, we’re going to be doing a special here. So if you guys want to buy block of times for in-person training next year, let me know. The special price is only good through the end of twenty twenty five. So even though you don’t have to take the training until twenty twenty six. But in any case, um, what we’re going to see here is this is the PLC I’m going to use this is my Or pack. This is my uh, L368 fifty three eighty, I think I got thirty seven in it. And then up here you can see the IND three sixty shows up on the network. But it’s got the big yellow question mark. Right. And you guys all know what that is. If you’ve been watching me for a while we need to load the file now. I already have a Logix uh, studio five thousand project open, and this is the one I used for the 3D, uh, digital twin that I’ll be given to my students. Actually play with that quite a bit this weekend, trying to refine it, get it ready for students. But in any case, that’s great for those students who can’t come in to do hands on training. We’re going to give them a virtual trainer at no charge. So in any case, we’re just going to repurpose this for use with the Mettler Toledo. No. And let’s go ahead and find out a little bit more about the version here. I think it’s thirty seven. Yeah. Thirty seven. There you can see the, uh, catalog number. And so let me go ahead and close that. Now the first thing I want to do here is bring that file in. You guys know I have a shortcut on my desktop to both the editors installation wizard and the device installation wizard. Pretty much the same thing, but, you know, it’s under here on the tools as well. So the device description installation tool will open that up here. And I will include in the description the links to where I got the files I’m using today. So you don’t have to search that and worry about where to get them. You’ll find both links there. There’s one for the editors file, and then there’s another for the add on instruction we’re going to be using. And the faceplates for Factorytalk view. So pretty cool stuff. Let me just walk through the wizard here. Uh we’re going to register a single file. Let’s go browse I think I put it into my documents on this virtual machine. Okay. So empty. And there’s my editor’s file. Okay. And next. Okay. Pretty quick. Brought it right in. There it is. And we’re all done. Beautiful. So now the next thing I forgot to do is I’ve got to add that to my studio five thousand project. I just happen to know I’m plugged into A2. So I’m going to right click and do new module. After a moment it comes up and I’m going to just search on Indd three hundred sixty. Yeah. And there it is. Okay. So because we added the editors file, now it shows up here in the available items to add to our Ethernet. So let’s go ahead and create that. Okay. You can see the configuration. Of course every time we add something to Ethernet IP right. We got to have or add it to the uh to the I o tree. Right I o configuration. We got to have a name for it. So I’m going to call this empty underscore I three sixty underscore zero one. Now the important thing to note here is whatever I name the physical device I cannot give the instance the same name. So we’ll just give our AI. When we get to that point. We’ll just call it indie three sixty without the underscore in the front. Now I’m not going to give it a description, the IP address. I’m going to use the default IP address one nine two dot one six eight dot zero dot two. We talked about that in the last episode that we did on the indie three sixty, and we’re going to go ahead and click on okay. And with that done I’m just going to go ahead and click on okay. And now you can see it down here under A2. All right. So that’s all the I o I wanted to add. Now that’s great I have a unit there I can talk to. But usually you want to get an add on instruction right. That’s going to get all the information and put it together in a nice easy to look at format. Plus it’ll format it for the faceplate we use in Talk View Studio. So let’s go ahead and see about importing that in. Again I’m going to give you the links to the files I’m using today okay. So in any case I’m just going to open up my main routine. And instead of bringing in the AI, I’m going to bring in a run with the AI on it. Um, kind of kills two birds with one stone. So let’s go ahead and import a rung, and I’m going to go back to those files I downloaded and under here. As you can see I drilled down I get to this and you can see you get the AI or rung. So I’m going to bring the rung in. You got to put it on a rung anyway. So eliminates one step right now at this point it’s going to come up and say hey we need some more information here. So on the tags right. It says the instance name. Well what do I want to give this instance. So let me go ahead and select that out of there. And then I’ll come up here and do a find replace. And I’ll say let’s replace instance with what do we say we’re going to do in D three hundred sixty. Underscore zero one making sure we’re not using the same name. We gave the object the actual I o itself. And we’ll do replace all okay. So now we have a real instance names. All right I’m not going to play around with the description. You can play with that if you want. But now I have to actually tell it. Well what’s the module. So let’s go down here and we will see. We have the IND empty IND three hundred sixty inputs okay. So let me select those and we’ll do the outputs as well. There we go. All right. So that’s all good. Now let’s come down here to other components and saying module name okay. What’s the module. Where is it. There she is right there okay. Now if you look over here I have no more flags. Right. All the flags are gone. So I’m in pretty good shape. So I’m going to click on okay. And we should see it. Bring it right in here. It’s going to add all kinds of data types and custom data types, add on instructions, and all kinds of stuff that go with what you would expect with an add on instruction. You see them over there on the left, all that get added in. But what we’re really concerned with is this add on instruction block. You can see right here. Right. And I want to show you something about that right now I think mine went as a program tag. Let’s see. Yeah it went in the program tags. That’s okay. So in any case look at all of this that you get you get all these command bits right. You get all of these uh set you get status. Status is really the stuff I’m looking at here just to make sure it’s updating. So, you know, is the current. Wait, I have a demo on the scale, so I have a demo case on the scale. I didn’t want to bring in all the lentils and make a mess. So I just have a demo case on the scale around thirteen kilograms. And so, um, all of this is done for you all in the names, right? You would think a name of a function block, you know, these kind of follow those same names. So in any case, it just makes everything very, very easy. Now there’s no description over here because I didn’t change the description. All right. So I probably should have put change the description too. But in any case. So I got instance description. Of course those are all coming down from the parent. So if I change this to let’s say empty underscore I three sixty underscore zero one, then all of them change. Right. Because you can see they’re grayed out. So they’re getting they’re inheriting the the beginning of the description from above. Okay. So let’s see what we’re going to do here next. So we get that in we get the main I think we’re ready to download. Let’s let’s try it. Let’s go ahead and go to communications to active. And just waiting for it to come up. Let’s go find our PLC here. Boom I know I say still say PLC sometimes guys, but I know it’s Rockwell. It’s officially a pack, but, uh, It’s just who I am. Same plc a lot longer than Pike. I think it’s funny too, because you’ve got partners of Rockwell who have connectors to their products, and they call them the Rockwell PLC connector. It’s not a PLC, it’s a PAC. But anyways, doesn’t matter to me. Call it what you want. So we’re downloading now to the controller and if everything was done correctly, we should be able to go in there and see the current weight. Right. I don’t have everything hooked up. We can’t spray lentils all over the place. But in any case, you should be able to see that we are connected. We should have green IO up and we should be able to see the current weight at least. And all right, so I got green io. That means everything’s working right. I’m online. I got green io. Everything’s happy here. Okay, let’s go and see if we can find the current weight here. Because I think it’s about thirteen kilograms. We got all these statuses coming in. Okay. Gross weight minus twenty three. That’s a little lower than I thought it would be. Okay, here’s the net weight. Thirteen. Now, I have something in here that weighs a little bit more. All right, so let me go ahead and put it on top of the scale here. Yep. We got up to fourteen point two five. So I’m feeling really confident that everything’s working. I got green lights no errors in my tree. I got the current weight coming in. I thought that was super easy right? And so as long as you have the links to those files, it’s easy. Now what’s also easy is getting it to work with the factorytalk view. Okay. Now, the first thing, of course, this is a what I did is I decided to open up the objects five screen demo. Just figured we’d use that. And the first thing I’m going to do, I already have effective talk links open. I figured we would create a shortcut here, and I’m just going to call it, uh, five thousand three hundred eighty. Okay. And so that’s my unit. And that is the one here at one seventy four. So I’m going to go ahead and apply that shortcut here. You guys I’ve been doing these videos on creating shortcuts for over a decade now, almost two decades now. So I’m sure you guys are familiar with that. I’m going to not that I’m going to download to a panel view. Plus, I do have panel view pluses on the shelf here. But just to just to be thorough, I’m going to copy from design the runtime okay. And then I’m going to click on okay to save everything. And so now my shortcuts done from my project. This object five screen demo doesn’t didn’t have any connections to a PLC. So the next thing I want to do is I want to bring in the face plates okay. And you typically will start with the images. Okay. Now I notice when I was doing the images okay I’m going to go back to my documents okay. Indd three sixty Mettler Toledo files, general files, device library and Factorytalk images. Not on the mask. It’s on the factorytalk images. And one of the things I noticed when I brought these in, they came in really slow. So I’m not going to. I already did it just to save us time. Okay, so all those images have been added, but you typically want to do that first because the objects, the global objects have you use those images. So the next thing we’ll do is we’ll go to global objects and let’s add those in. And if you’ve never added any type of faceplates or plant packs or anything like that, this is a standard procedure you go through. So the next thing is I bring in the global objects. Let me do me. I’m just doing me for simplicity. Um, let’s see here. I’ll bring both those in. I did not choose the update my SC license on my technical tech connect, because I don’t plan on updating my SC costs in the next few months, but I do want to update my piano view plus costs in twenty twenty six, so I forgot to get that on the support. Okay, so I brought in those global objects there. You can see them right there. Okay. Now let’s bring in the display Add component into application. And there’s the display. Okay. That’s great. Now, this display is it expects you to pass something to it. When I play test it, I don’t have anything pass to it. So it’s going to say hey what do you want to put in parameter number one. And I believe if I remember to documents in this there’s instructions in there’s actually a nice PDF with instructions in there. Um let me go ahead and do show server names, which I love to do. I wish that was on by default. Okay. And then there’s my pack and then it wants what it wants. Is that tag for the Indy three hundred sixty. So that’s it right there okay. So I’ll click on okay and say let’s test play it with that as parameter number. The first parameter okay. Give it a second. And boom okay. Customer defined under load okay. That’s great. Well I don’t have that big hefty uh thing on it. But as you can see here, um, we can come through here and we can look at things. I’m going to go ahead and just put a little extra weight on the scale, and we can see it changing. Oh, now it’s ready. So I must be at least as heavy as that big piece of equipment, the feeder that we were using in the last episode. Okay. And, um, we have already we don’t have the error anymore. You can see all of this information here. Okay. And this is just great. You get this for free. It’s all done for you, right? There’s our error. Let me see if I, uh, take some weight off of it. Yeah, we get another error because it’s expecting to have that big, um, feeder on top of it. Right. Okay. And so this is all done for you. You don’t have to do anything. And I just think that’s amazing. Um, if you’re using mettler-toledo, the NDI three hundred sixty, and you’re going to use Factorytalk view now, I believe they also have files across view. Um, very, very similar. I thought I saw something in there for panel view Five thousand. I didn’t see anything for optics, but I could be wrong on that. But in any case, I’m just varying my weight on here as, um. As. So we can see the chat goes up and down, but you see how easy that was? I mean, really, we just have to tell it you’re looking for. And again, this is all in the manual. You’re looking for the actual instance we want to, to connect this to. And you could you could actually have different buttons for different instances. Let’s say you had ten insta360’s out there. Or you could have ten different buttons to choose which one. Or you could use a select a list, whatever you want to do, right. But in any case, I just wanted to show you this because I thought it was just. The integration is so sweet, so quick. The really the only thing you need are those files and I’m going to link to them. Right. Some of them are on my website, some are on Rockwell’s website, which I thought was interesting. But in any case, you know, they’re in a compass partner. So, um, and I do want to thank let’s go back to the main screen here. I do want to thank, um, Mettler Toledo for sponsoring this so I could show you this with zero ads and let me know. Did you like that? I thought it went together really quick. It’s not one of those videos where I was spending a day banging my head against the wall. No, it was very easy. As long as you have the right files, boom, boom, boom. It’s all set up and working. And again, I appreciate Mettler-toledo for letting me borrow their demo and for sponsoring these two episodes so that I could bring them to you ad free, and I could afford to actually spend the time with the product and learn it and use it. So with that, we’ll be shipping this back out. You may actually see this exact demo at Automation Fair if you’re going. I actually have a different vendor who has hired me to come and do interviews at their trade show, so I won’t be at automation fair, at least not Tuesday and Wednesday right now, because I’ll be somewhere else. But in any case, you got to you got to follow the money, right? If you want to keep the lights on with that, I want to thank you all. I want to thank you, members. I want to thank all you viewers and listeners, and I just want to wish you all good health and happiness.
And until next time, my friends. Peace.
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Shawn discusses how many so called “experts” don’t use the correct terminology when referring to Rockwell and Siemens Modules in today’s episode of #AutomationTechTalk Lunchtime Edition livestream:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey everybody. It’s Sean Tierney here from Insights and Automation. And I’m trying something completely new. I hope it’s working. I hope you can hear me. I’m actually in a different room here. What I’m calling studio C, which as I’m updating all my PLC courses, I need to I needed another spot to be able to, um, film videos.
And so I’m kind of looking off to the side because I need to get another monitor in here. But in any case, I hope you’re doing well. I don’t know if you guys are seeing my audio. I don’t know if you’re hearing my audio or seeing my video. I don’t know what the quality is, but hey, you get to try things out. I’m actually trying Restream instead of StreamYard because there’s some audio delays with the StreamYard that, uh, if you’re not using the webcams, audio or whatever.
So in any case, I just figured I’d just, uh, show you, uh, you know, test this out. And I wanted to talk to you about discrete versus digital. I o so I’ve seen some people who call themselves experts. Of course, you guys know I train for a living. I teach, uh, you know, Allen-bradley, Siemens PLC, HMI and SCADA and, uh, you know, there’s a lot of competition out there, a lot of people saying they’re experts and a lot of them actually share incorrect information.
And one of the not so, not so horrible information is shares when they’re calling Rockwell’s IO discrete IO. And of course, if you want to use the word discrete, fine. Right. I always use the word digital. And I’ll show you why I use that word. And I know even in Rockwell, there was controversy years ago, I remember seeing a, uh, a letter come out from Rockwell. I don’t know if it was rescinded or not, saying we’re going to go from one to the other or whatever, but in any case, it kind of came to mind. Uh, I was reminded of this. Let me go to my my screen here, but I recently, uh, partnered with Schneider Electric, uh, great company to cover their modicon edge. Io wants a new a whole bunch of io they came out with, and I think it’s really cool. I filmed, I think, a forty five or fifty minute, uh, episode on it. They’re reviewing it now Ensure there’s no additional graphics they want to add or anything I technically got wrong. That’s one of the things we do with our sponsors, is they can go through and say, did you cut this? Add this. You know, just just we want to make sure it’s technically correct. They don’t they don’t get the storyboard, a script, the the episode.
But in any case, it was a lot of fun doing that episode. It’s again, it’s not ready to go out yet, but soon. Uh, in any case, um, I noticed I kept saying digital I o and their modules specifically say on them discrete I o. And so, um, I just noticed that the restream is putting their logo right over my face. Isn’t that nice? So let me take care. See, this is what we call about testing things. You get to test things out. And I have a very easy fix for that. No, that’s not what I wanted to do. Thank you. All right, we’ll put that over there. Okay. That solves that problem.
So in any case, um, you know, and I so I’m recording the video. I keep saying digital I o and then I’m opening the boxes and they see discrete and I’m like, oh that’s, that’s very interesting. It’s a different um, they use a different name for that. And I’m like, you know, I’m curious, you know, I’m saying digital I o because it’s a Rockwell thing, right? I’m like, I’m curious, what does Siemens call their I oh, now they call their I o modules. Signal modules. Right. Which is a slight difference. So I brought up the online uh tool here with Siemens. I said let’s see. And it’s digital modules digital and analog modules. Right. So you have digital and digital digital in out. Right. I’m like okay. So Siemens is using the word uh digital instead of discrete like Rockwell.
And uh, but but Schneider is using discrete and not that it’s a big deal. Again, I’m doing this part as a, you know, tongue in cheek picking on some of my competition or uses the wrong terminology with the wrong brands, but also just to test out. And we already found some some mistakes already, but with the Restream. But in any case, before buying Restream, I want to test it out to make sure it does what I want it to do. So in any case. So I’m like, okay, Sean, are you are you sure Rockwell uses the word digital, right? And I remember this letter coming out twenty years ago saying, you know, digital, discrete, blah, blah, blah. I don’t remember the detail. So I said, let’s go up and look at the latest control logics IO module, um, selection guide and or control logic selection guide. And you can see right here very clearly they call them digital input and output modules. Let’s see if we go down we see some more of these.
Okay. So the IB sixteen being one of the most popular ones. So I checked around and compact logics was the same. And I’m like well let’s go back in time. Let’s check. Uh slick five hundred. Yep. Digital I o and analog io. And I’m like, how about the flex back from the early nineties or mid nineties I should say. Yep. They use flex IO digital and analog okay. And I’m like, all right. Great. So these other people who claim to be experts aren’t using the right terminology with what they’re supposed to be an expert with. That tells you something, right? That tells you something. But I’m like, can I find any instance where Rockwell uses the word discrete? Right. So I came over to the selection guide for the Micrologix digital I o. Okay. Not discrete good.
So I said, you know what? I’m just going to search the knowledge base. Um, actually the literature library on ABC.com, I’m going to say let’s look for anything that has the word discrete in it, because I know I’ve seen this word before with Rockwell, and I did find a few. There’s only twenty results out of the entire, I don’t even know, hundreds of thousands of literature out there that had discrete. And so I wanted to pick out a few that relate to plc I o cards that use the word discrete. And so here we have some of the old block I o. I actually got some will be adding that in the PLC course I’m filming. I will be doing that on remote I o but the old block I o you can see this manual. And what was the year on this? Let me just go to the. Sometimes you have to go to the back nineteen ninety four. And they’re calling it the block I o discrete I o blocks okay. So that’s an example right. And then there was another one here. Right.
For I o Ponyo installation instructions. They use the word discrete as well. I thought that was interesting. What year is that from? Uh, well, it was updated in twenty. It’s twenty twenty five. So. So, you know, apparently they’re okay with using interchanging the terms here and there. And then I found this old compact io um, release note that called them discrete IO module. So my question to you is what do you call them. Now I know there’s there’s like twenty. And these all are some of these have to do with um machines with sensors, light arrays and all that kind of stuff. There’s very few, probably under ten documents you can find on Rockwell’s. Um, I’m just checking to make sure the video is coming out on Rockwell’s, uh, literature library. That will refer to IO module as discrete versus digital. And I already showed you at the beginning here, you know, all the current literature and all the old literature really had a preference for digital IO and that that kind of just reinforced when I was doing that. Modern, um, video. I was like, I keep saying digital, but the modules say discrete. Where did this where did this digital come from? It’s the vast majority of Rockwell’s documentation. Call it digital IO not discrete, but I’m curious, what do you use?
Do you say digital IO or discrete IO? And do you agree with me that if you’re working with Rockwell or Siemens, as we saw on their website, that you should be using the term digital? But when you’re working with Schneider, at least the edge io nts, you should be using the term discrete. And I know it doesn’t matter one bit, but, you know, hey, if I’m going to test out the studio and the mic and the video camera, it might as well might as well have something to chat about, right? This is automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition, and I thought this might be a fun little topic to talk about again. Does it really matter? No. But, um, you know, one of the things I try to do is pay attention to the different, um, vendors terminology because I don’t like getting it wrong myself. Right.
And so in any case, I just thought that would be something fun to talk about. Now, I don’t know if because I’m trying out Restream. I don’t know if I’ll be able to see any chat to see if anybody’s chatted. So let me see if I can do that. Uh. I would need that. Okay, great. So I don’t see anything in the chat, and, um. Which is fine. As a matter of fact, uh, Restream seems to be a long way behind me. So if you’re. You may just be watching this now, it looks like Restream is, like, five, ten minutes behind me, which is really weird. I don’t know why they would be so far behind, but. Oh, well, it doesn’t matter.
In any case, uh, I just a couple of things that I’m working on right now in case this video is working. Um, the first thing is, um, we are working on a second video on the indie three hundred sixty. That’s what I’ll be doing right after this. And then, um, with that, we have another video coming up on Prtg that was sponsored, and they’ve had some people come and go and had some time problems scheduling it. But I do want to show how to use that TRG with um, uh, factorytalk view, which I thought would be cool. And then we got a lot of new. I got a lot of new demos to make. Um, we covered most of the demo one, Siemens, one I have, I have a bunch of other third party products and some Rockwell products. I’m going to make those demo boards up for in-person training. If you know anybody who needs in-person training, tell them to reach out to me.
I’m going to be actually sending fliers out, uh, with a special if people want to buy a block in time for twenty twenty six to come to in-person training. And, um, so it’ll be a, it’ll be a discount, but that’ll be it. That discount won’t carry into twenty twenty six. So with that, I think that’s everything. Hope to have more of these. Again. We’ll have some more demos in the studio probably maybe in here depending on how this is working out. But in any case, um, look for more videos coming out this week, maybe some even some more lunchtime videos. And I want to wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time my friends. Peace.
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Shawn details the MD-34A Windows 10 Industrial Tablet Desk Dock from Siemens in Episode 45 of The Automation Minute, Season 5.
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Shawn Tierney here from Insights. And today, we’re gonna take a look at the desk dock for the MD dash 34 a Windows 10 tablet from Siemens. You remember I took a look at this I five tablet a while back, and at the time, I asked if they could send me the desk dock or docking station so that I could leave it here on the stage and actually use it because it’s a gray I five Windows PC that happens to also be a tablet and a barcode reader and an RFID reader and all these other things too. In any case, it did come in, several weeks later, and I filmed an episode.
I don’t know what happened to it, but it never got published. So, I wanted to in appreciation for them sending this over and sponsoring this episode so it’s ad free, I did wanna cover. So in any case, let me first, though, take this guy out and, shut her down because her fan is running. I got it doing all kinds of cool stuff. Now I was really surprised.
I turned it on and it still had all battery. Even though I hadn’t used it in months, it still had a full battery. So I really appreciated that. That’s cool. A lot of times at home, my tablet, you know, even if it’s off, it still will, drain batteries.
So I didn’t like that at all. So look at that guy turned off. Now I’m not gonna do an unboxing because the, the box was just a simple cardboard box that came in there wrapped in plastic and very secure, but there wasn’t a lot to show with that, so I didn’t go and dig up that archival footage. But what I do wanna do here now is go to overhead mode, and then let me go ahead and unplug the ethernet cable and the power cable. This This is the same power cable that came with the tablet.
Right? So you don’t have to go and buy that again. And let’s take a look at what comes with this, what they call their, desktop or what I would call a docking station. And I think we can even zoom in a little bit more on it. Here, let’s try.
Okay. The first thing I wanted to show you is that it has these two metal pegs that make it very easy to align the actual tablet when you go to pull it in. I’m gonna go ahead and bring the tablet back out here, and we can see those two little holes there. And so that makes it extremely easy to align it up and put it in there nice and secure. Right?
And so I really like that. And so that’s the first thing here, and you can see all the connections down there at the bottom. Alright. And then if we take a look at the back here, this is where we see this is where I have the power going in. And here we can see two, sorry, two USB two point o’s, not three point o’s.
Alright. There is a three point o and a USB c in the unit itself. And then we have another RJ 45. This is a ten one hundred. So this is great if you’re just leaving it on your desk and, when you plug in, you wanna get off Wi Fi.
Again, there’s an r j 45 in the unit itself as well, for Ethernet. Then we have the, VGA out. Like I said on the unit, it has an HDMI and a USB c, But, VGA now a lot of you may be saying, well, VGA, what am I gonna do with that? I have a lot of VGA output devices here in the studio that actually are very easy to convert it to either DVI or HDMI or, you know, display port, you know. So, 99%.
I have actually haven’t found a monitor or a television that didn’t, accept converting VGA to high definition and it looks great. Then we have our serial port, which is awesome too because if you had some legacy serial device you had to connect to the computer, you know, you could do that right here. Right? So, a lot of times, you may have that if you’re replacing legacy equipment. So those are the major ports here.
Now on this side here, we do get two more USB two point o’s and these are great for I I just plugged in the dongle for my wireless mouse and keyboard, but, that’s great having that on the side as well. And then on this side, there’s really nothing. You can see the front. Again, this is sturdy. It’s it doesn’t feel like it’s going to float away.
Like, it has some weight to it. So when you set it down and it has rubber feet too. Let’s take a look at those. And, you know, I can zoom in too. So So I I feel very comfortable about leaving it here on the workbench and that it’s not gonna slide off.
And, you know, it has enough, heaviness to it. I know some of the the inexpensive stuff you buy these days, you put it on your desk, every time you move a wire, it sloshes around. Right? But, in any case, you can see it’s the MDDash34 A Dash D D. So you can see that there.
And, I gotta say, I haven’t had a docking station for a really long time. But with a tablet like this, I think it’s extremely useful because, you know, the whole point of having the tablet is that you’re going out and, you know, you need to be mobile. Maybe you’re checking on instruments or maybe you wanna just check on maybe you have an HMI or WinCC running on this. You wanna check on your, you know, and they do have a hand strap that you can get for this. Maybe you need to use the barcode reader.
They also have a dock for the forklift if you’re gonna use it with a forklift. But this allows you to get out there and do what you need to do mobile. A lot a lot easier to use than a laptop. Right? Trying to juggle a laptop.
But in any case and it’s aeronautic too. I know what my laptop, my, and I did a review on it, the MSI. It has some, some of its mounting feet depending on how you hold it. I’m not very comfortable. I’ll do that.
I’ll do an update on that in the future, but in any case, but, you know, you get back to your desk. You don’t wanna use this little screen. And then I know if you’re like me, you want a full size keyboard and a mouse. Right? So if I’m gonna be doing any type of serious, work on my computer, I need a full none of these small ones.
I need the full number pad. I need the full up, down, curses, everything. Right? All function keys if I’m gonna be efficient. And so you can do that with this.
Right? So I actually plugged this keyboard and mouse in there, and it was what is you know, it was exactly as, expected. One thing I didn’t do is to see how many monitors I could put up to it. I just didn’t wanna take everything apart and see if I could hook up, like, three different monitors to it. But in any case, I do think it supports, multi monitors.
And according to, the the manual for this set talking about extending the display versus mirroring. So in any case, you know, something to check out. You might wanna talk to your Siemens rep if you want more information about it. You know, if you’re thinking about, getting this and using the dock in your workspace. But with that, that’s really all I had unboxing of this desktop.
I’m gonna set it up over here, and I hope to use it from now on every day when I’m doing my videos and doing our automation, Tech Talk lunchtime additions, which will be coming back. Haven’t forgotten about those, but I do have a backlog of videos I’m trying to get through by the end of the fiscal year. So in any case, and this is one of them. I mean, like I said, I filmed it. I don’t know what happened to it.
Didn’t get released, so I wanted to make sure I got that out. And I got some other great stuff coming for you as well as we just had an episode of the History of Automation podcast that I’m doing on weekends with people talking about old automation products. So if you’re interested in that kinda old stuff, you know, pre February, like, you know, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, PLC five, some old monocons, and whatnot. We were talking about old TI five zero fives in a recent episode. Check that out.
If you go to the automationblog.com/automationmuseum, also, automationmuseum.org should take you there as well. But for some reason, it’s not redirecting today, so I got a tech support link in again, this is common stuff that should never have a problem, but I gotta take support link into them to get that redirect fixed. But in any case, I did wanna bring this to you. I do also wanna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace.
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Shawn walk’s through adding IO-Link devices to an IO-Link Master connected to a Rockwell Logix PAC using Studio 5000 in today’s episode of #AutomationTechTalk Lunchtime Edition livestream:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey everybody. Happy lunchtime. I hope everything is going great for you today. It is Friday, and I am pretty excited about that. Planning on spending a lot of time building more of these demos, this weekend.
I got all the stuff finally came in. So and then I’ll be sharing it with you over the next couple of weeks. Next week, I may have, more recorded content than live content. I’ll still try to release it at lunchtime, but, just some of the things I gotta do requires me to have, you know, to go through and do edits and whatnot. So in any case, though but I should be around almost all of next week, lunchtime, whether it’s recorded or live, I’ll be here.
But in any case, I just hope you all are having a great Friday. And today, we’re gonna do part two, and we’re gonna actually set up the two devices, the two IO Link devices. I thought this would be fun. Now if you guys are having any troubles hearing me or seeing me, please put it in the chat. Everything on my side looks like it’s working.
So, I’m just gonna go ahead and get started. Now I did play around with, some settings early this morning to see if I could get this to work. There we go. Okay. I I’m not a a huge fan of how they design everything, but, at least this is better than what we’re doing the other day.
In any case, we’re back in Studio 5000. And for anybody who didn’t catch yesterday’s show, what we did was we added these two. Let me see if I can switch over to those. We added nope. That’s not what I wanted to do, and that has to do with the selection.
You always have to select this. So let’s try it again. There we go. So we added these two devices to our ControlLogix, And we have one IO Link device here and one IO Link device here, but we already have the masters added to logic. So let’s go back here, and, yeah, I’ll click over here.
And now we’re inside logic, so you can see them right here down here. Make sure you guys are seeing what I’m seeing. And, now what we need to do is get the data in from the devices. We already have it coming in as, you know, just control the tags, but this is this is not, you know, what you would want. I mean, it’s it’s the twenty first century for crying out loud.
Right? We want our data, you know, to be more, massage than that. And, thankfully, the vendor, IFM, has some AOIs, and they’re in that same folder, that same download, the Allen Bradley download. They put all the AOIs in here, which I think is great. At first, I went to the actual pages for the different products, and there were no AOIs there.
And I’m like, I think they’re actually in the, the starter package for Allen Bradley. So I went into there. Again, we downloaded this yesterday. I talked about where to get this yesterday. There’s the add on instructions, IFM devices.
And the first device I have well, the device plugged into number, the first, IO MetLink master is, this was the RVP. So we’re looking for RXP. Okay. And so what we wanna do is bring in this. We have an eight port, so we need one that goes all the way up to eight ports.
And so what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna copy this path here. I’m gonna come over to our assets folder here, add on instructions. I’m gonna, input and add on instruction. I’m gonna give it the path open. We have eight port devices here, so I’m gonna use eight port, and that’ll bring it in.
I’m gonna accept all the defaults when it comes in. Bada bing, bada bang, bada bada boom. Excellent. Excellent. And now I know the other one I have is a temperature sensor, TN something.
So let’s see here. TN. K. A port, because that’s what I have in the field, eight ports. And bringing that out of instruction as well, except the defaults.
And on just a mere moments, they both come in now. You know, you probably know you can go to this add on, you know, toolbar here and bring them in that way. Although, did you know you can bring them in like this too? Right? Which is pretty cool because sometimes it’s easier to see it here because this text is really small.
Okay. So in any case, we have them in. Now let’s see if we can zoom in here now. We have to create tags for these. Okay.
So I’ll just do a new tag, and I’m just gonna call this these are the AL1322. I’ll call this a. Actually, this is actually for the device. So let me call this the RVP 510. I’ll just call it a in case we have another one in the future, and then, I’ll create it.
K. And I’ll do the same thing here. I might as well do that right now, and this is for our t n I think it’s a 2511 a. K. Boom.
So I got the backing tags for each of the add on instructions. Now I have to give it the PLC input. This one, you you know, it’s pretty obvious. Of course, we have I named thirteen twenty two a and b. Those are the two devices, the masters out there, but you have to grab the data.
K? You have to grab the data. I tried grabbing this when I was testing it early this morning. It’s like, oh, I don’t like that. I want the data.
K. So we’ll do that. That’s a, and then this guy is connected up to b. K. So we’ll go over to input data.
K. Port number. Now if we I don’t know if this thing will let me do this. Let’s try it like this. Okay.
Good. So let’s see this guy. K. This is the RVP he’s in. And this encoder, we’ve we’ve showed it in the show before.
We’ve we’ve had it on connected at, Allen Bradley and Siemens PLCs, but, we can see it’s, plugged into port one. K. This is the power port Ethernet in and out, and then this is an IoT port. And, again, we we’ve covered that in previous episodes. And then for the temperature sensor, I have it in Port 2.
K. So let’s see if we can get string yard to go back to this view here. Alright. Great. And now, so this guy is gonna be Port 1 because that’s the RVP, and this is gonna be Port 2.
This is, no nobody’s complaining that they can’t hear me, so that’s good. The vendor ID. So, let’s see. I do have the website up here, and let’s start with the temperature sensor. So this is IFM.
So the vendor ID is always going to be 310, and this particular device ID is 582. So this is a temperature sensor. So let me go back here, and it will go 310. And what is it? 582582.
And in the gradient listed in that if we search on gradient, we will see it’s point zero one. You guys see that? Yeah. Yeah, that’s on the screen. Okay.
So let’s go back over to the VMware point zero one. Beautiful. Okay. Now we gotta do this guy. Point number one.
Vendor ID, we know it’s gonna be 310 because it is still IFM. And then device ID. I have no idea what it is. So let’s go back to the IOD datasheet, and I think it’s at the very top. Just scroll up.
Yep. It wasn’t. Here we go. Device ID, 496. 496.
K. And then I’m gonna leave that all blank. Alright. So if we’ve done this correctly, this should massage that data and give us, you know, a counter, like, how many pulses per rev. I think this is defaulted to ten twenty four.
And then the temperature and for whatever reason, this is even though the unit’s set for Fahrenheit, this block is showing that it’s Celsius. I did not have a time to figure out why that was. I did look through the block to see if there’s any way I could toggle it in the block itself. There wasn’t. And so, let’s go ahead and download this bad boy and see if we get it to work.
Come on, puppy. Yeah. So all these limitations of StreamYard StreamYard is great for doing, interviews. Right? But, when it comes to doing things like this, I’m really struggling.
I may have to go back to, restream. Yep. Put the controller back into run mode. I’ve been using StreamYard for the for the interviews we’re doing the automation museum, which will come out Monday, but, the first episode anyways. We’re recording episode four this Sunday.
But, in any case so you can see it right here, and everything looks like it’s working. So let’s take a look here. I am going to turn you just have to trust me because I can’t do a split screen with this software. I’m gonna turn the encoder slowly, and we can see the counter turning up. Right?
And that is now represented by a tag, not just some random data tag, but it’s actually did these go as a program tags? K. Yeah. That’s, the add on instruction. That’s not what I wanted.
Nope. They’re controller tags. So here’s the RVP five ten. And we can see the count right there. See all the information about this.
Let’s leave it in this view. See if you guys can see that. K. And then the beautiful thing is, yeah, it’s in the data table. Right?
In the controller tags. Caught me there. Went a little legacy on you. You can see it here right on the block too, which is really nice. Right?
So it just takes that data, massages it, and, makes it look nice. And then on the temperature You know what? Something happened. How come my vendor ID didn’t get put in there? Because I I thought I pressed center.
Sometimes when you do it yeah. Look at it. Did I get that number wrong? That’s weird. You guys thought it was easy to live stream.
- I’m just joking. 310582. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Port 2. You see this? I didn’t choose the right one. Typo.
You guys probably saw that when I did that too. K. Interesting. Interesting typo. Yeah.
So we have two different masses here. So we’re you know, it was right for us to get zeros here because there was nothing nothing attached to port two. So the feedback was zeros. And so that’s good. So if I woulda had another thing, I guess, I coulda done is I could actually have moved the, temperature controller over to the other master, and it should’ve worked.
Okay. So right now it says, 23. That’s Celsius. Of course, it’s probably well, we could just take a look here. 75 degrees in here and climbing, sadly.
Let’s see here. Oh, yeah. We’re going up. Not going up as fast as I was it went up earlier. Interesting.
Got up to 77. Now it’s falling because I let go of it. And, yeah, that was actually pretty easy to do. Just come out here and show you the devices one more time. So you could see this is what I was doing to turn the encoder, and, I was just holding on to this to get the temperature to go up.
Let me get that on there. Yeah. But, yeah, that was pretty easy to do. And so with that, I think that’ll wrap up wrap up today’s automation tech talk about IO Link. Did you guys catch the IO Link show from yesterday?
It came out a little later. It just been so crazy, but I did get that out, and I thought that was an excellent I actually sponsored it, so the video would be, ad free. I sponsored it myself. So I talk a little bit about, the automation school and whatnot. But in any case, just wanna, just remind you, Monday, we should have the episode of the automation museum.
It will not come out on LinkedIn. LinkedIn does not, want people to, have long format videos. So So they only they limit you to, like, a ten minute upload, and they don’t want your live streaming from long videos like that from, from a file. So, Monday, if you’re on LinkedIn, watch it on LinkedIn. That won’t be, the automation museum.
You’ll have to go to automation blog, or you’ll have to go to YouTube to see that. And then on, Tuesday through Friday, my hope is to have, some recorded content because I’m doing sponsored videos, more IO Link videos, more distributed IO. We’ll be doing Rockwell. We’ll be doing Siemens, and, all kinds of different, stuff. So, hopefully, you guys will enjoy those and learn something too because the whole purpose of this is to, you know, just share knowledge with you guys and hopefully make your you more efficient at your jobs and, you know, give you a reference you could share with somebody else in case they have the same questions.
You don’t have to go through the whole thing all over again. But with that, I wanna thank I haven’t even eat lunch yet. I gotta go eat lunch. But I wanna thank you all for tuning in today. I wanna wish you all a very happy Friday.
If you didn’t catch yesterday’s podcast on IO Link, please check it out. Michael did a great job. And, get some METTLEDO content coming up soon as well as, a bunch of podcasts were scheduled for podcasts out through Thanksgiving. So, we got some great content, and we’ve met with some great vendors. So I look forward to sharing that with you as well.
And with that, I’m just gonna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace.
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Shawn walk’s through connecting an IFM AL1322 IO-Link Master to a Rockwell Logix PAC using Studio 5000 in today’s episode of #AutomationTechTalk Lunchtime Edition livestream:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Happy afternoon, everybody. Shawn Tierney here from Insights and Automation. Today is Thursday. What is today? September 11, I believe.
I hope you all are having a great day. And, you know, I didn’t even know if I was gonna be able to do this, give it everything that’s been going on. Plus, I just got off the phone, actually off of out of a meeting with a larger vendor talking about their brand new IO, which I’ll be covering in a few weeks. Pretty awesome stuff. Can’t wait to share it with you guys.
But in any case, if you were here yesterday, I actually ended up deleting the livestream after the livestream because I ran into an issue that something didn’t work. And I believe I resolved that. So I’m gonna try it again today. And what am I talking about? What are we gonna cover?
Well and, again, if you can’t hear me or if there’s a problem with the visuals, let me know in the chat because there’s no nobody in the control room. It’s all just me. But in any case, we’re gonna be integrating these two. I have, a long time ago, the folks over at, IFM sent me in some products. They didn’t sponsor any coverage on it, and I’ve really struggled covering it.
So I did cover these modules with a, with a, a PLC they sent me, and I did, cover these devices with Allen Bradley and Siemens products as dumb devices, not as IO Link devices. But I thought, you know, the automation, automation tech talk lunchtime edition, I think, would be a great time to cover some of these unsponsored products that have been piling up, and I try not to accept anymore because I’m out of room. But in any case, it’s it’s, I thought this would be a good time to test them out. And today, based on what happened yesterday, today, I’m going to try to get both of these set up on our CompactLogix. Now try to go back here to full screen.
What happened yesterday was Logix kept crashing, and I believe it’s because of, Connect Components Workbench when I upgraded it and installed something that was incompatible with the version of Logix I had. So we’ll find out. But in any case, let’s go over to the computer here, and I have to do this kind of a different way because if I do it through the camera system, I do have a I do have an, request into the company, this whose software this is, and it’s not showing me the view I wanted. That’s the view I wanted. But I’m like, guys, you gotta help me make my you know, zoom in on this camera, but in any case, I won’t, bother you with that.
What we are looking at here, though, is what’s the first step in getting these things to work? And the first step is where’s the web page I had up? K. We gotta go to the product’s web page, and on the product’s web page, we wanna grab a couple of downloads. Okay.
If we’re gonna integrate these, IO link blocks on EthernetIP to our CompactLogix, we’re gonna wanna get the download. So this is the web page. After the fact, this is an AL thirteen twenty two. After the fact, I’ll go and put all links. And, again, I ran right over here from the meeting I just had, so I didn’t have a chance to put those links in.
But any case, we wanna go to downloads. And the two downloads I needed, and I apologize if you caught yesterday’s show. I’m gonna repeat myself a little bit, but I got the Allen Bradley collection here. Right? And I also got the, NetSetter software.
K. So this allows me to configure the device’s IP address. Okay. Now I don’t know if both of these are set up or not. So let me minimize that, and let’s go over to, the net set of software, which I just opened.
Right? Unzipped it, and you get this error here. I didn’t show this yesterday. You gotta have a PCAP library. Now PCAP, if you’re not familiar with that, packet packet captures.
Right? Capturing packets as they go down your Ethernet. Okay? So we need to have, some software that does that. So let me close that, and they they recommended two different ones.
I just went and got WinPCAP. It seemed like, seems like good software. And, no. I don’t wanna start it all the time, and finish. Now let’s go back to the NetSetter, IFM NetSetter here, and let me know if I’m leaving anything out.
I’m kinda did this yesterday, so I wanna make sure I’m being clear on what I’m doing here. And what we’re looking for let me go back to the overhead, and nope. That’s not what I wanted. Let’s do this. K.
So these are the a l. Let’s see if I can get an even closer here, and I don’t have the overhead lights on. I feel like I’m missing a light, but in any case, let this one be easier. So you can see that this is the Ethan IP version of the a l thirteen twenty two. So I also have PROFINET versions of this, and maybe I’ll do those next week.
We’ll see how things go. But I wanted to show you guys that, and let me back that out. Alright. Excellent. So let’s go back over to it it hides that view.
Okay. And now we can see the net setter. Alright. So let’s go ahead and run a scan here and see if the IFM nets, and it says, the installed PCAP library has been restricted to limited to admin rights. I’m also got this security.
I’m gonna get rid of that. There we go. And it says, hey. The PCAP library you guys see in this has been, restricted to to admin rights. And saying I won’t find anything pro profi profinet if it’s restricted to that.
So let me go ahead and see if it’s running. Let’s see here. PCAP, when PCAP? K. Let’s run this as an administrator.
K. It’s saying it’s already installed. So windows, why didn’t you find it? You always get you had to love that. Let’s go down to the w’s.
There she is. Now see, I don’t see, I don’t see an executable to allow that. So we’re just gonna press on here. I don’t wanna get stuck with any of those issues. Let’s go ahead and do a scan.
And I know it saw my 7069 l 30 e r, and it’s not finding these because I just wired them up. Again, I just run-in here, and so I did not put power back on. Looks like no smokes coming out. I shouldn’t joke about that. We had a fire alarm today, which also kinda threw a cold curveball in.
But, in any case, Yeah. Now they’re coming up. K. Let’s see here. It does seem like it’s cutting off part of my screen.
Why is it why would it do that? Stream. Yeah. What’s wrong with you? Maybe it’s just the browser I’m in.
Alright. So you can see it found them. And you know what? I wanna make one of these one thirty 1, and, the other one’s already 132. So I’ll make one one thirty one, right to device, and 132.
So that’s how you configure these out of the box. That’s how you would set them up. And so now let’s go ahead and, close this up and go to RSLogix. Now to save time, I, just created a blank, l 30 e r program. Okay?
And this is where we were having problems before. I would right click and do new module and I crashed, but one of the things I had to do to make sure this would work before we went live is I wanted to go into the downloads and register the EDS files. K? So inside the starter package for Rockwell, there are EDS files. Right?
And so what I did is I copied this path, and then I ran the EDS hardware, installation tool, or there’s another one called the device, depending on the version of software you have. There’s another one called the device hardware installation tool. Let’s see if we can find that here. Yes. See, this one has the EDS one.
Sometimes you’ll see the device hardware installation tool. They they do the same thing. They just change the name to device because it can support IO Link as well. So let me go ahead. IO Link uses an IODD.
Oh, speaking of IO Link, let me switch over here. They did not get the IO Link did not get the IO Link episode out last night. I’m hoping to get it out tonight. So, stay tuned if you follow the automation podcast and you look at those kind of technical presentations. We should have the IO link out tonight.
So let me go back to this view. Okay? And we’re going to bring in those EDSs. Now I’ve already done this because I, after what happened yesterday, I want to make sure everything was working, but if you’ve never done this before, I just wanted to walk through it with you. Okay.
And now in Logix, and I may have to close and reopen Logix. I’m hoping I don’t have to. It’s acting a little funny. It’s like refreshing. K.
I’m gonna right click on Ethernet here. I assume it’s already refreshed, and I’m gonna add it in. You can see I already did it once. Oops. Yeah.
It’s it’s definitely host. K. New module. K. AL1322.
It’s been added as an EDS, so there it is. Create and this is where it was crashing yesterday. And what I did with and you see it then it crashed this time. Thank you. AO1322.
We’ll call it A and b A, and it was 1921681Dot131. K. And I even checked the version. Hopefully, the version’s right. K.
And then the next one will be I accidentally hit, add again. AL1322B. I’ll give that an address of one ninety two one sixty eight. Come on. Sometimes in VM, if your mouse goes off the screen, it stops working.
+1 32. Okay. Close. Alright. So they’re both in there.
And, again, just to kinda stress the point here, when I was doing that and it was crashing yesterday, you know, I thought maybe Studio didn’t like me bringing the EDS files while it was open. But I was like, you know, I tried it on another computer, didn’t have that problem. So I went home, spent a couple hours last night on it, actually, trying to update the old VMware image on here with a new version. Some people said it was had to do with FactuTalk, a services platform, so I downgraded that. I downgraded our Sling.
So I was trying to see what did I install that broke my Studio 5,000 VM. And it was same Windows version, same version of Studio 5,000 on other computers I had at home, and everything was working. So, what I did on this VM is I went back to before I installed the CCW update. I updated CCW, and I don’t use it a lot, but I updated it because I wanted to show the MicroLogic’s to micro 800 conversion. We did that in a previous episode, and so that is what was triggering.
Now I haven’t nailed it down to what component CCW installed. Again, I went from 13 to 22, and I already had studio 5,034 installed. I didn’t nail it down to what component was in there that caused the problem, but I’m kinda thinking with that kind of problem, I may just spin up my own VM. I used to do this, and I kinda, like, was having so much luck. I was putting everything on the same VM, but I may spin up, separate VMs in the future for CCW if installing 22 on a system that has version third 34 on it, Studio 34, if installing CCW version 22 on that, it’s gonna hose it and break it.
And, then, yeah, that’s not that’s something I can do. And and spring up new VMs is so easy to do that. A little time consuming, but, again, I already lost two hours last night, plus didn’t get the, episode out yesterday. So, you know, it’s kinda like you’re looking forward. You’re kinda like, well, let’s, let’s, you know, take the least the road of least resistance.
But in any case, so I have these two installed. Let’s go ahead and download them. So we’re gonna go download. Yep. Can’t download because I’ve never connected to it before.
So let’s do a network who here. Who active? I have you oh, no. I didn’t want the f one. Why am I that’s from the L30, l 23, l 30.
Most of these are off. I don’t leave stuff on when they’re when I’m not using them. I think yeah. $1.73. That’s what I want.
Download. Again, I chose 34 because the last in person class I had here was in 34. Saying, do you really want to download? Yes. I do.
And this is just gonna take a moment. So, you know, the proof and the putting here is, you know, will the IO come up as valid or will it come up as errored? You know? Do we get a green IO light or not? Okay.
So we’re not getting the green IO light, and I’m proud because of the versions I chose. Right? So let’s see if that’s the pro the problem. So I’ll go to properties here, and let’s go to module info. These are one OFives.
Right? It says, owned, no. Configured, unconnected. Yeah. It’s, you know, it’s 105.
I chose 106. Right? Very interesting. You know what? My first guess would be that it’s a, mismatch here.
So it’s a status failed faulted. Status faulted. Now I could try to reset the module here to see if that fixed it. Again, I did use it previously with a code SYS PLC, but I don’t think I don’t think that’s gonna fix it. But, hey, I’m here.
Might as well try it. I think we’re gonna have to go offline and change the version to match. I’m not getting the, version mismatch error, but this is not a Rockwell product either. So let’s see. Nope.
Still not happy. So what could it be? Let’s let’s go ahead and go offline real quick. We will, change the versions to match even though we’re not getting a mismatch. Let’s see here.
Oh, this is one thing. Yep. This is one thing I skipped over that I didn’t skip over yesterday. So the I’m gonna leave the minor rev at one zero six, but I’m gonna change this to match what’s in the book. And the book says you wanna do int.
And not dent, but you want to do int and let’s go take a look at that here. Okay. So we’ll go to PLC setup. We’ll go to this manual and I was just going so quickly. I just browsed right over it.
Let’s see. Oh, no internal. They don’t want that. Okay. We added the EDS files.
Yeah. This is what I overlooked. Yep. K. So it needs to be int.
Okay. It wants exclusive owner. It wants int and then 223151. Alright. Well, let’s take a look at that.
Exclusive owner, 223151. So really was int. That’s I forgot that you make that change. I did make it yesterday, but, well, last time I did this, I don’t even know if I get that far yesterday. Let’s see.
Properties. A lot of times I’ll practice for lunchtime. I’ll do this, like over coffee in the morning, you know, four or 05:00 in the morning before work just to practice and make sure everything’s working. Alright. Now let’s download and try it again.
Really confident that’s the problem because we didn’t get a firmware mat mismatch or version mismatch. And because that was a minor rev, not a major rev, I’m, really feeling like That was the issue. So let’s give it a second here. Oh, yeah. No.
It stopped updating why whenever I clicked on it. So, yeah, it is. It is saying electronic key mismatch right here now. So let’s try one more thing. We’ll match them up.
Typically, the minor revs don’t don’t matter, but this will be the last thing we’ll try. Matter fact, when I was doing the, lessons for the, IO modules, the new CompactLogix and ControlLogix IO modules for my courses, I was like, yeah. I’ve never seen a minor rev cause a problem, but this is a third party product, so that could be a problem. Just gonna double check, make sure it’s +1 05. +1 05.
Okay. Download. Okay. Let’s see if this is what we were looking for. We’ll we’ll know soon.
I had another idea too on how I can make that camera bigger, so I may try that tomorrow. I do plan to continue this tomorrow or part two of this tomorrow. I didn’t have a chance to you know, with that meeting I had this morning, I didn’t have a chance to go through all that. I am excited to show you that new IO, though. That that was it.
So we had to change it from, dent or cent to int, and we had to make the IO match perfectly. And now the next thing I would do is I would you know, we could look at the controller tags, but the the better thing probably would be to add their add on instructions. So, you know, if I look at the data coming in from number one, you know, I have just this this data here. Now number one, I believe, is the well, let’s see. No.
I think number one is the let’s see which one it is. Can we see any data changing? Lots of data in there. And this is why you wanna use the add on instruction because who wants to well, there it is. You can see I’m turning the you can see I’m turning the right.
So these two. K. I’m turning the encoder, encoder, and you can see it’s updating. But you know why? You can see it’s it’s spread across two words, two dents, and so the add on instruction is gonna give me that in a nice tag.
Right? Now if we look at the other one, so I wouldn’t I wouldn’t I would use their add on instruction to mass massage the data. I wouldn’t use the raw data, but you could if you wanted to. Let’s look at the other one. The other one is temperature.
Again, what port is what? I mean, who we used to have to document this all ourselves, you know, back in the day, remote IO and whatnot. Wonder if that nine eighty is the temperature. Oh, yeah. So as I hold on to it, you can see the temperature’s going up and up.
K. So what we’ll do tomorrow let me go back to full screen here. Gonna find a better way to make make all these buttons work. The reason I’m not using, OBS for everything while I’m sharing the screen natively inside of StreamYard is because I looked at the resolution, and StreamYard does not when it gets the camera feed from OBS, it doesn’t it’s not the quality of, of the screen you would want, ten eighty p. So that’s why I did it that way, but it makes the camera view a little op, awkward.
But in any case, so we got them working. We got both these IFMs. It was pretty easy. Right? Once I figured out what was wrong with my Studio 5,000, I just backed up to a snapshot.
This is why I never use do do anything without VMware or virtualization because you’re gonna be able to back up to a snapshot. Install all that software again. Not even not even that’s a nonstarter. But we got both of these on the network. We saw their values coming in.
So what I’ll do tomorrow at lunch, assuming everything goes well, we’re gonna bring get the go get the add on instructions for the encoder and for the temperature sensor. We’re gonna download those. We’ll add on the Studio 5,000, and then we’ll take a look at how it massages the data to give us some really good data. I know a lot of you guys have used IFM out there. You’ve given a great reviews to me.
You guys have told me you love using their products. They have great products. Not every product, but most of their products have been, well received. So I figured we’ll, do that tomorrow. And we will have the IO link, We will have the IO link, episode of the podcast come out today.
I think what I’ll do is I’ll go grab some lunch, and then I’ll record the bumpers for that, finish editing that, and publish that, this afternoon. So, you know, I’ve I kinda felt better than going yesterday. I usually do on Wednesdays, but then again, with everything that happened yesterday, it’s probably for the better that I get delayed today. So with that, I wanna end the show by wishing you all good health and happiness and safety. And until next time, my friends, peace.
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Shawn walk’s through converting an RSLogix / MicroLogix program to a CCW / Micro800 project in today’s episode of #AutomationTechTalk Lunchtime Edition livestream:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Welcome to Automation Tech Talk lunchtime edition. Shawn Tierney here from Insights. And today, we’re gonna take a look at something different. We’re gonna take a look at migrating a Micrologix program to a Micro 800 program, and we’re going to do this because, I had somebody ask a question about connecting to a Micro 800 from a SCADA package.
And, you know, when I did my VSC course, I did I think every Allen Bradley PLC except for the Micro 800. So I thought, you know, this would be a good time to convert my my VUSC application that I use to simulate the data for that for that course. And, anybody in my VUSC course can download that, in Micrologic, PLC five, ControlLogics, CompactLogics, multiple versions. You know, you know, I recently converted it to Siemens because I wanted to add those advanced graphical lessons to my unified comfort panel and unified, a basic panel course. So I need to convert it to Siemens, and then somebody asked me to test their SCADA package with Codesys.
And as you know, I had a couple of vendors step up and send me Codesys PLCs. So I converted well, not all of it. There’s five molding lines. I wanted to do something different than a bottling line or, you know, a a widget maker. And so, I only did one molding line into the into the code Sys because, you know, I I I we all we’ve talked about that before.
But in any case, needs a little love and tender love and care to the code sys, IDE does. But in any case, yes. I figured, hey. Let’s use this to convert my existing program, which I which I wrote from scratch to the micro 800, and let’s see how it goes. Now I did this this morning around 04:30.
I went through it once, and it seemed to work okay. So I figured, we would do this during lunchtime. And so if you guys have any questions on this or anything, let me know. Oh, a couple of housekeeping things. There will be no episode of the show tomorrow.
I’m kinda backed up trying to get through a couple of videos that I’m, sponsored videos with vendors. And, also, I have to, just get all the stuff to do with the the automation school, but I do I did record this morning an update for any students at the automation school. So that I’m gonna schedule that to go out this afternoon because I said September 4 in it. Now looking backwards, I probably should have said September 5. But in any case, that’ll come out this afternoon, and I kinda update a lot of the new lessons over at the automation school.
So, especially customers and PLC courses, PAC courses over there, you wanna check that out. I did have a great conversation with a gentleman who was who knew what a Symax 300 was, so we’ll try to get him on the automation museum podcast, which is I’m calling the history of automation. I have we’ve recorded three already. History of Triconics, history of Wonderware, history of, Rocco PLCs. And these are all from people’s perspectives.
This is, like, the definitive history, but, you know, it was been a lot of fun hanging out with these people who work with this old stuff, and, I really have enjoyed it. Sunday, my goal is to edit those three and, and, start scheduling them to release. They’ll they’ll come out on the on the regular channels I have now because we haven’t even funded the Automation Museum yet. So if you have a an extra dollar or 2 this month, please consider going to automationmuseum.org and making a donation. I wanna thank everybody who has already donated.
Last time I checked, it’s been a few weeks, but, we were, like, 7% of our goals. So, I mean, we’re we’re you know, there’s no rush on this. The old stuff’s not going anywhere. So, and I have a lot of people asking if they can send stuff in. I’m asking them to hold on to it into their in their attics for right now, because I just I don’t and when when when they when when you get taxed as a business, they wanna tax everything that’s in in your business.
Right? And so it’s hard to explain to them that this is stuff that’s for a future museum. So to avoid getting taxed on stuff that I don’t use for my business, I’m asking people to hold on to it. Now if you absolutely have to get rid of it, I do have room in my attic at home, and, I’ll stick it up there for the meantime. But in any case, you can imagine I hate their that stuff all the way up and then bring it back down later.
So in any case, with that said, I do appreciate everybody who sent stuff in. And now I’m gonna try something new. I wasn’t happy with the the the way StreamYard, which is a software I use to livestream. I wasn’t happy with the way they were doing the graphics. So I’m trying to put a little bit different today.
And so I’m gonna switch over, and try it this way. I hope this is better resolution for you. I don’t have as much control when I use StreamYard natively. Like, I can’t crop myself out instead of having the whole studio here, but I’m hoping the graphics are better for you. So here’s an example.
And I wrote this program. I wanted it to be something that my VUEs students could understand. I don’t wanna make, like, some new algorithm that was, like, gonna win a Nobel Peace a Nobel Prize or anything like that. But in any case, I don’t know if it would be a peace prize, but some other prize. But in any case so it’s a very simple program.
Basically, I have a bunch of JSRs in the main routine. So many people are used to that. I figured I would just go with that. And, because, this had to run on a Michelogix 1,000, I put all the simulation in one ladder program. Now this is the 1,400 version.
I didn’t change it. I just you know, I did it all in the 1,000, tried to cram everything in there. Actually, could not fit everything into the 1,000, but I came close. So in any case, that’s why you’ll see the, the the lead numbering here of the of the files. And, I did separate the molding machines here because, you know, you only have 15.
You know, I think it’s, fifteen and sixteen is your debug. So, that’s why I did it that way. So if you’re asking, hey, Shawn, why’d you do it that way? That’s why I did it that way. So this is a program we’re gonna convert to Micrologix.
And to do this, I’m gonna first do a file save as, and I’m gonna save it as a SLC, a library file. Okay? Even though it’s even though it’s a 1,400, we’re saving as an SLC. It doesn’t mean slick 500. It means library file.
At at one point, it probably meant slick 500 library container or something, but in any case now I have found that if you have the free software. Right? So if you have the RS Logix micro starter light, I found that that option is not in there. So you may wanna reach out to your local Rockwell rep, and usually, they have a real nice guy named the PLC specialist. That’s a job I did for twenty five years, and they’ll do that for you.
Look at it just takes some you know, it’s so, I mean, we’re talking seconds. Right? So in any case, usually, that’s something I would do for my old customers, you know, over morning coffee. So in any case, I’m gonna save this. I have a folder, my VSC basics folder.
I downloaded all the files just a few minutes ago, and, I’m going to go ahead and export with comments, and I’m just gonna leave all the defaults there, and voila, it’s all been exported. Okay? So now we’re ready to switch over to CCW. And in CCW, this utility used to be able to be downloaded separately. A matter of fact, I put all the links because I have covered this quite a bit.
I put all the links in the description so you can see all the different links to all the articles and videos I’ve done on this in the past. But now in the mic in connect components workbench, I’m gonna go to tools, micro MicroLogix to micro 800 converter. Okay? And so and if you guys can’t hear me or you can’t see me, let me know in the chat. But any case, that brings up this little guy here.
This is version five point o five. I’m in CCW version 22. It just happened to be what was installed. Okay? So in any case, let’s go ahead and choose the MicroLogix file.
I put it into my I think it’s in documents, VSC basics. Boom. I have this checkbox checked because the files match. K. Those the the files have the same name.
I’m gonna go to well, I happen to have here the I think I have the L24QBB. Yeah. That’s what it looks like. Yeah. So that’s what I’m gonna use there just because that’s what I have on the workbench.
And we’re gonna do, okay. And I wanna thank everybody for tuning in. Guys, if you have suggestions on what you would like to see for future episodes, please contact me, throw them in the chat. Also, if you wanna come on the show and share a trick that you learned, I’d love to have you on the show. This is, my new lunchtime thing that I do to learn.
You know, why browse the web and, you know, read the bad news? But I can share tips with the with you folks. And this is something I was doing anyway, so I had to do it for my I wanted to add those lessons to my VSC course. So figured, why not do this with the, with the audience as well? And so one of the things you’re gonna notice now there is a really good go back to full screen here.
Did it go back to full screen? You know what? I think that’s the other thing is too. With this, you have to select the browser. So one of the things that you’ll find the links in the description is that Rockwell has a phenomenal phenomenally phenomenally well documented guide to doing this.
So I’d super appreciate as I was reading through it, and it’s they’ve done a great job. They updated it over time, and it really does a great job explaining what the differences are. So if you do take on a project to do this, whether it’s internal or for somebody else, get that guide. Read it the cover to cover. It is excellent.
And, I just really appreciate when a vendor puts that much effort into it. You know, I I I talked about other vendors where I was looking up trying to look up just how a single instruction worked, and it was so frustrating. But when you’re working with people like Rockwell and Siemens and other big companies, they just have great documentation, and it’s it’s hard not to have that. Right? You want that good documentation.
But, they have great documentation on this process, and you can see it came in, but we got a lot of errors. Now I wanna look at these errors, and I don’t know why go to the stop page. How do I see my errors, people? Why is it hiding behind? I’m just gonna open up the main program, see if we can get the error list to be on top.
There we go. Okay. Great. So and I know a lot of you may be listening while you’re driving, so I’ll try to go through these. So first of all, no status file.
Right? There’s no status file in the, like, gray 100. Now there is a first pass bit. So we’ve talked about this a lot lately, and so we don’t have to worry about that. It’s it’s in there.
Like, they used to say what was it? Prego? It’s in there. So in any case, we don’t have to worry about that. But there is no, like, status file.
So one of the things I would use in the Micrologix and, really, all the PLCs is that free running clock, to to flash different lights on and off. And so, because I encapsulated in this program the program out of my PLC basics course. It’s a subroutine. And so, typically, we don’t use it because we’re and but I wanted to put it in there. So if somebody wanted to go in and, and and create a screen and view for their for the PAC basics or POC basics, they’d have it.
But in any case, it also talks about arithmetic status bits are not supported in the 800 as well. You can, like, have a math overflow or something like that. So you’re gonna be cognizant of that. And then this is revised usage of the timer accumulate value. Now it talks about this thing called an RA ton, MicroLogic’s, user defined function block.
And so I wanna get into this. Let’s take a break here, and let’s look at what happened here. So first thing is we have a main program. There is not really a subroutine with the micro 800. It’s you just have all these programs.
Think of think of, ControlLogix and just having a bunch of routines that all run at the same time or a bunch of programs that each have one routine in them. Okay? And that’s all they have in them. So yeah. So there’s not a exact this to that, but in ControlLogix, let’s say you had you could only create programs, and every program has a single routine, and every program would always run.
That’s what you have with the POUs, program organizational units inside of, inside of, the CCW and the micro 800. And, you know, I think if you had let’s say you had, Siemens and you had a bunch of OBs, and they were all scheduled to run continuous. So OB1, then OB2, then OB3, and then OB4. I know you can’t some of those numbers you can’t use, but you guys get the point. Right?
So that’s what a POU is. All the POUs run. All the POUs run. I think, you can change your order by reordering them, but they all run, and each POU is really a language. So you can have a POU that’s a think of a POU.
It’s like a program and a routine together. Anyways, with all that said, you can see the main POU. This is my jump to subroutines, except instead of jumping the subroutines, it’s jumping to user defined functions. So this is very similar to, like, a function block in Siemens. Right?
And I I guess you would call it in logic, say, they, you know, you kinda look at it as a as a a subroutine, right, as a routine that you have to jump to, a routine other than the main, but it’s not in that group. It’s in this other list. Okay? And so you can see that looks that looks like my original code except for one big difference. Okay?
Is that some of the timers like, I don’t have my tons, didn’t come over as tons. And when I was doing, factor IO, when I was doing the quest for, you know, Micrologix, Micro 800, and ControlLogix, it was like, hey. Some of these instructions operate differently. Coners, timers, slight little differences. Well, I addressed that by just changing the way I wrote the program for a factor I o.
But here, if you’re if you have an existing plant, you don’t wanna have to figure that out. So what Rockwell does here is they give you all they create all these user defined function blocks. They have a countdown function block. They have a copy, a counter function block. Right?
This one’s a structured text. So, very simple. They just do that that line of text. Right? Just checking over there, make sure you guys can see this.
So here’s one that’s called the count up CTU. Now there is a CTU inside of the, micro 800. I wouldn’t have wrote all this code to to to make it work, but they wanted to operate identically to the way it was in the Micrologix. And so here you go. And so you can see all the code.
It took several lines of code, eight lines of code to replace to make the CTU in the mic in the microHunter act like the like the one in the, MicroLogix. In any case but some of these, like the LEM instruction, this is like you can just look at this and say, okay. Yeah. They they did exactly what we’re looking for. But when it comes to, like, the one shot, it’s kinda like, nothing.
It’s like, yeah. Maybe you should not use the ONS. Maybe you should use the OSR. And there was another one too it didn’t do. Oh, sequencer.
The sequencer is just like, yeah. We don’t have one, so make your own code up. So in any case, there’s two of those in there. Out of all these instructions it created for me to to to mirror what was in the micro 800. What was to mirror, actually, what was in the Micrologix inside of the micro 800.
You know, it created all those, those new instructions for me. So let’s go back to the error list because there’s a couple of very other interesting things you guys would probably wanna know about. First of all, the only symbols that can convert it to aliases, sadly, are for the inputs and outputs. So all my inputs in slot zero went to the input, the underscore I, underscore I o, embedded I o, and same thing with the outputs. But those are the only ones who got the symbols brought over.
I had symbols on timers, presets, and counters, and I had a lot of symbols in there. None of those came in. It’s very sad. And, we can see here the warning about the time of the accumulate value. So, you know, some of the changes there, the status files, these are the two flashing bits I would have to replace, which is not a problem.
I get all the bits I can use in the program. You see a lot of information about the timing timer accumulate value, how how it operates differently. Here’s the two, the ONS and the SQL that didn’t work. And then, the every place that did find the s one fifteen bit, it did convert it over to the first scan bit. That’s good.
Right? That was really good. There was also, in the one I did this morning, there was also some truncating of my descriptors. Okay? So with the descriptors, you know, they’re limited to 255 characters.
And so I don’t know why this one was different. Maybe I already truncated it, but, with the, with the descriptors, if you had a lot of descriptions, comments and and whatnot, they would get truncated. And not a big deal, but, you know, you gotta be aware of that. The good thing is they totally document, you know, in the that file. We were looking at that conversion file.
In there, they tell you everything that doesn’t convert over. So I know at home this morning, I know that, all of the all of the, comments and descriptions that get truncated, it’s totally documented. That’s a CSV file that gets saved to your hard drive. And so you know everything you have to go and fix. But, I just thought it was very interesting how to address the slight nuances between the counters and the timers and whatnot that they create all these at, like, what you would think of as an add on instruction in Studio 5,000.
They create them as, user defined function blocks inside of CCW. And, apparently, if it’s not on that list, if there’s an error not an error in that list, then you’re gonna expect the same type of operation, but you’ll also see that they warn you that you do have to test it. You cannot assume that everything translated perfectly. Right? And some things you gotta know is, like, what is the, what is the speed of the controller?
You’re gonna assume that the micro eight hundred’s faster. Does that cause any issues? You also have to understand about, like, what’s the response time of the IO. Right? So in 90% of the applications, that may not be a big deal.
But in some applications, you know, you may start seeing multiple counts where you only saw one, you know, multiple posts where you only saw one. You may have current limitations on the new inputs and outputs versus the old ones. So a lot of things you had to do to do one of those conversions. I think the first thing you would typically do is, you know, get the and they actually have this in IAB. It’ll convert from one to the other, and that manual I mentioned has even the wiring diagrams from one to the other.
Just they just did a phenomenal job. So that’s what I’m working on here. I wanted to share that with you. It’s actually pretty user friendly, but, again, don’t discount the amount of time you’re gonna have to do to test the converted code. Same goes when we talked about converting PLC five or six five hundred to ControlLogix, CompactLogix, or soft PLC.
You always have to test out the code because, these people make these importers and exporters. They don’t they don’t know everything. Right? They’re not perfect. I will say this, though.
Doing what we just did was so much easier than manually retyping everything into Siemens and the Codesys. So, yes. Would I do this and then go and debug it? Yeah. I’d much rather do that than have to manually reenter all the code.
That was a real drag. I’m glad it’s done, but it was a real drag. So tools like this, yes, definitely. I know some people like, no. I’m gonna do it.
Everything bit by bit. I’m like, well, go for it. Have fun. But, I would rather use something like this. And so any case, it looks like, we’re running over twenty minutes.
So I wanna thank everybody who joined us today. Again, if there’s something you would like to see on a future lunchtime show, let me know. I usually when I’m drinking my coffee first thing in the morning, I’ll go over things and try things potentially to do at lunchtime and, be happy to share anything I can with you guys. I do wanna show now that I I I still have to refine this and get it working. Once I do, I will be adding those lessons to, both my migrate hunter course on how to do this and my VSC course on how to connect to it.
And I probably end up connected to it two different ways through LinX Classic and LinX Enterprise. But, I’m I still I didn’t get that far this morning. But in any case, there will be a what’s new in school this afternoon. There will be no episode of the lunchtime show tomorrow. Don’t know if there’ll be one Monday, so that’s we’ll play that one by year.
Just depends on how much work I have left over tonight that I don’t get through this weekend. But with that, I just wanna thank you all again for tuning in. I wanna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace.
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Shawn discusses Module Discovery and Reading IO Config in today’s episode of #AutomationTechTalk Lunchtime Edition livestream:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Happy Wednesday. Right? I was gonna say Tuesday. It’s not Tuesday. It’s Wednesday.
I hope you’re all doing good. I hope, my mic and video is coming out okay. Let me know in the chat if it’s not. But in any case, I do want to, wish you all a great lunchtime here. And it is Wednesday, and, this is Automation Tech Talk lunchtime edition.
And, feel free to chat in the, both on YouTube and on LinkedIn. And, of course, you’ll always find the audio, the video, and the transcript up on the automationblog.com later in the day. Typically, right after the show’s done, I try to get that all up there before going back to work. So in any case, today, I was gonna do one thing, and I decided to do something else. So, we’re actually gonna take a look at discovering IO, automatically discovering IO so you don’t have to crank in all those different part numbers.
And, we’re gonna do it today for Rockwell. And I did have some things that, I’ve been telling myself, Shawn, you gotta kinda remember to mention some things to everybody, when you’re doing the show. So let me just pull my notes up here and bring them over to the screen right below here so I can read them. So, first of all, the idea for today’s, discussion about discovering IO, adding IO, reading IO was, based on some lessons. I’m I actually had to I found some bugs in them, so I had to rerender them.
So I’ll be updating them, and, several of the courses over at the Automation School are getting updates, including my CompactLogics and ControlLogics. They’re getting the most updates today. But in any case, I also wanted to mention that I already have two industry veterans who I’m talking to about coming on the Automation Museum’s History of Automation podcast. And so I mentioned this because we already have three shows in the, in the can. We talked to experts about the history of Triconics, the history of InTouch or Wonderware, and the history of Rockwell PLCs.
But, again, these are things where we want to have multiple guests on about each each product and, to share their own experiences with them. And, you know, everybody remembers things differently. Like, some people remember some features, other people remember other features, and so on. So, we have two new people who I’m talking to to get them to come on the show. And I wanna invite you, whether you’re a vendor, user, integrated OEM, if you have done something with automation before the year February, I’m just using that as a kind of a benchmark.
Right? So, you know, we’re talking legacy stuff. We’re not talking, you know, fifty three seventies and fifty three eighties or a ‘7 you know, fifteen hundreds or December, or m two sixty twos if you’re a Snyder guy. But, we’re talking we’re talking, you know, older stuff, legacy stuff. The automation museum is not gonna be a museum of what just came out this this year.
It’s gonna be a museum of all that old stuff. And I wanna thank everybody who sent me stuff in. I will be doing more automation museum videos on the stuff you guys send in. I got a PCMK card. I got a net alert or or net net alert, I think, device too that I wanna show off.
So, in any case, thank you everybody and, for that. So what else do I have to cover here before we get started? There is no podcast today. The next podcast it takes, like, a day to produce every podcast. So, I’m taking this week off because I just got so much other else going on.
The the next podcast will be next Wednesday, of course, we release on Wednesdays, and that’ll be on IO Link. And that’s gonna kick off a bunch of IO Link coverage. So, I’ve been working after hours and weekends getting all the IO Link hardware I have together built into demos that we can not only use as labs here in the office, but also to do videos on. So, we got Siemens, we got Rockwell, we got IFM, Even had a a good friend of the show send in some stuff, so we’ll be looking at the stuff he sent in too, which just depends if I can get it working at 05:00 in the morning. We’re not drinking my coffee, but, hopefully, I can.
And, also, I’m looking at some really cool three d simulation software I wanna use in the school, but it can also be used as a digital twin, and it’s affordable. It’s not like the 10,000, $50,000 packages you see out there. Right? So, I’m actually been working on that, working with the vendor on that after hours as well. And a lot of things going on.
We are getting ready. I just got off the phone with the vendor, actually off a meeting with the vendor. We got a exciting new, episode coming up on, OPC. And then we have another episode coming up on Ethernet push buttons. This one actually was re requested.
We actually have the equipment here, but we’re waiting for the vendor to schedule that. I’m also guys, you probably remember the, military trade shows demo I have in there. I’m just gonna work through a couple of bugs, and that should be that video should be coming out. And, I actually have a major vendor approached me and said, Shawn, come and interview our folks at our trade show. And so we’re finalizing the details on that.
So that’ll be in several weeks from now, but I did wanna share that with you guys. So in any case, hey. Before I forget too, and I wanna say greetings to Nicholas. Before I forget, anybody, any of you guys out there, if you’ve learned something you wanna share with the rest of the community, please just send me a message. I know we had people sign up, and then they couldn’t make a customer’s call, the boss calls.
I totally get that. Totally get that. But if you are using I saw one person said he was he had created a video showing people how to use safety in a Siemens drive, and he got a lot of really, good feedback from it. I mean, those are the type of things. You know, a lot of you probably don’t even know what that video is.
Right? So we wanna get people like that on the show to talk about, you know, what they’ve done and and sharing, useful tips. And I think it’ll be easier, on the audience if they’re not always hearing from me all the time because I’ve been doing this for full time now for over ten years, going on eleven years. And, so you guys you know, I got thousands of videos in Ako, so you guys know all about me. But in any case, let’s go ahead and go over to the computer.
And, again, feel free to, chime in on the chat. Let’s see if I have everything set up here correctly. I think I’m in the top right. So, of course, this is a live thing right over my face, but that’s okay. I don’t think you guys see that.
So in any case, what are we gonna look at? We did not wanna see my desktop. We wanted to see VMware. Okay. And I’m actually in, and if you guys didn’t notice here on the, workbench, I have an old Suck 500 full of stuff, just full of IO.
And I try to pick up so many different types of IO modules for my course, which I’m filming now in the slick 500. So I wanted to pick up a a a real, you know, assortment of of IO cards. You know? And I could go in there and I could say, you know, let me type in each and every model. But one of the great things we got with the slick 500 that we didn’t have with the PLC five, now correct me if you think I’m wrong, but I don’t think there’s any redial thing on the PLC five.
Maybe I’m just having a senior moment, but I don’t think it existed. But in the slick 500, it did. And this also worked for the compact for the, Micrologics as well. And so what you could do here in this old platform from the nineties, early nineties, late eighties, is you could go across RSLogix 500 didn’t come out until, like, 9596. Right?
I was actually I beta tested it. It was really cool. When it first came out, it was like Winlogix five on steroids. Right? So in any case, what I’m gonna do here is I got I got Studio 5000 open in the background.
Let me hide that a little bit. I’m gonna go to IO configuration, and I’m gonna do something called a read IO config. K. This is, again, a feature from the nineties, early nineties. Right?
And what’s what’s this work? Right? Now I do have to have the path to the PLC correct or I can’t read IO config, but I’m just I’m not online, but I’m giving it the path to where the PLC exists. Read IO config and look at that. It started off with a four slot chassis, and it was like oops.
Let me minimize that. Get that back. And it was like, nope. He has a 13 slot, I guess. And look at it.
I have an IB, ITB, IB, IB, IV, IV, IV 32, OBOV, NI 4, NI 4, NI four, I, NI four, I, NI four, INO4I, blah blah blah. But look at it. I read it all in. I didn’t have to type that all in. Now how often are you gonna have all the equipment on your desk before you actually create your program?
Well, maybe not that often. But this was a feature I loved about the Slic 500 and the MicroLogix. And, you know, so when Rocco came out with ControlLogix and CompactLogix and it did not have this it this feature, everybody’s kinda like, bummer. That kinda stinks. Right?
And so but they added it. They added it inversion starting back in version 20.011. Yes. I looked it up. And, what they did, though, is they only added it for, originally, seventeen fifty six modules.
And so that left all the CompactLogix people just kinda hanging out there with no way to find their modules. And so what would happen is so here’s an on the left hand side, I got a, an l 33 e r that both these PLCs are in the other room, in the training room. And if I right click on the bus, the seventeen sixty nine bus, and do discover IO modules, yeah, it can. It’s not as good as the SLIC 500. So sad.
No. And we know that it knows. Right? How do we know that it knows? Because in Arislynx, we can go out there, and we can see everything that’s in that chassis.
Of course, I can’t see it here because I have an EDS issue. K? So if I could upload the EDS file, but I have a problem here. But typically, if you didn’t have the problem I have now, you would be able to expand expand the backplane and see all the IO modules out there. And, yeah, see, this is when things happen when you just, like, come on to lunch and you’re like, yeah.
Let’s just do a show and, you know, we could try to should we try to register the EDS file? Should we try to do this live? I think it’s, it’s somewhere here. Right? I know it’s in where’s the EDS?
Well, probably easy to go here. Alright. So let’s close that one now. Let’s do tools. EDS I don’t even know if I have it on this hard drive, do I?
No. Well, we’ll take a little side trip here. Let’s see if the EDS tool launches. Here it is. Okay.
Let’s see. Register. Let’s register a, folder directory. Look in subfolder. Sure.
Where would it be? Where would I have put it? Alright. I don’t even know if I have them. Nah.
Alright. So forget that. But in any case, if everything was working, we would be able to see all the modules on the backplane. Just like on the l 16 I have plugged in, right, you would be able to see any point IO modules I have on that. Right?
And that is just the way it works. And a little secret here is I believe that the backplane on both PointIO and on seven sixty nine seventeen sixty nine is actually based on DeviceNet. So we always get all the information. We could see all the modules, and that’s a great thing. But, apparently, they couldn’t figure out how to get it into the software.
I mean, I’m assuming it wasn’t a commercial decision not to add it into the software. I’m sure it was a technical decision, but with the l 30, the 53. Right? So much newer than the sec five hundreds. They just couldn’t get that that Discover modules to work.
So very sad. So maybe maybe they could get it to work, but they couldn’t get it to add it online. I don’t know. But here’s the good news. If you have gone to the, to the newer, right, to the fifty three eighties, if I right click on backplane and do discover modules, yes.
Okay. It’s like, are you not gonna work? What’s going on? But any case, yes, we’re as good as the slick 500 from 1990. Woo hoo.
But, and this works for 1756 as well. Originally, it was just for 1756, and I think the PowerFlex drives. I went to grab the latest release notes, and every time I say give me release notes from version 21 to ’30 seven, it just crashes my browser. So in any case, I didn’t have again, this is automation tech talk lunchtime edition, so I get my entire lunch to prepare for this. So, I didn’t couldn’t go any farther than that, but pretty confident, that it’s, seventeen fifty six, fifty sixty nine, and of PowerFlex drives.
I could not confirm whether or not Flex 5,000 supports it or any of the servos support it. And if anybody wants to shoot me out, I did I did search the knowledge base. So, you know, if anybody, thinks I missed something, let me know. But I think there’s not a very wide, support on that. But, now I can go ahead and create typically, you just create them all.
You know? And because this is not full screen, it does give you a warning about adding modules online. And let me pull this over here so you can see it added it right there. And so this is I actually I did a new lessons on this for both ControlLogix and CompactLogix as part of another lesson where I’m adding IO and testing IO and all that good stuff. But in any case, I wanted to do everything in the version 31 plus because I know, we had some, students who I think I mentioned this yesterday, who’ve never used version 30.
You know? They’re they’re they’re lucky. They’ve been sheltered, only used 31 plus. So, you know, when they don’t see this blue background, they would get a little, little disconcerted. But in any case so that’s what I wanted to talk about today at lunchtime, and I wanna thank you guys for tuning in.
I’m just looking at the list of stuff I covered at the beginning of the show. I don’t think I have anything else left. Again, being the lunchtime show, there’s not a whole lot of prep that can go into this. But in any case, we do have another, message in the chat that I wanna say. Person’s asking about the BRX, the BRX system, and he has two servo drives.
I don’t have any movies on the any videos on the BRX. I’ve only done an unboxing on it. I have tried to get the AutomationDirect folks on many, many times. I think they’re a great company. Again, I know Siemens and Rocco guys and scenario guys are probably rolling their eyes, but, you know, they’re they’re you know, just like just because you like Honda or BMW or, you know, Chevy doesn’t mean you should pooh pooh Dodge or or any any other, you know, or Acura or somebody at some other, you know, Nissan or some other company.
So there you know, these companies have been around for a long time, so they they gotta be doing something right. In any case so, yeah, sorry. I won’t be able to help you with your BRX. I don’t have a quest on the any of the automation direct stuff. Not that I don’t want to.
It’s just timing and market. Right? So when you’re self employed, you gotta do everything you can to keep the lights on. And with that, I gotta get back to work. So I wanna wish you all I hope you enjoyed today’s show.
I wanna thank you for joining in with me. Please reach out to me if you wanna come on and share your expertise with the audience, and, just wanna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace.
If you have any questions about Shawn’s in-person or online courses, please don’t hesitate to setup a time to meet with Shawn via MSTeams, or drop him an email using his contact form here: https://theautomationschool.com/question/
Until next time, Peace ✌️
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Shawn details how Studio 5000 Logix Designer’s look and feel changed from version 30 to version 31 in today’s episode of #AutomationTechTalk Lunchtime Edition livestream:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Happy Tuesday, everybody, and happy, September. It is September now, the second, and, please let me know if the video or audio is not working, but everything’s looking great. I can actually get the, streaming out over here on the right. And, I was hoping to have a guest come on the show today. We were all set up.
There was actually one that was, rescheduled, and, no guests. Now it could be a problem with StreamYard because I have seen the delay when somebody tries to join as a guest and when they actually show up in my in my web browser. I’ve, like, refreshed a 100 times, so I don’t know what else to do. But in any case, I still have something that I was just working on for my students that I figured we could talk about since the guest is not connected. So and I was really looking forward to having a Julio on to talk about his company because it just sounded really interesting.
But in any case, I don’t see anything in the chat. So let me go ahead and switch over to this view. Now I’ve had many people, actually, I shouldn’t say many people. I had one person I was talking to about two weeks ago, and they said, you know, Shawn, I was taking one of your courses, and I didn’t recognize I didn’t recognize Studio five thousand. I’m like, what do you mean?
He’s like, it looked totally different. And I’m like, well, that’s not good. And so I’m going back, and I’m like, I think I know what happened. So some people work with only new products. Right?
So they’re only using the latest and the greatest version of the software, and I’m like, wow. You know, that that that’s not me. I’ve been using RS logic since beta. Right? And so I’m like, wow.
So some people make it that, you know, look and feel shock when they, when they, use the latest version and then go back a few versions. So I thought, you know, I did an update a lesson. I just rendered it for my students, and I figured we hey. Since we had a new show, again, he could still connect if he wanted to, but I figured, hey. Let’s cover that.
We’ll call this, Studio 5,000 Logix Designer version 30 versus versus 31. And so what I wanna show you here is I actually have version 10. Now to save time, I typically will will often not install one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Right? And so and some of those versions don’t exist.
Right? So in any case, so this is what, Studio 5,000 Logix designer, a k a RS Logix 5,000, if you didn’t know. This is what it looks like, brand new program. This is what it looked like the version 10. 10 is the first version that supported multi, multiple installs or what they call side by side installations where you can install ten and eleven and twelve and thirteen and fifteen and sixteen and seventeen and eighteen and so on.
Before that, you can only install one, kinda like everything else that’s come before it. Like, you can only have and and you guys correct me if I’m wrong, but, typically, you can only have one copy of Microsoft Word installed or one copy of, you know, most any application, Excel or Premiere Pro or whatever you’re using. You can’t have two installed at the same time. It’s kinda annoying, but because Logix is has to be lockstep. In other words, you have version, let’s say, a version 16 in your controller.
You have to have version 16 to program that controller, unless you wanna upgrade the firmware, which why would you wanna do that? It’s long. It’s complicated. No reason to. Right?
And so I like this idea of side by side installations, And, people used to complain a lot when it first came out that it could take 500 megabytes to install a new version because it’s a lot more now. But but with hard drives so big, like a terabyte, two terabytes, three terabytes, you know, what’s the big deal? Right? So in any case, rather have the feature because you only have to install the versions you’re working on. Right?
If you have sixteen, twenty, and, you know, 34, those are the only three versions you need to install. So in any case, here we are. To me, this looks like RS Logix 5,000. Let’s compare it to version 20. Okay.
Well, this is this version 20 is for my course. Okay. If you could see this, they look pretty similar. Okay. Except I got extra routines here, but look at look at the look and feel pretty much the same version 10.
Right? You see there’s extra stuff in there. Some things have been renamed. Okay. If you look at the toolbars, very similar.
I know on the above one, I went, I went and did this, so I didn’t show you that. You can see the path. I don’t know why it’s up there now. It used to be down here. But yeah.
So version 10 and version 20 were looking very, very similar. Right? And so now let me go ahead and migrate this to version 30. And, I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas on all this. Okay.
Version 30. Of course, it can’t be an l one if it’s a version. Notice that’s one thing this the old versions. Right? So let me change because you used to be able to do the version in the controller as two separate steps.
Right? Okay. So see, this will only go up to 63 because it’s version 10. So let’s let’s see what happens. Let’s just try.
We’re just experimenting live on the ear here because we had a, a guest not show up. So let’s see let’s see what happens. And it could crash. That’s okay. It’s just the lunchtime edition of automation tech talk.
If you guys have questions or thoughts or ideas, things you wanna share, please, post them in the comments. Unfortunately, today, because I’m in the classroom working on new lessons for my students, I do have to go and get back to the METTLEDO, the episodes I’m filming. I ran into a little glitch with that, so I gotta do some research. But, in any case also, I was playing with some IO link early this morning over coffee. So it’s gonna go from l 71 from an l one to an l 71.
Sure. That’s great. I get an l 73. You can’t see it’s off the screen here, but I have an L73 my L73 s back here. I was just, had the camera.
I had to pull it over because I had the camera up to it to, you know, the to show the I wanted to show the analog testing the analog and digital out. So in the trainer, as opposed to in the in the, you know, what it would look like in the, classroom. So we get a warning here. Let me switch back. I I know I often forget to do that.
There’s no control room. It’s just me. I’m doing it all. But in any case, so we’ll convert that. So we we just established here so far that version 10 or version 20, they pretty much look almost identical.
Right? So that’s good. That’s good. So if you’re using 10 or 20, you’re feeling pretty good. Again, minor minor differences here and there.
But let’s go ahead. I wanna make sure I open the same one. Okay. Now let’s take a look at version 30. Okay?
Still looking pretty much the same again. These these are two different programs and not the same programs. One big thing you’ll notice here I know this throws some people. I don’t know why. Program tags were renamed parameter and local tags, and it’s much better because now you can use what used to be program tags in other locations in your code, you know, which is great because you can make them parameters, like, in our parameters.
Right? And local tags, of course, would be very much similar to what program tags were. And it’s all good. You know, version I mean, looks similar. Right?
This is 30. This is version 30. Okay. Let’s look at the toolbars. Right?
Everything you know, slight coloring differences, I think. Yeah. Right? So thirty, twenty, and 10, they all look really practically identical. So now let’s compare 30 to 31.
Boom. Oh, well, this is actually 34, but this you you won’t see a difference between thirty one and thirty four. And this is where Rocco did a graphical, refresh with 31. And now look at all these icons. They’re all, like, kinda new looking and fancy versus the old icons.
Again, two different programs. One thing that is different, kind of a major difference is this assets folder. So if you’re in 31 and up, you’re gonna have an assets folder, which that stuff you should just be all here in the main tree. Right? So, yeah, it looks a lot newer.
Right? You can see instead of gray, it’s kind of this dark blue. K. You see that? Get rid of the arrow windows.
I should just close them. But the toolbar is a lot different as well if you look at the toolbar. K. So one thing that gets me is I’ve been going here for well, since the product came out in the late nineties for controller properties. Now it’s over here, and it’s smaller.
I’m getting older. It’s out of the sea yet. So in any case, I I, that’s one thing I don’t like that they did. But, hey. You know, they may have a good reason for it.
Also, these drop downs here are now over here. Look at that. Interesting, Except for, you know, all these lights now move to the left. K. The biggest one gets me is control properties, and the other one is verify project or verify controller.
Verify used to be pretty easy to see. Now it kinda looks like controller properties. It’s like, well, not as not as I don’t think as clear to see as the guy was. But, yeah, if you look at, you know, you get the path toolbar. Used to be up here.
Now it’s down in here. Right? And a lot of things are smaller. But overall, you know, I I was a little struggling for them to say when they said, hey. This looks totally different.
I’m like, does it really? I mean, it looks refreshed, like a Windows 10 to 11 type thing, But I was like, oh, I don’t I don’t know. Yeah. The main program, main routine. You know?
Well, everything has the same names. So in any case, That is, those were my thoughts. What do you guys think? Does it does it, you know, if you’ve only programmed in this, do you think going back to this would be like, wow, different software? Or we’d be like, no.
That just looks like an older version. But, in any case, I wanted to kinda walk through that with you because I’ve had some people, at least definitely one person who said a student of mine said, hey. We only use the new stuff. He didn’t say this, but it turned out that he they only used the new stuff, 31 and up. And he’s like, hey.
I’m like, well, you know, they’re I’m trying to teach people who are using one through 37. And so one through 30 all look the same and then 31 and up. So but that’s what I was just doing now. I was adding more lessons to the courses to kinda show both of them. And so if you’re in my compact, the ControlLogist course, you’ll see those new lessons show up, soon, if not today, tomorrow.
But, also adding new lessons, some new analog lessons, testing them with the trainers here in the office versus the, the trainer I use in the course just to kinda give you, like, a this versus that look. And, you know, of course doing it with the new software as well since, version 31 did not exist when I filmed the course. Right? So in any case, that’s it. That’s all I had, because it was kinda like a last minute replacement.
And, talk about what’s coming out this week. No podcast this week. We will be doing I do plan to be back here tomorrow and Thursday, to do lunchtime. No. I won’t be doing a lunchtime show on Friday.
We have, we’re working on new videos on the METTLATOLEDO, I n d three sixty. I, excited to, excited to work with people like, Software Toolbox and Schneider on some other videos. And, I get some, videos coming out on IO Link that I’ve been working on. Next week’s podcast will be IO Link. Again, with the experts on it, the actual company that’s in charge of marketing it, and, and certified in products and all that.
So, will be that’ll come out next week, and I wanna have some IO content ready for that. So I, spent the weekend building some IO Link demos, and so look forward to, look forward to showing you that. And, with that, I since there’s nothing in the chat, and that gentleman never popped up in my interface here, I’m just gonna call a lunchtime show a little early, thirteen minutes, but I do wanna wish you all good health and happiness. If you have any questions about anything I’m doing on, YouTube, on the blog, or at the school, just reach out to me. There’s content with contact links everywhere.
And, of course, you can contact me on LinkedIn as well. And, I do wanna throw a shout out to anybody who wants to come on the show, or if you’re a vendor or you’re end user, OEM integrator, you wanna come on and and just see us something you learned, please reach out to me. And with that, I wanna wish you all, again, good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace.
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Today Shawn has Brandon Cooper on the #AutomationTechTalk livestream to talk about what he’s learning in his travels.Note: There is no show planned for Friday or Monday.
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Automation Tech Talk lunchtime edition. You may hear some background noise because today, I have a special guest on. It’s Brandon Cooper, who you probably all know has written a bunch of articles over at the automation blog. And I’ve actually had Brandon on the automation podcast back on episode one zero six.
That was in 2022. Brandon, thank you for, agreeing to share your lunch with us.
Brandon Cooper (Guest): Hey. Glad to do it. Glad to do it. Thanks for
Shawn Tierney (Host): having me. You’re well. Thank you. And I was telling, Brandon in the preshow, he’s actually sitting in his backyard in Louisiana, and it just sounds awesome. He’s got birds chirping, and it sounds so great.
It’s like, man, that’s so relaxing. But in any case, let me see. Brandon, you are
Brandon Cooper (Guest): eighties this week, so it’s almost fall in Louisiana.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. Eighties. We got into the seventies. I had to put the heat on this morning because it was in the sixties, which is which is kinda odd for late August. How about you guys?
Is this normal for late August? Or
Brandon Cooper (Guest): not really. We usually don’t hit get into the eighties until, sometime in September, but we get we got a a lower temp week this week, so it’s it’s nice.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. I’m I’m not complaining at all. So you are a senior process control engineer, and, I know you from your what you do with POCs, but you also work on a lot of DCS systems or what would classically be called the DCS. And like I said, he Brandon was on, in episode one zero six. He’s written several articles on Rockwell and Siemens.
His latest one was on, simulating e threes, I think, for migration purposes. And he also wrote two articles recently on the things I’ve learned because, change. And I don’t want you to give away the actual companies you worked for, but describe your old old role and the new role you’ve been doing now to give the audience some perspective on that’s kinda how you change roles.
Brandon Cooper (Guest): So I guess for twenty two years, starting at 19 years old, I joined on as basically a process control type technician and then moved up to to a process control engineer and then a senior engineer later, you know, working in in specific specific facilities, you know, doing the day to day program and then graphics and troubleshooting and working with operations at a facility, which is also, you know, being on call twenty four seven for for all those twenty two years. So, it was it was great. I learned a lot and, helped me get to the next step, I guess. So, three years ago, I had the opportunity to take a job, where we travel around and and do things in different sites. And there’s, like a like a, capital project type, role.
And that’s been really good. I’ve, I’ve enjoyed it, learned a lot more, and just a a a different role. Kids are kinda grown now, so they didn’t need me at home as much anymore. So just a lot of things fell into place about the same time and, decided to do something a little different. So
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. I could definitely see the appeal to that. So Brandon works. We’re not gonna give him the company names. Brandon works for re a major Fortune 500 company.
And those companies, they have big manufacturing facilities throughout the world, and they usually have their own people, their own techs and electricians on-site. But Brandon gets to come in and do the big projects, and, that sounds it sounds like the fun stuff, but it could also be, like, mission critical stuff. And so you’re traveling a lot. You’re not reporting to the same place every day. You’re reporting do you often like, every month, are you somewhere new?
Brandon Cooper (Guest): I tend to get on projects. You know, I might handle three or four projects at a time, different sites and probably different phases of those projects. So one might be scoping out, you know, phase one and and, getting together what we might be, putting together a scope and and deliverables and that sort of thing. And then the other project might be an execution next month. So, and and that might be from Florida to to Oregon.
So traveling a lot for certain periods and, you know, different phase like I said, different project phases require different attention.
Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I wanna ask you about so from a PLC background, I’ve never used Emerson’s delta v, but I believe you’ve used it quite a bit, right, at different places?
Brandon Cooper (Guest): Yeah. I’ve I’ve used Emerson some over the years. I’ve, not used their PLCs a whole lot. They’re they’re, Delta v, DCS system. I have I have, used some.
Shawn Tierney (Host): So you were telling me recently, and I know you’re not a representative for Emerson. We’ve had Emerson on the show. We constantly invite Emerson to come back on the show to talk about these products. But just as somebody in the field there, you’ve heard about something new coming out, and it’s called the Delta v I q. Again, this is all just, you know, customer impressions, but can you share your impressions of what you’re hearing through the grapevine about this new product that’s coming?
Brandon Cooper (Guest): Yeah. So, Emerson, is kinda I believe they’re doing a really good job cutting edge, trying to, jump on the ether you know, Ethernet bandwagon of, I call it bandwagon. It’s, you know, Ethernet protocols all the way through the system. So that’s, you know, virtualization for for servers and op systems as well as their controllers. Their new IQ controller that I believe is coming out in version 16 that’s supposed to be released later this year.
The IQ can be is a is a totally virtual controller that has, you know, double the capacity of their previous, PK controller, 3,000 BSTs, I believe.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Wow.
Brandon Cooper (Guest): I think you can have 13 IQ controllers on a on a virtual system, so that’s, like, 30,000 DST points.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Wow.
Brandon Cooper (Guest): Quite quite impressive technology there. You know, that’s using charms I owe, on their network. And then, you know, they’re also playing in the instrumentation world with the, Ethernet APL. So, you know, theoretically, in a few years, there’s still there’s still a lot of things out there that are coming and and all that, but you could have a totally virtual system, you know, totally Ethernet system from instrumentation all the way to your controllers to your your servers and workstations and everything. So I I think that’s, I I think that’s on its way.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. I think on the Rockwell side, we saw Ethernet was going to really be the thing. Right? Right. And I I think that was we saw this become and I recently talked about the generations of control logics and or compact logics, I should say.
And with the 53, 35 e. Right? So the l 35 e and the l 32 e, you know, those products also came out with an l 32 c and an l 35 c. And, you know, the there was a l 31 serial, which I never knew anybody who was happy with that because of the speed. It’s slow.
Right? Because, the communications is slow. But in any case, when those products launched, right, I think it was I’d have to go back to the automation plot, but I think we’re talking, like, two thousand four, two thousand five. What really became obvious is that the 35 e and the 33 e outsold the the c’s by a ton. Right?
It’s like the age of Ethernet is here, and ETH and IO is here because nobody’s buying the, control net version. And so, you know, when the fifty three seventies came out, they were a 100% Ethernet. And so I think we can go back twenty years and say, Ethernet has won with SteelBus, and, of course, there’s different protocols we have. Ethernet. We have a trophy net.
We just had a prophylnet expert on talking about prophylnet. We’ve had multiple prophylnet experts on talking it. And, you know, there’s other you know, you still have Modbus TCP, which I know I just talked to Schneider. Even their latest product supports, Ethan IP and Modbus TCP. Right?
Right. So, you know, there’s that legacy as well, which is great because, you know, I I don’t like it when a vendor stops supporting the older stuff. Right? It’s nice to have that. I don’t know how I don’t you know, this is a brand new product from Schneider.
So I you know, it’s it’s a matter of fact, I got a box of them right here because the packing slip I’m I’m working on doing a, show and tell on a brand new next gen IO. And, I mean, this stuff is truly next gen. It’s just not a a a a, you know, paintbrush, you know, to make it look new. But in any case, with Ethernet having one, there’s still topology challenges with our standard Ethernet. Right?
And I think that’s where mingle pair Ethernet and Ethernet APL can really take us to the next level. And then, you know, aside from that, we also have the virtualization in where we see that. And, you know, I mean, in your in your business, not to not to talk about company specifics, where do you think, you know, virtualized POCs would work and where they wouldn’t work? Right? I mean, I I can definitely see some applications where they wouldn’t be a good fit.
Brandon Cooper (Guest): Yeah. Certainly, right off the top of my head, you know, safety systems, high speed, critical, guarding, anything like that, I I would certainly say you won’t see that anytime anytime soon or if ever. But I think overall, process control systems, I don’t see any reason that, you know, in the next five to ten years, you won’t see that largely implemented because the speed and the capability and everything you’re doing in a in a virtual system, you’re relying on it already for all your servers and op stations and things like that. The controller living in that same same system, is probably in a better environment than it was in the field. So while it might be slow to adopt, it’s certainly a viable solution, in the near in the very near future, I believe.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. You bring up a good point too because with a lot of process control systems, you can’t operate the system without your SCADA or HMI or, user interface. Right? There’s not a lot of discrete standalone parts that are totally separate. So if your main console and all your screens go down, you know, you can’t operate it.
And so in a lot of those cases, the PLC or DCS, the the main brain is installed in the control room. And so if you’re installing the brains in the control room anyways, can it be virtualized on some hardened redundant hardware versus, like, we do with SCADA today, versus being a brick. And I think the advantage, though, of having a hardware PLC is you can swap it out. The PLC dies, you swap it out. Where if you go with a virtual PLC, now you’re relying on the computer IT people to keep that robust and and, and up and running.
I I think there’s probably quite a few, stand alone, and I don’t know if you have any examples, but I’m sure there’s a lot of stand alone applications in your your facilities and others you’ve worked in where you don’t you don’t wanna you know, you if you lose a connection to the main control room, you don’t wanna stop. You don’t wanna stop production, whether it be palletizing, material handling, you know, shrink wrapping. I mean, I’m sure there’s a lot of things that are stand alone. Like, if the whole front office went away, this machine still has to run. Am I do you think I’m right about that?
Brandon Cooper (Guest): Yeah. Absolutely. You’ve always gotta have those, critical systems that are that are isolated and have to be you know, whether they can talk to the rest of the world or not, they they have to run. So there will always be places that you would you would stay away from, going totally virtual, I believe. But, I believe the overall system, I don’t I don’t see it as a problem to go in that direction.
Shawn Tierney (Host): How about Ethan at APL? What are you seeing on that side? What do you think the promise is there from the process perspective?
Brandon Cooper (Guest): So I guess what they’re calling gen one, it has been out several years. I believe interest Houser is leading that quite a bit. And, along with a lot of other companies, Emerson, a lot of other companies are are are playing in that world, and it’s developing. I think there’s some instrumentation out there, but I don’t know that there’s enough instrumentation released compatible to to say you know, do a whole facility at the moment. Now I have read about some facilities, I believe, in South America that have gone in that direction and, you know, are are making it work, but I don’t know that it’s all the way there.
I I believe, I like I say, I can’t speak for Emerson or anybody else, but I I I know that they’re looking at some, some gen two, opportunities where, you know, getting away from the the gen one, which was like switches with, APLs, Ethernet switches that had, you know, 20 devices plugged into it. You know, they’re looking at more of a one to one Ethernet APL, charm or or connection that, would provide a little more robustness than than having a single single point of failure for 20 plus devices.
Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I I wanna throw out an invite too to whether it’s Emerson or Hintra Sousa. We’ve had them both on the show, the automation podcast. Love to put an invite out there for them to give us an update on Ethan and APL. We’ve, followed it quite closely, especially when I was doing the news, just all the different people who jumped on it, all the big players. I mean, pretty much everybody’s jumped on to it now, but we’d love to get those vendors on to tell us what they’re doing in that area and, you know, and give us more information about that.
Is there anything, Brandon, that you came across that was like an, oh, moment? Like, whether it was programming a POC or a DCS system, you know, think back over the last month or two. Any tips you can share with the audience that maybe, you know, you found a version, didn’t do something, or there was a feature in this that did something extra. Any any knowledge or or even if it has to do with your life of traveling, any tips you have for Mhmm. The audience from going from, like, being landlocked to being this world traveler?
Brandon Cooper (Guest): That’s a wide open question. So you mentioned protocols a minute ago and and my bus, TCP and and Ethernet IP and all those things. Whether it’s Delta v, whether it’s Honeywell, whether it’s Rockwell. You know? What I’m finding is that every time I go to scope something, there’s 10 different ways that I can topology wise that I can make this work.
And trying to come up with standards and, repeat ways of doing things that are you know? There might be three ways that are all good options, but trying to figure out the best way, whether that’s, like I say, every vendor’s got the got the capabilities to talk both. Say, say, let’s just pick on Honeywell for a minute and their EIM module, their c 300 to EIM module. You know, it’ll talk Modbus TCP or Ethernet IP depending on you gotta flash it one way or the other, and you can’t do both at the same time. But, you you know, looking at those devices and trying to figure out the best way to to handle, you know, a third party integration or a smart MCC, another p you know, another PLC, you know, whatever the case, you there’s just so many options and so many protocols, PRP, DLR.
Yep. You you name it. There there’s lots of options for everything you do, and, just trying to come up with those standards says, helps to not have to to to reinvent that wheel the next time.
Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I know Rockwell, and I think all vendors do this, but I’m more familiar with the Rockwell examples where they have these, they’re they almost look like graph paper, but they’re example configurations. And I used to, love to use those to show people, you know, this is what you would do in this situation. So if you had a serval application, here’s the products that are recommended. If you have, you know, lots of VFDs, here’s the networks recommended. Here’s the topology recommended.
And I think I think it’s a good one vendors do that because, like you said, they all have so many options. Right? And and, you know, guidance. You know, you need to give guidance. Like, Siemens has they have basic modules.
They have standard modules. They have five functionality modules. Right? And it’s like, alright. So do I is it just price?
I mean, why am I choosing one or the other? Right? And so having that type of guidance from the vendors is always extremely helpful. I think, you know, for me, if I had to choose between Ethernet IP and Modbus CCP, I’d pick Ethernet IP because, you know, it’s a generational difference in, development. Right?
So you got Modbus, Modbus TCP when it came out versus Ethernet IP, PROFINET, and the other the other big guys up there on the the field buses. But then you could limit yourself something because, a lot of old products don’t talk, Ethan and IP. And, you know, a lot of vendors, they like the openness of Modbus TCP. So, you know, they can just implement it without too much hassle. You know?
Don’t have to join a group. Don’t have to get a spec and so on. So, yeah, that’s a good point. Hey. I may be traveling out to out across the country here in a couple months for a sponsored engagement.
And I wanted to ask you, any advice for somebody who hasn’t been traveling a lot, since you’re traveling an awful lot? What would be, like, your top couple of things? And I I do have one of the ones you recommended. I do have TSA PreCheck, which I am a big fan of. This is something my wife talked me into getting, and I love the shorter lines.
I love leaving my shoes on. I love all of that. But, other thoughts other thoughts that you have on, on just making making the traveling and since you’re traveling so much, what would you recommend?
Brandon Cooper (Guest): So, yeah, what I talked about several things as far in the articles, but, I would say in the article number two, probably, taking care of yourself is a big thing for, trying to eat eat healthy, exercise a little bit, things like that when you’re on the road. When you do it week after week after week, the choices you make will either benefit your life or take their toll. And, I guess I’ve learned some of those things the hard way. And then and then also, you know, just on the on the upside of traveling a lot, hey. Collect your points and, you know, get those you know, it’s your choice.
I’m not advocating for Hilton or Holiday Inn or or Marriott, any of them. But you pick your, you pick your, where you like to stay and and collect those points and then, use them later on your personal vacation.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. That’s a good point. It’s it makes sense to choose one company to get all your points with because I know a lot of people have taken personal vacations for free because they get so many points for work. So that’s, that’s really good advice. Before we before we close out the show, I did wanna let everybody know there’s no show tomorrow, and there’s no show Monday because Monday in The United States is a holiday.
So we’ll be back on Tuesday. I got another guest on who’s gonna talk about a totally different subject, so I’m I’m hoping, you guys will enjoy that episode as well. Of course, I hope you enjoyed our time we spent with, Brandon, and I’m really wish I was in his backyard right now with all the birds and and and and, it just seems like such a of a quiet, peaceful place. But with that, Brandon, we’re coming to the end of the show. Was there anything else, you wanted to share with the audience, before we close out the show?
Brandon Cooper (Guest): Not that I can think of, but, hey, I’ve been listening to your your your lunchtime show here lately, and, enjoy it. And I appreciate you doing it because it’s a it’s a good way to get tips while you’re eating your lunch. So appreciate it, Shawn.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Well, I thank you, Brandon. And I I would like to ask everybody if there’s something you wanna know or see. We did have somebody say, how do I connect the factory talk view to a micro 800? So I’ll be trying to do that next week. I think before I do that, I’m gonna roll in how to convert.
I think you and I both wrote articles on this, but I’m gonna roll in how to convert a Micrologix product project to a micro 800 because in my factory talk to you course, I I do everything but micro 800 just because of time. It was just so so time consuming creating a course that just for time, I left it out. But I’m figuring, hey. I might as well add it now because I’m adding I’m always adding lessons to my courses. So, in any case, if we wanna if we wanna see the courses I have available, the automationschool.com.
With that, Brandon, thank you so much, not only for coming on the lunchtime show today, but for all the articles you’ve shared with the audience over at the automation blog. And, again, if you have any tips or ideas, we’d love to have you submit them or even come back on the show and share with the audience.
Brandon Cooper (Guest): Sounds good. Thank you, Shawn.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Alright. And I’m gonna say goodbye to everybody on the live stream. Hope you guys have a great day. Again, I’m not on tomorrow or Monday, so have a great weekend. And until next time, I should probably go full screen.
That’s full screen of Brandon. That’s not full screen of me. Let me try that again. Until next time, my friends. Peace.
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Shawn discusses generations of Rockwell IP20 distributed / remote I/O in today’s Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Welcome to Automation Tech Talk. I’m Shawn Tierney from Insights, and I’m about seven minutes late today. I just got off a, really excellent call with a major automation supplier, actually, automation manufacturer, who, was introducing me to his next generation IO. And, so I didn’t have a lot of time to prep, and I’m like, what am I gonna cover today?
And I’m like, let’s talk about distributed IO. So that’s what we’re gonna talk about. I love to hear in the chat where you what you guys are using for distributed IO if you’re using distributed IO. Now OEMs typically don’t need distributed IO. I mean, don’t get me wrong.
They will, oh, and I should also say if you guys can’t hear me or you can’t see me or something’s wrong, let me know. But in any case, typically, an OEM with a small machine, they don’t need the distributed IO. Now they will run a lot of times Ethernet through their different devices like VFDs and HMIs, but, they don’t need distributed IO. However, a facility with a large machine or a large system, it makes no sense to run all the wires back from all the sensors and switches and buttons all the way back to the main panel, and that’s where distributed IO really does extremely well. And, you know, PLCs and PACs more and more can handle even more and more higher quantities of distributed IO.
But before we get into that, I thought we would talk a little bit about the history of distributed IO or remote IO as Rockwell coined the phrase or patented the phrase back in the day, back in the late seventies. In any case, in the first distributor IO I saw out there, saw a lot of it out there, was seventeen seventy one. And seventeen seventy one IO was, big and bulky. This is an eight point module. I just grabbed what I had available, you know you know, with two minutes to go before the show started.
Let’s see if I set up the overhead cam correctly. So I do not have the terminal block on here, but this is an 8.1771, IO module that was donated to, somebody who then donated it to me. And, thank you to both of companies for the donation. And I have a ton of this stuff, and, it’s really super inexpensive online. But the, you know, the problem is the programming software is so expensive.
So, you know, a lot of people could use this, reuse this stuff for hobbies or whatnot. But, in any case, this would fit in a big, jack. You guys have seen the racks here before, the big seventy seventy one chassis, and we don’t call them racks. We call them chassis. And, you know, it worked.
Remote IO definitely worked. The the digital was so easy to set up. The analog, a lot of people had a hard time getting their mind around block transfers. I always felt that I could explain it to people easily, and that’s why I’m doing a PLC five course with seventeen seventy one IO. I don’t have that on here on the stage because it’s just so big.
I actually have it over there on the floor. But in any case, you know, of this you see this a lot. I remember going to one power plant and walking through and and, because they wanted to migrate all this seventeen seventy one IO and just taking pictures and pictures and pictures of MCC is full of distributed IO racks with remote IO and seventeen seventy one IO. And as I was going through there in the seventy eighth rack of IO, I’m like, this is not affordable. This stuff, first of all, it’s bulletproof.
Why replace it? Second of all, I mean, I don’t want my electric bill going up just so they could say, we have new stuff in the enclosure. So in any case, a lot of times no. I don’t know. I will I won’t go I’m not gonna go down that that route.
But in any case, so 1771 was the first distributed IO I ever I ever, came across. And then, of course, there’s there’s all the stuff, and I’m just covering Rockwell today. This vendor who I met with who has next purely I mean, really, next generation, distributor IO, I’ll be doing a video on. I have a box of this brand new stuff they sent me. They sponsored some coverage on it so I can make the video and keep the lights on at the same time, so I’m excited about that.
But in any case, the next one I ran into was block IO. So this is some of the original block IO, remote IO. Again, a lot of times these IOs were available on multiple different networks, like device that control net, remote IO. But in any case, let me see if I can go back, over to the overhead cam and maybe even zoom in a little bit here. Again, I’m doing this all ad hoc.
Here’s some original block IO. Check a look at that. And, man, this brings back memories, but these are actually fairly easy to use. And, you know, being all in just one little package, you know, pretty awesome. Pretty pretty awesome, distributed IO.
And so that was block IO. So now we move forward. We really had, something called flex IO. Now all my flex IO I’m using this as a stand in. This is really just a, a, drone that adapter for the flex IO.
But, in any case, this would be the control that had all my Flex IO, my Ethernet Flex IO, it’s all at home. I’m building up new demo boards for the automation school. But in any case, Flex IO was very popular because it was, of course, modular unlike the, block IO and not and small unlike the seventeen seventy one IO. And you could do up to eight of IO modules on a single, adapter or network head, network, interface module. And, yeah, pretty cool.
The modules, again, I have it all at home. So but the modules are separate from the terminal blocks, so the module would come off. The terminal block would stay. A lot of people like that. And, very, very popular.
You could also one of the one of the few things of Rockwells that you could mount, vertically as well as horizontally. I see a lot of people mounting, new stuff vertically, like, CompactLogic stuff for you can’t do that. So you gotta check the book out. You don’t wanna get, in trouble with your customer. Now FlexiO, it had some issues definitely on, device stat.
Okay? There were some things where it kinda did a boot up the first time and read in the modules, and if you don’t have them all plugged in, you had to reset it and went through that whole thing in the nineties. But, in any case, very reliable. I like it on all platforms. And, the only one thing it had that was really, like, the, when it first came out.
Right? So, like, when it first came out, everybody was bending these little pins. Let’s see if we can do the overhead camera again. I don’t know if I can get them that close. These little pins that connect the, the units together, everybody would bend them when they try to put the units together.
And you may say, Shawn, how would they do that? Well, if your DIN rail wasn’t perfectly flat, right, was twisted a little bit, then your modules weren’t lined up perfectly, and the pins would get bent. Now you can unbend them if you’re careful. If you break them, throw it away. You know, you got, I don’t know, $500, a thousand bucks worth of junk.
But in any case, that was one of the things that, I didn’t like about this platform. You just gotta be very careful assembling them. Make sure they’re all very flat and lined up before you slide the slider over. Really, that was the only thing I really didn’t like about them. But, again, in the chat, please, please put your and I got a comment in here from Emmanuel.
Hey, Emmanuel. Good to see you again. It wasn’t inexpensive when it was yeah. True true that. True that.
So that is a flexile. And and something that came out that really, and I’m not covering the on machine aisle. Again, all my on machine is at home. I I do have one PC out, but it looks like, not worth showing. So, that would be the machine mount IO that’s like IP 67 or IP 69.
Another unit that came out was Point IO. Point IO is extremely popular, and let’s see if we can zoom in on this guy. And I really like this now. There are some caveats with this too. Don’t don’t try to flash your, module’s firmware.
Not that anybody does that. Right? Most people would never flash their modules firmware unless you found that the chain the, whole blast state isn’t working, and then you’re panicking because your exhaust vents aren’t exhausting poisonous gas. You’re like, I need a last state to work. And then you go to, blast of firmware.
I think they actually don’t let you do it anymore because you could brick it if you are browsing the backplane that this sits on with IrisLinks. The flash would actually break the unit. And so, I know I can’t stand in the middle here. I keep going back and forth, but in any case, you guys don’t need to see me. Right?
Yeah. That’s better. So in any case, very popular platform, never flash the firmware on the IO module so you could break it if you’re browsing the same rack with RS links, but I don’t have the terminal block on here. The other thing that, with point I o that was kind of a bummer, you can see there’s eight terminals here by default. So you had no place for your commons or your, your, your voltage plus.
Right? Your DC minus and plus. No. And a lot of IO cards, you had a place to land those. Right?
So if you had two wire, three wire sensors, you had a lot more terminal blocks, than you would with those, you know, classic. Like, you know, a lot of people would get the Flexi with the the t b threes with the three rows of terminal blocks or terminals, and, yeah, that was great. You had a you could land everything right on there. No interposing terminal blocks if you didn’t want them. Some people would still do it, which I thought was kinda like defeating the purpose of it, but, hey.
You gotta do what you gotta do. Right? But in any case, really, really big fan of. Again again, we’re talking all legacy I, distributed. Io here.
And then I do have to throw out a shout out to, the fact that you can always use, like, slick 500 io, like the ’17 71 io, not when it first came out. Out. You could not use this as distributed IO. But as years went by, Rockwell made adapters for the ’17 46 chassis, and so you could use your Slick 500 IO as distributed IO. Also, although not very popular, well, the 1760 IO was very popular for the micro 1,500 and for CompactLogix.
We just finished doing a series on CompactLogix. But, yeah, putting using this as distributed IO, not as popular. Right? Very rare. We actually do have an Ethernet adapter at much cost.
We picked one up, used, and we will be showing that off, to our students. Maybe I’ll even do a lunch and learn on it or a lunch lunchtime episode of the automation tech talk show. But in any case, you can put this on distributed IO as well as seventeen fifty six. A matter of fact, when, ControlLogistix first came out, almost all the IO it used both locally, was seventeen fifty six IO. The cool thing with this was that you could just use your EMT card or your ENET card.
Well, only certain versions of the ENET card could be used, as an IO scanner, and it was very limited. So let’s say let’s just leave the ENET out of there. So the EMBT, you could use that as your scanner and as your adapter card in Rockwell’s parlance. And that was, that’s pretty cool, but very expensive. Kinda like using $17.71 for the extruded IO.
Kinda expensive. And so, we also had, other types of, IO come out. So this is, what they call butter stick IO. This is compact LDX. I think you can still use the device that version of this for, the micro 800.
That’s an upcoming lesson for that course. Let’s see if we can put these under the, under the camera here. Let’s see. Oh, yeah. That’s already zoomed in pretty good.
So these, I like, the next generation of the, Block IO. And I’ll tell you what, they call this butter stick. I can really like this form factor. Easy to wire, small, just a fan favorite. Right?
And, Yeah. So this came in a bunch of different versions, but most people remember it for the device that, capabilities and, the LDX as well. Right? So this was I you know, I never used much of this, but right now, last time I checked, it was the only, one distributed IO you could use with the with the OG, micro eight hundreds. So now you got some eversions out there, so they can do some other things on Ethernet IP.
But, my understanding is it’s it’s really cool the, the way that device that module works on the mic great 100. So that’s why I picked those up so I can actually show it to my students. And maybe we’ll do a lunch, a lunchtime episode on that. So let’s see. How am I doing?
Oh, Oh, and then, of course, and this is something else we’re gonna be showing too in our CompactLogix course, is the fifty sixty nine IO, which is really high end, high capacity IO is what you’re talking about was yesterday. So the IO is fast, high capacity, feature rich. It’s really more like the 56 IO in many ways. But in any case, you can actually put this on Ethernet. So you can do a compact CompactLogix, fifty three eighty with all the same 69 IO, fifty sixty nine IO locally and remote, which is really cool.
Not low cost, but really cool. And now I wanna go over to the computer because there’s some other options which I don’t have. You know, I I partner with vendors to cover their new products, and, you know, some vendors, are like to do include the hardware in that, and so some don’t. But I do still wanna cover these, and this isn’t gonna be the prettiest share I’ve done. But let me just go ahead and see if I can share my screen here.
So this is what they call a flex 5,000, and this is kind of the replacement for the, the, the flex aisle. Right? And, flex 5,000 is the adapter. I couldn’t you know, it’s funny. I could not find a selection guide for this guy or a brochure for this guy.
I thought it was really weird. But in any case, let me see if I can zoom out a little bit. Come on, picture. Okay. That’s better.
So this is I’m just saw it right on Rockwell’s website. And so I don’t have this, but it looks really cool. The design, it looks like they really fixed the connector. I don’t have a picture of that, but, really, the same design. Thank you for putting all vendors.
Thank you for putting QR codes on here. Really, really appreciate that. I know that saves them from having to put a manual in the box that we get thrown away. People just don’t keep paper manuals anymore. I mean, I have a bunch I wanna donate to the Automation Museum, but, but in any case, this week, we’re recording an episode on, the history of Wonderware, which I’m so excited to do because they were always like the big competitor when I was out there with RSView, and, I actually built some systems, some demos, I should say, with InTouch, and I just thought it was pretty cool.
I still like RSV better, but because I was beta tested for it, but, still, InTouch is pretty cool stuff. Anyways, I got a question come in. What’s your most preferred digital IO to use? That’s a great question. Let’s hold hold on to that question.
I would like to know what you guys prefer. So everybody who’s watching, I can see the count right there. What are your preferred, distributed IO options if you use it, if you’re not an OEM? But in any case so Flex 5,000, I haven’t used it, but it looks like they’ve fixed a lot of the problems with the original Flex IO, which again was still very, very popular. Look at the three terminals there.
Three rows of terminals. I just think that’s great, you know, wiring your three wire devices right into it. But when I was talking to somebody about next generation IO, this vendor who sent me all the hardware that I’m gonna cover, they mentioned how, there was another product out from Rockwell. Now I hadn’t I don’t you know, guys know. I have nose to the grindstone.
I don’t get to do the news show anymore. It just wasn’t profitable. It was actually, it was a big drain on the company’s finances, time wise, anyways. But, they told me about this new product from Rockwell. I’d never heard of it before.
It’s called PointMax IO, and I’m like, okay. I thought they would have called it point 5,000, like flex flex 5,000, point 5,000. And, so I’m like, that’s interesting. PointMax. So I figured, well, let’s take a look at this.
So good. ANTR. I’m glad they kept that. Looks like we have safety in there, guys. Ain’t that cool?
You can see the indicators on the IO. Very I I like the I like the look. I gotta say that. I like the look, and I like that it’s not painted black like, the the many of the other products that went from, the light gray to black like we talked about, I think, yesterday. I, I like the push in, terminals.
I like how they’re labeled. I think you guys could see the labeling there. Whoops. Okay. And, I I don’t see test points, which is definitely it keeps it out of that next gen, option.
But, I mean, I see these tiny little holes, but you’re not gonna get a probe in there unless you’re have, like, a I don’t know. But in any case, you know, the black really well, I’m a big fan of the, you know, the light gray. The black really and you’ll see it on the ControlLogix too. The black background really makes the LEDs really, light up. So I like that.
But I like how they kept the light gray on everything else. And, yeah, very cool there. You see the again, a QR code. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. I don’t see and, again, I this looks like there’s a little cover here. Maybe it’s under this cover, but I’m not seeing the dial for the IP address. So that’s one of my favorite products about when Rockwell has distributed IO where you can actually dial in the IP address. I like that.
But in any case, I think this is interesting. I’m hearing and, again, I did not do any research on this, but I’m hearing that this kinda misses the next gen mark, because it doesn’t have an OPC server built in, and it doesn’t have that security, built in between the modules and the, and the adapter, which kinda keeps it out of that next gen realm. But still, if you’re a fan of the the current point I o, this is saying that it’s going to be available quarter three twenty twenty five, so you probably see it at automation fair. They have the system specs, system installation, selection configuration tools. So, I mean, it looks like a decent product.
It’s just, you know, I haven’t read up much about it. Again, I I always extend I just sent the list out to Rockwell a couple weeks ago of all these great things. I’d love them to come on the show and talk about. I know they’re very busy. They got a lot going on.
But, in any case I don’t know. I thought this was cool, so I thought we’d talk about it. You know, I I I wonder if it has the same thing with the fifty sixty nine IO. It’s like they changed the IO addressing so that, you know, it’s the bits on part of an array anymore. The bits are all standalone bullions.
The actual inputs and outputs are standalone bullions. I would imagine they probably did that for some reason, which I never found described anywhere for them doing that, but that does make converting programs a a pain because the the the software doesn’t know what to do with it. But in any case, very interesting stuff. I would, again, love to get Raquel on to talk about this more. You know, we’ve had him on ten, eleven, 12 times.
So I’d love to get him on to talk about this and so many other things. But in any case, I wanted to share that with you. I just became aware of it, but, this is probably there. I’m gonna guess it’s the new value line because it’s missing some of those neck next gen features. So, and who knows?
We’d like we talked about, yesterday. Who knows what the future is? We only know when they tell us. Right? So let me go back full screen here, and let’s see what came in on the, comments here.
Well, point.io, a lot of people are big fans of point.io. You get the exact number of IO you want. It’s affordable. You know, if you’re not doing high density IO, you know, like, I and I’ve shown like, I think I showed it in the presentation yesterday. You know, I’ve been at sites where they had racks that were almost maxed out 60 some odd modules.
But in any case, the points per slot, though, is low. And if you have an eight point module, then, you definitely have to have to, you know, use the terminal block to do your, you know, if you have a two wire sensor or three wire sensor. You only get one point on the o IO modules, so that is kind of a downside. You know, as far as other vendors, I think all the vendors do a good job with this. Again, we’ll show you the next gen stuff that I’m gonna be covering here in the coming weeks.
But I was putting together, and I will be showing you guys this, some of the e t 200 e t 200 SP IO distributed from Siemens. And I really liked it, especially wiring it. The push in terminals were great, and, it was just so simple to use. Commissioning it, I I still haven’t found the book that tells you how to commission it. I had to kinda do it the old fashioned way and kinda figure it out myself.
But, in any case, if anybody knows, if you use an e t two hundred s p I o, and you didn’t find the book to commission it, when I say commission it, give it its IP address. Right? So, you know, with the Rocco, you just dial it in. If you don’t dial it in, if you need a different IP address, you boot p it. Right?
So, that’s all documented very well. And then the wiring diagrams. Now I know a lot of these IO devices have the wiring guide right on the front of it, but, you know, it’s always nice, and and I think this is one thing. If you’re a Rockwell user, you probably agree with me that they have their installation instructions. Most of their installation instructions have great wiring diagrams, and so I was struggling with that last night.
Of course, it was late, so it could have been that too. But, in any case, I don’t have anybody else posting what their favorite IO is. So Capone IO wins in the chat, and I, I’m at twenty two minutes. So, again, sorry I was a little bit late. You know, meeting with vendors like that has to take precedence because that’s that’s a potential income to keep the lights on.
Also, don’t forget, if you have anybody I know most of you here are don’t need training because you’re experts. Right? But if you have people working for you who need training, that is a big part of my business, the automationschool.com. You know, I just tried to add a chat box to it today, and then as I started this live stream, I could see somebody trying to chat with me. It’s like, oops.
But in any case, the automationschool.com, I got courses on ControlLogix, CompactLogix, MicroLogix, Micro 800, and soon, click 500 PLC five and, of course, Siemens. That’s gonna expand it. I have HMI courses and SCADA courses. I think I I would have to say it’s probably the best Fact Talk View course online because a lot of people don’t, won’t spend the money to buy a license Effect Talk View course. I did because because being an RS View beta user, Fact Talk View is the next generation of that, of course.
So in any case and I got some exciting stuff coming over there. So if you wanna get a, 20% off coupon for an online course from anybody you know, anybody who works for you, you know, wants to get into this crazy business, just get in contact with me. All I need is the email address of the person the coupon’s for, and, they’ll get 20% off. I’m doing this just for viewers of the automation, Tech Talk, show. And then, of course, we can do custom training here.
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Rockwell has great documentation. I do agree with that. And with that, I’m gonna go eat my lunch. So I wanna wish you all good health and happiness. Have a great day, and until next time, my friends.
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They’re like, oh, I can’t find this old manual. I’m like, yeah. I got it. So in any case, I I did I did, post this for those of you in my compact basics course, CompactLogix course over at the automation school. I did put the this up there in appendix a so you can grab a copy of this.
But if you’re not in my courses, just ask your Rockwell rep. If they’re worth their salt, they’ll have all these presentations free from Rockwell. But I thought we had used this. I thought it would be good because all my you can see behind me let me go back full screen here. You see behind me my, all my, you know, high end or, actually, every one of my CompactLogix except for the one, two, and three generations I showed you earlier in the series, they’re all wired in the trainers here at the automation school.
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In any case, thank you for asking where I was located. And, the automationschool.com forward slash live, I got links to all the attractions, links to all the nearby hotels, Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn, you know, all the big ones you can think of we have within three miles of the site. And, you know, one of the things I do that, you know, of, and, you know, that, you know, big corporation can’t is, you know, if you wanna learn Siemens and Rockwell the same day, I can do that. Right? The other thing is, if you wanted to start at, like, twelve noon because you wanna drive in, like, I’ve had people drive in from Pennsylvania.
You know, if you wanna drive in from some place that’s four or five hours away, we can start at twelve, 01:00 and then finish the next morning, right, or do two or three days in a row. We also not only have the physical trainers, we also have factory IO. I’m a factory IO reseller. So if you blow through all those, we’ve got even more. And trust me, you won’t finish all the factory IO in a day.
That’s for sure. So in any case, back to generation number five of, CompactLogix. And this is a ’50 three eighty. Now, again, I wanna I think it was Dean yesterday who said that the fifty three seventies, the l twos and l threes, were just recently marked as active mature. And at the time, I was like, why would they do that?
But then I remembered, the micro 1,400 has been active mature for a long time. So maybe maybe they’ll still be around for a long time. There there’s really no low capacity fifty three eighty. Right? And that’s the point I’m trying to get to here is, they’re they’re expensive and they’re high capacity.
Right? So, you know, you know, if you like, to use a comparison, there’s no s seven twelve hundred version of the CompactLogix fifty three eighty. Right? So in any case, you know, if you know anything about Siemens, it’s a twelve hundred and fifteen hundred program with the same software, but the 12 hundred’s a little micro size PLC. In any case, so, this and I’m gonna tell you that that this line has really just taken off for those high performance needing applications with the dual giga gigabit.
Now when it first came out, you could not have two separate IPs. But from the beginning, they’ve always talked about the ability that will that they will allow you to have dual IPs. And I believe it was version 19, ’29 19. Version 29 that came out, with the dual IP support. And it was so it was just a firmware flash.
So the the scan time is, you know, much faster. Okay? And, the core languages all execute with the same performance. That’s a big difference. And then screw to screw performance from, like, input to output, they’re much, much faster.
The IO is the backplane is just so much faster. Right? So, I mean, not that it’s a physical backplane, but you know what I mean. Right? The connection between the modules and the controller.
So in any case, let me make sure here. I don’t wanna pass a slide here. Okay. Because these look very similar. So if you think about the fifty three eighty, 20% increase in capacity.
Right? So that means, you know, just generically, 20% more servos, 20% more memory, 20% IO, you know, 20 more you know, 20% in most categories. Right? And you can see here, 32 axes that that this is all dependent on the controller you buy and, 80 Ethernet IP nodes. Right?
So just think 80 drives or 80 racks of IO off of one controller. Pretty cool. Now if you do a motion control, of course, you want the m version. One of my two are an m version, but I don’t have any of these beautiful looking servos. But, in any case, 32 drives in a single controller.
Multiple cost update rates in advance. Now they even have testing. You can actually test the moves now, or simulate them. I we when we had Rockwell on the show, they talked about that. Advanced tuning with the load observer and tracking notch filter.
I am not a motion guy, so I I don’t have any of that stuff here. So, but my motion people tell me that’s really cool stuff. So in any case, security, you know, the control based change detection, there’s a bunch of stuff that people don’t realize this for years, though. Compact and ControlLogix have been logging stuff to the nonvolatile memory. So, that’s been going on for years, and now they’re doing even more.
So that’s very cool. What do we have here? So the onboard display now, this morning, early this morning, in the wee hours of the morning, I was trying to change the IP address on my s seven fifteen hundred. Thank you, Siemens, for sending that in. And, this is the one I’ve showed you guys years ago.
And, I just went up to the screen and did it like it was a micro 1,400, you know, but in color. Right? So s m 1,500 has this gray screen. I’m not trying to belittle the screen on the fifty three eighty, but, you know, we’ve had these on the IO modules for a long time. And quite honestly, it’s so two thousands.
Right? Or maybe 20. But, in any case, I I would rather have it than not have it, but I should maybe maybe throw a little ping out there to Rockwell. Take a look at the competition. They are doing some awesome things.
In any case, I did love the you know, comes with the SD card still, switch the set of key, which I’m I you know, at first, I was not a big fan of, but it’s really doesn’t matter. U USB, perfect, like the fifty three seventy. Terminal blocks, I don’t believe it comes with the terminal blocks. You have to either buy them either screw or or spring type. So always make sure.
That’s why I always tell people when you’re buying rock, we’ll always use IAB, integrated architecture builder. I’ve done many videos on that in the past, and, it’s in all my courses. Probably have to do an update for the courses soon because, you know, every few years changes. But in any case, I really like it. And then this cover here on the right hand side, unlike the 69 IO, this is just a piece of plastic.
So I like that it’s just inexpensive, just a dust cover for the for the terminals, which are live. Right? So very important to have that on there. But and I always thought this one was a little odd. It supports up to 31 local IO modules.
So we’ve been 30 IO modules local for so long. Right? CompactLogic’s up to 30. Slick 500 up to 30. Right?
Here, they got to 31. I don’t know why. It’s just kinda, like, funny. Maybe just because they could do it. Right?
What do you guys think? But in any case, up to 31 local IO modules. Very interesting. And, of course, it supports all the now this is what we kinda took a sneak peek at yesterday, and this is what I was saying. Hey.
It is truly high performance versus fifty three seventy. Now when the fifty three seventy came out, we were like, wow. This is so much better than the 50 well, than the l three series. Right? But in any case, if we look at some of these thing, of course, you get dual one gigabit, not a 100 megabit, one gigabit Ethernet ports.
Right? That’s pretty cool. Right? So you can see there’s a chart over here that kinda goes through this. You know, complex applications, high performance applications, you know, you’re gonna use the fifty three eighty.
K? Communications is now separated from control. This is huge. Right? So there’s no more with the fifty three eighty.
Right? There’s no more what we call the, overhead. 20% of, you know, the communications overhead. Yep. Previously, 20% of the control scan by default was set for the, you know, overhead time slice totally gone, eliminated.
This unit is now a quad core if you haven’t looked at the the, books on it. So they just give a core to that. I think we have a slide on that. But, yeah, that is that’s very cool. Right?
So no system over head time slice. Now if you’ve never run into that, you probably never used one of the old contact logics because maybe not so much with the fifty three seventy. But back in the day, I still remember when they went from 10% default to 20% default because, HMIs were having a hard time getting all the data. You know, you have 20 HMIs going to a single PLC. They can put a quite a load on that PLC.
Right? PAC. I know. I know. Before everybody types it in, I know Rocco caused their newest generation PAC, so does Schneider, but not everybody does that.
So PLC, PAC, it’s all vendor specific. Okay. So program I actually had somebody tell me once. PAC, is there anything that doesn’t isn’t called PAC? It’s old, old, old.
And I’m like like, like, dude, you can get out more. Look at some of the other vendors. They they have every feature that your PAC has, but they call them a PLC. So, you know, it’s marketing. Sometimes we just buy into it.
Like, it’s not a tissue. It’s a Kleenex. Right? Well, that’s life. Programming language extension and task switching enhancements.
What I really wanna show you here is how much faster. Right? How much faster the, the fifty three eighty is over the fifty three seventy. Not that the fifty three seventy was bad, but look at this. Here’s your l three.
Like, so l three x. Right? We talked about l 35, l 32, l 31, if you’re unfortunate to get that. Still here, a 168 for this program, hundred and sixty eight milliseconds. L three, forty five, huge increase.
Fifty three eighty, nine. Talk about fast. Yeah. Really fast. K.
And then the test switching time, we used to say, you know, budget a millisecond every time you switch tasks. Now we’re down into the microseconds. Right? So and, again, they’re saying a hundred and sixty five microseconds for the, l 35 e. I don’t that’s not the rule of thumb we were using, but in any case, very interesting slides here.
Dual IP mode, we really already covered this support for DLR. You know, fifty three seventy had that too. I think that was one of the big things about the fifty three seventy having that dual port switch in every unit was just amazing. So lower investment cost with higher performance. Now, I would say, space reduction for sure.
Right? So look over here. So you could here you would need the, let’s say, the l 30 e r, right, fifty three seventy three, PA four, and ECR. So that’s three items, but now the power supply is built into the controller, like the PLC twos. And then, here you have the mini twos.
Right? LSP, like, two sixteen with the built in power supply. In any case, then you have the l three ten e r. So you can see much less space because everything’s kinda built into one. Because if you’re lucky enough to have the l four, you save him even more space.
Right? So because that power supply was we already saw earlier in the series. Right? Now as far as cost, I I’m I don’t know. I don’t no.
On the l four, yeah. Sure. But was this, like, real cost, or is this, like, inflated cost? I don’t know. So, and you know what?
You I guess you could pull up an old old price list from ten years ago to see if that changed, but we got better things to do. As you can see, full memory utilization. So, you know, this is a big thing because we used to say you can’t use all your memory. Right? Don’t use it all.
You need may need to save some for some firmware or something else. Not anymore. That’s all stored somewhere else. So you can actually use all your memory. Now I would always save a little bit.
You never know. Right? But, in any case yeah. We’re not we’re not you don’t tell people anymore, hey. Save 20% just in case you have to add a new firmware, and it gets a little bit bigger.
And you may say, well, I’ll keep it at version x forever, and then you may find there’s a bug in version x. You may have to go to version x point two. Right? So but, yeah, that that is just another advantage. You know, not only thing is this thing really fast, but now we can use all our memory for program.
It doesn’t show you yeah. It’s kinda like you buy a computer, has a terabyte, and then there’s, like, 200 gigabytes worth of spam built on the hard drive. It’s like, why do they do that to me? But in any case, so you do get the diagnostics. Right?
That’s much better than the $53.70 and, the security with DigiSign. Enhanced diagnostics and the web page. I don’t spend a lot of time in the web pages, but it’s there if you’re having problems. Here’s where we talked about the memory, not having to reserve 20% anymore. You see message instructions, trans alarms, RS links, online edits, all that goes away.
K? So here here’s where they’re recommending you kept 20% open, and now you don’t have to. So you’re really getting 20% more usable memory. The the this this reminds me the way the system’s laid out reminds me of no point I o in in some respect because you have the, these different buses here, and you have the field power distributor blocks so you can, feed more power through. I don’t know if they’re changing from AC to DC here.
Those kinda look like relay boards. K. But in any case, let’s go around the easy identification. Yeah. You know, now they these these are the original look.
They did they did stop painting them black. One of the reason I’m not a fan of that because the black scratches off sometimes. Not that you should be scratching your program or controller, but, I kinda like the kinda beigey gray, the light gray color. But in any case, I don’t know. You guys like the would you like do you like the controls about the new black look with the hourglass, or do you like it better as light gray?
I’ll I’m a light gray guy. Both my units here are like grays. Hey. Maybe that’s why I got deals on them. Though they wanted the black version.
The DIN rail connections, I’m still not like, the oh, well, the 60 nines is snapped on. These, I’m kinda like, is that really on there? But, reduced space, this is true. One inch of thermal clearance. That’s big.
You save because I think the other ones were, like, two and a half inches or two inches at a minimum. There is a vent triggers, instantaneous event triggers. So that not everything could do an event trigger in the CompactLogix. There’s very limited what you could do an event trigger on. The high speed backplane, that is true.
If you look at your RPIs, you can go much faster. Now remember filters. And so I had even wrote articles on the blog about this. Yeah. Filters, they had the of, you know, trim off that noise, eliminate noise, analog and digital.
And so, you can have this high speed you know, you can put a higher RPM there, but if you have a filter in there, right, then, you’re not gonna see that kind of speed. Time stamping of inputs and scheduled outputs, I haven’t done anything with that. Alright. So I think we covered all that. K.
So he has a ladder diagram, 13 times faster. Structure text, 21 times faster. Function blocks, seven and a half times faster. Sequential function shot, 20 times faster. Very, very cool.
K. So a 20 x improvement. K. So this is why this is why the $53.80 came out. This is what it addresses.
It just makes it everything you can do a lot more. You don’t have to jump right into the control logics to get this high speed. Right? Alright. What else do we got here?
Ah, yeah. See, I highlighted these. Don’t forget to order these. I need to get an extra set myself. You do get the MCAP, though.
Thank goodness. Imagine forgetting that. K. Here’s a closer look. K.
See the ports on the bottom? They’re I wish they were a little closer, and they’re separated a little bit too. I I really like the fifty three seventy ports, but, you know, these have more functionality, so maybe they need more spacing. Hey. You could see your reset button.
Okay. And USB port. And there’s your part numbers. They’ve added a bunch of models since the this came out. I’m sure, there’s no start energy.
There’s all these. I think it there’s so many more of these now. The m promotion. K. What else we got?
Zero to 60. I’m not seeing any anything else there that’s interesting. Okay. So that’s kind of the summary slides. So that’s it for our tour of the fifth generation CompactLogix, the 5380.
Don’t know if there’s gonna be a 5390. Probably. Right? But I don’t know. We did have Rockwell on talking about the l nine or 5590.
Right? That, they’re gonna be showing our automation fee. Very excited for that. And, you know, probably a year or two later, they’ll have a fifty three ninety. I’m wondering if the reason they act and mature the l two and l three is because they’re gonna have a fifty three ninety one, like an l one that’s actually a fifty three ninety.
Or maybe they’ll do a fifty three eighty l one. That would be very cool. You know, that that smaller level, I think, is you know, when it comes to doing large systems, high performance, there’s no no problem with Logix. They’ve always been able to do that, but they’ve always struggled on the small the small end. And then the l one was a great until it went from, like, I don’t know, $1,400, $2,400.
It was a great small fit for small OEMs now. You know? And everything’s going up. It’s just incredible. I you know, the one thing that I was checking that didn’t go up was, or substantially, anyways, was the starter pack for the micro eight twenty.
Now I know there’s a new micro eight twenty coming. I start referencing a couple manuals. I didn’t actually see it anywhere, and I I I would love to get somebody from Rockwell on to talk about it. Because, you know, they upgraded the states the five the, was it? The August, the August, and now it’s August turn, and I see it referenced in some manuals that they’re gonna update it.
And I think they add, like, the f one and some IO support, Ethernet IO support. They probably add on things too, but I don’t have any, so I haven’t looked into it. But you can still get a a micro eight twenty. According to proposal works updated last week, you can still get that for around $250. And I was actually looking at an eight ten.
I’m trying to get that eight ten input simulator to show it to my students, but they want about the same price for the eight ten solder pack. So it’s like, yeah, I’ll pass on that. I got a couple of eight tens, and I don’t use them much. So in any case so with that, you know what I should probably do is just, first of all, I wanna invite any vendors, cuss, any users, or any, SIs out there, OEMs who wanna come on to talk about well, if you’re a user, whether you’re an SI or an end user, talk about what you’ve learned recently about products, automation products. Doesn’t matter if it’s Allen Bradley, Siemens, whatever.
You know? Love to have you on. And then vendors, if you want well, and also SIs, if you wanna talk about your company and services you provide. OEMs, if you wanna come on during lunch, talk about the machines you build. You know, I wanna use this lunchtime as a way to just educate everybody, you know, quickly, you know, during a half an hour and, you know, I’ll pass on my information.
But if you can pass on yours and vendors, you get a cool new product. You you you just wanna come on and do a casual livestream. We still have the automation podcast, which is kinda like that sit down half hour, one hour, you know, not recorded. You know? I’m sorry.
Not live. It’s recorded and edited. But, actually, I’m editing tomorrow’s got about half done. But in any case, yeah. So just wanna invite you guys to contact me.
You can contact me on LinkedIn, on YouTube. Let me pull up the automation school again. There’s all kinds of contact links up here. If you wanna know about training, you can even book a presales meeting if you wanna sit down and talk about some options. The automation blog, there is a contact link up here.
It’s more of a generic contact link, but, you know, you can contact me that way as well. And, you know, don’t forget if you want 20% off any of the courses, $99 or more, you know, these are buy once or forever. Right? This is not $90 $9 a month for $500 a year. Actually, you can get almost all of my courses for $500 a year.
Not all of them, but a a big bundle of them for that price. So, let me see if I can go back here. So with that, we are recording, and I’m reaching out to people who know stuff about old automation products for the Automation Museum podcast. We did one with a gentleman who actually wrote the book on Triconics, and, we got that in the can. This is something I’m doing on Sundays.
It’s totally nonprofit for automationmuseum.org. We’re trying to raise money for it. And we did another one last weekend for on the PLC one and the PLC two from Rockwell. And, we talked about the PLC three and got into the PLC five some as well. And, I’ve reached out to some folks who know a lot about Cymax.
I reached out to folks. One of the guys is reaching out the the founder of, Wonderware, one of the founders to have him come on. So, I don’t know when those will start releasing, but they’ll have their own like, I gotta find an inexpensive way to do this because this is off a charity, but, they’ll have it’ll have its own podcast. I won’t be mixing it up with this one. But it will still be out of my YouTube channel until we actually get the Automation Museum funded.
Right? So I’ll just stick because what’s the sense of publishing it on YouTube if you have no followers, with a brand new channel? But in any case so lots going on. I still got the middle of Toledo and the other room I’m working on and a lot of all this stuff, but I am gonna let you get back to what you have planned this afternoon. I wanna make sure I’m done before I hit that half hour mark.
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Shawn discusses the Fourth Generation of Compactlogix Controllers in today’s Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): So I wanna welcome everybody. Happy Monday. I wanna welcome you all too. Sorry if we get some echo. I’m actually here in the, really the, the foyer, the the kind of the you know, where you walk into my offices.
And today, we’re gonna talk about the CompactLogic’s fourth generation. I do wanna wish you all a very happy Monday morning. And what you see here is the METTLA Toledo trade show demo from well, I I expect it’ll be an automation fair this year and other fairs as well. I wanna say hi to, I think it’s Jim’s the the because of the setup, the screen is very far away. So but hello to everybody who’s watching.
So in any case, this is what I’m working on next couple days. I gotta get this all up and running and do a video on how to set it up and use it, and I just thought it would be really fun. It’s a rate control application. So, the the scale feeds into the I n d three sixty, and then no matter how much is left in there, it keeps maintains a steady rate out. So it should be pretty cool, but I’m looking forward to getting that set up later today.
And I was here, so I figured, well, let’s just do today’s automation, tech talk lunchtime edition from the foyer. Again, I apologize for any echoes you’re here. Last minute mic setup change. So I’m wearing the lavalier mic, not the the headset that I was hoping to use. But in any case, let me know if you guys can hear me okay.
If everything looks good on my side, make sure you could see me okay. What we’re gonna do today is the generation for oh, I know what I wanted to say. Tomorrow and I believe it’s tomorrow and Friday, we have special guests coming on to talk to us about their companies and, what they’ve learned, recently in automation. So this way, you guys don’t have to always just wait to hear from me. And what I’ve learned, you can hear from other people, and I invite all our audience to also, thank you, Jims, to also, you know, come and join up in, a ten day a ten day lunchtime, automation tech talk with me.
Because, you know, I I’ll tell you what. I learn every time I go somewhere or visit somebody or talk to someone, I learn something new, and, I love learning new stuff too. So I wanna invite you all to come on the show. Now with that said, let’s see if everything’s all still set up correctly. And to do to switch to make the switch because I’m here in the lobby, I’m gonna have to do it like this.
Okay. Great. It looks like it’s working. Okay. Let’s see here.
Alright. Alright. Excellent. So we’re talking about the CompactLogic’s fourth generation, which is also known as, the fifty three seventy line. So we talked about on the first gen, we talked about the fifty three twenty and thirty, then we talked about the fifty three thirty one, 32, and 35.
We talked about the fifty three forty three and forty five, and so now we’re on the fifty three seventy. And I gotta tell you, this, I thought, was a great product launch. I gotta remember, I’m using my my webcam now, so, don’t put my hands in front of my face. But in any case, yes. So I, you know, I thought it was such a great product watch because if I remember correctly, they all came out at the same time, the l one, l two, and l three.
They all have the same features. Now this presentation I’m using is a free presentation from Rockwell. You should feel free to call Rockwell and ask them for a copy, and, they should give it to you. But in any case, I did take this compilation that I’ve been putting together for some training. I did make it available in my CompactLogix course.
So if you’re in my CompactLogix course, go to appendix a. It’s the first item up there that you download this compilation. Again, all the slides are free. What I did is I spent over a day going through them and taking out all the good slides and try to put put them into one one collection. But, again, every all the source material is free from Rockwell.
So with that said, let me see if I can find my mouse here, and let’s jump into this. So like I said, there were three of these released. Three in this one series, we had the l one, l two, and l three. And these address a ton of the complaints from the previous I mean, the improvements are just awesome. First of all, there’s some commonality with all of these that, that, you know, they all have, you know, internal capacitors.
No more batteries. They all have a USB port. No more serial port. They all come with an SD card. No more having to buy a 100 doll explain it to the boss why you have to buy a 100 or $200 Rockwell Compact Flash card.
Right? And so I think those things alone are awesome. Plus they all had a built in two port switch. Now you can’t not with these guys. You can’t use that that that’s just one IP address.
It’s a switch. It’s not two independent ports, but still very cool. The l two and l three, as you can see here on the screen, supported, the seventeen sixty nine I l, and the l one supported point I l. And the l one was much less expensive, and, you know, it just addressed all the issues we had with the l 23, but in any case, that we talked about earlier in the week. So the l one specifically, you can see it here.
We have one in the training room. I’m not I didn’t I decided to do the presentation and not and not rip everything apart in the training room because that’s just a lot of work. I figure we could you know, in fifteen, twenty minutes with the presentation, we’ll cover everything we need to know. But in any case, it’s supported up to two axes of motion. So caveat there.
You know, this is not gonna be, you need a an m version, like an l 18 m, right, or e r m to do a motion. Right? But, it was things that you could do to point IO because that that’s so much less expensive. You can only have, I believe, six six modules four or six modules. I have to look that up.
I think it’s in here. But in any case, you know, you could get point out with eight point inputs and eight point outputs. So, really good. I covered all this, you know, status indicators. The it didn’t have a key, Although, who cared?
Right? Nobody cared. You had the toggle switch on the front, and, you know, the amount of distributed IO you could do on the Ethernet was limited. But still, if you just need, you know, perfect for a new OEM, you need a maybe an HMI and a couple of VFDs, a great, great little controller. And, I was a big fan of it.
I wish they would still do the starter pack with that because that was a great deal too. Then we had the l two. This is and I’m using these I’m specifically using these nomenclatures because this is what we use, to talk about them. You know, the l 23 is the l 23. When I say l one, l two, l three, we’re talking specifically about the fifty three seventies.
And, again, I I don’t know why they did the slide this way, but I would actually have have named this one the fifty three seventy one that is actually on the module itself on the side. And I would have called this fifty three seventy two. Again, that’s exact that’s on the module. But But I maybe they just wanted to show, hey. This is all one family, so they just call them all 53 seventies on the individual slides.
But long story short, this is just like the l 23, but a lot smaller, has removable compact flash. There’s no serial only version. They have Ethernet. And, this one’s motor up to four axis if you had the m version. You know, you could get the built in high speed counter if you wanted.
So in any case, a huge upgrade from the l 23, and then we had the l three. So this replaces your l 35. And and, really, in most cases, we replace your your l four because we’re not using Sarcos anymore. We’re doing sip motion, and, you can get this this comes in several different sizes. So if you need lots of, servos, you need lots of modules, this guy would do it for you.
Now there is a version of this that they that has no stored energy. So, you know, we have this capacitor backup that’s in the model in the unit, so we don’t need to have a battery. But, what if you need to have no energy in the thing when it’s turned off? Right? Like, let’s say in our mind or you’re in a explosive environment that when you turn this off all power has to drain, there could be no stored energy.
And so they do because it’s not removable like the l seven. They do have a version of this that will not have that capacitor in there, in which case, you’re gonna have to reload from the SD card. Right? So, in any case, you can see here just such a jump up from the l 35 e. Again, the ports are on the bottom.
Here’s a picture I took of my units. So on the left, you have the l two, and on the right, you have the l three. So you can see the ports there on the bottom of the units. Okay. Now this starts going in the Compact I Logic I o again.
You guys probably already know all about this, but I left this in here for the students who are maybe brand new to this and wanna learn more about this. I did just so the students know, I do have one of these units in the school. I’m getting ready to do some labs on it for you guys. So maybe we’ll even do some, some tests. We also have point IO on a on a actually, I should say IO Link on point IO as well.
That will be have some coming up labs. So in any case, if you guys are not in my compact course, Rockwell should be able to get you these or your distributor should be able to get you these slides. That’s where I got mine. But in any case, if you’re in the course, all these slides are there. So that’s it for the fourth generation of CompactLogix.
Again, I think probably most of you out there are using Rockwell, familiar with these. Of course, we’ll cover the fifth gen. Again, I have us, guest coming on. Let me set see if I can switch back to full side. And I do have some people, on LinkedIn commenting here.
So let me see if I can pull that up really quick. And let me let’s see here. So I don’t have all my fancy buttons that, you know, my that I would have in the other room. So let me switch back to full screen here, and let me see if I can see some of the questions that came in. Let’s see.
Have a discussion about cinematics s two twenty and c u three twenty, with the Siemens managers. Well, we’ve covered the s two twenty, and I think we’re gonna cover the s two twenty again. Talking about the clean energy version of that drive. I got that in my schedule. So that’s great.
I we also had in, an exchange for some marketing dollars, to do some, ad free how tos. We had an s two twenty donated to us to use at the school. So, we hope to get to that again. Number one priority is keeping the lights on so, you know, actually making money, but we do like samples, and, we’ll definitely get to all of those. So the next one, and I thank you for the all the good comments.
Great. Thank you and all that. The fifty three seventy l one is still active products. Alright. So Dean is saying that the l two and l three just went active mature.
That’s too bad because if we look at oh, we’ll talk about this tomorrow in great detail. But if you look at the, fifth generation, right, the fifty three eighties, they’re a lot more expensive. Why? Now, again, could the vendor increase the price of the lower lower, you know, the slower, less memory products so there is the same as our new products? Yeah.
They could. But in any case, if we look at the launch price and the real price, not the any inflated pricing that goes on as a marketing scheme, I’m not saying that’s what they’re doing. I haven’t looked at the pricing. Okay? So but I’m saying sometimes you will see that.
But in any case, the l two and l three are not the high capacity, high speed, you know, controllers. Right? Their IO is not as fast as fifty three seventy IO is not as fast as fifty three eighty. 50 we we’ve had, Rockwell on the show. They talked about that, the performance difference between one and the other.
And I think Rocco does a great job of you know what? Let me see if I have this slide. I think does a great job of talking about performance versus, you know, your OEM type. You know, if you need a standard controller or a performance controller. And so I’m going back to my desktop now, and I wanna thank Dean for for providing that information because I really appreciate that.
I don’t get to file that the I don’t get to know I if there was a way to get notifications of that stuff, I would definitely sign up for it, but there’s just, like I just want POC, HMI, VFD, you know, get those notifications. But in any case, the reason I came back to the slides is because there is a, some Rocco did some great jobs. So here’s one of the slides. We’ll cover this tomorrow, but they call it their performance controller. And so the l three is their nonperformance.
I’m kinda, like, going into some of tomorrow stuff today, but there is a nice chart here. Again, all of these public free slides are available from your Arakwal distributor. These are dated 2016, but, you know, with I’m just looking at some of these charts here that talk about speed, and and we’ll go through these. You know, we’ll spend some extra time on these tomorrow. Okay?
But you can see here we’re comparing the l, you can see the l three x, l three, and the fifty five eighty. K? You can see the speeds. I mean, it’s not even not even close. Right?
The speed comparison. So I always thought it was great to have the l three for your for your larger OEMs and then the the fifty three eighty, right, for your, you know, high end system needs. Right? And so if Raquel you know? And I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes.
Maybe there’s a component shortage or maybe, you know, something else is going on. Let me switch back to full screen here. You guys don’t need to see my Google desktop. But in any case, who knows what’s going on? I do not.
But I do appreciate Dean. He even put a link on now this is on LinkedIn. He even put a link in there, that that, shows the, information on that. So, Dean, thank you again, and, thank you everybody who’s saying thank you. What are we at?
Fifteen minutes? I think that’s all I have for today. So I’ll be working on this next couple days, but we should have a guest on tomorrow. I believe it’s Thursday or Friday. We have another guest on.
These are people you guys will probably know from LinkedIn, if you’re on LinkedIn. And, one of them is Brandon, who’s done a lot of articles and and stuff for us over the years. And then, we’ll do January 5, I think, on Wednesday. And then you should see this probably in a couple weeks because it has to go through the review process once the video’s done. And we got, some other cool stuff coming out as well.
But with that, I’m gonna end lunchtime tech talk. Again, I wanna invite vendors and users to come on the show and share what you know, what you’ve learned. I know I also wanna get into, I got a new PLC from Schneider. I wanna start covering them at lunchtime as well. I still have to, I literally have to buy a light switch because the occupancy sensor in there, I can’t get at the stand long enough to get through a show.
It turns lights off. And because of my monitors and everything, it just there’s no way to set up the stage so the occupancy sensor could see me. And so I literally have to buy a light switch for that room and, and get that set up so I can actually, go from that room. But in any case, I wanna wish you guys all a great rest of your Monday. I wanna wish you all good health and happiness.
And until next time, my friends, peace.
If you have any questions about Shawn’s in-person or online courses, please don’t hesitate to setup a time to meet with Shawn via MSTeams, or drop him an email using his contact form here: https://theautomationschool.com/question/
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Shawn discusses the Third Generation of Compactlogix Controllers in today’s Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Welcome to Automation Tech Talk, lunchtime edition. I hope you’re having a great day. And, I ate my lunch early, so I’m here ready to go. And I just wanna welcome everybody who’s joining.
I can see people joining up, and, please feel free to leave comments as you go. And, somebody asked yesterday why I wasn’t covering a particular product. I’ve never heard of that product. So I wanna invite that person to come on the show and tell us all about the product. And I wanna thank everybody who’s actually reached out to me about coming on the show.
We had some very interesting guests that are gonna come on and talk about what they’re learning and what they’re doing. That’s all about what this lunchtime show is about, you know, just sharing what we learned. And because I have the kind of disarray in here, I’m going over the generations of CompactLogix. And today, we’re gonna look at generation number three. Now you can always watch this if you’re not available during lunch.
I know some people can’t get to the computer at lunchtime. That’s okay. You can always watch the replay. I’m also releasing this as an audio podcast. I’ve renamed the old automation news roundup news headlines podcast automation tech talk, and, it’s also being put on the blog.
And if you’re one of those morning readers and you can’t watch a video, I’m also putting trying to put every, transcript up there now. It costs me extra to do that, but I’m trying to get those up there. It costs extra to get it, but it’s a really good transcript. It’s not just like the the captions you get on YouTube. So, not that it’s a 100% correct.
It’s all AI generated. But in any case, it’s nice for those people who wanna read about, what, the video instead of watching the video. Right? In any case, with that said, I hope you are all doing well. I’m just checking my mic, checking my video.
Everything looks looks to be working on this side. Again, if you’re seeing not seeing something working, let me know in the chat. Otherwise, I’ll just talk the whole time and not know that you can’t hear me. So in any case, the first thing I wanna do, though, is let’s see if I rearrange this correctly. Yeah.
So I wanted to show you where I wanna try to broadcast from tomorrow. So tomorrow, I’m gonna try to use what I’m gonna call Studio C. So I get this studio set up for, you know, recording my lessons, And so there’s not a lot of room on the workbench, and there’s a lot of other products I wanna cover besides what’s on the workbench here. So that’s why I’m, trying to get this set up. I don’t know if you can see.
Probably can’t. I got a Monoclon PLC on there. And so that will be Studio C for shop for, closet. It’s kinda like the you know, when you were a kid, you might had a if you went to a small school, you might had a a cafeteria. This is kinda like the closet slash storage closet slash three d printing area slash studio and, slash tool room, etcetera, etcetera.
So in any case, with that said, also, if you have any questions on what I cover today, if you’re enrolled in my course over at the automationschool.com, I did put a link in the description. Please feel free to ask them. I know I probably won’t cover this, this new guy as much in the new course as I did in the original course, but don’t worry about that. If you have the original course, you get the new course. And if you end up buying the new course, you’ll get the original cost.
So there’s a big you know, over the years, a lot changes, and it doesn’t seem to make sense to go back. But, of course, I can always add lessons. So I had somebody ask me the other day if I could add a lesson, I added it. So, that’s what being a full time instructor, that’s makes it easy for me to do. So in any case, let’s go ahead and go to the overhead cam here, and this is where I’ll need to put the old glasses on.
And we can see the, third generation of CompactLogix. This is the l four, commonly known as the l four x. This particular one I picked up, on the secondhand market was a, l 43. I, did check with some distributors to see if they wanted the pot with their demo cases. They did not.
So I I’m sure they are collecting dust dust in there in there or sitting at some customer site in collecting dust. But in any case, this actually came in two different flavors. There was an l 43 and an l 45. And a lot of people don’t know this, but this is actually like an l six in a, in a, CompactLogix form factor. So and you don’t know.
A lot of people never use these, but they were very powerful, bringing that, control CompactLogix ControlLogix down to the CompactLogix. So, some of the things here, let’s just look at the, look at the unit first physically. This is the only CompactLogix that had a left hand bust or left side bust, and we’ll talk about that all more in a minute. But the right side, we still used our regular old 1769. Okay?
And then in the front, for whatever reason, they put a cover over the CompactFlash slot. Okay? But this is a good cover. It like, it’s not like the l 71. The first l 71 I got or l seven I got, I broke the latch because I was pushing down so hard.
My finger just kept going and broke the, and broke the little tab. So I actually took it off my l seven I have here for the training room because, I don’t want anybody to break it. But in any case, this one’s good. This is not like that. This is very, very good, easy to open and close.
Don’t know why they put it in there. Maybe they had to meet some kind of spec, and it was sticking out farther than what it does on the, the ones we looked at yesterday. But in any case, and just like the l three x that we looked at yesterday, gen two, these units had a, serial port. The key, they changed the key. Not a fan of this.
So the new key they had on these guys, and I I don’t have one out. Probably should’ve got one out, but it’s like a hollow key. It’s a plastic hollow key. And so you may if anybody knows me, knows I keep a PLC five and a and a six five hundred ControlLogix, key on CompactLogix key on my keychain. And the reason is because, you know, I’ve driven someplace for three or four hours just to get there to see the PLCs in a hot run.
And I’m like, do you guys have any PLC keys here? And they were like, no. They’re like, well, you just wasted four hours. Now eight hours because I gotta drive back home of my life because you don’t have a key. I mean, that’s like saying, you know anyways, help us with a computer, and you don’t have a computer.
Right? It’s, like, ridiculous. Anyhow, so that would that memory was buried pretty deep there. In any case, these keys, I had one on my key chain for a while, but it broke. It’s just it was a cheap plastic, and it was hollow, and it broke.
And so was not a fan of the key. Again, if you just leave the key in there, it’s not a problem. But in any case, I I again, I don’t know why they changed to that key, but I would have preferred if they would have stayed with the same key. I know tolerances would have been a little tight, but maybe they could have moved it over. I don’t know.
But in any case, that key doesn’t return in any other product that I know of. So that’s good. And I wanna say hi to the folks who are saying hi in the chat. Hi, guys. Alright.
So what else do we wanna talk about this? This did have a default comms button. Now we talked about how with the, first generation, that default comms button, right, it just erased, what was there, replaced it with the defaults, and we actually tested it. Right? And so that doesn’t change here, but what does change, because this does not have a battery.
Woo hoo. This doesn’t have a battery. That you can use that default comms button to reset the memory. Right? So if you hold it down while you’re powering up, you reset the memory.
Yeah. So that’s cool because, like, with the other, controllers, we just took the battery out and waited, and, we lose, sometimes you do as this, as capacity you would short. But in any case, with this guy, since there’s no battery, thank goodness. And that was a big problem with the l six. Now this is based on the l six.
Right? But the l six, you know, they that battery they were using in the l six was designed for the l one, right, which didn’t have a lot of memory compared to the l six. When you get to the l six and, you know, the memory is four or five, ten, 20 times bigger, a 100 times bigger, the battery wasn’t lasting very long, maybe a couple of weeks. And that’s not enough if you ship it a machine overseas. Right?
So, you know, of course, people would not put the contact flash card in, and then then they would have a problem. They’d have a machine with no with no program. So in any case, with the l four, what they did they decided to do was, do something very similar to the Micrologix 1,000. If you remember the Micrologix 1,000 that came out in ’94, it didn’t have a battery because it had a built in EEPROM slash flash memory on the circuit board, what we call nonvolatile memory. And when you power it off, a capacitor just held the memory long enough so it could transfer over to nonvolatile.
Never had to worry about an EEPROM. Never had to worry about, a battery. And so that’s what they did with this unit, and they added added it to the series b. That’s what they did with the series b l sixes. But in any case, that was that was a big deal with this guy.
And, let’s go ahead and talk about the IO here. And I also have the article linked that I wrote, quite a bit back, back, six years ago over at the automationblog.com where I cover a lot of this stuff. But let’s go back to the overhead cam. Okay. Great.
And let’s take a look at, I wanna zoom out just a little bit. Okay. And let’s take a look at what we could put on the left hand side. Okay? So the right hand side was pretty much the same as all the other CompactLogix, but what was new was what we could put on the left hand side.
Now first of all, we always had a power supply. Look at the size of that guy. So much bigger than the regular PA two or PA four. But in any case, Yeah. So we always had to have a power supply.
Now one thing you can need to know is that these latches here. Right? And I always forget this. But these are latched in by the, DIN rail clips. Okay?
So these are not just DIN rail clips like they are in the rest of the products. These actually also latch in those, those side pieces. So, k, so these right here. Okay? So you gotta keep that in mind.
I recently had, one of my students replacing one of these at a big name company. And, actually, he just added a Cognex camera or BACo reader to the existing out four. Didn’t even take it out, which is cool that you can go back. And I think he was using 18. He was able to go ahead and add that functionality, the AOI, to version 18 and get the system up and running without replacing the PLC.
PAC. Sorry, Rockwell. In any case so, yeah, big honking. So this is always the leftmost thing. I know with the other compacts, you could put, you know, the power supply up to four modules typically away from the controller.
But on this guy, yeah, he has to be on all the way on the left. He’s big too, but that’s because he has to power some stuff. Right? And so we had a choice. Now with the l 43, you could have, only two modules to the left.
Okay? With the l 45, you get a four modules, but here’s the problem with that. You still only have two of each type of module. So there were two types of modules. There were Circos motion control modules or there were communication modules.
And a lot of people wanted to put in, like, four Ethernet or two control net and two Ethernet. Can’t do that. Right? So even if you had an l 45 and you had four available slots here, you can only have two communication and two motion, and that was Circos. I have not I don’t have any Circos motion, so I I didn’t look to buy any Circos cards.
But what I do have is Ethernet. So sometimes people would use this as a bridge, and they put two ethernets in. Okay? Because I have an l 43. I only can have two, or in some cases, they would put control net in.
Now the control net did come in both the standard one single port and the redundant port. I have a single port here. Then you can see that NAP network access port that is not an Ethernet port. That is not a d h 45 port. So, just be aware of that.
And then, you know, there you go. So that that is what you could do. Now these Ethernet modules were, they handle lots of distributed IO. Right? So a lot of times, you would see people go to this, and you could tell these are closed because I can’t slide them together.
Come on, boys. Open up. K. Here we go. And now let’s try that again.
Okay. So a lot of times, people would do this because they had a lot of distributed IO, but they wanted to save. They don’t wanna get the big expensive chassis and power supplied. It’s a lot bigger too. So, they could have two modules.
They could talk to a bunch of distributed IO and, still have some local seventeen sixty nine IO. So that that was pretty pretty popular. I don’t know if it was a technical reason why they didn’t let you do four Ethernet modules or if it was a marketing slash commercial decision because they didn’t wanna eat into the, ControlLogix. But I think it kinda made the life of this a little little, shorter because, you know, it couldn’t do much bigger systems. Right?
So I don’t know. I I it’s a great system, but it did it ended a life, pretty quick. And we’ll look at tomorrow, the fifty three seventy series, which was pretty which was extremely popular, very well launched in my opinion. Probably one of the best product launches I’ve ever seen. And, but in any case so now here on the right hand side, we could put a device net module, because I always check the book to see if something’s compatible or not because who knows?
My memory. You know, I’m getting older. Right? And we could have some, compact. These are some of the, one and a half, slot modules I picked up.
This is, I think, a 32 module. Just digital in 32 points. K. And over here, we have, what’s this guy? Relay?
Yes. 16 relays. K. And, of course, you always need your end cap. So that is the, the third generation of CompactLogix.
Now let’s take a look at the article, see if what else I missed here. Again, you’ll see a link there in the in the description. Again, the same key, the same, no modem cable we talked about earlier in the week, same c p three or just a regular no modem cable. We talked about the mode switch. We talked about the, communication reset.
Talk about no battery. That was good. What else do we have? We talked about the module limitation. The, there’s also an IO limitation.
I’ll get to that in a minute. Let’s see here. So with the l 43, you could only do four axes, four position axes, and up to 16 local IO modules and up to two banks. The l 45 supported 30 modules, local IO modules up into up to three banks. And, while the l 43 only had two meg, the l 45 had three meg, and the l 45 supported eight position axes across two surplus modules.
K? There was also an EWEB. I don’t think either of these are EWEBs. I guess I’d just assume that neither of them were. Let’s see.
EMBT. EMBT. Yeah. So they’re both EMBTs. So can I show can I share my, screen here?
No. I don’t have that over there. Alright. Well, in any case, let me just go through the article here. You guys have a link in the description.
And no. I think I covered everything. So let’s go back to we’re already on full screen. So, yeah, so that’s everything I wanted to cover about the l 43 or the third generation of CompactLogix. Now the fourth generation will cover tomorrow.
The fifty three seventy is pretty awesome. I remember one of that launch, and it was just a great, great product launch because they came out with all these new versions, and they come out with them all at the same time, and they had truly small ones. It’s not like the l 23. They had truly small units. Used to be affordable, you know, with inflation.
We talked about that earlier. I think they’re up to $2,400 now when they used to be, like, a, you know, $1,100. So $1,200. So in any case, they used to have starter kits too, which were awesome. Excuse me.
But the the fourth generation, I think most of you are familiar with, and, of course, the fifth generation will cover on the last day. But because I have those things already installed, I’ll probably, cover those a different way from the other studio. But with that, let me see if any questions have come in. I’m not seeing any questions from you guys in the field. Again, if you have a if you’re in my courses, you have any questions on anything CompactLogix related, just post it there.
Also, you’ll notice there’s a lot of new lessons in the existing CompactLogix course. The new course is also being filmed and updated, but the existing course has a lot of, a lot of, updates in it as well and more coming. So as I’m filming the new course, I’m updating the existing course, not everything, but, you know, things that are common and, things that I felt like need to be updated, like, like, lesson one zero two on, like, what the software costs and, you know, what simulators are available and whatnot. So with that, I don’t have anything else on my list to cover. Again, if you know anybody who needs CompactLogix training, please mention the automationschool.com.
That’s what pays the bills and keeps the lights on. So if you know everybody needs some training, We will have to update the pricing in mid September due to inflation held off as long as I can. Also, I have some exciting things coming. I’m setting up a trade show automation fee, a trade show demo here in the office later today, from a major company. Can’t wait to bring that video to you.
We got some great, podcasts already recorded. We got some new ones coming. I had some an Ethernet push button, demo I wanna show you, which is awesome from a major vendor. Also hope to get them on the podcast. So lots of things in the works behind the scenes, but for now, I’m gonna leave it there.
I wanna wish you all good health health and happiness. I hope hope you have a great day. I hope I can start talking with off. Mess it up. And until next time, my friends, peace.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
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Shawn discusses the Second Generation of Compactlogix Controllers in today’s Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Automation Tech Talk lunchtime edition. I had a little, issue earlier, so I watched the replay. Everything looked great. So, again, I wanna thank you for hanging out with me at lunchtime.
I also wanna thank those folks who’ve reached out to me about actually being a guest on the lunchtime show. I really appreciate that. And, you know, it’s it’s nice to actually hear what other people are doing. Right? And, we got some pretty cool guests lined up.
I I also have some vendors who, maybe they’re not ready to sponsor an episode of the podcast, but they just want to, tell us the cool things they’re doing. And so, inviting them on as well. Just trying to share everything I’ve learned and share help people share what they’ve learned over the years, during lunchtime, right, when we all get to take a break from all the serious stuff trying to make money to pay the bills and all that. So in any case, with that said, I had and and I’m assuming I guess I’ll just delete the original five minute livestream, because, things didn’t seem like they were working. So I got a couple things I was talking about in that livestream.
Number one is that that big box in the middle of the training room, that is, some hardware for the add on lessons I’m gonna be adding. I have a lot of different hardware here from all kinds of different vendors, and I will be adding those as bonus, lessons add on lessons to the courses. So if you’re in in any of my level one or two do I still have the automation school up? So if you’re in, my level one or two courses, level one and two courses, I should say that correctly, over at the automationschool.com, you will get those, add on lessons at no charge. And, plus, there’s some other courses you’re gonna be getting at no charge as well as I kinda mix things up, and and I think I covered that over at the automation school and the updates for each of the courses.
Also, I ran across somebody on Reddit who was looking they’re like, you know, what do I need to get started? I’m like, hey. Lesson one zero two in all my courses is free and all my PLC courses, and it tells you everything you need to know to get started programming PLCs, software options, hardware options, demo options. So if you know anybody looking to get started and they don’t know where to start, like, how much does Rockwell software cost, and is it free, and can I get a free demo, and, you know, how about for Siemens, and what starter packs are available? I cover that all, and I make that lesson free.
Because quite honestly, I don’t want anybody signing up for a course and then be like, you know, I didn’t wanna do a simulated PLC. I wanna do a real PLC, and I can’t afford it. So I want everybody to know upfront what the costs are. For a lot of people, it’s not an issue. They get a bunch of PLCs in the software at work, so and they’re gonna do it at at during their lunchtime.
But in any case, I did wanna share that with you. And, now I wanna talk about the second generation of, CompactLogix. Let’s see here. Yes. CompactLogix.
This is where I gotta put the old glasses on. And, let’s see if I can go here. Okay. Great. And so let’s see if I can zoom in.
I don’t wanna zoom in on both cameras, just the overhead one. And so you might be asking, Shawn, why do you have all this hardware in the test stand? That’s because I am filming the new twenty twenty five courses. So, I got a lot of wiring to do, but but, you know, there’s no getting around that. So we talked about generation one.
Let me see if I can slide this a little bit. Maybe four. So not sure. Don’t push it off the table. That would be bad.
Okay. So if we look at these three controllers let’s see here. Maybe I can move them this way a little bit. Okay. This is what we call the second generation of CompactLogist controllers.
I don’t know that Rock will ever call it that, but it’s kinda makes sense because you can see these are all very similar. Right? And they all came out around the same time after the, I don’t and I I just can’t look at the camera with everything appearing backwards to me and make them straight. But in any case, these were the three options. Now this first guy, you know, I had some OEMs buy these, and they were very unhappy because just the speed of the serial ports.
Yeah. It was great. You had two serial ports. One that could be connected to, you know, an HMI, and the other one one could be for programming. But it was just really slow.
So, yeah, you can muddle through some online edits, but uploads uploads and downloads, you know, for the impatient northeasterner like me, it was kinda tough. It was like, yeah. You know? We used to call those, coffee downloads. You’d go grab a cup of coffee while it downloaded and hope nobody pulled the, and then you had to flash the firmware, of course, you had to flash everyone.
So flashing the firmware via serial is a very dangerous prospect because if anybody breaks the connection, you could end up with a brick, an unusable, PAC. Although these days, that I think Rockwell has figured out ways to resolve that. I think one of the ways they do that, and don’t quote me on this, but talking to product people over the years is they put, like, a basic firmware on the unit. So if the firmware is corrupt, it’ll just load, like, one dot x, which is just like a stub. It doesn’t can’t really program it in one put one dot x.
But in any case, so this is the l 31. And let’s see if I can get a little closer here. You guys can see that. And this is I don’t know if you can see it on there. Let me take a look at it myself.
It should say somewhere on here 5331, but it doesn’t. I’m sure it says it somewhere. Let’s see. Let me find ah, there it is. Okay.
I found it. And again so you can see it on the label right there. If you can’t see it, no worries. But, in any case, 50, 50 331. There was also a 53, 32, and 35.
I think I have both, both of these are 30 fives. Right? So the difference between I would have to fix this backwards thing. It’s killing me. The difference between the ’32 and the 30 fives are just memory, how much IO they can support, but there were also of the thirty two and thirty five, there were also control net versions and Ethernet versions.
Now they kept the because US they didn’t have a USB port in their PLCs at this time. They kept the serial port, and and serial ports are great for, you know, serial ports are great for third party products, barcode readers, ASCII. You could do d h 45 with them and all that good stuff. Right? But in any case, you know, it would be better to have USB.
Right? And the new the new gen threes had US gen four had USBs. But in any case, what else do we have here? So a lot of people get confused with the control net. So the control net’s unique because it has the control net ports coming out the bottom.
Now the l 35, c, but it’s actually a c r because it had two control net ports. The l 32 c only had one control net port, so you couldn’t do redundant media with that guy. But in any case, control net really confused a lot of people. It was very easy to use, but the software cost quite a bit of money. Right?
And so RS networks for ControlNet was expensive, and I think that’s what eventually led to its downfall, plus Ethernet just became you know, Ethernet’s built in every laptop. You didn’t need an expensive ControlNet card. Right? So in any case, I think control net, was very fast. If you’re running Ethernet at 10 meg or control net at five meg or even Ethernet at a 100 meg and control net at five meg, control net was so efficient that you could really do this get as much data through.
However, ControlNet was scheduled. Right? So that you were scheduling the data to show up every so often. Kinda like how your RPI is off in the backplane when you put IO modules in the backplane. And, I always liked it.
I always thought it was easy. A lot of people would try to make their own cables and, you know, the, coax cables, and, they wouldn’t do a good job. I went to some places where they’re like, this piece of lousy piece of junk keeps falling off the network when you open up. And first of all, they have this the coax, r g six coax, and it’s going into, like, a a one one or two inch, one and a half inch piece of pan to it. Right?
And it’s, like, making a right turn. Right? And it doesn’t doesn’t bend radius to these things. Right? And so it’s going and a lot of times it would be right at the connector.
I’m like, oh, I want I wonder why your why your network’s in a minute. Here, let me try it. You shake it and it’d be like, oh, on, off. It’s like, really, you gotta have some common sense people. And so a lot of times, engineers don’t see inside the, panel that, they just order a panel and expect it to come in work.
And so, you know, sad but funny now after the fact, but a lot of people would get upset because, you know, they would self crimp their connectors with not using, you know, the expensive tools, a $100 tool, a $150 tool. They go buy a $5 tool and expect that the work and last forever. And it’s you just kinda wonder, you know, what kind of stresses they have in their life. They actually think that because, you know, if you’re doing professional work, you use professional tools. Don’t play around with anything that’s out of your kid’s toy box.
Okay? So in any case and I’m I’m having a lot of fun with that. But in any case, yeah, you’d see that a lot. So, you know, I’ve bought, I’ve bought, pre crimped cables and never had a problem with them. Again, you gotta you gotta, be cognizant of the bend radiuses of our g six.
But in any case, this point here confused a lot of people because it looked like a Ethernet port, and it’s not. It’s a network access port. Just like the r j 45 and a five zero three, it’s not an Ethernet port. It’s a, a d h 45 port. I need to be careful on that one.
It has power in it, but, we’re not talking to 600 today. So in any case, this unit, wasn’t very popular. I had a hard time getting one and, just like upon this one here. And you can see I got a commercial grade because, you know, this isn’t a facility. There’s no, no problems with downtime.
I can’t get it out of there. There we go. So I just have a commercial grade, SanDisk, confident flash in there because I’m not running a machine that’s making millions of dollars for the company. With that said, then we have the l 35. And this is the l 35 and l 32 were the most popular.
On the outside, they looked identical. They have the Ethernet port and extremely popular. And, yes, this Ethernet port could, control IO, and, that just made it super, super popular and, really became, we we sold a lot of l 30 twos and l 30 fives over the years. So many people I know used dozens, if not hundreds of them in their plants. Really good for the, small OEM.
Some users would you know, small users don’t have the don’t have the, budget of, you know, the big the big factory would use, just great. And everybody I always like the seventeen sixty nine I o, the way it connected and everything like that. So in any case, that is, the l 31, two serial ports, the l 32 and l 35. They both look the same, either control net or Ethernet. And, again, 5331, 5332, and 35, depending which one you got.
Again, I have two thirty fives here because I have one in control that one in Ethernet. But 32 just has less memory and less capabilities. Right? So I wanna show you another product that I consider part of the second generation of CompactLogix. And the reason is it pretty much supports the same firmwares and same features as those other guys.
Let me get it on here. And, okay, here we go. Alright. So this is the l 23. This particular one was donated by a very good customer of mine.
Thank you very much. RK, I really appreciate it. And, at least, I mean, it’s been a dozen years now, so I think he’s the one that donated it. I’m pretty sure. But in any case so this a lot of people wanted this.
They wanted the shoebox version of the CompactLogix. You can get the price down. It’s not as inexpensive as the, MicroLogix, but, you know, less expensive than buying all the components separately. You got a built in power supply. You got the, CPU.
You got, IO cards. You could get it without the analog and high speed counter, and some people would. But there was one flaw to this. Otherwise, awesome, perfect, and you could actually put a couple of expansion cards on it too. There was one major flaw that my OEMs ran into all the time, and that was the lack of a compact flash card.
So this is an OEM product. Right? Typically, you’re gonna use this if you’re an OEM. You wanna go low with the price as low as you can. You don’t need a lot of extra capabilities because your machine only has so much IO built in.
And this unit, like, we I I don’t know why we’ve gone through this so many times. It seems like every cycle, we have to go through this, but it did not have removable, removable memory. So, it had a battery, battery backed memory, but did not have removable, nonvolatile memory, which to me, if you’re an OEM, I mean, how else are you gonna send send the project? It’s not like the CompactLogic software is very cheap to buy. So, do you wanna spend an extra, I don’t know, $2, 1,500 to send every customer a package of software?
Typically, you do not if you’re a small OEM. So that was a major killer for this guy, but everything else about it, I really liked. It is a little big, but it’s kind of the equivalent of what you would do if you bought all the parts separately. I really like the design. When you look in there, you can see all the individual cards.
It looks like they were able to reuse the circuit boards from the actual regular cards. But in any case, really a big fan of it except for the fact of that no nonremovable memory. I even have one OEM. It says, I’m just gonna get you a free one so you can ship the whole unit out when you need to change the program because, what else are you gonna do? So, what else can I tell you about these guys?
Let me see if I can get them all back in the camera here. I got some more stats. I did include a link to my article on this I wrote a few years ago. So if you guys want more information about it and let’s just take a look at some of the stats. So the first one came out in 02/2003.
That’s a long time ago. Right? And, these were so very popular. Although, I gotta say, when we talk about not the third gen, but the fourth gen, it kinda blew these guys out of the water. As great as these are, the the fourth gen, the fifty three seventies were just a home run.
And, again, everything’s backwards here, so it’s hard for me to evenly space everything out in reverse. But in any case so let’s take a look at the article here. I’ll leave the product up on the screen here and see if I can get my mouse down to the right screen. So came out actually came out a couple of years before the Micrologix 1,100. So that would have been the first Micrologix with Ethernet.
Great product that we should have hadn’t, obsoleted it. That’s also the only Ethernet Micrologix that works with the free software. So in any case but, yeah, it came out in 02/2003. That’s the l 35 e. It looks like the l 35 e.
A lot of times they come out with the most expensive one first because quite honestly, you know, you might as well sell the most expensive one out the door and then work on, making it less capable, you know, via firmware or whatnot. In any case, it did use a no modem cable just like all the other serial ports that, that, Rocco products has because this is a DTE device, not a DC device like a printer. So you’re gonna need the crossover on no modem cable. It did yeah. Any of them will work.
C p three any c p three or no modem cable will work. It did take the seventeen sixty nine b a. We talked about that yesterday. Had that compact flash slot, which which was just a huge upgrade from the l 20 and l 30 we talked about yesterday. The battery is on the left hand side on these guys.
This one is there’s a door you have to pop off. The other one has that slide that I showed you yesterday. Let’s see here. The l 31 only had five twelve k of memory. That was usually, good enough.
16 IO modules and four tasks. Okay? So, yeah, the four tasks, I’ve never run into that being a problem, although it is it is very limited if you’re doing again, get 16 IO modules. Do you need more than four tasks? I I think that would be very odd.
The l 30 twos came with 768 k and supported 30 IO modules and six tasks. And the l 35 let’s see here. The l 35 did I write it down? Had a 1.5 or or 1.5 meg of memory, supported eight tasks, and took 30 modules. So six tasks versus eight tasks, and then double the memory for the or actually yeah.
Double the memory for the, from the 32 to the 35, but the same amount of IO local IO cards. Let’s see. Yeah. Distributed IO on the Ethernet, that which was great. Of course, that was not an option with the, with and that really kicked in.
You know, it kicked in the Ethernet IO because in ControlLogix, you could use device that control that all e or Ethernet. And, but getting the Ethernet on the CompactLogix in 2003 meant everybody was looking at doing Ethernet IO. Yeah. And so those are all the highlights. Again, the article I’m looking at, you’ll find, in the link in the description, of course, because this is the second edition, the second try of the show.
It’s not in the description of this show. I will add it after the show. But in any case, it’s just at the automationblog.com. I think it’s CompactLogic’s dash gen dash two. So with that, that is, the CompactLogix second generation.
I’m gonna look in the chat, see if there’s any questions there or not. So if you’re watching and like, hey. I wanna come on and share something I learned. I don’t care what the manufacturer is as long as it’s industrial automation. Yeah.
I wanna welcome you on. Of course, you have to speak better English than me, but in any case, yeah, just reach out to me. You can contact me, the automation blog dot com forward slash contact. You can leave me a a message on YouTube or on LinkedIn. That’s where all this is going.
And, we used to do all the other sites, but we got really zero interaction over there. So several other sites. So trying to just because it’s just me here. But in any case also, I’ll repeat something I said earlier that, I ran into somebody on Reddit who was looking trying to understand what they needed, in order to learn about CompactLogix, like, what they needed to like, what they needed. And I wanna show you that in each of my PLC courses, I have this free lesson.
Right? And I did this because, let me see if I can pull this up on the screen here. Yeah. So I did this because, I don’t want people signing up for my courses and then finding out they don’t have what they needed to take the the course. So this is lesson one zero two.
Every one of my PLC courses has this, all the new ones, as I break my my grade 100. No. I didn’t break it. In any case, what this is is this lesson one zero two, you just click on it here. Right?
Anything that’s a sample lesson you can take without buying, and this runs you through. It’s, like, twenty minutes, and I cover everything, everything you need to know. Like, how to get free software, how much the software is if you wanna buy it, you know, best, way to get the samples and starter kits and all of that for all the different PLCs I cover. So I wanted to bring that up because I know a lot of people are like and it also gets you, you know, my teaching style. You can get to see my teaching style and all that.
But, I do that for micro 800, Micrologics, CompactLogics, ControlLogics, and the s seven. And as I learn new things, I have those update those lessons. Those lessons, most of them were updated in November. I, probably do another update in November for the new prices, but in any case and if there’s any, requests, I did have somebody asking, how do I access tags in a micro 800 from a SCADA package? So, maybe when I get done the generations of CompactLogix, I’ll do that.
Also, I I wanted to show you the picture. I’ll have it ready for you tomorrow. I am setting up another studio because I got a bunch of products I wanna cover with you, but this is kinda in the way here in Studio B. So I’m setting up, what used to be, the office in the Studio A again. And, so I can show you other products besides when I’m filming my quest, my updated quest is on and lessons on.
And with that, that’s all I got for you today at lunch. I hope you guys had a great lunch. I hope your, your day is going well, and I wanna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace.
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Shawn discusses the First Generation of Compactlogix Controllers in today’s Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey everybody. Hope you can hear me. I’m trying something a little bit different here. Welcome to automation tech talk lunchtime edition, and, I hope you guys can hear me. I hope, you can see me because I’ve changed everything around.
But, because I have all the equipment here for my new twenty twenty five courses on the workbench, and I don’t have any of the other studio set up for what I want to cover today, I decided to cover generation one of the CompactLogic. So I’m just gonna look over here. It seems like audio is working. Okay? It seems like the video is okay.
So in any case, feel free to say hi in the chat if you’re watching. But, lots going on here. I just had, three vendors send in, samples for me to look at. Actually, one is a trade show demo from Automation Fair, so I’m looking forward to, covering that. The other is a brand new line of IO.
Very exciting. And then the third are some Ethernet push buttons. So I hope to have more about that. Plus, I have, more boxes of stuff donated to the automation museum. So, just so much to cover in the coming weeks and days.
And, but in any case, one thing I do every day too is work on my courses, not only, answer questions, but also work on my courses. And I’m getting ready to update them all for 2025. And I just wanted to say if you are already enrolled in any of my Compact Logics, whether it’s level one, level one, two, you get the new cost for free, so don’t worry about that. So in any case, today, I wanna talk about, though, is the first generation of CompactLogix because a lot of people have never even seen them, not even know they exist, but have never seen them. And, just some real interesting stuff here.
And, let me first show you with the, overhead cam here. Let’s see if I can do this. Do I still have audio? Yep. Okay.
So, in any case, you can see here, this is the l 30, and I’m actually connected through a serial port. I’m using a USB, a USPS rev three from Rockwell that I bought years and years ago. And, let me see if I can zoom in on that. You can see I don’t have everything wired up for the new courses yet. So, be spending some nights and weekends doing that.
But you can see there, I have one of just my, sample program in there. This is the one I use. If you’re in my VUE course, you’ll be very familiar with this program. But in any case, with all the molding simulators, code in there and whatnot. So but I also wanna get on here.
I’m just gonna stick it off top of the Polysplike, the l 20. And in the description of today’s show, I have an article I wrote years ago that kinda detailed some of these things, but the l 20 was the very first CompactLogix to come out. Now I had sourced its release to late twenty I’m sorry, late two thousand or twenty zero zero in any case. But, but, you know, whether it came out early two thousand one or late, February, you know, that was almost directly after, like, a year after the ControlLogix l one, the 5550, controller. So pretty quick.
And, this, unit came in either a single serial port or dual serial port. Now the, the, l 30 I have written down here is, came out the following year, okay, about a year later. And so if we look at that, I mean, it may have been six months later, but, I have one coming down at, one coming out in February, one coming out in 02/2001. And these were known. I’m trying to get close so you can see the label there.
This one was known as the 5320. See it up there? And this one was and I know it’s hard to see because it’s at a different level there, but maybe it’ll zoom in better if I take it off. 5330. And so we talk a lot about fifty three seventies and fifty three eighties.
Right? But this is where that whole nomenclature, began way back when. And, yeah, so 25 years old, 24 years old. And, there were some interesting things about that. Now first of all, this guy had no removable memory, no SD card, none of that stuff.
It did have a battery in here. Oh, that’s noisy. See the battery in there? And I believe this is the same battery we were using in the slick one hundreds. I’m sorry.
Slick five hundreds, the seventy forty seven b a, but I think it was had a seventeen sixteen maybe a 17, 69 b a one. But I’m not gonna take it out just to see it. I always leave them unplugged because they would just go dead. So screechy. You can see there some of the pinouts on the side of the unit.
And, you know, the one cool thing about them is is kinda like the the original ControlLogix. This particular unit had built in a EEPROM. In other words, there was a flash or EEPROM equivalent soldered to the board, and so you could actually store your program internally. So if the battery died or if you get a lightning strike and a power surge, sometimes that’ll make these guys forget what their program is, then you would have, you still have your program there. Now a lot of times, people would make changes to their program, and they would forget.
They would forget to, to update the, the internal memory. So but, hey. That’s gonna happen with every PLC that has flash or, you know, removal of memory or, you know, built in memory. Now the problem with that was that, you know, OEMs typically like the lower, less expensive version of the controller, like, for instance, CompactLogix versus ControlLogix. And without removable memory, how do you how do you set them an update?
That was one of the big problems with the l 23, but that’s the next generation. We’re not gonna get into that. But still, it was a great it does take a long time to download the serial at nineteen two, which is kinda what everybody defaults to. A serial at ’21, I’ll tell you what. It I was really annoyed because I had to download it to reset some things, and I had to download it again to change some things and so on and so forth.
So, it was like, I actually brought the air conditioner in here because it was getting so hot with the lights on. I’m like, how long are these downloads gonna take? But in any case, in the days of Ethernet, serial just is so hard to go back to, but, it works. And, in any case, so these guys were very interesting. Now the l 20, besides only having a single serial port, it has no isolated ports.
Right? So if you want to take the communications out of that serial port, maybe you wanna do d h 45, you definitely have to go through an AIC plus to May to give you an isolated port because NEC says you can’t have a network that runs to your POC that’s not isolated. Okay? So if this port’s not isolated, then you need an isolator, and the AC plus is the ice isolated link coupler, I think, or something like that. Anyways, so, that was one of the limits of the l 20.
The speed uploading and downloading to it was a limit, and they picked up something from the from the, Micrologist guys, this port reset. Right? And we’ll we’ll take a look at that in a minute. But, this channel zero default button, it wasn’t a toggle. It was a reset.
A reset channel zero settings, it didn’t toggle them. Like, in the Micrologix, it toggles between default and what you had to set at. So if you had to set at d h 45 or a modbus, you press the button, it toggles back to d f one full duplex. You press it again, it goes back. Well, not on this guy.
It kinda, like, erases it. And we’re gonna test that out, but that’s what that’s what the manual says, and that’s been my experience. But in any case, so no removal merit memory, only serial, I e very slow. And then this guy only could do the l 20 can only do eight modules where the l 30 could do 16. L 20 can only do one extra bank, so two banks total.
The l 30 could do three banks. So if you had a very narrow enclosure, and and these are not rated. I I I tell these just to people. I know a lot of proud panel builders are showing their panels on, on, LinkedIn, and, a lot of times when I see them put a product, vertically instead of horizontally, there’s not many Rockwell products you can put vertically. So always check the manual, but I always, like, secretly send them an instant message saying, hey.
You may wanna take that that picture down because you have it mounted incorrectly. So in any case and and most of these products, something like a like VFDs and other products, you get derate them when you mount them vertically. Most of the rockwove’s POCs, you can’t just can’t mount them vertically. They’re just not designed for that because you don’t get the convection airflow. Now, I mean, you could do whatever you want.
It’s a free country. Right? Free world. But if you want a warranty, don’t tell them you’d mount it incorrectly. Right?
So in any case, so that is the l 20 and the l 30. And, I wanna take a look at the, l 30 specifically, when it comes to, defaulting that serial port. Okay? So what I did is, I I uploaded the program. I changed this party.
It was DH45. I changed it to DF1FullDuplex nineteen two. BCC is the default for this line. I know a lot of the products Raquel makes is CRC. And then I changed this guy to DH45.
Let’s go over to the computer and check that out because I’m doing everything live, so I’m hoping you guys are seeing everything okay and you can hear me fine. In any case, alright. So here, you could see I’m in the program, and let’s go to control the properties. And I’ve never tried this live. I’ve never tried to do this live, but let’s go to channel zero.
You can see it’s DH45. Right? So let me go back out here into the field and find my what did I do with it? Okay. It’s over here.
Let’s go ahead and do this live, and let’s change this, channel zero. We’ll press it. There’s no there’s no, notice behind the press it for so long. Just press it. So now let’s go back over to the computer and look at it.
You see it changed. Right? That updated. Now I’m gonna stay here, and I’m gonna press it again. And from what I’ve read, it will not go back to the d h 45, but who knows?
Now I’m running version 13. Probably should tell you that first. That is the latest version this will run. The newest version it will run. And so whenever I have a legacy product like this, I always try to get the latest.
And the 13 was actually a very popular version. There was some real big add ons, I think, in motion, as well in 13, because people think 13 is a unlucky number. K. So I just did it again, and you see it’s not changing back. Right?
It’s not changing back. I’m gonna try it one more time. K. Let me just make sure it’s not because it’s not refreshing. I’ll close it and reopen it.
K. Now look at channel zero. It did go back. So is it making a liar out of us? I don’t know.
Nope. No. It was just reading all the information. So it finally caught up and read from the controller. So, offline, it’s d H 45, but it was took a while to read from the controller.
So that’s a downside of it. Right? And I don’t think having four tasks will be limited to four tasks is a downside. Most of the systems I’ve seen out there, four tasks are fine, but in any case, I do wanna throw that out there. And what else did I wanna talk to you about this guy?
The speed. Oh, well, let’s talk about what replaced it, which was really popular. So, you know, no Ethernet, serial only. You know, the l 20 didn’t even have an isolated serial port. Right?
The l 30, the second port is isolated. You know, the comp the nonremovable memory, you know, all those kind of things. Now they sold this as being able to be upgraded to Ethernet device that and ControlNet. Ethernet device that and d h four eighty five, not ControlNet. But, yeah, that was through, like, an AIC or an ENI or a DNI.
And, yeah, that’s not really DeviceNet, d h 45. Yeah. For sure. That’s a 100% d h 45, but a d n I is really messaging. It just encapsulate encapsulates that, that, d f one packet into a, a device that packet.
So it’s not like you’re, you know, mapping, you know, like a scanner. You’re mapping things things in. Now there is a scanner, seventeen sixty nine device that scanner. I got a few of them here. And, do plan on adding a section on device that in the new course.
Probably that’ll probably be 2026. I do have a device set lecture for $10 if anybody wants to go pick that up and learn about the device set basics. But the hands on just requires so much room that it’s like, I gotta get through all the basic stuff for us. Right? So, in any case, but I I don’t know if this guy could actually support the SDM.
I I have a feeling it can’t. Maybe I can. I don’t know. But, I was so old and obsolete that, that, you know, we never tried by the time the SDN came out. So and I’d love if you guys if I say anything wrong or you know I’m wrong about something, let me know.
But in any case, what replaced this? Right? So this is what I call generation one. Right? And what replaced it?
I mean, I call it generation one because it these two controllers share so much in common. Right? They’re really of the same family. But, the next generation totally is different. Right?
And so if we come out, some of you guys may know this. This product was extremely popular. It’s the l three x, the l 35 e, the l 32 e, l 35 c, l 32 c, and l 31. L 31 was not very popular. The l 31 was was like the l 35, but it it it had two serial ports.
And I know somebody who was using it, and I was very unhappy because of the serial ports. So if you think, and I’m not gonna pull it out of the box. I’ll do it for the course, but you think an l 31 e, an l 31 is like an l 30, like, you know, two serial ports, but has this it’s the same size as the l 35, and it has the compact flash port. Now that was huge. Now I have removable memory, and I have Ethernet built into the controller so much faster.
And I think these guys go up to, I’m gonna say, 16. I could be wrong about that. Do they go all the way up to 20 or just to 16? You know, I don’t remember. But I’m guessing they only go to you know, I think they do go to 20.
Maybe they do. In any I think they do. In any case, I’m trying to convince myself. What do they do? But in any case, these guys were extremely popular.
The ability to have the ether ethernet port plus, you know, making that just makes online edit so smooth. You know, you’re editing so fast. You know, you could online edit these other guys, but it was so slow. In any case and the CompactFlash removable memory, Same battery on the side. You can see here that we have, I don’t know if we can see that from there.
If it says isolated, you can see there isolated. So every serial port was isolated. You know? That was really nice. It had still had the same flaw with the, the reset button for the serial port, but you know what?
In this unit did not have any built in no built in, flash card. You you had to buy, and it did not unlike the fifty three seventies, these did not come with the flash card. You had to buy them, and they were pretty expensive because they were heavy duty industrial. Now some people would say, well, can I just buy one at the store? Absolutely.
Just buy a Compact Flash from the store and use it. But here’s the thing. If this product, you know, costs a million dollars when it’s down, are you really gonna put yourself at jeopardy of use or or your company at jeopardy for losing a million dollars because you want to save $50 on a Compact Flash card? If you wanna roll the dice, go for it, man. It’s a free world.
But, in most cases, if you were gonna leave the compact flash in there, you know, you weren’t in a jam, you would order the the official one from Rockwell, get one with a warranty and a guarantee and, you know, an industrial version. A lot of the cheap comp a lot of cheap memory just does not hold up. You know, same thing with anything cheap. I I bought a lot of cheap stuff over the years. You know?
And, you know, I I say I’m doing it for my students to see if it’ll work or not, but a lot of times I’m penny pinching. Right? And, a lot of times I regret it too. Right? So, I have to go back and buy the the higher level.
One place that is is inexpensive, pilot lights. So I’ve had so much problems with the, hey. You get 10 for $10 and they’re just, you know, you’re you’re screwing the wires on, and then the the brakes. It’s like, yeah. I’m not doing that anymore.
But, in any case, I digress. This is generation two. We’re not gonna talk about that today, but I did wanna just show you what the next generation was. So l 31, l 32, l 35, and l 23, which is a shoebox version of this, has really all the same features and functions except they took the compact flash cut out again. We’re talking about that when we are filming the the, History of Automation podcast this weekend.
I gotta get a copy of that to the guest, my guest hosts, so they can, give me the thumbs up on publishing it, but we had a lot of fun doing that. And, we hope to record another episode. This is all to raise money for the automation museum, so we have a place where we can go and and see all the legacy automation out there, like the stuff I showed you in the first three videos. But in any case, we have another one coming up this Sunday. Jeremy’s gonna be talking about, the history of Rockwell.
He should send me not everything. Right? I mean, the cut the the company the company is, like, over a 100 years old. Right? So not gonna cover the entire history.
You know, five hours later, then we get to 1924. No. That’s not what we’re gonna do in this podcast. But in any case, I think that’s it for today. I gotta eat lunch.
I hope you guys are having a great day. Let me see if anybody commented. Nope. I think most of you are either driving or maybe my video and audio is not going out there, but I do wanna wish you guys all good health and happiness. Again, if you wanna pick up my CompactLogix course, it is, you know, $20.20 prices.
We’re gonna keep those until mid September, and then I have to put the prices up to $20.25. I wish I didn’t, but the bill collector’s chasing me down. So we gotta we gotta start, you know, you know, keeping up with everybody else. Right? All the, inflation.
But in any case, if you do, like, let’s say you pick up level one, you will get the new level one at no charge. So don’t worry about it. The the the cost does not you know, it it was filmed before version 35, ’36, and ’37 were out. So if you’re looking for the for the latest, you’ll you’ll get that when the the new course comes out. But with that, I wanna wish you all good health and happiness.
And until next time, my friends, peace.
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Shawn Tierney shares an update on the Automation Museum fundraiser, as well as a look at one of the items the community has donated, a Square D SyMax PLC.For information about donating to the Automation Museum, please click here.
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Thank you for tuning back in. Shawn Tierney here from Insights, and I wanted to give you an update on the automation museum. So let me go over to the computer screen here, and you can see we’re still stuck at about 7%. We’re at about $200 of our $3,000 goal to get this unit set up, this, you know, new nonprofit set up.
And a couple of things we’re doing to drive attention to this across this video, but we’re also launching a history of automation podcast to try to drive awareness to this goal of actually setting up maybe first a virtual museum and then a physical museum. And I got a ton of stuff I wanna donate to it, and I really would look enjoy having people come in and teaching them what I know, but also learning what they know. And with that in mind, I wanna talk about some of the, samples that have been sent in over the years. And I’ve actually told people to kinda keep things in your attic or in your storage unit because I’m just out of space. And when the town comes in here, they wanna tax everything they see.
You know? It’s hard to explain to them that this is a donation or whatever or it’s personal. Right? So in any case, I wanna share with you this particular unit. Now I did send a very kind gentleman who sent this in a few years ago.
I did send him a message on LinkedIn and, to try to get some backstory and learn a little bit more about it, But, he must be very busy, because I haven’t heard back from him. But this is again, this is not a POC that I, started programming back when I got into the into this business back in the nineties. I gotta make sure I do this correctly here. But this is a really old Symax and, yeah, I’m gonna have to put the glasses on. But, check this thing out.
This is a Symax demo. Have I have no idea how old this is. I have no idea what I’m even looking at, but I think it’s super cool. You know? Square d PLC.
Right? And, if you guys know anything about this, I’d love to have any links or any literature, PDFs, or anything you have. But this is something I could see that we could restore and set up in the nonprofit automation museum and, actually teach people how what this unit used to do, how it used to work, and so on and so forth. But, it is very reminiscent to the PLC five in my opinion or PLC two and, 1771. So, just one of the very cool things that I’ve been sent here over the years that, that I would like to get into a real, physical museum.
And a Cuesta Museum would have, like, computer technology in it. It would have all the other technologies in it. But the focus here is the automation museum and that’s what we’re fundraising for. I think can I go back to the screen here? Yeah.
So, if you look here, this is, give sengo.com/automationmuseum. You can go to also go to automationmuseum.org, and it’ll transfer here. I don’t even have a bank account set up to withdraw the stuff because if, you know, if we can’t reach the goal, then I’ll just return everybody’s money. But, I’m not gonna touch any of this money. It’s gonna go directly into a 5013 c, charity fund, to set up the, to set up the the organization.
So in any case, if you have an extra $20 maybe this week and, you know, you’re you’re doing good at work and you, you know, you’re interested in industrial automation, which I think you are because you’re watching this channel, consider, helping us get to that $3,000 so we can actually, get the five zero one three c set up and we can start sending when people send us stuff, we can start sending them official, you know, tax deduction letters and whatnot. I know it differs between where you live and and what you’re working on, but, in any case, I just wanted to share that with you and give you a quick update on how things are going. And keep your eyes out for the new History of Automation podcast that I’m working with, couple of other older guys, and I’m pretty excited to bring that to you. And I think the the first episode will be an author who’s coming on and talks about the history of Wonderware and Triconics. And, then we have somebody coming on and talking about the history of Allen Bradley.
And then I want you to come on too. If you’re an older folk and you know some how to use or maybe you’re younger, but you learn how to use some older stuff, I’d like to get you on, including everybody who’s donated. You guys, put some great comments in the donations. We’d love to get you guys on as well. But with that, I’m gonna wrap up this week’s update on the Automation Museum Fun Drive.
Really look forward to having you guys, join us in this journey to preserve our, automation history. And with that, I wanna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends. Peace.
Show Notes:Special thanks to everyone who already donated! You can see the current status of our fundraiser at:* https://www.givesendgo.com/automationmuseum.
Until next time, Peace ✌️
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Shawn meet’s up with Giovanni Mendoza of GM Automation and Controls in today’s episode of Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Giovanni, thank you for coming on the show. I really appreciate you coming on. I know we’ve talked a lot about ControlLogix and CompactLogix over the months and years, But I recently saw you did a project, and I know your company and you guys do a lot of different projects. But I noticed you recently did a project on the micro eight hundreds. And I wanted to ask you, well, just a bunch of questions.
It just really got me curious. So if you don’t mind, I would like to start off with why you chose the micro 800. And I just for so everybody knows, I teach both Logix, you know, Compact Control Logix micro 800. You know, I teach other brands as well. And, you know, I like them all.
But I a lot of times people who use Logix never use the micro 100. So this really piqued my interest. So I wanted to start, asking you and, really, before we get to that, tell us a little bit about what you do. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Sure. Well, first thing, thanks a lot, Shawn, for, having me here. It’s, it’s an honor to be on your podcast. Yeah. So I am a systems integrator, essentially.
A, I’m a business owner here in California. And so we do a lot of, bakery automation, but we just dug into the, foam molding industry with this project. So that one was very cool. Yeah. You know, I know that’s pretty much all we do as far as our typical projects, you know, logic stuff.
But we pretty much had to ask the customer what was their budget.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yep.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): And, you know, I have used the micro eight hundreds at home. And I know they were very, you know, versatile as far as what you can do with them. So and the cost was awesome. You know? The Yeah.
Very justifies the cost for the customer and whatnot. And so we sat down with the customer, and we were like, hey. Like, what are you guys expecting with this project? What are you expecting it to do? What do you wanna see on, like, a screen?
What is it that you guys want? And the application was very simple. It’s a hydraulic press, essentially, that was, automated with a MicroLogix 1,100. But
Shawn Tierney (Host): Okay.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): The entire program wiped out, and the person that programmed it was long gone and actually passed away many, many years ago. Ugh. The there was no records or anything that we can pretty much use for, essentially, just to get kinda, like, a picture of what was going on.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So, thankfully, the process was very basic.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): And so, you know, the customer was a little bit on a tighter budget, and so we couldn’t really justify the cost to put in, like, a CompactLogix in there. So we picked out the micro 800. And, the environment I know there’s a lot of people that don’t really like CCW for Mhmm. You know, many reasons. Sometimes the software is a little different in certain aspects.
Right?
Shawn Tierney (Host): It is. Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): But, it wasn’t bad for the application. You know, we had a lot of inputs, but only a couple outputs. So that was pretty nice. And it was cool in the aspect that we we were able to combine the HMI and the PLC program into one file, right, all in CCW.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So pretty much it you know, it was very cool to just you’re working on your your programming, and then at the same time, you got the HMI popped up in the same file.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yep. You know,
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): you don’t have to open up a separate software. You know, it’s all conjuncted into one. So it was very easy as far as, you know, integration goes. You know, we were, you know, jumping around two softwares and, you know
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Doing all that stuff. So it was it was cool. You know? It was all in one whole piece. And it was nice because we were able to just, you know, put it in a small file, email it out.
It’s just one just one simple file they have to save in there. So, yeah, I I definitely, this was the first time we cut our teeth into really providing a micro 800 for a process. So, you know, definitely not as bad as, you know, some people say as far as the software platform goes. Definitely did its job. I I really did enjoy the migrate 100.
I think it was it’s very, very powerful controller indeed.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. You know, I was surprised how powerful it was when I did my training course on it. Gee, it must be almost going on ten years now. I’m actually in the process of upgrading, all my training courses. But one of the things I wanted to do first was solve the Factory IO lessons.
So I did three factory IO courses. And so I decided to do them in the order of Micrologix, controller CompactLogix, and then Micro 800. And I really get to see the differences between the three packages. And the micro 800, you know, I think, like, an eight twenty, if somebody’s out there thinking of getting one for a small project, I just looked up the list price today. It’s August, you know, 2025, and it’s it’s about $3.97 list price.
Now this doesn’t have, like, a huge discount off it typically. This product line, you gotta call your local representative, and they’ll give you your actual price. But don’t expect, like, 50% off that price. Right? That’s been my experience anyways.
But, still at that price, you know, list price on the $400, it’s you know, when I started this, it was $2.50. So, you know, you know, over time, over the decades, it goes up over time, of course. But, it can do a lot. Now, you know, I there are some people out there who say, if it’s not a lot if it’s not Studio five thousand we used to say Logix. If it’s not Studio five thousand, I won’t use it.
And, you know, I I really found there are some things in the ladder editor that are just great, drag and drop. You know? You can change, you can change, you know, different instructions and do do the things you’re used to doing. They added in the where you can edit the rung in text. They added that a few years ago.
So if you’re one of those guys who do that a lot, I just happen to be one of those guys who like to do that. Because in the June Micrologix, we kinda had to do that because you couldn’t just toggle a destruction from XIC to XIO or latch to unlatch or whatever. But, you know, I really like that feature. They do have a, a a a Logix theme, which I love the idea behind, but I’ve had some students get in trouble with that when they did a lot of subroutines and the way it handled those subroutines. I haven’t I haven’t done a lesson on that yet.
But, you know, there are some usability things that I’m just used to, you know, like, putting in the tag values, right, into different instructions. So if I have a bunch of rungs that are very similar, I just wanna go through and change each of the tag values. I find that tag browser did you find this as well? The tag browser is a little clunky. It depends on where you click, which browser you get, and then it just seems a little bit harder to navigate than the other packages.
Did did you find the same thing, or was that not a big deal for you guys?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah. It it was. You know, it is kind of a challenge with tag browser that they have, even just to kind of, put in descriptions on the tags
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): They have to open up the tag browser and then kinda just pop up another page and then put all your info in there. So, yeah, it was a little clunky, compared to, you know, the Logix environment where you could create a tag on the fly and then, you know, just open up the tag properties and just put in your descriptions or, you know, do the alias tags if you’re you’re gonna do that. So, yeah, in that aspect, it was a little bit, challenging, but, you know, it’s it wasn’t too bad.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. And for those people who say and I know the MicroLogix says only the 1,400 left and, you know, it’s end of life. Right? And or active and mature, I think, is the correct way to say it. You know, talk to your Rockwell people to get actual information.
I’m just a I’m just a, instructor. But, you know, the Micro 800 supports, you know, function blocks and structured text, and I think it does a good job at it. So, you know, as much as I love my old MicroLogix and I use the 1,100 in, 14 and here’s the thing too. If you wanna you program the 1,400, you’re gonna have that $300 package of, software. You know?
The software is free for the, for the, 1,100, and it has an emulator built in, a simulator built in. Yeah. With the free software, it only runs for ten minutes, but still, you don’t get that with Logix. Right? You don’t get a free simulator built in.
Other vendors do that. The other big vendors include that for free. And with Rockwell’s Studio 5,000, they don’t. And I also, you know, I also like the integration of the panel view 800, formerly the panel view component or, the what we used to call the PVC slow because it was so slow. But the 800 has been very of a very good product line.
You know, and and, did you do the HMI on that as well? Did somebody else do it? Did you we did you do the HMI? Yep. What did you think of that?
I mean, it’s simple, but functional. Right? Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): You know what? I’ve I’ve used their, the eight hundreds, the panel v eight hundreds a lot more than the micro eight hundreds.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Okay.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So it’s yeah. You know, it’s a very it’s a very good platform, and, and I’m sure you know this. But with the eight hundreds, you can also connect to certain, Logix controller. So it’s very cool where, you know, you can just you know, if the customer is on a budget and you just they want something simple, then you can just get, like, an 800 and, you know, do everything on there. And it it’s very it works well.
You know? I I I personally do like the, HMI environment. There is a couple things that I feel like it, you know, it is missing out, you know, like, you know, you have on, you know, factory talk to you
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Is, like, you know, animations. Right? You don’t have any animations. Yeah. That would be the only downside that I don’t like on, creating HMIs on, CCW.
But otherwise, you know, it’s it’s not too bad. I like it.
Shawn Tierney (Host): I remember when it first came out, maybe fifteen, twenty years ago, I recreated the, demo that’s in the panel view plus in CCW. And the animation thing was painful, so you had to use, like, a multi state indicator and Yeah. Have multiple pictures of what you wanna do. And, but but aside from and and that animation feature is just, you know, the panel view plus, gee, it must be 30 years old now, but, well, maybe not that old. 25 years old.
But, it was alright. Maybe, well, maybe 20 years old. Alright. 20. I keep going down.
I’m like, oh, not that old. But, the Panelview Plus was just because RSVUE, you think RSVUE predated the Panelview Plus. RSVUE was, like, ninety five ish. I was a beta user. Then FactoryTalk View, I’m thinking early two thousands.
So and don’t quote me on that. I’m not looking at my notes. But, you know, it really pull force all all of that same that same technology with the animations as identical. So if you go back to ’28 let’s say, nineteen ninety five, ninety six, you open up RSVU, which is the predecessor RSVU 32, the animation window looks almost identical to what you’re using today in factory talk view. And it just kick it’s it’s I don’t wanna say any bad words, but it’s really cool.
And and and some of the features, you know, very powerful features that even comp the competition don’t have yet, is still in that product. Kinda, you know, I understand why they’re doing the factory talk optic. Have you used any factory talk optics?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): I have not. Okay. You know, I I I have definitely seen it and, you know, it’s it’s talk of the town at the moment, but I haven’t really dug into it.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. I, you know, I it’s kinda sad that with it almost feels like we’re seeing the end of an era of the panel views, because of factory talk optics, and I have not used it. I do like that the development is free for, you know, especially for students who wanna play around with it and try it. That we used to give away demo discs for the panel view plus software, Effector Talk Vue Machine Edition. Now you gotta call somebody to get a demo, and they get you an email.
And it still runs for two hours, you know, in demo mode forever, but you still have to call somebody and and, you know, and and do all that. So it’s there’s a little friction there to get a demo of it. But, you know, I think you also recently did if I if I’m following you, correct me if I’m wrong, I also saw your company did something with Logix, and I think you had some servos on it as well. Was that something you recently posted on LinkedIn?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): That was about a month ago. Yeah.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yep. Can you tell us a little about that project and what you used on that?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So that was actually just a troubleshoot. But, it yeah. It was just a it was a tissue paper line
Shawn Tierney (Host): Okay.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): With, well, I’m sure you saw the panel. It’s, like, twenty, twenty five servos in there. So, yeah, very big system. Yeah. No.
Definitely not something I integrated. Just working on the line. But Just
Shawn Tierney (Host): working on the line.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): A really interesting, production environment, though. That was the first time I ever been to a, tissue paper manufacturer, so that was pretty cool to see.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Oh, yeah. They do some cool stuff. We have some tissue mills in the area, like, with an hour of where I am, and it’s just amazing to watch them run. And and I think all paper machines actually, the building I’m in that at least my office is out of used to be a paper, a a paper mill. And, then it was a printing press for the Berkshire Eagle.
So, and, I don’t know if they I don’t think they print the paper here anymore. I don’t quote me on that. But in any case, they do have so the big printing press in the in in in the side of the building. But in any case, you know, I think when it when it comes to the the micro 800, I think you summed it up. It is nice working in one environment.
Have you had a chance to use the Panelview 5,000 at all?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): I have. Yes. I used it recently, first time on a cookie mixer. Oh. So that yeah.
That one was pretty cool. That wasn’t on my LinkedIn, so that that’s why, no one’s really seen it yet.
Shawn Tierney (Host): So Tell us a little bit about that project. You know, in comparison to the micro 800, you know, PanelView 800 using that was probably a CompactLogix or a ControlLogix? Okay. It was. And so both of them did they both they kinda both lived in the same GUI.
Right?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much.
Shawn Tierney (Host): So how did you find the Panelview 5,000 as a new user?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): A little bit of a small learning curve, but it wasn’t really that different from, you know, like, a Panel v plus environment. We I where I kinda struggled a little bit was, making a recipe selector. So that one was pretty interesting. Yeah. Because you have to use pretty much, like, indirect addressing to really, go through a list to see your recipes.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So that one was kinda fun to figure out. And, of course, you know, as far as the rest of the whole programming was for that line, I thought it to be very easy, you know, as far as there’s a lot of, features to it that, you know, I thought were pretty cool. So, you know, there’s, like, ways to pretty much like, if you bring in a, like, an image of, an object that’s in there Mhmm. And I’m sure you probably do this in the panel view. I just really haven’t spent too much time on it, but, it it’s already preset so that you can if you wanna make, like, the level indicator on the tank Yeah.
You just put the tag in there for your level indication, and it automatically already does, you know, all the, logic for you, in other words. So, yeah, definitely a cool environment. You know? It wasn’t too bad other than the recipe stuff.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): I find it to be, pretty pretty, pretty useful as far as if I were to consider those, on another project.
Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I, when when they were getting ready to launch it years ago, I was really excited for it. Yeah. And and it really it took a while to come out. There was some hardware changes. There was a lot of going on in the industry at that time.
And when they decided to make it Ethernet only and make it Logix only, it’s kinda like, well, what what kind of life can this product have? You know? And and I’ve had the product manager on the show, and we’ve talked to him. I think it’s a great product. But for the longest time, it didn’t have some of the basics, that you think of an HMI having, like alarming.
Right? And I think that really hurt its development. Not a Rockwell bought the, ASIM or ASIM, however you wanna say it, company, and they had the factory tuck optics. I could I could definitely see that. It seems to me that their their focus is on optics and not on the 5,000.
And quite honestly, again, I’ll say it. I’m sad that we won’t have a Panelview Plus product because that product is, you know, a a Panelview Plus, you know, nine or 10 or 11 or because I just such a favorite product that has you know, so many people know how to use that product inside and out, you know, parameters and, you know, just, and and they’ve you know, I was just working in version 10. So one of the things I’m doing is I’m giving away a free panel view plus project with my PLC courses. It’s not out yet, but it’s coming soon. So I have a lot of students, and I I know you have a lot of stuff in your office.
You guys are building stuff, so you can hook up buttons and lights and switches if you need to. But I’ve had a lot of students over the years where they’re either using an emulator or a simulator or a VectorTalk echo or, you know, they just don’t have the physical hardware that when they wanna learn everything on their laptop, maybe they’re on a plane or or they’re you know, they do it during lunch. And so, I’m releasing simulation code that goes with the the that students can use to simulate the hardware. So I wrote the code. It’s like a subroutine.
It’s like, don’t touch this, but this will simulate what I have in the videos. Right? And that way, they can write the programs and test it in whatever. You know, if you’re using a MicroLogix, then it would be emulate. If you’re using the micro 800, it’d be the simulator that’s built in for free, the CCW.
And then if you’re using I actually show how to get Factor Talk Echo. It’s only a thirty day license, but you can get it for free right from Rockwell’s website. I wish they would do that with more products because it it really was easy to get a free thirty day trial right from their website. And I’m gonna be the first one I did just because I know it so well is the panel view plus. So it’s a a little screen that, you know, with a bunch of buttons and pilot lights, kinda like the simulator you would have if you were in a classroom.
And, the the thing the reason I did that one first, of course, I know it first, but, also, the, PanelView plus development software, it goes into a demo mode if you don’t have a license, which is great
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah.
Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, great for students. But the PanelView five the the the Studio 5,000, you know you know, what they call view designer, right, instead of Logix designer. It is it comes with if you have a Studio five thousand’s license, you know, you get that software. So Yeah. There’s that about it.
And I do like like you said, all of they have all these canned objects that are smart objects, like the tank. You put it in there. You just put level into it and boom. You don’t even have to do the animation. So I I really like that.
Did you use any of, like, the direct to PLC push buttons? They have, like, some high speed push buttons you can integrate directly to the PLC.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): No. I did not. Okay. No. Yeah.
So we just had a couple, you know, just regular momentary push buttons on the screen
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): And, a recipe selector. So it was very, very basic. Mhmm. But definitely, it was, you know, I know I noticed there was a couple other things that kind of, got me a little curious to pretty much test it when I had a chance.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Was it a customer request for the 5,000, BMW 5,000?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): It was. Yeah. They actually That’s interesting. Yeah. Yeah.
They have a 5,000 on their, laminator line. So I guess the operators are already used to that kind of environment and, you know, they didn’t wanna really teach anyone a new, like, I guess, a new platform. I tried to explain the customer. I was like, you know, Amity plus isn’t gonna be too far off away from what the 5,000 looks like. But, you know, they just wanted to standardize on just
Shawn Tierney (Host): having Totally. You know?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Right. So
Shawn Tierney (Host): that will
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): not all do. Right?
Shawn Tierney (Host): Especially if you can have just one spare or one platform to teach people on. So Right. You know, I know I know you’re a busy guy. I don’t wanna take up too much of your time. I do appreciate you coming on the show.
Was there anything else that you’ve used that you wanna share your experience with, maybe to the other students or to any of the people listening to the podcast, any of the products you’ve run into, any any insight you can share with us?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): You know what, Shawn? I just started getting into IO Link. First time I ever cut my teeth into IO IO Link. And, I have sent off this
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yes.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Little IO Link of
Shawn Tierney (Host): Oh, yeah. That’s a small one. It looks like an eight port or six port.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): The four port. Yeah.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Four port. Yeah. Yeah. Power, Ethernet, and then four ports. How did you like integrating that?
You use the, they have add on blocks for that, add on instructions?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): They do. You know what? They have pretty much all the AOIs for every almost every sensor that IFM has to offer that’s, that works on IO Link. So it was totally awesome. Just I mean, I I was only integrating a a a little laser photo eye, but it was very cool, all the data that you can actually get and grab from all the sensors.
So, you know, and and I see this as something very innovative in the aspect that, you know, it cuts your labor costs. Right? You know, guys like me, we’re looking to, you know, try to do as least less physical work as far as pulling cables and having to have a contractor come in to run conduit
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yep.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): And all these sorts of things. Right? So this is, like, something that I feel like is is gonna be a a a very good platform to use for for guys like us that, you know, all you need is communication, some power, and, you know, you just run-in all your sensors into the the hub and, you know, you pull all your data from them. Right? And, yeah, we we I pretty much got the starter kit for testing purposes.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): And I was able to finally use it at a bakery. Okay. So we finally used it in a real world application where we installed, three humidity sensors inside a proof box, and they were in different zones. And it was awesome. You know, we had a contractor come in just, you know, run a small three quarter inch pipe with, you know, a a shielded CAT six and then some 24 volt power on the hub master, and then all the humidity sensors go into the, the hub.
And, integration time, I did it in about two days. So it was very, very easy as far as, you know, bringing in all the data, setting up the AOIs, and, you know, installing the EDS files for, RS links. And, I I personally think it was awesome. You know? It was very cool.
Like I said, I’m very recent to IO Link, so I’m definitely yeah. I don’t have any expertise there yet, but it’s definitely something that I feel like a lot of people have been talking about, and it’s definitely very innovative.
Shawn Tierney (Host): You know, I glad I’m glad you brought that up. IFM, I worked with them a lot, especially early in the company’s, history and, just a great company. I’m I am adding, like, the unit you have, I have two two different units that will be added as lessons. They’re actually sitting in my garage on the workbench being mounted to a demo board, so I can actually add those lessons to all of the courses that I can add it to. So the the the problem I have with the micro 800 is the Ethernet IP capabilities of that.
It’s, I believe we’ve, find that it’s explicit on implicit. So, you know, with logic, she just add it to the IO tree, and it’s easy peasy. Right? So may not come to the micro 800 lessons right away unless I could find an easy how to to do that. But, you know, I I think I think, you know, IO Link just keeps growing.
And you may not know this because I didn’t tell you. But next week, I’m recording an episode of the podcast with the folks who are, who who are in charge of IO Link, the marketing group for IO Link. So they’re coming on, and they’re actually having hands on IO you know, for first time users, hands on IO Link sessions throughout the country. So that’s gonna be pretty exciting to to get that out there. So anybody interested in IO Link?
If you haven’t used it yet, check out that, upcoming episode. But what I would say is, you know, I really feel like your feedback is excellent because I’ve gotten the same feedback from some people I know personally in this area. And not only about IFM being easy to use and having great added instructions, but also about how much they like IO link and how much wiring it saves them, especially people I think people like it for stack lights because, you know, you think about if you don’t have a stack like on a network, then you got a bunch of signal wires you’re gonna send to it. Right? So it’s painful.
And now now the stack lights do, like, you know, bazillion different colors. Right? So, really cool stuff you could do with those and, and excellent. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that.
So if there was one tip you could share with the audience on using IO Link or using that IFM starter pack, what would it be?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Definitely, sometimes the, the manuals are a little clunky as far as, the setup goes.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Mhmm.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): So I would just really recommend, you know, just using them to their their you know, like, as best as you can. But, really, you know, this the setup is is very easy to the point where you can probably avoid the manuals on certain things. But, yeah, definitely, there’s a couple things that I feel like the manual missed out as far as the setup goes for, you know, things like, the, sensor AOIs Mhmm. As far as setting them up. So So that would be the only thing that, I would just kinda look out for.
That that’s probably the only thing.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Did you salvage just through trial and error, or did you have to get in touch with them?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): I had to get in touch with them for the, yes, the the radar. Sorry. Not the radar. The, laser photo eye because it I wasn’t really reading any, distance from it. So, I told them, hey.
You know, I I didn’t see this on the manual, and they’re like, oh, we haven’t updated the with the new the new, edited version of the new manual. So I was like, oh, okay. Could you send it out? And sure enough, you know, I got it sent out. And Yes.
So, really, I would just watch out for the versions of the manual.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Could be some updated ones that aren’t there yet.
Shawn Tierney (Host): But But you did find you found them helpful, though? They were responsive?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Oh, yeah. IFM’s customer support is probably the most awesomest customer support I’ve dealt with.
Shawn Tierney (Host): So That’s awesome. Yeah. I’ve heard that too.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah. They’re very, very good. You know, any questions that, pretty much you need answered, they there’s always someone there as long as it’s in, between the the hours that they’re operating.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Right? So open hours. Well, that’s awesome. I’ve heard that from so many people too, so it’s good to hear it from somebody else. Else.
Well, I don’t wanna take up your whole day. Anything else you wanna, you wanna say to the show? You wanna tell them a little bit, how to get in, contact with your company if they need some, if they need some of your expertise?
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Sure. If you guys wanna reach out, you could go to ww.gmautomationandcontrols.com. Okay. We service pretty much all of California. K.
So, of course, we have some travel work here and there. I just recently posted this. I’m sure you saw it. We’re kind of expanding over there to Omaha. So that’s
Shawn Tierney (Host): that’s been pretty good.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah. So we’re trying to move over a little bit over there, as far as, you know, we know the area a little bit. I actually lived there for about a year and a half, with a couple cousins, a couple family members that were out there. And, you know, it was it was it was pretty nice to be out there, and now I’m trying to expand the company over there. So, definitely, if you guys need help, just reach out.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. And just for the video audience, he’s really not 16. I know he’s clean shaven, and he looks like he’s only 16. Yeah. But he’s he has a lot of experience under his belt.
He’s not a he’s not a teenager.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Yeah. Yeah. I get that a lot. I go to sites and then they look at me and they’re like, how old are you? Can you be in here?
I’m like, I Yeah.
Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. Yeah. So, in any case, it’s a blessing to look young. And, and so that’s good. That’s good.
And, you know, you got a great company, and I just wanna thank you for coming on the show and sharing your experiences. And we just kinda pulled this together last minute. It was like, hey. Let’s chat. And, you know, I think I learned some things, and hopefully, the audience enjoyed it too.
So, Giovanni, thank you again for coming on the show.
Giovanni Mendoza (GMAC): Thank you, Shawn. I appreciate you having me here.
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Let’s talk about how the Series C 1756 Chassis differs from the Series B in today’s Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Happy lunchtime. It is Shawn Tierney here from Insights and Automation. I’m actually back in the training room working on a bunch of different stuff, but, I did wanna jump on here at lunchtime. Actually, I have to, be in another meeting at 01:00, but still, I wanted to stop by and do a automation tech talk with you at lunchtime.
And, I was just thinking of something, like, I just learned. Well, I shouldn’t say I just learned it. But, in any case, guys, feel free to post any comments, questions, or in the in the chat. I don’t see the names when you post them on LinkedIn. I don’t know why this is a StreamYard limitation, but I should see your username if you post them from YouTube.
And, of course, afterwards, I do post these on the automation blog. I post them on the podcast channel, and I try to do the, the, the text version of the show afterwards when it’s ready. So So if you wanna read it the following morning or later that night, you can. So with that, in any case, I hope you’re having a great lunch. Today, I wanted to talk about a couple things here first.
The first one is if you’re in any of my courses, I wanted to talk to you about I’m adding a bunch of new lessons every day as I work on the new ones, the new courses, which you all don’t have access to yet, but you will get access to them, you know, and the appropriate ones. I updated the IO devices, lessons. So and I actually have all the updated IO here and addressing and whatnot. So I just wanted to make you guys aware of that. I’m doing that for all of the existing PLC courses.
I’m updating them all. Also, I have stop files coming too, updated stop files. So, keep your keep your eyes out for that. But now let’s get into today’s topic, and it’s about the series c chassis, the 1756 ControlLogix series c’s chassis. Let me go back to full screen here.
So recently, I’m I’m setting up a, an alternative, a filming studio in the house. Right? So if, you know, if we have a bad winter and I get snowed in, I wanna be able to film. Right? And so what I have had up to this date is, and, again, all these were purchased us on the secondhand market because of the expense of the new trying to keep my courses affordable.
But this is a series b seventeen fifty six chassis. I’m I’m sure most of you have seen these before, and this is actually getting mounted in this room. And I don’t know how good this webcam is. I don’t know if you guys will be able to see that label. I haven’t I didn’t try that before the show.
Everything on my screen is reversed, but that is definitely a series b. And I just wanna look at these patterns here. Right? Now one of the things that you may have noticed with newer products from Rockwell, and we’ve had them on the show that cover this stuff, and I hope to have them on the show many more times this year too. But in any case, I I love having all vendors on the show.
I think I was telling you guys early in the week. I met with, local, integrator who carries a lot of the brands that I have not had on the show, and I wanna get those people on the show. So they’re gonna they’re gonna I’m sorry. I should say a local reseller and panel shop, and they should, they’re gonna try to hook me up with them. So great guys over there, Chris and Amy.
But in any case, I wanted to, you know, when when we came out to the new modules like this guy, you could see they now have this huge I hope you guys can see this okay. Huge heat sink on them, and there’s a warning even on the, like, the LA. I don’t have an LA, but there’s actually a warning here. You can you probably can’t read it from there. But it’s like, hey.
This thing could be hot. So when you take it out, be careful. And they feel a lot heavier. If you compare this to, like, an l seven right? So here’s my safety l seven.
The partner’s still in the chassis. But look at that. You can you can see right through that. K? Not as beefy.
Right? It’s still a very powerful controller, but when you compare it to this guy, the heft of that that, heat sink And the l eights, I think, are even hell heavier than this. I don’t know about the l nines. I I hope to get my hands on one, in the near future, but, you know, they’re not even out yet. So I don’t wanna put myself too far ahead.
But in any case, you know, when when Rocco was releasing new chassis, they decided to increase the venting. So, again, just for comparison, here is the series b chassis. Okay? Right. And let’s see if I can hold these both up.
I haven’t practiced this. I it’s just lunchtime. And, look at the series c chassis. So I picked this up from my home studio. I had to drop a $110 on it, but, hey.
You know, now that I got it, I got it. Right? Look at the difference of the amount of airflow you can get through that baby. Okay? And now they say and I I you know, I didn’t test it.
I’m not consumer reports. I don’t have heat cycling ovens and all kinds of strain gauges and stuff that, you know, I could test this, but they say it’s just as strong as the other one. Right? I gotta be careful not to break it. I don’t wanna have to buy another one.
But, in any case, it’s a lot more venting. Right? And it makes sense because these newer products generate a lot more heat because it’s just the chipsets are in there. Now I thought it’d be fun, though, to let’s let’s see what Rockwell officially says about these new chassis. So now we’ll go back over to the stage here, and, I am logged in.
This is a free I do not have a tech connect. I don’t, like, need all the tech support they offer. So I had one a long time ago, but I let it expire because, well, I’m self employed. But in any case, I haven’t needed to call them. So here, this is a tech note I found just right before coming on.
I just typed in ControlLogic series c’s chassis. Boom. Came right up. I I love the simplicity of their and the ease of use of their knowledge base. I really do.
But in any case many companies have good knowledge bases. Those who don’t should look at the people who do because it it does make a difference from the user perspective. In any case, they say, hey. Series c, direct replacement for series b, and then they have a nice little story in here. So the difference is the ventilation, alright, the knockout pattern in the sheet metal for the convection airflow.
While the design team was making the sheet metal changes, they took the opportunity to incorporate a few other mechanical and physical enhancements, that have been received in the past. Improve card guide. Now I haven’t compared the two, but I can tell you sometimes those old chassis, the the guides were sticky, and it was very annoying because you’re spending a lot of money for something you want that card to slide in and out. New additional optional mounting hole for high shock vibrate slash vibration environments. That’s always good.
Improved ventilation for future high performance modules. I think somebody at Rocco told me they were getting to the point where you’re gonna have to start derating. These things were generating so much heat. They would have to start derating the you know, you know, a lot of companies do 20, you know, zero to 50 c or zero to 60 c without getting into the extreme products. So, but, yeah, they with with the they needed more airflow to avoid that derating.
So saying, hey. You only can go to 40 c or whatnot. What else do they have here? Improved stiffer mounting tab. I don’t know, I don’t know what what we’re talking about here.
The plastic seem the same. Maybe it’s the, maybe it’s the, the ears, the mounting ears here. I don’t know if they feel stiffer. Just trying it out now. Trying it out live.
They they feel the same. So I don’t know. I don’t know what I don’t know what that is. Because if somebody from Rock was wanting watching and you wanna join, join, let me know. New additional grounding screwed.
Is there a another grounding screw? Oh, yeah. There’s two now. Let me go back to full screen here. I didn’t notice that.
Full screen. Okay. So there is now two. I don’t know if this is coming out well on the camera. One, two.
Whereas before, there was only just the one. So, you know, two’s better than one. I mean, I I don’t know what that cost them to do that, but I’m thinking probably less than a buck of chassis when I don’t know. They sell for a lot new. I mean so you think that if people want it, give it to them.
Okay. So let’s go back to here. Please note, the series c’s chassis will carry all the same certifications as series b. Temper temperature ratings improved from zero to 60 to minus 25 to 60. You wonder I I I don’t wanna think the additional airflow would allow you to go cooler.
Right? Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the additional the additional, no. It has to be something else. I don’t know.
You guys tell me. What do you think? Why can it go cooler now? Nonoperational shock will decrease from 50 g from 50 g to 30 g. Interesting.
Interesting changes. So, yeah, that’s it. Let’s see what techno this was. This was QA twenty three six eighty five. And so that is what I learned new today.
Actually, I knew about this back. I think it it happened back in 2015. And, you know, I think the the cool thing was that, you know, they told us ahead of time, it’s a 100% direct replacement except for this the the storage fee, I guess. But, I just wanted to share that with you because I finally got one in for the, for the home studio for those snow days or any other days that, you know, the car breaks down, or something else, I can still film out there at the home studio. So I’ve take actually taken a couple of the cameras out of Studio A, which I’m just using Studio B now, and, and bringing those home as well.
So, in any case, so that’s what I had. Now I’m looking over at the chat here. I want I wanna thank everybody who joined, by the way, and who watched. I’m not seeing anybody in the chat. So I think with that, what do we got coming?
Last yesterday, we had the PROFINA episode. I edited it yesterday. You know, I have you have to watch it a couple more times to edit it, and I really thought it was good. I really enjoyed it. They do have free seminars coming up, so keep that in mind.
Also, free IO Link seminars coming up, and the the episode I’m recording this afternoon is on IO Link. So pretty excited about that. Very popular product. I can’t wait to add some IO Link lessons to my courses, but, you know, everything has to everything comes in its own time. But I do have plenty of IO Link products here, and I have some IO Link shows coming out as well.
But with no questions, I think I’m gonna go get ready for my meeting. I wanna wish you guys all good health and happiness. I think tomorrow, I’m going to release, my interview with Giovanni for the lunchtime, show. So it’s about a thirty minute inter interview, and I had a lot of fun talking to Giovanni. And, again, if any of you wanna come on the show and hang out with me for a half an hour or forty five minutes during lunchtime, just get into contact with me.
But I’m gonna keep today’s show a little bit shorter because I have to run to another meeting. But with that, I wanna wish you all good health and happiness again. Until next time, my friends. Peace.
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Let’s talk about Ethernet/IP versus PROFINET in today’s Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Happy lunchtime. It is Shawn from Insights and Automation. I wanna welcome everybody who’s tuning in. Thank you for joining me.
Really wanna make these lunchtime sessions of the automation tech talk show, collaborative. So, please feel free to post questions or comments. For some reason, StreamYard has not taken those from LinkedIn, so my apologies. I don’t know why. But in any case, maybe, if somebody could do a test post there, it says can’t post comments to LinkedIn, so maybe I still can read them.
Who knows? In any case, I hope you’re having a great lunch. I’m giving myself thirty minutes to get ready for these things, and then, like, I was editing to this afternoon’s podcast, and I’m like, oh, I gotta hurry up and get over here. But I put together a little, presentation just to talk about, you know, Ethernet IP versus PROFINET. Right?
And so before we get into that, again, if you’re having problems hearing me or anything like that, it looks like everything’s working on my side. And and by the way, today, I’m coming to you from my office. It’s not very clean, but this is where the work gets done when I’m not in the studio or in the training room. But in any case, so, let me put some things out there. So as somebody who’s used Ethernet IP well since it came out.
Right? So, you know, we were back in the days in Data Hour plus and remote IO, and some people call it Rio. And I was like, Rio is a city. Call it remote IO or r I o. But in the case, that’s how my weird brain works.
Hey. Thank you, Emmanuel. Really appreciate it. It’s good to see you again. Great.
It’s been a while since we talked. So in any case, you know, one of the thing these vendors have done is made these things easy to implement in their products. And I gotta say, like all the major vendors I’ve used, they put that first in their thought process, at least from my perspective. And I can go into that programming software. I can add things on their network, and it works.
So and there’s a lot that goes on under the under the scenes behind the scenes in the software that makes that all work so well. I know with Ethan IP early on, we had the whole, you know, unicast with versus multicast. Everything was multicast. Some of you younger folks won’t even know what I’m talking about, but we had to run around saying, use a use a switch with IGMP snooping. Use a switch with IGMP snooping.
And then it was IG snooping and querying. And it’s like, but in any case, that’s all going away now with Unicast support. And, again, if you guys if I say something wrong, I’m just going off the cuff here. It’s just lunchtime, so let me know. But, long story short, you know, I use both, both networks in the house here with just commercial switches.
They run great. Of course, you wanna use industrial switches in an industrial environment. And I think most of you have the same the same experience with that. So, what I wanna do is kinda, like, take a look at them now. The one of the reasons I’m doing this today is I’m editing.
I’m not quite done. It takes about three hours to edit these shows and publish them. But I’m just at the final steps of editing today’s podcast, which will be on Profinet. And I thought, man, the this, this guy had some great slides, so I wanted to compare him to the slides I typically use for Ethan IP or at least one slide, which is, really based on a Rockwell slide that they were giving away for years and years and years. So without further ado, let’s go ahead and take that look at that slide.
And here you can see that it’s not showing the right thing. It’s supposed to be showing PowerPoint full screen. So let me fix that really quick. You know, I’m still getting used to let’s see here. Share screen.
Share window. Let’s share the full screen window. I’ve yeah. I haven’t used StreamYard in a few months, and they’ve changed it around quite a bit. So, yeah, that should be better.
Here we go. Somebody’s asking, hey. Before you go any further, can you explain unicast versus multicast? Yeah. Great question.
Now it’s not showing me your name, so I apologize. It’s a StreamYard issue. But multicast, basically, you send them you put the your information on the wire, and then those people who want it can grab it. But what happens is and I know for some of you, you’re probably rolling your eyes, Shawn, why are you talking about this stuff? But somebody asked about it.
So in any case, what happened is for the switch to route those pack typically, our standard switch routes packets based on the IP address. Right? The MAC address. Right? So it makes a list of and I won’t go into good gory details.
Let me try to keep this verbiage very simple. The the switch typically for IP addresses, right, will keep a list of what MAC addresses on what, port. Okay? So it knows that PLC number one at one nine two one six eight one dot one is on port one and maybe a PLC number three on port three and it’s dot three and so on. And so it can’t do that it can’t do that with multicast packets.
You need INGP snooping. In other words, you can open the packet, see which INGP group it belongs to, and querying so it can ask people what group they belong to to be able to route those packets. So in essence, if you use that if you use the multicast with a standard switch, it’s like turning that switch to a hub, and every message goes to every port. And we had a lot of people call up and say, hey. All my devices on my network has stopped stopped working because they’ve gone off hook because they’re getting a lot of messages that don’t belong to them.
So I hope I did that justice. Unicast is now the message is sent just to the person who needs it. It’s not broadcast to the whole network. There’s ups and downs about that, but that’s what I’m not what I’m here talking about. If you guys wanna see me talk about that in a future episode, I’d be happy to.
If you guys think I made that too simple of a description, let me know that as well. So in any case, here we are in, back in PowerPoint, and this is your typical layers. Right? So you have your OSI as, seven layer network model, and this is actually comparing this is for common industrial protocol. So this is comparing, Ethernet IP, ControlNet, and DeviceNet.
So you can see, you know, we have on the very lower end here down the the green area, we have the physical Sabrina’s Ethernet. So we have the physical media, bits and bytes. We have data links, frames, MACs, LLC. We have packets, path, IP addresses. So all of this, you know, if we think about that OSI seven layer network model, that’s that’s nothing to do with Rockwell or Siemens.
That’s just part of network design. And then we have, of course, the application layer. This is can be split into in the OSI model, application presentation and session layers. With, Rockwell. We’re just talking about the application layer.
Okay. So I thought this is a very interesting, slide, that kinda shows you how you can do the, seamless bridging or routing between Ethernet IP, control net, and device net. You can go in and out one or the other. You don’t have to do any, you know a matter of fact, we were kinda debating I should shouldn’t say debating this, but, I was trying to give people some insight on this last month or two months ago on LinkedIn. It’s like, look, When the 1756 ControlLogic stuff started coming out, we didn’t have any POCs.
And we were selling the racks with a data plus card and an Ethernet card so you could and it was a DHRO card. So you could seamlessly bridge between the two. And I don’t know how many plants I’ve been to, even, like, metal stamping plants where they’ll have one Ethernet card and a whole bunch of DHRIO cards so they could go Ethernet to all their their Data Highway pluses. And so not that Data Highway Plus supports CIP, but that kinda you know, when when you would do a control or a device that you could just go out Ethernet and go to those other devices and boom, everything worked. You didn’t have to set up a router like a k f two or a k e card if any of you guys have used those.
But in any case, and that’s kind of what you see when you use your USB cable with a with a Compact or ControlLogix or with the network cards. Those were added to the network cards after a while. You get that seamless bridging and routing. So that is the Rockwell side of the fence. Okay?
And I just thought, look at how similar it is to PROFINET. Now, again, different vendors, different formats of slides. And Tom from PI is gonna go through this in lots and lots more detail that I’m gonna cover here at lunch, when that releases, probably at 03:30 today if I finish it on time. I also am waiting for a trade show demo to show up for one of my, sponsors, so I may have to run out in the middle of the show and go let them in. But in any case, take a look at this.
We have the same OSI seven layer, network, model. Right? And you can see all these are the same things. Right? This is all the same.
But over here, now we have the PROFIDAT. You see how it lays right on top of that, you know, Ethernet. Right? And I just think it’s so cool. This is what makes Ethernet so cool is that so you know, it’s not a locked down network.
It’s an open network. Anybody can use it. Right? And so you can see they have their non real time data and their real time data. And in real time data, there’s also time critical data.
Right? And so you’ll notice, right, and and I’m not gonna go into this in great detail, but, you’ll notice, right, that, you know, time goes through this. What’s non real time? Anything a hundred milliseconds or unscheduled, real time, one to ten milliseconds. This is this is the PROFINET view, And then time critical, less than a millisecond.
Right? You see motion control. And in the Rockwell world, we often would talk about SIP sync, SIP motion, all these different pieces of SIP again. I’ll repeat what I said yesterday. I invited the Ethernet IP people on, and they said, we don’t like you.
So, well, that’s showing the conversation a little bit. But in any case, now I’m I’m joking about that they don’t like you. It’s like they just didn’t see value in coming on the show. So, and and I said, fine. We won’t have you.
In any case, there you know, there’s all these things in the SIP protocol that talks about that. Now if you look over here, though, what I thought was very interesting in here so I’ve always told my students, you know, there’s RT, real time communications, and then there’s IRT. Right? And IRT, you’re not gonna find in those old, I shouldn’t say old, Gen one s seven twelve hundreds, at least if I’m remembering my the the lessons I teach my students. So, that’s one of the reasons why you wanna go to an s seven fifteen hundred.
You get a lot of IRT connections. Right? And depending on the model you get, you know, very similar to what you’re here with Rockwell, you get so many connections. And they have different names for it, but in any case, I I go over those charts in my course, s seven course. But, you know, time critical.
This is important. And then he actually talked about TSN as well, and I know Siemens is doing a lot. I don’t know if Rock was doing anything with TSN. But time sensitive networks really is kinda maybe the next generation. Maybe that’s one way of talking about real time data.
It’s it’s a new spec that’s designed to allow you to go well into the future with, you know, high speed communications. And I just think it’s so interesting. I know the folks in Mitsubishi and a lot of people in the Asia a lot of Asia manufacturers have jumped on that quickly. You see the, I I what is it? IE Link TSN, you see that advertised a lot.
Right? And, you know, we haven’t had Mitsubishi on this show probably in ten years, but I would love to get him back on, maybe seven years. So, always been a big fan of their what they do. But in any case, so from there, I wanted to show you this chart too. Again, Tom’s gonna go through this in gory detail, but I thought it would be something fun to talk about because, of course, he doesn’t relate it to Rockwell.
So I thought it would be fun to talk about and show you some of his slides, give you a little glimpse of what’s coming on coming out at 03:30. I think the podcast is about forty five minutes. He also has a bunch of free one hands on lessons, hands on training dates coming up, all around the country, so you guys may be interested in that. And so, you can see here real time PROFINET IRT and TSN all compared. Right?
And so very, very interesting. And and, the I’d from my understanding too is because PROFINET over TSN will be able to use off the shelf chips, then it’s gonna, make a lot more products capable of doing PROFINET over TSN, which will give you the the speeds faster than IRT. Right? You know? So very interesting stuff.
And let me go back to the comments. I don’t have any new comments there. So that’s what I wanted to talk today at lunchtime. I wanted to get you guys thoughts and opinions on that, but I thought it was really interesting comparing PROFINET to, you know, if we look at this slide and then comparing it to, Ethernet IP. It just we’re we live in such a great day and age where we’re using something open like Ethernet for everything.
And every you know, back when I get started back in 1990, it cost probably I’m gonna guess here because I didn’t look it up. $2, $2,000 to add a network card, like a DataWay plus network card DataWay plus network card to your computer. Right? And, you know, now every computer has even a built in, so it’s like, yeah. That’s awesome.
So So that’s what I have for you today. Let’s talk about what else is going on. I do have, a new, episode of the Automation Museum Show. So we’re still only about 7% in that fundraiser. And, again, there’s no rush.
I mean, this is something I wanna do. I wanna I wanna preserve the history of automation, industrial automation. So we also are recording our first Automation Museum podcast this weekend because this is all nonprofit, so we’re doing it on the weekend. I’m interviewing me and Jeremy are interviewing a person who actually wrote a book on the history of Wonderware and, Triconics, I believe, if I got that right. So, things I’m not that familiar although I’m very familiar with Wonderware.
I’ve used it a little bit, but so many of you guys out there over the years have shown me your your awesome InTouch projects. But in any case, this is gonna be a lot of fun. And then in two weeks after that, we’ll have another episode where I interview where we interviewed Jeremy about, you know, his thoughts of the evolution of Rockwell POCs starting at the 1774. So and we’re doing this totally to try to get this nonprofit up and running. You guys have sent me a lot of equipment over the years that I wanna give on your behalf to the Automation Museum, and we wanna preserve that knowledge like the PCMK card.
I have such vivid memories of helping people get their PCMK cards up and running. Right? And, it came to a point now this is back in the days of DOS. Okay? And if you never used DOS, then don’t start now.
So any case, we used to have to worry about TSRs and memory management and, you know, we get so frustrated because everybody wanted that mouse utility, that palm pilot utility. They had, like, PC tools. They wanted, like, 14 utilities running in the same, you know, 600 k of memory or whatever it was. Right? And, eventually, I just started hitting on boot disk because I’m like, dude.
They’re like, how come you didn’t get every all of my 28 software packages running on boot? I’m like, look. It’s just, you know, physics. Right? It’s there’s no way to cram those in.
So boot off this disk and have a have a nice day. But, yeah, good good memories and then Windows 95 and all that too. So, that’s what the automation museum is all about. Thank you to everybody who’s already given over at the automationmuseum.org, which sends you to give Send Go. And, thank you for everybody who sent in the hardware.
I’m gonna try to cover those every couple of weeks, the stuff that’s come in just as to help with the fundraiser to raise the the money. We the first thing we gotta do is get the the nonprofit set up. The, what else do we have? So we have the podcast coming out today, PROFINET. Next week, I think I don’t know if I can pull this off, but I’m thinking next week might be IO Link.
So I would love to do that next week. I have a trade show demo coming in from a vendor so I can cover their products. Very cool. What else do we got coming up? If you’re in my courses at the automation school, yeah, I should mention this.
Updates a lot of updates coming out. If you are have been holding off purchasing something, I looked at my, P and L profit and loss, and I gotta raise prices. I it kills me to do this, but if I don’t, the company’s gonna run negative. So instead of closing down shop because I don’t wanna raise prices, I gotta raise prices to match the prices I’m being charged. So, again, I took a big hit taking this job, but, I’m doing it because I love you guys, and I wanna make sure I can share all my knowledge with you.
So in any case, if you if you’re looking at a course at the automation school or a bundle on upgrade, if you do it before the December, you’ll get the 2020 prices. Otherwise, you’ll get the 2025 prices. And, you know, like we talked yesterday, POCs that were two fifty ten days ago are now 400, and that’s just life. You know? And it stinks, but in any case, doesn’t affect anybody who has, of course.
You’re getting new lessons too. I’m putting new lessons in. I got five new lessons I hope to release today. I’m just finished editing the last one, but I gotta do the pod today’s podcast first. And there’s so much other stuff going on here.
You know, I’ll try to think of more things for tomorrow’s show. I haven’t eaten my lunch yet, so we’re coming up on that twenty minute mark. So I just wanna thank you all for tuning in. If you wanna come on the show and chat with me during lunchtime for twenty or thirty minutes, let me know. Get in contact with me, LinkedIn, YouTube, any way you can, automationblog.com.
I’m also trying to publish these with a really nice so I paid for the extra service to get really nice transcripts. So if you’re a morning person and you’re like, I don’t wanna listen to somebody. I just wanna read because that’s me every morning. I won’t do anything any video because in the morning, I’m like, I want more like, I don’t wanna I just wanna read. So I’m signed to post the transcripts over there.
It cost me a little extra money, but, for those morning people who wanna read read the show and not watch the show, that you’ll find that at the automation blog as well. Much better transcripts, I think, than what you get from, like, a YouTube because they give you, like, time stamp in one sentence time stamp sentence. And this is more like it does not that it’s perfect, but it does a better job, I think. And with that, I’m just gonna wish you guys an awesome lunch. I’m gonna go eat mine.
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Let’s talk about sub-$400 Ethernet PLCs (and more) in today’s Automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition:
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host):Hey, everybody. Welcome to Automation Tech Talk. Shawn Tierney here. You know, it’s been a long time since I’ve used StreamYard, and they’ve actually added some really cool things. I can actually see if my mic is working.
So please, leave a comment in the chat. I’m, we’re going out live to LinkedIn and YouTube. Of course, this will be released over on the podcast and at the automation blog later, when I’m done lunch. But in any case, I just wanted to talk to you a little bit about the, the thought process behind the show is, you know, I learn so much every day, and I just I can’t I can’t keep up with the courses. I can’t add everything I learn into my courses or do, like, full blown productions on it.
And so I’m like, you know what? Let me just meet up with all my followers on LinkedIn and YouTube and just share what I’m learning, and then I can just watch the chat and see if you guys have anything else to say about it. In that way, all this stuff I’m learning every day, I can get right back out to you guys, and you guys can share what you’re learning with me in very informal, you know, type of show. So that is what automation tech talk lunchtime edition is all about. I’m doing this to my lunch because there’s no there’s you know, I’m not making money from this.
But, in any case, I do wanna say say thank you to all my students at the automation school, and thank you to all my members at on YouTube and the automation blog. Thank you guys very much. Now I am you know, I wanted to bring the news, show back, but it’s, like, three hours a day, and it makes zero money. So it’s just like I can’t invest the time to do that. And so that’s why I’m doing the show, but I’m gonna reuse the new show podcast.
So if you’re listening to the podcast, you’re like, hey. Showed to the new new show, and you’re getting this instead. It’s expensive and time consuming to spend the new podcast. So, I’m thinking from talking to some of the listeners out there, I’m thinking you guys would enjoy this, maybe not as much as the news, but maybe, as close to it as I can provide right now. With all that said, thank you again for tuning in.
And today, what I wanted to talk to you is about, low cost Ethernet PLC. So as an instructor, I’m always looking for how people can can get, you know, learn PLCs. Right? Program controls, PACs, PLCs, whatever you wanna call them. They are, like, to me, the heart of an automation system.
The IO comes into that. You know, devices talk to the IO. IO talks to controller. HMIs and SCADA talk to the controller. IoT connections, IoT connections.
You know? So that’s like the brain of the system, always has been. Right? And it’s kinda like the motherboard in our computers. Right?
And so, you know, I I think people will always wanna learn them as long as we’re we have control systems. And, I know some people will say, well, you know, there’s DCSs and this this that I understand that. I understand that. But in any case so, you know, I recently posted let me see if I can share it with you. I recently posted over on LinkedIn.
Let’s see if I can get this up here and bring it over to the right screen, and let’s see if we can go to this. Again, I haven’t used this in a while, so it’s a little new for me. But in any case, this is not what I wanted to show you. Let’s see if we can show something else here. Let me see.
Bear with me a second. Share screen. Let’s share the whole screen. I think that will be that. Okay.
Great. So this is LinkedIn. I’ve tried to clean up all the red spots. Of course, I got more now. But this I was talking about the code, Sys, for a scan, and a lot of people totally misunderstood me even though they are trying to add helpful advice.
And I appreciate everybody. I gotta shout out to some of the guys. I I don’t wanna say the names, but several people in there were super awesome and helpful. But one of the things this post over on LinkedIn got me talking about was, you know, what happened to the sub $300 PLC, Ethernet PLC. Right?
And so what I did is I’m like, you know, it’s it’s been a long time since I looked for a sub $300 PLC with Ethernet, and that’s the key for me, Ethernet. Right? Because nobody wants to use a serial cable these days. USB is not bad, but Ethernet is better. Right?
So I said, you know, my I used to really be a big fan of the micro eight twenty. I still am. I guess I should say I still am. But in any case, you could see here in proposal works, I updated it recently, and it’s showing it at $3.97. Now this model, used to be February or February.
I’m thinking this is the February model. But in any case, you can see how much inflation we’ve had over the last ten years. Just a lot of inflation to bring that price up to $3.97. So what we used to say maybe is a $250 Ethernet POC, which is a great thing to learn on, it’s now more like 400. I think, you know, back then, it was the price of a of a video game console.
And I guess today, video game consoles have gone up in price because I think it’s still the price of a video game console. But in any case, the the reason the reason I like having a physical POC to learn on is because a lot of times, this would be something that, you can actually use. You know, you could build your own trainer or maybe it’s an OEM who wants to install it in a machine. Right? And so not all vendors have a program like ProposalWorks.
It makes it very hard to find pricing on them. Now, some other POCs to consider, Ethan, the POCs that you can learn on, that are under, let’s say, $400 or under. 1 would be the s seven twelve hundred. You guys know I teach a class on that as well as the micro 800 and Compact ControlLogix, MicroLogix, all that. The s seven twelve hundred, I think, you know, it’s great in one way compared to the micro eight fifty no.
A 20. Now the micro eight twenty is great that it has free software and free simulation built into that free software. The only downside or I shouldn’t say the only downside, but the major downside with the micro eight twenty is the small Ethernet PLC is it doesn’t program identically to its bigger siblings like the ControlLogix and CompactLogix. I think the low and I did not look one up in here. We can do this live if you want, but I think the smallest CompactLogix you can get is around a thousand dollars.
You know what? Let let’s try it. Let’s try it live. Now I did update this last week. I think the lowest one is the, $53.71, the CompactLogist cell one.
And let’s just see if I can do it. Now these are all list prices. And from my and I don’t know if they changed this over the ten years since I’ve been self employed, but, there used to be a bigger discount on CompactLogix than there were on micro eight hundreds. They want the list price of the micro 800 to be closer to the real price, versus a, the micro 800. They want the list price to be closer to, you know, the actual place where they give a bigger discount on the CompactLogix.
I don’t know if that’s still the case. Right? You guys let me know if you know the if you know. So I’m gonna throw this in here. They always seem to throw an Ethernet cable in.
I don’t want an expensive Ethernet cable. I don’t wanna spend $50 for an Ethernet cable. Thank you. Not to learn at home. Maybe if you’re working in the field of $50, it it just doesn’t seem that seems a little little expensive.
Okay. So this little guy, this l sixteen e r, this guy used to be I I thought it was around $1,400. It’s now $2,400. So this is the smallest CompactLogix you can get. And so when we’re talking about small Ethernet PLC, if I go the the Microw eight fifty, I get the Allen Bradley I mean, the Microw eight twenty.
Don’t ask me why I keep saying the Microw eight fifty. I have no idea. If you go with the Micro eight twenty, you get an Allen Bradley for $400. You get an Ethernet PLC, but, it doesn’t program like the rest of the those PLCs. And, yeah, I think $2,400 is just beyond what most people wanna invest in their personal training.
Now having said that, another option if you like Siemens or if you use Siemens at work or if where you’re gonna apply it is is Siemens or if you work in Europe, is the s seven twelve hundred. Now that product is probably in that $400 range for the small guy. $400 for an s seven twelve hundred is a great price, and the biggest advantage there is that that unit programs identical to the 1,500. Now the hardware is different. You know, I’ve had videos where I did the high speed counter on the 1,200 and the 1,500.
You can see how they’re different. Right? So, and there’s different you know, there’s more data types in the 1,500. But what I think is really good now the s seven twelve hundred, if you just run out and buy one, right, the software’s not free. You can get a free twenty one day demo, but it’s not free, like, on the eight fifty.
So that’s kind of a downside. But then if we look at the upside there, they have starter kits. And I couldn’t find, the starter kit with just a controller. I know they have a $700 starter kit with the controller software and HMI, which is a good deal. But I was looking for the old one.
I used to promote my courses in the 4 or $500 range, which were, just the controller and the software, lifetime copy of the software, perpetual license. And those were in the $4,500 range, and that is a much better deal if you wanna use Siemens because you get a lifetime copy of the software. Right? And so I could not, and I searched. I searched.
I searched. And, if anybody knows Siemens or has the link, throw it in the chat. Even after even after, the show, if you wanna put them in the chat, I’ll try to keep check up on them later. But that is a phenomenal deal. Now another good deal that I was recently and I’m I got a show coming up on this is, the Modicon.
Right? So the Modicon machine edition of the their software and their their little Modicons. Right? There and I don’t have the exact number. Joel, great guy over at Schneider, posted a part number over in that LinkedIn discussion.
And that unit, I think it was a two forty something, that unit is in the $300 range. So Ethernet PLC, it’s Codesys based. I do like what Schneider has done with the Codesys developer. They’ve added their own flare to it. And when I say what I like about it, and I’ll do this in the future video I’m having, is they kinda organize the project tree a little bit better, and they automatically add their hardware.
So if you remember when I sat down with the Ethernet code, Sys PLC did not automatically add the hardware. I had to kinda do some research to say, like, how do I add the back plane? So, and same thing if you watch my IFM, episode with, their code Sys HMI PLC, which was these are all great products. Just I’m just sharing my opinions with you. But in any case, and you’ll find all this stuff over at the automationblog.com.
That’s where I post everything. But, in any case, I really like and to have it be even cheaper than the, than the micros from Rockwell, although, you know, it goes up to probably medium range PLC, and then there’s a a different an automation expert for the high end. I think it’s a six two four nine nine or something like that. The the the automation expert software is different than a machine expert. But still, it’s a huge range that is what most people would ever use.
The only thing I I I don’t know about is they don’t I don’t see that they have a starter kit that gets you the software. So they do have a forty two day trial, but if you buy a piece of hardware, you want the software forever. And I really think a starter kit that includes the software and hardware would be the way to go like Siemens has done. It’s just such a great job they’ve done there. And, of course, we all know of AutomationDirect.
They have their line of products, and they typically make their software completely free. But now if you wanna talk about going really inexpensive, right, like, totally free, you can always do Codesys. Right? So Codesys, you know, you can download the developer for free. You can, simulate your HMIM PLC in it, and it doesn’t cost you anything.
The downside with Codesys is that the ladder editor is not I would I’m gonna I’m gonna say modern. Okay? It’s not a modern ladder editor. The old version is crypt is is I’m I’m I’m trying to be this little clumsy. And the new version is I’m gonna say it’s feels like it’s beta.
It doesn’t really work well. I’m sure there’s experts out there who know how to make it work and, you know, work as good as anything else. But as somebody who’s been doing this for thirty five years, when I pick up your software and I can’t figure it out, like, I had no problems figuring out Siemens from Rockwell. Like, I was converting my program, and I took the limit test out of Rockwell, and I did a limit in Siemens and quickly find out totally different instruction. And, they actually had another instruction, which is, like, an in range instruction or whatever that made a lot of sense.
And I I do like the Siemens limit instruction because it actually limits your your output to be within the range. So I thought that was cool too. But in any case, yeah, so easy to figure out. Great help. When you hit f one in Rockwell or Siemens, you get all kinds of great help.
Codesys, not so much. The the Codesys help system, at least the ladder editor, I would say is not and, again, they’ve been around for a long time, so I’m not trying to make excuses for them. It’s not like they’re a brand new package that just came out. Right? I’m just saying, you know, I’m gonna teach students ladder.
You know, if my if I have electricians coming in, you know, I’m whether they’re coming in person or they’re learning at the automationschool.com, I’m gonna be I’m gonna be teaching them ladder. I mean, I love function block structure text, sequential function chart. I try to cover all of those in most of my courses. It can be really time consuming to go deep into that stuff, but I plan on adding more lessons on that stuff too because you should you should know all the languages. Right?
But in any case, level one, I just do ladder. And so, that there’s a downside there. There there’s one other thing that I wanna show you, and I’m I’m gonna do I’m actually gonna do a course for this because I know a lot of the gamers, having you know, they just don’t have the our background, our automation background. But let me see if I can find this really quick. Again, I’m just spending lunch with you.
This isn’t a preplanned, you know, multimillion dollar production. It’s just showing sharing his lunchtime with his, with you guys on LinkedIn and YouTube. I’m just typing this into a search box here, and gotta be careful. There’s actually two different games that that have to do with automation over on Steam. But I gotta show you guys.
I actually hired this developer to create an app that I give away to my custom to my students at the automation school. I wanted a way to work with I’m just trying to find a preview here. I wanted to find a way that people who had nothing and was taking my course could actually do all the labs. So I hired this gentleman to create an app for me that I give away to every student, PLC student, over at the, automationschool.com. But let me come over here and share this with you.
And, I’m actually I’ve gone through and solved all of the lessons, and I had an absolute blast doing this. But this is the automation game. Let me see. And, again, there’s no affiliate link here. This is I’m just sharing.
It’s something I’m passionate about. I don’t know if this is gonna show up on both LinkedIn and YouTube. It looks like it’s not showing up on LinkedIn, but this is over at steampowered.com. If you’re not a gamer, that’s where most of us buy our PC games. There’s other places too, but, anyways, we won’t go into that right now.
I think I’m gonna be playing Planet Crafted tonight. My friends haven’t played it yet. So, if you wanna catch that, you’ll find me on my gamer on my gamer, YouTube channel. But in any case, this this, game, right, it’s it’s, you know, it’s a 15 game. Right?
So you can expect, like, a $5,000 week get Rockwell or Siemens out of a $15 game. But this game is fun. It gets challenging because this PLC that it emulates, right, is, it has some limitations. Right? There’s some features in this PLC, like like, branching outputs, you know, having multiple outputs on, on a rung.
It doesn’t support that. So as you get onto, like, the palletizer, it gets a little tedious having multiple, having multiple rungs to do the same things. Right? So you wanna turn the conveyor on and you wanna turn the pusher on and etcetera etcetera. But, talk about fun.
So I recommend this to Guy. If you only have $15 in your pocket, you wanna learn POCs, this will teach you. I mean, it’s it’s it’s you’re not gonna learn a specific POC, but, you know, it’s fun. And, again, if you sign up for one of my courses, you get a special edition of this game, one that was designed just for, my courses at the automationschool.com. So, I would love to hear what you guys think about what is an affordable POC to learn on.
Do you disagree with my comments about the code sys lotta editor? I spent a lot of time with it, lost a lot of lost a lot of time, struggling with it, you know, and so, are there other PLCs? Like, we’ve worked with the PLC next guys. We’ve worked with the Wago guys. Are there other PLCs?
Are there other vendors, out there that I should be looking at? Let me know. But I I did wanna share that with you, my thoughts on affordable Ethernet PLCs, kinda where we stand today. But I’m sure I’m missing some, you know, starter packs, some some, you know, kits out there that, you know, maybe new kits, maybe, kits that have been around around for a while. And, you know, I would love to hear somebody make the case for AutomationDirect.
You know, I’ve covered them in the past, but I haven’t programmed them to the extent where I could say, yeah. These are great to learn automation on. And with that, I think what else do I have for lunchtime updates? So I’m more you know, one of the things that had me thinking about this is I’m updating my courses over at the automationschool.com and filming new courses at the same time. So if you’re enrolled in any of my POC courses, you’re gonna you’re you’re seeing updates come there almost every day as well as, new lessons being added.
And, as I’m doing my new courses, I’m trying to align my old courses with the new courses. And some of the lessons, like, you know, going and downloading and installing the free software from Rockwell or Siemens or whoever, you know, I wanna update those on the original courses and the new courses now. The other thing I would do wanna mention, if you are in any of my original courses, you’re gonna get the new course for free. Okay? Now if you bought the ultimate bundle, you get a bunch of extra stuff on top of that.
But, so if you bought going back to 2014, if you bought one of my courses, you’re gonna get the new courses for free. If you bought level one, you’re gonna get the new level one. If you bought one and two, you get the new level one and two. I’m not gonna make anybody repurchase something. And, of course, you guys have support.
You can ask questions. There’s no expiration. No subscription. You know? Just buy the course, and, and you have questions, you ask me.
I also did something new too where you can actually schedule a Teams meeting with me if you get stuck on a on a lesson. So I wanted to get that out there. But, with that, that is about it. We do have on the automation blog, I have a great, interview that I’m gonna be doing in the next couple of days about IO Link. So I’m really we had a lot of success with the original IO IO Link, podcast.
This week, though, we’ll be releasing a new PROFINET, podcast. So I know a lot of you maybe use EtherNetIP. I just wanna let you know, I invited the EtherNetIP guys to come on the podcast. Right? They not only declined, but they declined in a little kind of a cheeky, maybe kinda rude way.
So I tried. Right? How many times you’re gonna get hit in the face before you say, okay. You guys don’t wanna come on my show. I’m I’m okay with that.
So, but, we’ll keep inviting everybody to come on the show and, you know, except for the ones who pretty much tell us that they don’t like us. So, in any case, if there’s any vendors watching too, I met with a rep from, one of the local automation distributors, and, you know, I just wanna get the word out the vendors. We wanna cover everybody. Alright. I it’s just me.
I’m the only one who works here. I wanna cover everybody. So you guys know that I’ve had a lot of success with the great folks at Siemens and Rockwell and Snyder and a lot of other people too. Met with Toledo, IFM in the past, and now I’m gonna forget somebody and feel bad. But, you know, I’ve I’ve had a but a lot of the other vendors that we don’t commonly think of, like, maybe in the first or second place, love to get them on too.
So any vendors out there, just reach out to me. Look. If you don’t have $500 in your, marketing budget, we’ll we’ll just do the freebie version that’s audio only. So, in any case, with that, I think that’s it. That’s all I had for lunch.
I don’t see anybody commenting because this is episode one, so it’s a little rough. But, thank you. I see some of you guys watched through the whole thing. Thank you very much for tuning in. And, before I leave, if you’re if you can just say hi in the chat so I can say hi back so I know who’s watching.
I just want to, thank you guys for tuning in. And I gotta get back to work. You guys probably have to get back to work too, but I do wanna wish you good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace.
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Shawn Tierney shares an update on the Automation Museum fundraiser, as well as some information about the A-B 1750-PMC Programmable Matrix Controller.For information about donating to the Automation Museum, please click here.
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): So for an automation museum update, we’re about a and I don’t talk about this a lot. I should talk about this more, but we’re at about 7% of our goal, which is great because we started at zero as you might have met remember. And so I just wanna thank some of these people you may recognize from, from over on LinkedIn. Larry. I wanna thank Larry for his donation.
Ryan for his donation. Lassie and Brandon, thank you all for supporting it. I’m I’m at the bottom of the list too. I was the first because I launched it. I supported it first.
I also donated the automationmuseum.org, which takes you here and, the automationmuseum.com as well to that site. That was about $35 to get those two, set up. And, what this is with the fundraising goal, there’s the tier one, the $3,000. This is just to get the, the nonprofit set up and the, website set up. So I’m not gonna build the website.
I’ve I spent all my time building the automation school and blog and managing that. I would like, someday, I’m gonna outsource that as well. But I I just want somebody to build a basic website we can build on, and we need that, I think it’s a five zero one three c so we can accept, you know, donations, and and actually, make them nonprofit. So they are, they are tax deductible. Right?
So in any case, I wanted to share that with you. So 7% of our goal, that’s great. And, you know, last time when I was talking about the automation museum, I was talking about the PLC five. So today, and thanks for, Ryan, who is, is our top donor so far, he mentioned something called the seventeen fifty PMC from Rockwell Automation. Now if you don’t know, that’s one of Rockwell’s earliest PLCs they have ever made.
I don’t know much about it. Matter of fact, you know, I didn’t get into this industry until 1990. So the old stuff then were PLC twos, PLC threes, 1330 threes, 1330 fives. That was kinda like the legacy stuff. And the new stuff was the PLC five and the slick 500 just coming out at that time.
And a few years later, the MicroLogic. So, so in any case, that that’s kinda when I started. So I didn’t get to work on, any of the, you know, original, you know, early seventies stuff. Right? So I was, I was just a baby, just a baby in the early seventies or a toddler.
But in any case, let me bring you back to here and let’s take a look. Now the first official PLC, I wrote a nice article about well, I shouldn’t say I wrote a nice article. I wrote an article about this over at the automation blog. You determine if it’s nice or not. But in any case, I had the opportunity in my previous role of twenty five years being a certified automation specialist for a Rockwell distributor.
I had the opportunity to scan in a bunch of those early documents. Right? So, and if anybody’s thrown away all their old early documents, send them to me, throw them my way. But I will take them in a donation and and, and then hand them over to the automation school, but I’m sorry. To the automation museum, where all that old stuff will go.
I do have, I don’t know, a storage unit full of stuff I wanna donate. It’s like all kinds of old books and manuals and brochures. But anything prior to, you know, go goes back too far. And I know, one of my libraries and one of my former employers got tossed, and and I just didn’t reach out soon enough to to ask them to donate it to the museum. But in any case, I did get the scan in some of the very first POC brochures that’s in that big blue binder that some of your distributors may may remember.
And if you guys have that and you’re thinking to throw it away, send it our way. We’ll we’ll preserve it in the school. Just think of I keep saying the school, the museum. Just think of all the things we we could display. But in any case, this article talks about the p d PDQ two.
You’re like you may be like, Shawn, p d q two, does that mean there was a p d q one? Yes. But Rockwell was only an investor in three I with the p d q one. They didn’t fully own, three I until the p d q two came out. And, you can even see I even include here some of the, design and manufactured by three I, serviced and sold by Allen Bradley.
So even at this time in 1970, they still had that they still didn’t wholly own three I. They did I think they bought them in ’71. But in any case, so this is not what Ryan was talking about. This is the first one. This one had some downsides.
It was still super interesting. If you wanna know more about it, check up here. But this was the first Allen Bradley product that used an XIC and an XIO. And, you know, some people say, well, Rockwell should use the standard that I you know, the I triple you know, IEC six eleven thirty one dash three standard. And it’s like, why?
The standard came out so far later than the actual than their PLCs. Why not keep it the same for their customers? So you can go either way on that. But in any case but and and thanks to Ryan for his lodge donation towards the Automation Museum, I wanted to pull up some of those old brochures and kinda show you what the $17.50 PMC was. I believe this was the direct next release after the PDQ two.
Okay. And you can see, actually, the program looks almost identical. Maybe it is identical. But you can kinda get a good look at it there. There’s no middle ground with this zoom.
Let me sling all over here and see if I can zoom out for a minute. Okay. So you can kinda get an idea of what it looks like here. And this I would love to have this in the, automation museum. Actually, find one of these, get it working, and maybe even have people come in and, like, do, a tutorial on it, kinda go over the history on it.
I just think this would be so much fun. And not just Allen Bradley, all the different vendors. But in any case, PMC stands for programmable matrix controller. But right on the front of the unit, it says programmable controller. So, not you know, the matrix may have referred to the solid state memory that they were using for the first time.
I don’t know. I’m gonna be honest with you. I did not read this complete thing cover to cover. I think it’s 12 or 14 pages before, this morning’s show. But in any case, you could see some of this here.
If you’re interested, you can pause. I do not have an article on this. I’d love to do one, though. But, in any case, it’s very, very similar to, you know, the the PDQ two and really, honestly, the PLCs we have today, but it’s just old. And, let me show you a couple more screens here.
And when I scan these, I made sure I scanned them high very, very, high details so that we could really zoom in on them. But in any case, so you can see the LOTA program on the top right, and then you can see the instructions. This is how you would code it. Again, you weren’t drawing it physically. You were typing it in kinda like how you would type in if you were editing a wrong in RS Logix with Studio 5,000, how you can go in there and type on it.
That’s how you would do it here. So, you can see X I C X I C B R T, that’s branch. Right? And then X I C X 0 E. Right?
That’s asking and and so the way you couldn’t do an x I c on an output, which is interesting. Right? Because now we can examine an output state, but they had separate instructions. They had the XOE to examine if an output was energized. And then here, they’re using a set.
Okay? So, I wonder if you need a reset. This old old the second man today, of course, you need a reset for it today. We call that latch and unlatch. Right?
And, yeah. So that this set yeah. This set, I’m just reading that quickly. It looks like it’s an OTE equivalent. So very interesting stuff there.
And then we come over here. This is a a kind of a picture of what it looks like. And I believe these made these programmers look so similar to the ones for the PDQ two, but you can see they’re programming an EPROM here and, putting in the memory board. Seventeen fifty. I can’t read that.
It looks like a BD. But in any case, just to give you an idea what it would look like. So we’d like to get one of these in the school. Yeah. And this I did it again.
In the museum. And, if we can if we can raise that money for the fundraiser, right, we can at least get the five zero one three c open. And what I wanna do is every week, I wanna cover some of the old stuff. I have, actually, four things queued up that people have sent in. I have one of those, device net meter thingies.
I have a PMCK card. I have a old old I think I’ve shown it on this on the on the, show before. I think it’s an old square d PLC demo case, which is really heavy and big, but it’s kicking around here under a table somewhere. And so every week, I’ll try to go over one of those with you to talk about the auto museum automation museum. And if you do have a couple of dollars extra and you wanna kick it towards it, we’d love to get this off the ground so it could be a nonprofit, and then we can go after some of the big guys to fund maybe exhibits in an actual building that you could visit.
So with that, I just wanna wish you guys all an awesome weekend and week ahead. I wanna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace.
Show Notes:Special thanks to everyone who already donated! You can see the current status of our fundraiser at:* https://www.givesendgo.com/automationmuseum.
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Shawn Tierney shares information about the new Automation Museum fundraiser, as well as his thoughts on A-B PLC-5s, and why they would make a good exhibit.For information about donating to the Automation Museum, please click here.
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Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated)Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Shawn Tierney here, and I’m announcing a fundraiser for something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, the automation museum. And I thought this would be a great place where we could feature the history of industrial automation. And, of course, they’ll have other parts too. There’ll be other technologies covered to this like computers.
You wanna cover computers as well. But, in any case, for you and I, the biggest thing would be automation, I think. And the whole thought process behind this came when, you know, I’m collecting, all this equipment, do training courses, and I’ve been doing this for thirty five years. And I some old things are just, you know, sentimental to me and I don’t wanna throw them away. And I know there’s a lot of you out there who are in the same boat.
A matter of fact, you’ve sent me some great stuff because we’ve talked about my desire to open up an automation museum. And so I’m hoping if we can get just 3% of you out there who follow me to, just to give a few dollars, we could actually get the nonprofit organization set up and start accepting really big donations from large corporations. Now that’s not to say I don’t think that all of us, together, you know, the 80,000, controls engineers in The US couldn’t do this. We could, but it’s a lot easier when you have a five zero one three c and you can get money because a lot of these big companies, they have a edict that they have to give away so much money every year. Right?
They have all these great profits, so they have to give some away. And so we wanna be able to tap into that some too. So, you know, let’s think of this future automation museum. Maybe there’s a Rockwell wing, and Rockwell sponsors some new displays there or a Siemens wing or a Schneider wing or whoever. Right?
I mentioned those three guys first because they’re some of my biggest sponsors. Right? But we could also have a Moxa and a P and F and all the other great vendors who’ve, met with Toledo who sponsored content here. I should probably name them all, but there’s so many of them. Right?
But in any case, I think it’d be very cool to have a place where not only the stuff gets displayed, but you and I can share our knowledge with the rest of the industry. So, you know, when I retire maybe in ten or twenty years, I hope, maybe, you know, who who’s gonna like, if somebody has to go work on a PLC five or a SIC 500 or a Micrologix, where are they gonna find that information? Maybe they’re gonna work on a PLC two. Maybe they’ll work on a PDQ or an s one or s two or some of the really old emoticon 84. Right?
So, how are they gonna get, that information. Right? And how are they gonna learn how to use it and maintain it? And then how are new controls engineers gonna understand where the industry started? Why things are the way they are?
Why 06/1131 came where it came from, and why it was so important to our industry to kinda try to standardize the the technology. Right? And so that’s what I thought. I just put this up. Brandon and I both, contributed some money.
I also donated the, the.org and the.com to the to the organization. And what we’re looking for is really just the first stage is to get up to $3,000. Right? And if we can get the $3,000, we can get the five zero one three c set up and, we can, start taking bigger, bigger contributions. Right?
And, but in any case, I hope you guys are interested in this. And I wanna now switch over and talk about some of this old technology here. And, I wanna talk about PLC five. So, what a great product this was when it came out. If any of you were around during the transition from two to fives now, I got into 1990.
Right? So the PLC five came out in ’86. I think it was gonna supposed to come out in ’85, but then Rockwell bought Allen Bradley. That’s one of the stories I heard. It was kinda delayed a little bit and came out in ’86.
Could be totally totally wrong. But in any case, that’s the kind of stuff we could we could archive at the Automation Museum. But, you know, the PLC five was just so much more phenomenal than the PLC two in many ways. And I’m sure there’s some PLC two lovers out there saying, but but but but, I just love that, you know, having learned, in college, having learned how to program microprocessors. Right?
Using machine code. And then, you know, having, you know, learned, you know, c, you know, all these different languages, Pascal, basic, as a as a kid, really. You know, when I came to the PLC two and the slick one fifty, it was like or slick 100. It was really difficult because, like, everything was numeric. Like, it had all these numeric tables and yet to remember everything.
And while, you know, I could read the book and understand it was hard given that concept to electricians who would call in for help. And so, when the PLC five came out, one of the huge things they added was letters in front of the the the data table addresses. So t’s for timers, b for counters, n for ninja, c, you know, f for floating point, you know, and all these different things. And it just made i’s for inputs, o for outputs, and it just so made so things so much better. Plus, the PLC five was the, first PLC that Rockwell made that, there was no handheld program before it.
Now I never heard of one. I never heard of anybody using a t four or t five or t six to program them. I’ve never found any reference to that in any literature. Maybe you guys know something different. But for as far as I know, these units had to be programmed with a PC.
A lot of electricians didn’t have PCs. I remember arguing with my boss in the early nineties that it’s just give me a copy of Windows so I could, support, the Wintelligent series from ICOM, great software. But in any case, you know, and and that really moves the industry forward as well because there’s so much thing so much more you can do with a PC than you could do with a, you know, an old electronic handheld programmer. And, now if you take a close look here, I’m sure some of you see that one of these PLCs is not a PLC five. That’s right.
I stuck in. I don’t it must be in the garage, you know, my old studio at home. I don’t know where the five, I think it’s the five eleven is. But in any case, so I stuck in because it looks so similar, a mini PLC two. I don’t know.
Is this a five o is this a two sixteen or two seventeen? Two sixteen. So I used this a lot in the early nineties as well to support the gotta be careful here because they’re like dominoes. They can all fall over. But, to support the POC two and, you know, use an AI and, six two hundred.
But in any case, over here, you could see the original four. And, again, these these I’ve picked these up over the years, for the course I’m teaching on POC fives, which is still on which just is just getting started. But in any case, you can see over here the original PLC fives and then the next generations, I don’t have a five eighty. I know you’re somebody’s probably asking, hey. Do you get a five?
No. I mean, these I had some people some some old colleagues say, oh, they they must be, like, a million dollars each. It’s like, no. You can get them for a $100. The problem is the software.
The software, there’s no cheap way to get a official license. I wanna thank one of our viewers actually, tree, re how do I wanna put this? He he, gave me he transferred his software to me so I could support it here at the, at the automation school and the automation blog. So, thank you very much. And, we trade I I sent them a micro and some other stuff in in exchange, but, it was great to get that so I could support the, support the the students out there.
But in any case, that’s the problem. The the hardware is very inexpensive. I got a piles of seventeen seventy one I o cars I’ll go through in the course. They’re actually over here in a box that I’ll be going through. I even have the sidecar.
The infamous sidecar works so well, but was so expensive and got this continued. It’s way too early, I think. But, in any case, I like the sidecar. It’s a little, hardware wise, you know, you gotta use up that first slot, but and it’s just works so well. But in any case, the PLC fives, this is this is, some knowledge.
Right? And the PLC twos and threes. The this is knowledge that a lot of people, don’t have today. And so as people are retiring. Right?
You know, they may say, well, we have to throw it away because it’s nobody knows how to use it, but you don’t. These things are monsters. They’re awesome. They’re they’re granted, they don’t do coordinated motion and servos and all that. But, man, you can do a racks and racks and racks and racks of IO with these things, analog and digital, and they just they they they program in multiple languages unlike, you know, the slick fiber and micrologics.
And it’s just some of the history that will be lost and we’re already losing, you know, on some of the products that came out in the sixties and seventies and eighties. Right? And and now the nineties. Right? And so this is the type of stuff I would like to have on display and, have that a physical automation museum, which would have to be located somewhere near my office, you know, unless we’ve raised a lot of money where we could afford someplace, touristy.
You know, maybe next next to one of the big theme packs, theme parks or something. But in any case, I do think, a lot of you out there too have some great stuff that you would like to donate. And, I know a lot of people are like, no. No. No.
Get sell it on eBay. You know, make a quick buck. And, you know, I guess if if the automation museum doesn’t take off, if we don’t raise enough money, instead of donating a lot of this hardware, I will end up just, selling it on eBay. Right? But I much rather donate it to a nonprofit and, have them set up.
And not only be set up so and have the story there, but also how to use them. Like, we’d, like, have a course. It’s like, I’ll even donate my time to teach how to use this old stuff, the stuff I know. Right? So we were talking about one of the products I shared.
Somebody sent in a PCMK card, and, I get just got a ton of stories about that that I’d love to share with, with the world, and I’m sure you guys do too. It would be great to have, have be able to do that. But in any case, to start, to know if there’s enough interest out there, I got a 100,000 followers. We’re looking to raise $3,000 for phase one so we can get that five zero one three c, set up and get a a basic website set up so we can see if we can go to the next level and get some corporate sponsors. But if we can’t do that, we can’t do that.
But if there’s enough of you out there, enough, you know, what is, you know, if we get the 3,000 of the 100,000 followers out there to give $1 each, then it should be a no brainer. But if there’s no interest, there’s no interest. Right? But I think it would be really cool to be able to, pass on the knowledge and really understanding how it all gets started. Right?
And so people understand the journey. You know, it’s kinda like you go to like, we have the Hancock Shaker Village down here where they show how things were done in the old days. Right? And they got, you know, the forges and, you know, everything’s, you know, horsepower. And, I think it would be great to do that with automation as well.
But with that said, that’s all I have. So if you’re interested, give sengo.com forward /automationmuseum. This will be part of a bigger tech, technology museum that also have some computers in it. It won’t be focused on computers. It’s gonna be focused on automation.
But, you know, I got a lot of stuff I wanna donate, so we can have some little history of computers there as well, maybe history of some other technology too, you know, like RS two thirty two. I mean, how how long do we use that USB? You know, just so much, you know, Ethernet. You’re right. How about, you know and base I know so many people need basic Ethernet training.
So, in any case, I kinda think that they go hand in hand. But, with that, I’m gonna leave the video there. This is my first fundraiser video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I hope you’ll take some interest in helping us launch the Automation Museum, and I’m not gonna accept any more any more, hardware until we get the 505013 c set up so I can actually send people receipts for whatever the going value is.
So you can actually if you’re donating so I know some people can’t accept the the, they can’t donate on pot on behalf of themselves. But in any case, I know large companies too. If a large company has, like, three or four old trade show demos, a lot of times they throw them away. It’s like, don’t throw them away. What are you doing?
I in my old job, I would get some, and I would use them at the old shop. And, it’s like, don’t why would you throw that stuff away? Well, it’s old stuff, but, gee, it’s there’s millions of them installed all over the place. So don’t anyways, I just wanna wish you guys I hope you enjoyed this video. I wanna wish you all a great weekend, and please consider, donating.
If you have a few extra bucks, please consider donating something over at givesendgo.com/automationmuseum. And with that, I wanna thank you all for listening. And until next time, my friends, peace.
Show Notes:Special thanks to everyone who already donated! You can see the current status of our fundraiser at:* https://www.givesendgo.com/automationmuseum.
Until next time, Peace ✌️
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Happy Monday! We start the week off with a look at our top Automation Content from last week, and then take a look at what we have planned for the coming weeks in today’s episode of the #WhatsNewInAutomation:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation
Watch the Show on release at ~2:15pm ET, or the replay anytime:
Listen to What’s New:
Links:– coming soon…
This week’s content schedule (videos typically available by 1pm ET):Monday:– What’s New (this show) livestream, 12:00pm ETWednesday:– The Automation Show* and Minute episodes (2~4 per mo.)and / or
– The Automation Podcast^ (pre-recorded,) 3:30pm ETplus
– Office Hours for TAS Customers (See L1.11,) Teams Meet 6:00-7:00pm ETFriday:– Question of the Week livestream, ~12:00pm ET– Member’s Q & A or After Show, ~12:05pm ET– – For Members & Students (Lesson 1.10) * Denotes a member only livestream
^ The video edition of unsponsored episodes is released to members only (the audio edition of The Automation Podcast is always public)
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today!You can unlock our member only content for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making our work possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
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Happy Monday! We start the week off with a look at the top Automation News from last week, and then take a look at what we have planned for this week in this morning’s episode of the #WhatsNewInAutomation:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationScheduling Note for 11/04/24: As we enter the 2024 Holiday Season the pace of our live-streaming shows may be reduced to allow the completion of projects which must be done before January 1st, 2025.
Watch the Show Live at ~12:00pm ET, or the replay afterwards:
Listen to What’s New:
Links to all the top stories:– https://www.advantech.com/en/resources/news/advantech-hminavi-innovative-open-hmi-software-for-advanced-industrial-automation
– https://www.datalogic.com/eng/mobile-computers/memor-30-35-pd-1091.html
– https://www.br-automation.com/en-us/news/blog/twenty-years-and-still-going-strong/
– https://blog.opto22.com/optoblog/fostering-a-local-manufacturing-community
– https://www.us.endress.com/en/press-center/news-and-press-releases/secure-product-development
– https://www.pepperl-fuchs.com/brazil/pt/53424.htm
– https://www.bannerengineering.com/us/en/company/new-products/r50c-motor-driven-roller-controller.html
– https://www.turck.de/en/product-news-2860_update-offers-fieldbus-integration-and-enhanced-diagnostics-49673.php
– https://www.turck.de/en/product-news-2860_safety-multiprotocol-modules-with-safe-link-49684.php
– https://esd.eu/en/news/fully-compatible-the-new-generation-of-our-profinet-gateways
– https://akribis-sys.com/resources/blog/our-latest-motors-deliver-high-performance-in-compact-sizes-for-challenging-industries/
– https://theautomationblog.com/category/news/show/
– https://theautomationschool.com/whats-new-in-school-for-april-5-2024/
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationShow
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationPodcast
– https://theautomationblog.com/QA
– https://theautomationblog.com/content-schedule/
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow/
– https://theautomationblog.com/join
– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
This week’s content schedule (videos typically available by 1pm ET):Scheduling Note for 11/04/24: As we enter the 2024 Holiday Season the pace of our live-streaming shows may be reduced to allow the completion of projects which must be done before January 1st, 2025.Monday:– What’s New (this show) livestream, 12:00pm ETTuesday:– Automation News Headlines livestream, ~12:00pm ET– Automation News Show livestream, ~12:05pm ETWednesday:– The Automation Show and Minute episodes (2~4 per mo.)– The Automation Podcast^ (pre-recorded,) 3:30pm ETThursday:– Automation News Headlines livestream, ~12:00pm ET– Automation News Show livestream, ~12:05pm ETFriday:– Question of the Week livestream, ~12:00pm ET– Q & A livestream, ~12:05pm ET– – For Members & Students (Lesson 1.10) – Office Hours for Students (Lesson 1.11,) MSTeams Meeting ~12:35-1:30pm ET Denotes a member only livestream
^ The video edition of unsponsored episodes is released to members only (the audio edition of The Automation Podcast is always public)
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today!You can unlock our member only content for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making our work possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
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Happy Monday! We start the week off with a look at the top Automation News from last week, and then take a look at what we have planned for this week in this morning’s episode of the #WhatsNewInAutomation:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation
Watch the Show Live at ~12:00pm ET, or the replay afterwards:
Listen to What’s New:
Links to all the top stories: – https://www.pilz.com/en-US/company/press/messages/articles/241318″
– https://www.pepperl-fuchs.com/usa/en/53122.htm”
– https://us.mitsubishielectric.com/fa/en/news-and-events/2024/october/melfa-rv12crl/”
– https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/blog/unlock-the-power-of-the-most-advanced-hmi-with-aveva-intouch-hmi/”
– https://www.advantech.com/en/resources/news/advantech-unveils-arm%C2%AE-systemready-ir-certified-tpc-100w-series-panel-pc-set-to-revolutionize-industrial-iot”
– https://www.advantech.com/en/resources/news/77a2291c-6128-46db-8841-9b75af759b06″
– https://www.cincoze.com/en/bulletin_info.php?id=211″
– https://www.turck.us/en/product-news-2860_new-smart-ip67-power-supplies-49648.php”
– https://content2.smcetech.com/pdf/ES100-167-PFUW.pdf”
– https://content2.smcetech.com/pdf/es20-269-CM2-Z1.pdf”
– https://content2.smcetech.com/pdf/ES100-154-EQFS-EQY.pdf”
– https://theautomationblog.com/category/news/show/”
– https://theautomationschool.com/whats-new-in-school-for-april-5-2024/”
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationShow”
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationPodcast”
– https://theautomationblog.com/QA”
– https://theautomationblog.com/content-schedule/”
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow/”
– https://theautomationblog.com/join”
– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join”
This week’s content schedule (videos typically available by 1pm ET):Monday:– What’s New (this show) livestream, 12:00pm ETTuesday:– Automation News Show livestream, ~12:00pm ET– Automation News Headlines livestream, ~12:30pm ETWednesday:– The Automation Show and Minute episodes (2~4 per mo.)– The Automation Podcast^ (pre-recorded,) 3:30pm ETThursday:– Automation News Show livestream, ~12:00pm ET– Automation News Headlines livestream, ~12:30pm ETFriday:– Q & A livestream, ~12:00pm ET– – For Members & Students (Lesson 1.10) – Question of the Week livestream, ~12:30pm ET– Office Hours for Students (Lesson 1.11,) MSTeams Meeting ~12:35-1:30pm ET Denotes a member only livestream
^ The video edition of unsponsored episodes is released to members only (the audio edition of The Automation Podcast is always public)
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today!You can unlock our member only content for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making our work possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content 🙂
Shawn M Tierney
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Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You’ll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Happy Monday! We start the week off with a look at the top Automation News from last week, and then take a look at what we have planned for this week in this morning’s episode of the #WhatsNewInAutomation:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation
Watch the Show Live at ~12:05pm ET, or the replay afterwards:
Listen to What’s New:
Links to last week’s top stories: – https://www.hms-networks.com/news/news-details/15-10-2024-2962893-HMS-Networks-changes-organization-to-strengthen-customer-focus-and-cross-selling
– https://www.balluff.com/en-us/news/rapid-inductive-position-measuring-system
– https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/press-releases/factorytalk-optix-2024.html
– https://www.onlogic.com/about/news/industrial-ai-partners/
– https://www.pepperl-fuchs.com/usa/en/53354.htm
– https://www.pepperl-fuchs.com/usa/en/51576.htm
– https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=63ed198d215b50f88a9438f73&id=aaa3d13fb9
– https://theautomationblog.com/2024-audience-choice-poll-1/
– https://theautomationblog.com/2024-audience-choice-poll-2/
– https://theautomationblog.com/2024-audience-choice-poll-3/
– https://theautomationblog.com/category/news/show/
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationShow
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationPodcast
– https://theautomationblog.com/QA
– https://theautomationschool.com/whats-new-in-school-for-april-5-2024/
– https://theautomationblog.com/content-schedule/
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow/
– https://theautomationblog.com/join
– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
This week’s content schedule (videos typically available by 1pm ET):Monday:– What’s New (this show) livestream, 12:05pm ETTuesday:– Automation News Show livestream, ~12:05pm ET– Automation News Headlines livestream, ~12:30pm ETWednesday:– The Automation Show and Minute episodes (2~4 per mo.)– The Automation Podcast^ (pre-recorded,) 3:30pm ETThursday:– Automation News Show livestream, ~12:05pm ET– Automation News Headlines livestream, ~12:30pm ETFriday:– Q & A livestream, ~12:05pm ET– – For Members & Students (Lesson 1.10) – Question of the Week livestream, ~12:30pm ET– Office Hours for Students (Lesson 1.11,) MSTeams Meeting ~12:35-1:30pm ET Denotes a member only livestream
^ The video edition of unsponsored episodes is released to members only (the audio edition of The Automation Podcast is always public)
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today!You can unlock our member only content for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making our work possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content 🙂
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You’ll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Happy Monday! We start the week off with a look at the top Automation News from last week, and then take a look at what we have planned for this week in this morning’s episode of the #WhatsNewInAutomation:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation
Watch the Show Live at ~8:30am ET, or the replay afterwards:
Listen to What’s New:
Links to last week’s top stories:– https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/press-releases/stratix-4300-wireless.html
– https://industrial.softing.com/us/news/press-releases/news-details/softing-industrial-presents-ethernet-apl-field-switch-at-the-sps-2024-in-nuremberg.html
– https://www.phoenixcontact.com/explore/page/gvy1zj6?_realm=us&_locale=en-US
– https://www.turck.de/en/product-news-2860_compact-switches-for-the-control-cabinet-48798.php
– https://www.advantech.com/en/resources/news/advantech-launches-the-iec62443-certification-service
– https://www.kollmorgen.com/en-us/company/press-releases/2024/kollmorgen-announces-its-next-generation-pcmm2g-controller
– https://www.baumer.com/us/en/all-in-one-housing-baumer-launches-compact-gige-vision-camera-/n/news-baumer-launches-compact-gige-vision-camera-ix-series
– https://www.leuze.com/en-us/products/industrial-image-processing/vision-sensors/simple-vision-sensors-for-presence-detection-measuring-counting-code-reading-print-verification
– https://www.moxa.com/en/about-us/news-events/news/2024/moxa-launches-rugged-mpc-3000-family-panel-computers
– https://premioinc.com/blogs/press-kits/premio-debuts-its-13th-gen-intel-x86-super-rugged-sff-computer-at-embedded-world-north-america-2024
– https://www.balluff.com/en-us/news/radial-mounting-magnetostrictive-sensors
– https://theautomationblog.com/category/news/show/
– https://theautomationschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/TheAutomationSchool-IALearningCenter-240829-scaled.jpg
– https://theautomationschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_1671.jpg
– https://theautomationschool.com/courses/100-slc1/
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationShow
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationPodcast
– https://theautomationblog.com/QA
– https://theautomationblog.com/Museum2
– https://theautomationblog.com/content-schedule/
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow/
– https://theautomationblog.com/join
– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
This week’s content schedule (videos typically available by 9am ET):Monday:– What’s New (this show) livestreamTuesday:– The Automation News & Headlines livestreams– The Automation Podcast (3:30pm ET weekly release)Wednesday:– The Automation Show and Minute episodes (2~4 per mo.)Thursday:– The Automation News & Headlines livestreams– The Automation Podcast (3:30pm ET weekly release)Friday:– Q & A livestream (Members & Students Lesson 1.10,) 8:30am ET – Question of the Week livestream ~9:00am ET– Office Hours for Students (Lesson 1.11,) MS Teams Meeting – 9:30-10:30am ET
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today!You can unlock our member only content for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making our work possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content 🙂
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Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You’ll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Happy Monday! We start the week off with a look at the top Automation News from last week, and then take a look at what we have planned for this week in this morning’s episode of the #WhatsNewInAutomation:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation
Watch the Show Live at ~8am ET, or the replay afterwards:
Listen to What’s New:
Links to last week’s top stories:– https://theautomationschool.com/whats-new-in-school-for-april-5-2024/
– https://theautomationblog.com/moxa-wifi-6-ap-and-clients/
– https://theautomationblog.com/trends-in-industrial-automation-2024/
– https://theautomationblog.com/content-schedule/
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow/
– https://theautomationblog.com/join
– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
This week’s content schedule (videos typically available by 9am ET):Monday:– What’s New (this show) livestreamTuesday:– The Automation News & Headlines livestreams– The Automation Podcast (3:30pm ET weekly release)Wednesday:– The Automation Show and Minute episodes (2~4 per mo.)Thursday:– The Automation News & Headlines livestreams– The Automation Podcast (3:30pm ET weekly release)Friday:– Q & A livestream (Members & Students Lesson 1.10,) 8:30am ET – Question of the Week livestream ~9:00am ET– Office Hours for Students (Lesson 1.11,) MS Teams Meeting – 9:30-10:30am ET
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today!You can unlock our member only content for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making our work possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content 🙂
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Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning’s Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: Below you will find the “public” headlines show, followed by our “member’s only” news show (today’s episodes: R65 & N245)
To unlock access to the full show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.
Watch the Headlines News Show:
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Links to today’s headlines :
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow
– https://new.abb.com/news/detail/119455/abb-launches-groundbreaking-ultra-accuracy-for-gofa-cobots
– https://www.phoenixcontact.com/explore/page/wep628v?_realm=us&_locale=en-US
– https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/blogs/partner-nokia-private-5g.html
– https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/109972730/sales-release-of-the-revised-communications-modules-for-serial-connections-as-well-as-for-uss-and-modbus-rtu-in-the-s7-1500-(cm-ptp-modules-with-fw-v2-0)-?dti=0&lc=en-US
– https://cache.industry.siemens.com/dl/files/093/59057093/att_896038/v2/s71500_cm_ptp_function_manual_en-US_en-US.pdf
– https://cache.industry.siemens.com/dl/files/390/59057390/att_1299818/v1/s71500_cm_ptp_rs422-485_ba_hf_manual_en-US_en-US.pdf
– https://press.festo.com/en-US/technologies-and-products-1/festo-introduces-an-innovative-stepper-motor-for-its-cmmt-st-multi-protocol-dc-servo-drive
– https://www.festo.com/us/en/a/8163946/?q=CMMt-ST%7E%3AfestoSortOrderScored&fwacid=ea6e562b18940552
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow
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– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Members will find all of the links covered on today’s directly under the Automation News Show video.If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.And if you’re not a member but would like to unlock the full news show and news links, you can become a member for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making these news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
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Happy Monday Morning! We start the week off with a look at the top Automation News from last week, and then take a look at what we have planned for this week in this morning’s episode of the #WhatsNewInAutomation:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation
Watch the Show Live at ~8am ET, or the replay afterwards:
Listen to What’s New:
Links to last week’s top stories: – https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/109794456/delivery-release-tia-portal-cloud-v4-6-with-tia-portal-v19?dti=0&lc=en-US
– https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/press-releases/rockwell-automation-revolutionizes-safety-with-launch-of-logix-sis.html
– https://www.keyence.com/products/controls/plc-building-block-type/kv-x/
– https://www.pepperl-fuchs.com/usa/en/52998.htm
– https://www.baumer.com/us/en/baumer-launches-ultrasonic-sensor-uf200/n/news-ultrasonic-sensor-uf200
– https://www.bannerengineering.com/us/en/company/new-products/s15l-pro-discrete-in-line-indicator-.html
– https://www.bihl-wiedemann.de/us/company/news/newsletter/asi-5-counter-modules-even-more-functions-and-an-expanded-product-portfolio-1124
– https://www.balluff.com/en-us/news/the-bmf-t-slot-magnetic-sensor
– https://theautomationblog.com/News/
– https://theautomationschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/TheAutomationSchool-IALearningCenter-240829-scaled.jpg
– https://theautomationschool.com/
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationShow
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationPodcast
– https://theautomationblog.com/QA
– https://theautomationblog.com/Museum
– https://theautomationblog.com/content-schedule/
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow/
– https://theautomationblog.com/join
– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
This week’s content schedule (videos typically available by 9am ET):Monday:– What’s New (this show) livestreamTuesday:– The Automation News & Headlines livestreams– The Automation Podcast (3:30pm ET weekly release)Wednesday:– The Automation Show and Minute episodes (2~4 per mo.)Thursday:– The Automation News & Headlines livestreams– The Automation Podcast (3:30pm ET weekly release)Friday:– Q & A livestream (Members & Students Lesson 1.10,) 8:30am ET – Question of the Week livestream ~9:00am ET– Office Hours for Students (Lesson 1.11,) MS Teams Meeting – 9:30-10:30am ET
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today!You can unlock our member only content for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making our work possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
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Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning’s Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: Below you will find the “public” headlines show, followed by our “member’s only” news show (today’s episodes: R64 & N244)
To unlock access to the full show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.
Watch the Headlines News Show:
Listen to the Headlines News Show:
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Note: The below Automation News Show is a member/supporter only perk. Learn more about our membership/supporter options here.
Links to today’s headlines :
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow
– https://www.emerson.com/en-us/news/2024/09-emerson-to-help-drive-greater-industrial-edge-interoperability
– https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/press-releases/PowerFlex-755TS-7A-VFD.html
– https://content2.smcetech.com/pdf/es20-270C.pdf
– https://content2.smcetech.com/pdf/ES70-65-JSXH-X1.pdf
– https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/blogs/eco-sag-protection.html
– https://www.pilz.com/en-US/products/sensor-technology/safety-switches/psenini-inductive-safety-switch
– https://support.industry.siemens.com/dl/files/915/109974915/att_1298778/v1/SIMATIC_RF1100_Starterkit_.pdf
– https://cache.industry.siemens.com/dl/files/360/109777360/att_1298946/v1/SITOP_SIMATIC-IPC_en.pdf
– https://assets.omron.com/m/6593086d2acc3dd8/original/Sysmac-Family-Brochure.pdf
– https://literature.rockwellautomation.com/idc/groups/literature/documents/qr/9324-qr001_-en-p.pdf
– https://theautomationblog.com/join
– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Members will find all of the links covered on today’s directly under the Automation News Show video.If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.And if you’re not a member but would like to unlock the full news show and news links, you can become a member for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making these news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
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Happy Monday Morning! We start the week off with a look at the top Automation News from last week, and then take a look at what we have planned for this week in this morning’s episode of the #WhatsNewInAutomation:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomation
Watch the Show Live at ~8am ET, or the replay afterwards:
Listen to What’s New:
Links to last week’s top stories: – https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/109794456/delivery-release-tia-portal-cloud-v4-6-with-tia-portal-v19?dti=0&lc=en-US
– https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/press-releases/rockwell-automation-revolutionizes-safety-with-launch-of-logix-sis.html
– https://www.keyence.com/products/controls/plc-building-block-type/kv-x/
– https://www.pepperl-fuchs.com/usa/en/52998.htm
– https://www.baumer.com/us/en/baumer-launches-ultrasonic-sensor-uf200/n/news-ultrasonic-sensor-uf200
– https://www.bannerengineering.com/us/en/company/new-products/s15l-pro-discrete-in-line-indicator-.html
– https://www.bihl-wiedemann.de/us/company/news/newsletter/asi-5-counter-modules-even-more-functions-and-an-expanded-product-portfolio-1124
– https://www.balluff.com/en-us/news/the-bmf-t-slot-magnetic-sensor
– https://theautomationblog.com/category/news/show/
– https://theautomationschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/TheAutomationSchool-IALearningCenter-240829-scaled.jpg
– https://theautomationschool.com/
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationShow
– https://theautomationblog.com/TheAutomationPodcast
– https://theautomationblog.com/QA
– https://theautomationblog.com/Museum
– https://theautomationblog.com/content-schedule/
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow/
– https://theautomationblog.com/join
– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
This week’s content schedule (videos typically available by 9am ET):Monday:– What’s New (this show) livestreamTuesday:– The Automation News & Headlines livestreams– The Automation Podcast (3:30pm ET weekly release)Wednesday:– The Automation Show and Minute episodes (2~4 per mo.)Thursday:– The Automation News & Headlines livestreams– The Automation Podcast (3:30pm ET weekly release)Friday:– Q & A livestream (Members & Students Lesson 1.10,) 8:30am ET – Question of the Week livestream ~9:00am ET– Office Hours for Students (Lesson 1.11,) MS Teams Meeting – 9:30-10:30am ET
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today!You can unlock our member only content for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making our work possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show.
Shawn M Tierney
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Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning’s Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: Below you will find the “public” headlines show, followed by our “member’s only” news show (today’s episodes: R63 & N243)
To unlock access to the full show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.
Watch the Headlines News Show:
Listen to the Headlines News Show:
Watch the Full News Show:
Note: The below Automation News Show is a member/supporter only perk. Learn more about our membership/supporter options here.
Links to today’s headlines :
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow
– https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/press-releases/rockwell-automation-revolutionizes-safety-with-launch-of-logix-sis.html
– https://www.emerson.com/en-us/news/2024/09-new-tescom-agi-br-series-flushing-ring
– https://www.kuka.com/en-us/company/press/news/2024/09/kuka-establishes-digital-segment
– https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/company/news-insights/news-releases/2024/eaton-to-showcase-technologiees-for-hydrogen-powered-commercial-vehicles-at-iia-transportation-2024.html
– https://www.pilz.com/en-US/products/industry/hydrogen
– https://automation.omron.com/en/us/blog/improving-safety-and-efficiency-with-door-switch-technology
– https://www.bannerengineering.com/us/en/company/new-products/s15l-pro-discrete-in-line-indicator-.html
– https://www.keyence.com/products/barcode/barcode-readers/st/
– https://www.balluff.com/en-us/news/the-bmf-t-slot-magnetic-sensor
– https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=63ed198d215b50f88a9438f73&id=7f76f65649
– https://www.cincoze.com/en/bulletin_info.php?id=208
– https://theautomationschool.com/
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Members will find all of the links covered on today’s directly under the Automation News Show video.If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.And if you’re not a member but would like to unlock the full news show and news links, you can become a member for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making these news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show.
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning’s Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: Below you will find the “public” headlines show, followed by our “member’s only” news show (today’s episodes: R62 & N242)
To unlock access to the full show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.
Watch the Headlines News Show:
Listen to the Headlines News Show:
Watch the Full News Show:
Note: The below Automation News Show is a member/supporter only perk. Learn more about our membership/supporter options here.
Links to today’s headlines :
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow
– https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/109794456/delivery-release-tia-portal-cloud-v4-6-with-tia-portal-v19?dti=0&lc=en-US
– https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/press-releases/pharmasuite-1102-release.html
– https://www.yokogawa.com/us/news/press-releases/2024/2024-09-03/
– https://www.baumer.com/us/en/baumer-acquires-flow-meter-manufacturer-manas-microsystems/n/Baumer-acquires-flow-meter-manufacturer-Manas-Microsystems
– https://www.pepperl-fuchs.com/usa/en/52998.htm
– https://www.keyence.com/products/controls/plc-building-block-type/kv-x/
– https://www.advantech.com/en/resources/news/uno-148-v2-with-embedded-mxm-module
– https://www.baumer.com/us/en/baumer-launches-ultrasonic-sensor-uf200/n/news-ultrasonic-sensor-uf200
– https://www.bihl-wiedemann.de/us/company/news/newsletter/asi-5-counter-modules-even-more-functions-and-an-expanded-product-portfolio-1124
– https://www.orientalmotor.com/company/pr/press-release-09-06-2024_cvd-5-phase-fully-closed-loop-stepper-motor-driver.html
– https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/109974188/simatic-ipc-bx-32a-and-simatic-ipc-px-32a-2nd-delivery-step-now-available?dti=0&lc=en-US
– https://profinews.com/2024/09/new-products-september-2024/
– https://theautomationschool.com/
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Members will find all of the links covered on today’s directly under the Automation News Show video.If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.And if you’re not a member but would like to unlock the full news show and news links, you can become a member for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making these news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show.
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning’s Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: Below you will find the “public” headlines show, followed by our “member’s only” news show (today’s episodes: R60 & N241)
To unlock access to the full show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.
Watch the Headlines News Show:
Listen to the Headlines News Show:
Watch the Full News Show:
Note: The below Automation News Show is a member/supporter only perk. Learn more about our membership/supporter options here.
Links to today’s headlines :
– https://theautomationblog.com/follow
– https://www.us.endress.com/en/press-center/news-and-press-releases/Endress-Hauser-new-building-renovations
– https://inductiveautomation.com/news/inductive-automations-alliance-partner-program-continues-to-grow
– https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/109973527/delivery-release-of-the-fail-safe-analog-input-module-s7-1500-et-200mp-f-ai-8xi-0(4)-20ma-(6es7536-1mf00-0ab0)-with-hart-functionality-?dti=0&lc=en-US
– https://www.bannerengineering.com/us/en/company/new-products/r95-io-junction-block.html
– https://www.bannerengineering.com/us/en/company/new-products/m23-cordsets.html
– https://www.moxa.com/en/about-us/news-events/news/2024/moxa-switches-world-first-tsn-component-certification
– https://www.kuka.com/en-us/company/press/news/2024/06/kr-scara-applications
– https://www.hms-networks.com/news/news-details/02-09-2024-hms-networks-launches-the-anybus-defender-industrial-security-appliances-lineup
– https://www.leuze.com/en-us/products/switching-sensors/inductive-switches
– https://www.leuze.com/en-us/products/switching-sensors/optical-sensors
– https://www.nord.com/us/company/news-archives/articles/news_202624.jsp
– https://theautomationblog.com/join
– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Members will find all of the links covered on today’s directly under the Automation News Show video.If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.And if you’re not a member but would like to unlock the full news show and news links, you can become a member for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making these news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show.
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning’s Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: Below you will find the “public” headlines show, followed by our “member’s only” news show (today’s episodes: R60 & N241)
To unlock access to the full show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.
Watch the Headlines News Show:
Listen to the Headlines News Show:
Watch the Full News Show:
Note: The below Automation News Show is a member/supporter only perk. Learn more about our membership/supporter options here.
Links to today’s headlines :
– https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/news/press-releases/rockwell-automation-opens-registration-to-automation-fair-2024.html
– https://new.abb.com/news/detail/118693/abb-to-acquire-fodisch-group-strengthening-global-leadership-in-continuous-emission-monitoring
– https://amdt.com/en/news-press/release-versiondog-992
– https://www.copia.io/blog/product-launch-devicelink-integration-with-siemens-step-7-5-x-software
– https://www.cincoze.com/en/bulletin_info.php?id=207
– https://www.advantech.com/en/resources/news/uno-148-v2-with-embedded-mxm-module
– https://www.kollmorgen.com/en-us/company/press-releases/2024/kollmorgen-autonomous-mobile-solutions-ams-add-vda-5050-support-its?_gl=11knzvz9_upMQ.._gaODA5NjQ2NDM1LjE3MjQ3NDg2ODU._ga_ZND46KNF87*MTcyNDc0ODY4NC4xLjAuMTcyNDc0ODY4NC4wLjAuMTgxNzUxMDcwOA..
– https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/article/207
– https://theautomationschool.com/
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Members will find all of the links covered on today’s directly under the Automation News Show video.If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.And if you’re not a member but would like to unlock the full news show and news links, you can become a member for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making these news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show.
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning’s Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: Below you will find the “public” headlines show, followed by our “member’s only” news show (today’s episodes: R59 & N240)
To unlock access to the full show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.
Watch the Headlines News Show:
Listen to the Headlines News Show:
Watch the Full News Show:
Note: The below Automation News Show is a member/supporter only perk. Learn more about our membership/supporter options here.
Links to today’s headlines :
– https://www.emerson.com/en-us/news/2024/08-new-rosemount-802-wireless-multi-discrete-input-or-output-transmitter
– https://inductiveautomation.com/blog/ignition-8143-gateway-trial-status-indicator-mitsubishi-driver-update-new-oauth2-oidc-response-mode
– https://www.hms-networks.com/news/news-details/22-08-2024-intesis-700-series-a-revolutionary-gateway-concept
– https://www.advantech.com/en/resources/news/advantech-unveils-sky-620v3-with-6-nvidia-l40s-gpus-for-ai-digital-twin
– https://www.hilscher.com/company/news/hilscher-releases-new-netx-90-based-pc-card-in-m2-format-with-b-m-key
– https://www.us.endress.com/en/press-center/news-and-press-releases/endress-hauser-flowmeters-receive-epa-approval
– https://blog.opto22.com/optoblog/modern-edge-devices-bring-harmony-to-disjointed-protocols
– https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/can-bus-simple-intro-tutorial
– https://theautomationblog.com/join
– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Members will find all of the links covered on today’s directly under the Automation News Show video.If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.And if you’re not a member but would like to unlock the full news show and news links, you can become a member for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making these news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show.
Shawn M Tierney
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Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning’s Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: Below you will find the “public” headlines show, followed by our “member’s only” news show (today’s episodes: R58 & N239)
To unlock access to the full show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.
Watch the Headlines News Show:
Listen to the Headlines News Show:
Note: The below Automation News Show is a member/supporter only perk. Learn more about our membership/supporter options here.
Here are today’s top headlines :
– https://www.motoman.com/en-us/about/media-center/news/august-2024/yaskawa-announces-hq-expansion
– https://www.automation.com/en-us/articles/august-2024/process-technology-sick-endress-hauser-partnership
– https://www.turck.de/en/product-news-2860_ethernet-multiprotocol-now-also-with-cclink-48899.php
– https://www.turck.de/en/product-news-2860_miniature-photoelectric-sensors-with-three-meter-range-48909.php
– https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=63ed198d215b50f88a9438f73&id=1f47229efc
– https://www.advantech.com/en/resources/news/advantech-introduces-the-ita-580g-ai-driven-rolling-stock-system
– https://www.copia.io/blog/leveraging-industrial-devops-for-operational-resilience
– https://theautomationschool.com/
– https://theautomationblog.com/join
– https://www.youtube.com/@insightsia/join
Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! Members will find all of the links covered on today’s directly under the Automation News Show video.If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like their products to appear on our shows can learn about options to sponsor and underwrite our work using this link.And if you’re not a member but would like to unlock the full news show and news links, you can become a member for $10 per month at TheAutomationBlog.com/join, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join.Huge thanks to all our members for making these news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
If you enjoy this episode please give it a Like, and consider Sharing as this is the best way for us to find new guests to come on the show.
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Eliminate commercials and gain access to my weekly full length hands-on, news, and Q&A sessions by becoming a member at The Automation Blog or on YouTube. You'll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning’s Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: Below you will find the “public” headlines show, followed by our “member’s only” news show (today’s episodes: R57 & N238)
To unlock access to the full show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.
Watch the Headlines News Show:
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Get the latest Industrial Automation #News from the all of the major vendors in this morning’s Automation News Shows from #TheAutomationBlog:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: Below you will find the “public” headlines show, followed by our “member’s only” news show (today’s episodes: R55 & N236)
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All the today’s top Industrial Automation News covered in this morning’s episode of the #AutomationNewsHeadlines:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Headlines show covers the day’s top headlines in Industrial Automation. To unlock access to our full length Automation News Show, you can become a member / subscriber of our content for just $10 a month. To learn more about supporting our work through our membership program, click here.
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All the today’s top Industrial Automation Headlines covered in this morning’s episode of the #AutomationNewsRoundup:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the today’s top Industrial Automation Headlines covered in this morning’s episode of the #AutomationNewsRoundup:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the today’s top Industrial Automation Headlines covered in this morning’s episode of the #AutomationNewsRoundup:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the today’s top Industrial Automation Headlines covered in this morning’s episode of the #AutomationNewsRoundup:#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.#Automation #IndustrialAutomation #InsightsInAutomationNote: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes: fRrFWaUKS5egS7U9UAXaThanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes: fRrFWaUKS5egS7U9UAXaThanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today’s news can be found on today’s episode of the Automation Morning Show. If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.And if you’d like to unlock the full news show and daily links, you can become a member for $2.50 per week at TheAutomationBlog.com/memberships, or at YouTube.com/InsightsInAutomation/Join, or at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our members for making the full news show possible!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video. The Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!
Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video as the Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!
Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: The Automation News Roundup has replaced the full length Automation Morning Show as our daily free news video as the Automation Morning Show is now a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: We are still producing the longer Automation Morning Show as a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: We are still producing the longer Automation Morning Show as a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Shawn M Tierney
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: We are still producing the longer Automation Morning Show as a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Shawn M Tierney
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: We are still producing the longer Automation Morning Show as a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Shawn M Tierney
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: We are still producing the longer Automation Morning Show as a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Shawn M Tierney
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: We are still producing the longer Automation Morning Show as a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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Shawn M Tierney
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: We are still producing the longer Automation Morning Show as a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: We are still producing the longer Automation Morning Show, but due to the expense of producing that show it has now become a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All the top industrial automation headlines covered in today’s episode of the Automation News Roundup.Note: We are still producing the longer Automation Morning Show, but due to the expense of producing that show it has now become a member only perk. Learn more about our membership options here.
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All of today’s industrial automation news covered in this edition of the Automation Morning Show.Note: Due to the time and expense it takes to produce this show it has now become a member/supporter only perk. Learn more about our membership/supporter options here.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
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All of today’s industrial automation news covered in this edition of the Automation Morning Show.Note: We are currently looking for companies interested in sponsoring our show. If your company is interested, you can learn about those sponsorship options here.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
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We cover all of today’s industrial automation news in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Note: We are currently looking for companies interested in sponsoring our show. If your company is interested, you can learn about those sponsorship options here.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
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We cover all of today’s industrial automation news in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Note: We are currently looking for companies interested in sponsoring our show. If your company is interested, you can learn about those sponsorship options here.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today’s News: Rockwell Milwaukee First To Achieve 62443-3-3 Certification, Endress+Hauser Cap Off 70th, Siemens Releases New SITOP Ex portfolio, Softing Launching edgeGate, Emerson’s New DeltaV Workflow Management, Anybus NextGen Communicator, Schneider Talks Margo, Rockwell on IT/OT Convergence, Pilz on IO-Link Safety, Premio on Edge Computing, Mettler Toledo on Improving Process Performance, Boston Dynamics introduces Electric Atlas and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Note: We are currently looking for companies interested in sponsoring our show. If your company is interested, you can learn about those sponsorship options here.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today’s News: Beckhoff on Plastic Packaging, Kollmorgen expands AKD2G Comms, New IO-Link, Profinet, and Omlox products, PROFINET Security Update, Rockwell on Sustainability, Automation Direct Newsletter, Emerson on Wireless Vibration Monitoring, Schneider’s Modicon M1730, the legacy of the Datapoint 2200 and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Note: We are currently looking for companies interested in sponsoring our show. If your company is interested, you can learn about those sponsorship options here.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today’s News: Kollmorgen introduces NDC Flex, Siemens talks PROFINET in Ex zone, Schneider on DaaS, Balluff enhances IDENT Code Reader, Banner’s SI-GL42 Guard Locking Safety Switch, SMC’s Stainless Steel Speed Controller, Endress Hauser on Flowmeters for Life Sciences, Schneider’s Altivar Soft Starters, Siemens ET 200SP Open Controller, Emerson’s Rosemount 802 Wireless I/O Transmitter, Rockwell’s FLEXHA 5000 I/O, Weekly Robot Video Roundup and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Note: We hope to keep The Automation Morning Show as a daily series, but this will depend on if we are able to cover our costs to produce the show via company or viewer sponsorships. Companies interested in sponsoring our show can learn about those sponsorship options here. Viewer who’d like to sponsor our show can learn more about supporting our work here.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today’s News: Siemens releases WiFi 6 Starter Pack, Inductive releases Ignition 8.1.39, CODESYS releases V3.5 SP20, Maple Systems Free PLC Giveaway, SMC releases new Manifold Controller, Festo’s New Smart Proximity switch, Sick’s New W10 PhotoEye, Next-Gen Anybus products, Global American on DDR5 vs DDR4, OnLogic on Edge AI, Rockwell’s SIL 2 Safety, Schneider Migrate Honeywell to Foxboro and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Note: We hope to keep The Automation Morning Show as a daily series, but this will depend on if we are able to cover our costs to produce the show. We estimate that we’ll need two to three sponsors each week to keep the show going.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today’s News: Siemens SITOP PS with IO-Link, Pepperl+Fuchs New Industrial Tablet, Turck’s next-gen Flow Sensor, Sick’s Miniature Photoeyes, SMC’s New Electric Actuators, Schneider on Next-Gen PACs, Banner on Safety Interlock Switches, OnLogic’s New Panel PCs, PLCnext’s new SmartHMI, Rockwell’s 1734 Safety Point I/O and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Note: We hope to keep The Automation Morning Show as a daily series, but this will depend on if we are able to cover our costs to produce the show. We estimate that we’ll need two to three sponsors each week to keep the show going (as mentioned previously, the US Government claims 37% of every penny we make, as seen here and here, so a single sponsor doesn’t cover our costs.)
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today’s News: Banner’s New IO-Link Hub, Pepperl+Fuchs New Analog Isolated Barrier, Turck Shock Proof Inductive Couplers, Balluff’s New Fork Sensors, Rockwell on Ai, Siemens’ New Releases, Schneider’s New Sample Code, Emerson’s New Lit and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Note: We hope to keep The Automation Morning Show as a daily series, but this will depend on if we are able to cover our costs to produce the show. We estimate that we’ll need two to three sponsors each week to keep the show going (as mentioned previously, the US Government claims 37% of every penny we make, as seen here and here, so a single sponsor can’t cover our costs.)
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today’s News: Opto 22 Celebrates 50 Years, Emerson’s DeltaV Automation Platform, Mitsubishi launches Zero Trust Remote Access Solution, ABB’s new SDe Controller, Banner’s New IO-Link Hub, Idec’s new PLCHMI, Pepperl+Fuchs R200 Distance Sensor, Banner on Sinking versus Sourcing, Omron on Scan Tunnels, Rockwell’s Guide to NIS2 and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Note: We hope to bring The Automation Morning Show back as a daily series, but this will depend on if we are able to cover our costs to produce the show. We estimate that we’ll need at least three sponsors per week to keep the show going (as mentioned in this morning’s episode, tax time is a great time to be reminded that the US Federal Government claims 37% of every penny we make, as can be seen on their website here and here.)
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today’s News: Banner’s New Measuring Sensors, Siemens’ New 5G Routers, Softing’s New Profinet Gateways, Emerson’s New Edge IPC, Mitsubishi’s New R86TB Teach Pendant, Rockwell’s New Embedded Edge Compute Module, Yaskawa’s Thoughts on Zero Maintenance, ABB on Robots and Ai in 2024 and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Note: The Automation Morning Show will be on break while we setup our new office and studio, and we hope to return at our new time of 9:30am ET in the near future!.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today's News: Balluff Celebrates 40 Years Making RFID Readers, Maple Systems' New PLC Try Before You Buy, Bihl+Wiedemann Connects Danfoss Drives via ASi-5, Mitsubishi Automates Machine Tending, Balluff's Rapid Inductive Position Measuring System, Software Toolbox On Logging OPC Data, Siemens Updates WinCC, Rockwell Releases New Micro PLC Guides, Schneider's Energy Hub, Emerson's PACSystems Slice IO, and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Watch the Show:Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(34 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today's News: Siemens' TM NPU v2 Ai Module, SINAMICS Startdrive V17 SP2, Danfoss Introduces New HVAC Programmable Controller, Pepperl+Fuchs Covers Smart-Ex 03 Features, Banner's Continuous Voltage Monitor, Omron launches MD Series of AMRs, Auvesy-MDT Details New Features, Copia on Industrial DevOps, Omlox update, rf Ideas on Passkey Authentication, Beckhoff On 3D Printing Aluminum and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Watch the Show:Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(26 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today's News: Siemens SIMATIC ET 200iSP Now Talks PROFINET, Red Lion's FlexEdge Gains Strain Gauge, J1939, and CAN, IDEC Launches 7” PLC+HMI, Phoenix Contact Launches IP67 Class 2 PS, Turck Release New M12 HF RFID Read/Write Head, Sick Releases New Safety Distance Sensor, SMC Launches Motorless Electric Actuators, Prosoft Launches New Modbus To Ethernet/IP Router, Schneider Talks IT/OT Convergence, OnLogic Talks NVIDIA Jetson for AI Automation, SME Simplifies Ai, Rockwell Updates 21 CFR Part 11 Guide for ViewSE v13 and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Watch the Show:Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(47 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today's News: Siemens releases Process Function Library V3.0 SP1, Sysmac All-In-One Automation, Banner Condition Monitoring Wireless Gateway, Turck's New Temperature and Relative Humidity Sensor, SMC's New Analog Auto Switch, Sick's Motor Feedback System, Danfoss’ New iC2 Micro Drives, Leuze's New Laser Distance Sensor, Kuka's Augmented Reality, Pepperl+Fuchs Educates Us On OPC UA, AnyBus Talks OPC UA FX's Impact, PLCnext Makes OPC UA Easy, Grace On LOTO Steps, Exida Explains Root Cause Analysis, What’s New With Rockwell’s Logix and View and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Watch the Show:Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(31 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today's News: ABB Robotics Partners With Mettler-Toledo, Moxa's New IPCs, Ignition 8.1.37, Banner's M12 M8 Adapter, Keyence 2D/3D Laser Profiler, Hilscher Edge-IO-Link-Master, Beckhoff's New C6675 IPC, Pepperl+Fuchs's 48V Motor Control Module, PTC Launches Onshape Vision for Apple Vision, ESD's CAN to CAN FD Bridge, Sick's New 3D Camera, Festo New Pipetting Solution, Rockwell's FTOptix and ArmorBlock 5000, Schneider on DCS, Siemens New GSD and ESD files and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Watch the Show:Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(40 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today's News: Rockwell on FactoryTalk Optix 1.3, Siemens on Analyze MyDrives Edge v1.5, Balluff Long Distance Positioning System, Yaskawa AutoSorter 1200, WAGO Pro2 Communication Modules, ProductivityCODESYS PLC Series, Schneider on Universal Automation, B&R on Generative AI, Yaskawa on Top Robot Industries, Banner on PVC and PUR Cables, Antaira on WiFi Roaming, DigiKey on Safety Controllers, Horner on Structured Text, Emerson on uisng Micro Motion 5700 with ControlLogix and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Watch the Show:Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(46 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today's News: ABB Buys Meshmind, Phoenix Contact joins vPAC, Yokogawa Partners with TIM, Mitsubishi Releases Integrated Selection Tool, Linmot's R&D Center, Beckhoff Introduces CX5600, Thomson's New Compact Linear Motion System, Idec Launches XA/XW E-Stops, Cincoze's Slim IPCs, Advantech's MIC-715-OX Rugged IPC, Siemens' SINAMICS Smart Adapter, SINAMICS S220 Booksize Motor Modules, ET 200AL MultiFieldbus Interface Module, and DriveSim Designer, SMC's Electric Gripper for COBOTS and Wear Resistant Tubing, View Site Edition Online Course, Aveva on Top InTouch Features, Schneider on Digital Transformation, rf Ideas on HMI Security, Banner on Vibration Sensors, Pepperl+Fuchs on IIoT Solutions, Electromate's Guide to Encoders, Prosoft on PROFINET, Auvesy-MDT Backup via OPC Trigger, Software Toolbox DataHub PLC to SQL, Rockwell on Cartoner applciation, Beckhoff on TwinCAT CNC, Aveva on PI, Schneider on Harmony ST6, Rockwell on PlantPAx Control Strategies, IEEE on New Robot Tricks and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Watch the Show:Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(31 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today's News: Thomson Releases Rotating-Nut Stepper Motor Linear Actuator, Leviton Acquires PRISM DCS, Rockwell on AMRs, Schneider on Digitization Strategy and Digital Asset Tracking, PTC on Digital Transformation Strategies, and Implementing Zero-trust, Aveva on Resilient Cloud Apps, WWT on Trends in Manufacturing, Siemens S7 PLC Training, New SIMATIC IOT2050, Electromate Compares Servos and Steppers, DigiKey talks Securing Ethernet with Hirschmann, Grace on Top Arc Flash Mitigation Strategies, Opto 22's System Configurators, Softing Extends edgeConnector to ARM 32-bit, Automation Direct releases new EtherCat, Power Supplies and adds more Endress-Hauser products, Free S7 PLC Guide, Siemens Details Siemens S200 and S210 Servo Drives and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Watch the Show:Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(55 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today's News: Siemens' Sinamics S210, NORD's Poultry Solutions, Antaira Compact Industrial Switch, Kuka's New KR FORTEC, Pepperl+Fuchs' New Pad-Ex 01 P12, Banner's Packaging Solutions, Aveva on Smart Factories, rf Ideas on Passwordless Authentication, Pilz on Key In Pocket, PI on Profinet Application Profiles, Rockwell on Power Device Libraries and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Watch the Show:!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u6pxmj"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");Rumble("play", {"video":"v44q19h","div":"rumble_v44q19h"});Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(29 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today's News: ABB acquires Sevensense, IO-Link Wireless now an IEC Standard, Emerson New Pilot Operated Relief Valve, Pepperl+Fuchs Extends Safe Positioning Systems, SMC's New Flow Controller for Air, Keyence's New Confocal Displacement Sensor, ASRock Industrial Releases 14th IPCs, Dalsa Releases Update To Sapera Vision, New Z-Range Safety Switches, Several New IO-Link and Profinet Products, Opto 22 IO Updates, Copia Adds Step 7 Support, Aveva Updates InTouch and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Watch the Show:!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u6pxmj"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");Rumble("play", {"video":"v43spto","div":"rumble_v43spto"});Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(39 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: ABB Acquires Real Tech, Endress+Hauser Celebrates Founder's 100th Birthday, Festo Introduces Long-Stroke Parallel Gripper, Aveva on Digital Threads, Schneider on Digital Transformation, PTC on Continuous Improvement, Locus on Warehouses Automation, Maple Systems' IPCs, Pepperl+Fuchs on MQTT Basics, PTC on HTTP GET Requests, IEEE on Remotely Controlled Housekeeping Robot and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(40 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: Inductive on Ignition 8.1.36's New DNP3 Driver and More, Pilz's Safety switches with guard locking, SMC's New Speed Controllers and Vacuum Filter, New ControlLogix Three Course Bundle Sale, Omron on Cobot Safety, Grace on LOTO, ISA on Cybersecuirty, Condition Monitoring, and Cobot Palletizing, Oriental Motors on Stepper Drivers, Baumer on Sandwich Maker, Aveva on Reducing Downtime, Emerson's Sentronic Value Controller, Horner Automation's All-In-One Controller, Schneider's New Essential Automation Catalog, IEEE on 11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones To Look For In 2024 and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(53 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: Auvesy-MDT adds Siemens WinCC Unified Compare, Inductive recaps #WhatTheHeckIsIgnition and launches #IgnitionEffect hashtag, Grace Recaps OSHA's most frequently cited safety standards, AVEVA's Product Roadmap, Premio covers IP67, IP68, and IP69K, Omron on Getting Started with AMRs, TAS Online Automation Course Sale, Software Toolbox Explores ETL Tools, ISA Talks Reducing Cloud Security Vulnerabilities, Antaira covers MAC Filtering, IEEE Covers Humanoid Robots of 2023 and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(47 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: ABB Robots To Build Volvo EVs, Global American Partners with Acrosser, WAGO Add's 4-20 mA to IO-Link, EtherCAT Updates Standard, Banner Releases 8xAI to Modbus Hub, Balluff Releases BMP Position System, Pepperl+Fuchs Details RFID, Grace Technologies Talks Ai and Predictive Maintenance, Copia and ISA Talk Cybersecurity, A3 details 10 Foundations of Smart Manufacturing, Free S7-1200 Guide, Universal Robot's 2024 Predictions and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show for December 21, 2023.Note: This is our last show for 2023. Thank you all for tuning in each week and we look forward to returning in 2024! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!!!Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(25 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: Rockwell's CCW v22 Released, New Baumer Point Level Sensor, ASRock's New NUCs, Software Toolbox's DataHub Alarm Plug-In, New S7 Online Course, Universal Robot's 6 Cobot Benefits, Locus Robotics' 9 Steps To Automate, Stahl on Digital Maintenance Manuals, Siemens' SINAMICS S200 and Inspection, rf Ideas on the Best Mobile Credential Readers, Free S7-1500 Guide, Opto22 Groov RIO as PLC and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show for December 19, 2023.Note: For the month of December we will be releasing new episodes of the Automation Morning Show on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the last show of 2023 planned for Thursday 12-21. Happy Holidays!Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(50 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: Red Lion's New NT5000 Features, OnLogic's New ThinManager Wi-Fi boot, Banner's New PoE Light, Rockwell on Machine Safety, Softing's dataFEED OPC Suite, AVEVA on DevOps, Pilz's PNOZmulti Configurator, PLC-5 Online Course, Global American on Windows IOT, ISA on Cybersecurity, Grace on NFPA 70E, Siemens on Predictive Maintenance, Inductive Automation, Opto 22, and Yaskawa on this year's Top Content , Free PLC-5 Guide and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show for December 14, 2023.Note: For the month of December we will be releasing new episodes of the Automation Morning Show on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the last show of 2023 planned for Thursday 12-21. Happy Holidays!Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(39 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: HMS Acquires Red Lion, Phoenix Contact's Essential PS Line, Turck's New IO-Link Hub, SMC's New Water Flow Controller, LinMot's New Gripper, Updated CAN Dictionary, Premio's New IPCs, PANDUIT's Cable Cleats, SLC-500 Online Course, Software Toolbox Adds Python.NET, MQTT and Sparkplug Defined, ISA on Ai and Zero Trust, SME on AGVs and Regionalization, AMT on Decoding Digital, Rockwell's FLEXHA 5000, Free SLC-500 Guide and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show for December 12, 2023.Note: For the month of December we will be releasing new episodes of the Automation Morning Show on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the last show of 2023 planned for Thursday 12-21. Happy Holidays!Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(33 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: ABB Ability FIM 3.0 Enhanced, Sparkplug Now ISO/IEC 20237:2023, Get Together for Robotics II, Rockwell on Enhancing Cybersecurity, ABB on Optimum Robot Performance, Fanuc on Benefits of Using Welding Cobots, Opto 22 on Understanding Your Industrial Electricity Bill, Cognex on Improving Product Quality & Yield, The Evolution of Grace Technologies, How omlox Location Data Helps, Nord on Heavy Lifting & Cranes, Bihl+Wiedemann's Safety Basic Monitor gets EtherNet/IP, Banner's Rogowski Coil Current Sensors, Automation Direct's STRIDE SE3 Ethernet Switches, Festo's New Flat Parallel Gripper and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show for December 7, 2023.Note: For the month of December we will be releasing new episodes of the Automation Morning Show on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the last show of 2023 planned for Thursday 12-21. Happy Holidays!Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(30 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: FANUC's New M-710iD/50M Robot, Pepperl+Fuchs' New 10” 5G Ex Tablet, SICK's ConnectX, Inductive's Ignition 8.1.34, PI on New Profinet and IOLink Products, COGNEX on Food Inspection, Stahl on Ethernet-APL, OrientalMotor on Encoder Basics, SoftwareToolbox on MQTT QOS, Horner on PLC Look Up Tables, Rockwell Updates Logix and View Docs and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show for December 5, 2023.Note: For the month of December we will be releasing new episodes of the Automation Morning Show on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the last show of 2023 planned for Thursday 12-21. Happy Holidays!Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(30 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: Siemens Releases TIA Portal v19, Universal Robots Launches UR30, Automation Direct Launches Productivity Suite 4.1 and P1AM-200 CPU, Oriental Motors Releases New AC Blowers, Wago Releases New Compact Controller, Banner Releases New Flexible Strip Light, Softing Adds OPC UA Pub/Sub via MQTT, Maple System's IPC with PoE+, Opto22's New SVG Library, Rockwell Details CompactLogix Crane Application, RedLion Details Cellular Comms To Remote PLCs and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show for November 30, 2023.Note: For the month of December we will be releasing new episodes of the Automation Morning Show on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the last show of 2023 planned for Thursday 12-5. Happy Holidays!Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(60 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: Siemens adds IoT SiteWise, Honeywell's Hydrogen Gas Meter, Moxa Private 5G, UR20 Cobots, Emerson's TopWorx DVR Switchbox, Balluff CIP Safety IO, Banner M8 & M12, Amphenol USB-C, New CompactLogix Course, ABB's New IRB930 SCARA robot, No-code Robot Programming, Copia on Scalable PLC Programming, Banner on What Makes Radar Sensors Excel, Schneider on Cybersecurity, Global American on Intel Codenames, PTC on Manufacturing Throughput, Exida on Pragmatic Cybersecurity, Free CompactLogix Guide, Kuka Apple Harvester and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show for November 28, 2023.Note: Next Episode is planned for Thursday, November 30th.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(17 views)
Weekly Industrial Automation News Roundup:We cover all of this week's Industrial Automation news in our Saturday show, Automation This Week.Watch the show:Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(29 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today News: WITTENSTEIN Launches Cyber Kit Line Medium, Advantech Launches AMD AM5 RYZEN IPC Mobo, Five Innovations From Maxon, Beckhoff on EtherCAT's History, New S7-1500 Course, Opto22 on OptoMMP, PLCnext on Integrated Security, TOP Server's Out-of-the-Box Security Features, Advantech's Codesys Controller Used in AGVs, Free S7-1500 How-To Guide, Using Groov View HMI, GM Backs Abundant Earth Permanent Magnet Motor Maker, Looking back on the development of Ethernet as it turns 50 and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show for November 17, 2023.Note: Shawn is off Thanksgiving week but will be returning on Tuesday, November 28th.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(35 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Fluid Components Int. acquired by Process Sensing Technologies, Emerson Launches New Fisher FIELDVUE DPC2K Digital Process Controller, Turck releases new 8 port Class A IO-Link Master, Festo Releases Compact Parallel, Angled, and Radial Grippers, OnLogic Unveils 1000W IPC PS, New Micro800 Online Course, Automation Direct releases New Rhino Basic PS, Grace Details 6 Breakthrough Innovations, Softing on the Digital Transformation Journey, PTC on Knowledge Transfer, Aveva on Boosting Collaboration, Exida on ICS Cybersecurity, Free Micro800 How-To Guide, Rockwell Details Two Applications, Turck's Inductive Coupler, Red Lion's RA10C Compact Firewall, IEEE on 3D Printed Robots and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show for November 16, 2023.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(34 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens Teaming up with Basler and MVTec, Siemens Introduces Industrial Copilot, B&R Launches New Online Community, CompactLogix Online Training Course, Balluff Mini Fork Sensors, Emerson's New High-Flow Solenoid Valve, Posital's New Kit Encoders, Rexroth Expands T Slot Aluminum Framing, ProfiNews on New Products, Free CompactLogix How-To Guide, Schneider on Smart Engineering and Energy Waste, Pilz Products for Mobile Platforms, Yaskawa on Small Welding Cells, Aveva on Collaboration, Profinews on Understanding PROFIsafe and SRCI, Auvesy-MDT integration with TIA Portal, IEEE on Speaker Chips and more in this episode of the Automation Morning Show for November 15, 2023.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(16 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens Talking Motion Control in TIA Portal v19, ABB Featuring YuMi Cobots, Pepperl+Fuchs' RGB Illuminated Push Buttons with IO-Link, New CODESYS DNP3 Protocol Option, POSITAL's SSI Absolute Encoders, Baumer SIL2/PLd Encoders, Phoenix Contact Introduces XPC 1.5, New ControlLogix Online Course, Pepperl+Fuchs' PROFINET Gateways for Remote I/O, Sick's VarioLine, PLCnext on Optimizing Energy, Pilz on IO-Link Safety, Free ControlLogix How-To Guide, Omron NA Series and more in our Automation Morning Show for November 14, 2023.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(167 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens Offering Cloud-based OT Asset Management, Endress+Hauser's $50.9m Headquarters in Indiana, Schneider On Digital Transformation, Beckhoff MX-System Win Industrie 4.0 Award, SMC's New 3 Color Display, Pilz's PNOZmulti 2 Gets Safety Over EtherCAT, Akribis Launches New Magnetic Springs & Rod Motors, Sick's Automated Ident System, Acromag’s Ethernet IO Get Profinet, Omron's Latest Handheld Reader, Pepperl+Fuchs IO-Link Valve Control, Opto22 Support & Starter Kit, Free PLC Guide, OnLogic On OpenVINO, Auvesy Octoplant ServerSync, Copia on DevOps and more in our Automation Morning Show for November 13, 2023.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(44 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens' Free Control Panel Training (Today,) Rockwell's 32nd Automation Fair, Cognex and Moritex, Senseye Predictive Maintenance, PLC Basics Extended Online Course, Balluff Cube-style Capacitive Sensor with IO-Link, Premio's New Line Of Industrial Monitors, Turck M12 HF RFID Read Write Head and Fast S2 Redundancy Read Write Head, Free S7-1200 How-To Guide, Turck RFID Videos, Emerson's CT2211 Microleak Detection System, Siemens on 3D Integrated Chips and more in our Automation Morning Show for November 7, 2023.- Link to Siemens November 7th Control Panel EventListen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(38 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens' Free Control Panel Training Nov. 7th and New $150m Texas Plant, Rockwell Helps Utility with Cybersecurity and Innovates in Semiconductor MFG, Mettler Toledo's Encompass Products, Festo Products for Machine Builders, Keyence Eliminates Static, S7-1500 Online Course, Turck's IMX Condition Monitoring and Automation Suite, Pilz IO-Link Safety Products, Prosoft on Wi-Fi 6, Free S7-1500 PLC Guide, OnLogic on Choosing an IPC, Global American on MTBF, Emerson's L2t Liquid Level Controller, IEEE on Decoupling for Online Security and more in our Automation Morning Show for November 6, 2023.- Link to Siemens November 7th Control Panel EventListen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(32 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens' Free Control Panel Training on November 7th, WITTENSTEIN Expands US plant, CODESYS Virtual Safe Controller, Siemens SIWAREX Turns 50, Rockwell on OT Cyberattack Response Time, Micro800 Online Training, Turck's M12Plus Cables, Turck's Inductive Couplers, Omron on Deploying AMRs, SoftwareToolbox on JSON, Free S7-1200 Guide, ISA on the Language of Automation Engineering, ISA on Zero Trust, SME on Industry 5.0, Rockwell Help Brewer Increase Production, First Look at Siemens' MD-34A, Rockwell on the Path to Energy Efficiency and more in our Automation Morning Show for November 3, 2023.- Link to Siemens November 7th Control Panel EventListen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(20 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens' Free Control Panel Training on November 7th, Rockwell Releases MagneMover LITE, Codesys Static Analysis Update Released, Pepperl+Fuchs' VisuNet FLX HMI platform, Automation Direct's New Signaling Beacons, Ultimate ControlLogix Online Course Pre-Order, OnLogic on Ai, Fortinet on OT Security, Omron on Unlocking AMRs, Premio On HMIs, Free CompactLogix Guide with 150 Articles & Videos, DigiKey on Motor Control, IEEE on Wearable Energy Harvesting and more in our Automation Morning Show for November 2, 2023.- Link to Siemens November 7th Control Panel EventListen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(30 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens' Upcoming Control Panel Event, Siemens Industrial Ai Copilot, Rockwell's FactoryTalk Energy Manager, Yokogawa on Hydrogen Fuel Cells, KUKA at City Hall, Advantech Adds 13th Gen Intel, Banner Strip Light, Pepperl+Fuchs 5G Ex Cell Phone, Pepperl+Fuchs Modbus Gateway, Siemens Online PLC Course, OrientalMotor on Wafer Handling, DigiKey on Relay Basics, Free S7-1500 Guide, Codesys USA is Hiring, Lithium & Hydrogen and more in our Automation Morning Show for November 1, 2023.- Link to Siemens November 7th Control Panel EventThe Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(27 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens' Next Level Industrial Edge Products, Pepperl+Fuchs' New MLB4000 Surge Protection, Pepperl+Fuchs' High Capacity RFID Reader, RFID Technology Primer, Using RFID with Ignition, ViewSE Lifetime Course, Moxa on the Future of IIoT Networks, How To Use Moxa's Remote Connection Gateway, Seeq on Transforming Raw Data to Meaningful Info, Free FactoryTalk View How-To Guide, Omron's NY-series IPCs, Hydrogen Nano-Chips and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 31, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(18 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Rockwell Teaming Up With Claroty For Threat Detection, Pilz Announces Expert Panels at SPS, Bihl Wiedemann Highlights ASi and IOLink, DigiKey Makes 1st SPS Appearance, Endress Hauser and Sick Team Up, Getting Started with PLCs, Pepperl+Fuchs' Safe Evaluation Unit, PTC on AI in Digitization, ISA on Mitigating Cyber Threats, Automation Direct October Newsletter, Free MicroLogix Guide with 100+ Articles & Videos and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 30, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(28 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Rockwell Adding Azure OpenAI to FactoryTalk Design Studio, WAGO Detailing New Codesys 3.5 Basic Controllers, NORD talks Washdown VFDs, Banner on Wireless Condition Monitoring, Omron on UDI Mandate, Universal Robots on Cobot Welding, Software Toolbox on Top Server, Free PLC & HMI Guides, Electromate on Motion Basics, A3 on Industrial Uses of AI and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 27, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(28 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Eaton's Network-M3 Card, Banner's In-Line Indicator with Modbus, Emerson's Plantweb Insight Valve Health App, WAGO’s Next Gen ECB, Maple System's New Wide-Temp IPC, Posital's Encoder for Hazardous Env., Balluff's BCS Series Capacitive Proxes, Opto 22's CODESYS Tech Talk, ISA on Cybersecurity Features in Edge Controllers, Schneider on Machine Builder Challenges, Free S71500 Guide, PTC on SMED, DigiKey on VFD Cables, Grace on Automation Fair, Emerson Rosemount Transmitter How-To, New Omron Controller Manual, IEEE on Nukes Making Hydrogen Increase Revenue 27% and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 26, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(19 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens working with Plastic Fischer, Rockwell Highlighting What’s New in Services, Systems, and Solutions, Yokogawa Joins CVE, Red Lion's FlexEdge Now ABS Certified, IFM Releases New 757 ecomatDisplay, Mitsubishi Releases PowerGate E VSD, Banner Releases WLR95 Compact IP67 Light, Yaskawa on Dark Warehouses, Inductive's Driver for Mitsubishi MELSEC PLCs, DigiKey on 10BASE-T1L, Panduit on SPE, Free S7-1500 Guide, Cognex on the Future of Vision, Schneider on Harmony HMIs, Omron's Vision Guide, Top Ai Companies Massively Fail Transparency Tests and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 25, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(21 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Rockwell Acquiring Verve, KUKA's 125 Year Anniversary, Pilz and EPLAN, PLC-5 Course Pre-order, SMC's New Large Electric Slider and Compact Slide, Sick's 3D Object Detection, Cincoze Low Profile IPCs, Free S7-1500 Guide, Cisco on OT/ICS Cybersecurity, Kollmorgen on Optimizing Servo Motor Holding, IBM's NorthPole AI Chip and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 24, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(30 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens on The Power of Predictive Maintenance, AVEVA’s New Hybrid Data Infrastructure, Balluff Enables LF, HF, UHF RFID Tag & 1D/2D Barcode Scanning, Pepperl+Fuchs on Radio-Based Valve Monitoring, Sick's Area Hotspot Detection System, Inductive on Ignition 8.1.33, Red Lion on Cybersecurity Zones and Conduits, Horner Automation's Halloween Special Scary Field Stories and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 23, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(29 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Festo joining Siemens Industrial Edge, ABB Robotics To Automate Construction, Honeywell Introduces Experion Solution Suites, Advantech Releases Robot Controllers, Tech News From ODVA’S Conference, Siemens' Tips For Digital Journey, PTC on Manufacturing Productivity. Siemens on AI and Algorithms, RS-232, Snowflake and I4.0, Red Lion on Cybersecurity, Prosoft on SLC-500, AVEVA Connect, Wago Basic Controller 100, Beckhoff's Intro to Condition Monitoring, Software Toolbox's GE Ethernet driver, New Rockwell ControlLogix Redundancy Manual and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 20, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(43 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens’ Steps Into Zero Trust, Edge Computing Impact on Food and Bev, Digitalize with Smart Manufacturing, ISA Learns What’s Next for Clearpath Robotics, Beckhoff Integrates NOA and Ethernet-APL, Bhil Wiedeman ASi-5 Safety Muting Module, LinMot on High-Performance Motors, ProSense T30R Series Timer Relays, ISA on Leveraging MQTT, Automated Vehicles in 2023, Grace on Why NFPA 70E Matters, TIA Portal V18 SP2 and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 19, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(21 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Rockwell's New Hardware At Automation Fair, Red Lion's NT5000 Wins Idea Award, Beckhoff's TwinCAT 3 CNC Milling Base Software, Softing's HART Multiplexer Software, Beckhoff Used In Diving Robot, B&R Adds Standby Mode, Three AI and Robot Myths, Horner LIVE From Process Expo, FactoryTalk Updater, Figure's Humanoid Robot Prototype, SuperMechanical's Environmental Sensor On Kickstarter and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 18, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(20 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Eaton Expanding Texas Plant, Siemens Releases Cybersecurity Inspector, Matrix Vision becomes Balluff MV, Leviton Launches New Surge Panels, Siemens on AI and the Workforce, Schneider on Saving Energy, Details about F-gas Phase-out, Omron on SWIR Cameras, Inductive Automation SCADA Checklist, AUVESY-MDT Hotfix, Global American on CPU Sockets, Electromate on Motion, Pilz on PSENmlock mini, Softing on #Profibus Gateway, Premio Supercapacitor Whitepaper and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 17, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(57 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens' New Tablet IPC, Siemens' New F-Gas Free Switchgear, New Profinet Virtual Collaboration Space, Wireless Distribution System Bridges, Pepperl+Fuchs's New IO-Link Valve Connector, SMC's New Electro-Pneumatic Regulator/Manifold, Cobot Protective Stops, Latest Rockwell Kinetix Literature, New Rockwell FTOptix Info and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 16, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(69 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Rockwell's New FactoryTalk Optix Portfolio, Siemens' New RUGGEDCOM Industrial Ethernet Switch, Honeywell's Cybersecurity Cyber Watch, Phoenix Contact's New SIL3 Rated and Class 2 Power Supplies, Banner's New 8 Port Analog Input IO-Link Hub, SMC's New Impact Blow Valve, Pilz Products for AMRs, Pepperl+Fuchs' Double Sheet Sensors, Rockwell On Hart, Anybus On OPC UA FX, Software Toolbox on OmniServer, Rockwell On The Modern Warehouse, Solar Powered Cars and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 13, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(18 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens And NVIDIA Work On Industrial Metaverse, Solid Edge 2024, Emerson Acquires National Instruments, ABB And Hydrogen, Intro to MTP, Banner's New Multicolor Strip Light, Grace's PESDs, SMC's New Proportional Control Valve, AVEVA Insight's New Features, Maple System's Newest IPC, Mecademic's New MicroDASH, AutomationDirect's New Rhinos, IEEE on 3D Chips and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 12, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(21 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Honeywell Realigning Its Portfolio, New Profinet and IO-Link Products, SMC's New Flow Regulator, MT's New Washdown Checkweigher, Emerson's New FIELDVUE DVC7K Digital Valve Controller, Straton v12 WSTRING and JSON Support, Advantech Mounting Solutions, Stahl on the Digital Age & Remote I/O, Beckhoff on PC Control, Siemens Senseye Predictive Maintenance, ARC on Zero Trust and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 11, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(18 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Rockwell's New Products of Automation Fair, Rockwell's New ArmorBlock 5000, Pepperl+Fuchs's New RFID Devices, Sick's ConnectX App, Sick picoScan100, SMC's Compact Compressor, AVEVA Advanced Analytics, Cobot Machine Tending, Stepper Motor Primer, TwinCAT CNC and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 10, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(31 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens Leading in the Industrial Metaverse, BACnet Secure Connect, Emerson's Boundless Automation and new Feature Pack, Codesys's New Ladder Diagram Editor, FCI's Flow Meters, Inductive's ICC 2023, Software Toolbox's OmniServer, Cognex on Decode Quality Parameter, OptoMMP Tools and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 9, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(54 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens Xcelerator To Power KORE Battery Gigafactory, Honeywell's Latest Infrared-based Flame Detector, Pilz at SPS, Intrinsic Safety with Ethernet-APL, Harnessing Ambient Energy, Overtime Leads To Loss Of Productivity, Cybersecurity & Industry 4.0, Intro To NAT, Guide to Direct Drive Motors, Pilz's New Safety Locking Devices, Remote Ethernet I/O, Legacy PLC Migrations and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 5, 2023.The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(13 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens Collaborating on Digital Twins, Honeywell on Eco-refining, Banner's Connectivity Innovations, Beckhoff's new IPCs, Acromag's New Ethernet Analog Modules, Off-the-Shelf Robotic Solutions, The Integrated Smart Factory, Our Daily Poll and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 4, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(40 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Rockwell Completes OTTO Motors Acquisition, Phoenix Contact Releases New Ethernet Media Converters and DC Energy Meters, SMC Releases New Air Prep Filter, Universal Robotics Holding Cobots for Machine Tending Webinar, TIA Server 1.2 Released, Rock Salt Batteries and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 3, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(12 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about PLCnext, NIS 2, and EU Cybersecurity, Rockwell's Embedded Edge Compute Module, Phoenix Contact's MINI Analog Pro Ex Signal Conditioners and Surge Protectors, Pilz Radar Sensor for Safe Zone Monitoring, Galil's UL-CSA Certification, OnLogic on the History of Wireless Tech, Global American on PCIe 6.0, SME on AI-based Solutions for Manufacturing, Parker on Ball Valves and more in our Automation Morning Show for October 2, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(32 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Rockwell Automation announcing AI Predictive Maintenance Software, Siemens adds New Features to Senseye PM App, Aveva partners with Aras to provide PLM, Inductive adds Multi-Tenant Licensing and Simplifies Edge Offering, Banner Makes Condition Monitoring Easy, Sick releases picoScan100, Electromate on Motion Basics, OnLogic on Peak Shaving, DigiKey on USB Type-C Standardization, Maple HMIs at PackExpo, Posital Products and Tips, Software Toolbox's DataHub WebView and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 29, 2023.Watch the show: The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(21 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Siemens Launching Private 5G, Moxa Attains IEC 62443 Certification, Pilz Certifies 10,000th CMSE, Copia Adds Codesys FBD & SFC Support, Inductive Opens in Australia, Kuka Builds Homes, Omron on PMAC, GracePort, ISO 3691-4 and AMRs, Banner DUAL THERMISTOR , Oriental's AZX Series Servos, 460vac SureServo2, Baumer Profile Sensor, OnLogic's ThinManager Wifi Boot, Robot Application Safety, Robot Warehouse Safety, Phoenix Celebrates 100 Years, Red Lion 4 & 5G App, Beckhoff Welding App and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 28, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(49 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about SMC Adds New Compact Wireless I/O, Straton Details New TLS Security Features, Oriental Motors Talks High Res Encoders and Steppers, Digi-Key Details Bonded Pair Ethernet Cables, SME Highlights Cobots Used for Inspection, Molex Offers New 1-5Gbps Wireless Connections, Opto 22 Natural Gas Application, MT Scale Integration with Siemens, Yaskawa on Redundant VFDs and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 27, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(21 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about ISA Talking Importance of People to Automation, Opto22 Announces Partnership with Inductive, Honeywell and ESS on Iron Flow Batteries, IEEE on Nickel-Hydrogen Batteries, Wittenstein's New Galaxie Gearboxes, Siemens Solid Edge 2024, Weidmuller Launches u-OS, OnLogic on Generative vs Predictive AI, Pilz's Hand Protection Light Curtain, Electromate on DC Linear Actuators vs Motors, DigiKey on RTDs and IO-Link, RedLion in Oil And Gas, WWT on Practical AI and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 26, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(24 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Mitsubishi's New MELSERVO-J5 Servo Motors & Amplifiers, Bihl-Wiedemann's New Self-Configuring I/O, Rockwell Partnering with Everactive, Yokogawa's OpreX Now Imports P&IDs, Linmot's Force Control, Universal Robots on Machine Tending Applications, Locus Robotics on Logistics Myths, OnLogic Outdoors In NH, Software Toolbox's DataHub Scripting, SMC's New Frame Clamp Cylinder, Automation Direct's Latest Newsletter, New Cognex Webinar and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 25, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(24 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Eaton on Digital Transformation, OnLogic Joins Inductive, Grace Maximizing ROI, PTC on Concurrent Engineering, Banner's Tl70 Basic Tower Light, Rockwell on Recyclability & Energy Savings, Beckhoff In Wind Turbines, PV800, FLEX Ex, Sinamics V90 and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 21, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(60 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about ABB Releases OptiFact, ABB's New IRB 1090, Rockwell Talks Cybersecurity, Siemens Keynote, Beckhoff on EtherCAT and Motion, What's New In School, Schneider on Edge UPSs, Cognex on Vision vs Laser Sensors, Aveva's Data Hub Sharing, Universal Robot's 5 Reasons for Cobots, Kollmorgen's New Stepper Drive, Dobot's New Cobots, BioGraphite, Agility’s Making 10K Humanoid-Bots Per Year and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 20, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(19 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about FANUC's One Millionth Robot, Beckhoff's TwinCAT CNC Cycle Package, A Comprehensive Guide to DC Servo Motors, Stahl on Signaling Technology For Safety, Cognex's New DataMan 380, SMC's New 4-Port Solenoid Valves, Pilz's New IP67 I/O, Advantech's In-Vehicle IPC, Beckhoff's New Electric Cylinders, Auvesy-MDT on IT/OT Convergence, Schneider on Improving OT cybersecurity and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 19, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(29 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Wago's Green 221 Splicing Connector, SME on Digitized Equals Less Stress & Better Organization, Schneider on The Digitization Journey, Schneider on Water Utility Using Intelligent Monitoring, Rockwell on Oil Field Turning Flares into Profits, Mettler Toledo on Unlocking Operational Excellence through Digitalization, IEEE on See-Through Sensorsand more in our Automation Morning Show for September 18, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(15 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Schneider adding 1500 jobs in El Paso, Rockwell & Infinitum Teaming Up, Automation Fair Registration Open, Stretch Wrapper Upgrade, Festo's CPX-AP-I Distributed I/O, Banner's S15C Pressure Sensor, SMC's new Flow Controller & Air Grippers, Autonomyo's Exoskeleton, OnLogic On Vision, Software Toolbox's OPC Data Logger, Thomson’s 5 Linear Bearing Tips, AUVESY-MDT Challenges In Food & Bev, Mettler Toledo Tips To Prevent Contamination and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 15, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(17 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we're covering news about Honeywell and American Battery Factory's Mega Plant, Eaton adds 600 El Paso jobs, Copia talks DevOps & Talent Gap, 10 Reasons for 5-Axis Machining, Ignition 8.1.32, Opto22 at ICC, Linmot Pick & Place for Food, Grace Thermal Monitoring, OnLogic on USB4+, TeSys Island Smart Motor Starters, groov Manage, Pulp & Paper Graphic and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 14, 2023.Watch the show:The Automation Morning Show is also available on most Video and Podcasting platforms, and direct links to each can be found here.Listen to the Podcast:Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.If you found this content helpful, consider buying me a coffee here.(15 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Rockwell's New Stratix 5200 Managed Switches, UL Solutions Joins the ISASecure, Cognex's New In-Sight SnAPP Vision Sensor, Beckhoff's New Camera, Lenses, and Lighting products, Omron on SECS/GEMS, Straton on Soft Controller Redundancy, Premio on What is a Supercapacitor, ISA on AR in Manufacturing, Schneider on Reducing Energy and Waste, Aveva on Digitization in Pulp and Paper, Global American on Choosing an IPC Supplier, Exida or Machine Safety Goals, Schneider on Smart Load Centers, IEEE on AI in the Office and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 13, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Premio’s Super Capacitor EnergyPack, Path Robotics AF1 Robotic Welder, OTTO Motors 1200kg AMR, A Second Life For Legacy Systems, Private Cellular Networks, Driving Efficiency and Saving Energy and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 12, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 11, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Honeywell Quantum Encryption, IO-Link and mioty, New PROFINET Products, Balluff Guided Changeover, Turck Profinet Absolute Encoders, Turck 4422 Ethernet Cordset, Cognex on Perfect QR Code Quality, Software Toolbox on OT Data to/from InfluxDB, Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning, Nvidia Optimizes AI and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 8, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Festo's CPX-AP-A, Festo's Multi-Protocol Servos, New IO-Link products for September, Short history of Industrial Ethernet, Yaskawa Robot Power, Grace Temp Monitoring, How Actuators Differ, The Linmot Difference, Exida & Machine Safety and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 7, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Rockwell announces Clearpath Robotics acquisition, Beckhoff talks Ethernet APL, NOA, and MTP, Schneider talks Energy Savings, Opto22 RIO as PLC, Codesys on Raspberry PI, Panduit explains Single Pair Ethernet, DigiKey talks Control Panels, Pilz on Machine Safety, ISA on BOPEX, RV Park Adds VFDs and PIDs and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 6, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Balluf 12mp 3D Camera, Oriental Electric Gripper, PLCnext on IPCs, Phoenix 40a Extreme PS, Avantech Mini-ITX, ASRock 4x4BOX IPC, Keyence RPA, Boost MFG with AMRs, Oriental Conveyor Motors, Schneider UPS, Aveva Industrial AI, Auvesy MFG-X, Global American Why use HMIs, Rockwell Compact & Standard FactoryTalk Optix HMIs and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 5, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about B&R and Codian Robots, Emerson adds #IOLink Master, Cincoze unveils IPCs, Rockwell discusses supply chains, SoftwareToolbox on #OPC redundancy, Prosoft talks Modernization, RF Ideas solutions for #Manufacturing, PTC on #AR, OnLogic on #DDR4 vs 5 and more in our Automation Morning Show for September 1, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about WEG IEC Safety Contactors, Sparkplug 3, Yaskawa Robotic Battery MFG, GraceSense Applications, Quickly Fill Orders with Robots, Switch Tutorial, PTC SaaS PLM, CodeMeter X.509 Vault, Posital Encoders and more, Control Station Thinker Panel, Exida Webathon and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 31, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Schneider AI Copilot, Emerson’s REVAMP AI, Yaskawa 3D Bin Picking with KEYENCE 3D vision, Cognex Acquisition, SIMATIC RF ID System, Digital Transformation, Cobot Dirty Jobs, FLEXIV Force Control Cobots, Opto22 Node-Red, Top Programming Languages and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 30, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Beckhoff Vision, Pilz Key-in-pocket, Advantech IP66/69K IPC, Balluff IO-Link Wireless, Straton SoftPLC, Omron RFID, Cobot Ai, Warehouse AMR, rf IDEAS Passkeys, TIA Portal Update, Exoskeletons and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 29, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about SafeHart, IT/OT Conflicts, Jam Detection, Digital Twins, Capacitive vs. Inductive Encoders, Robotic Careers, SD-WAN, TSN, vPro v IPMI, CIP Security and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 28, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Safety Distances, IPCs, Modular HMIs, PLM, OPC Single v Multi Channel & Discovery Servers, Nodar Crushes Lidar and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 25, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about RIO becomes PLC, Temp Transmitters, Analog To Cloud, ISO 4, Smart Source Control, Data to Info, Cybersecurity, WinCC, Working Humanoid Robot and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 24, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about MR-J3 Servo Amps, CMSE Certs, AMR Mistakes to avoid, OPC UA Tunneling, ICE11 IO-Link Master, WAVE ID readers, Point IO, QuickStick, Smart Circuit Breakers and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 23, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about 20 years of EtherCat, Robotic Assembly, Leveraging SIs, Secure Industrial Ops, ARC, New Profinet Products, 6-Axis vs SCARA, Tire Depalletizer and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 22, 2023.
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Show Notes: Thanks to everyone who watched or listened today! All the links to today's news can be found on our sister site, Automate.News, and if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link. Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link. And if you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com. Huge thanks to all our supporters there!
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Festo MS-Basic Products, ISA 100 Upgraded, Secure Cellular, NextGen Encoders, New IO-Link Devices, The Five Ds, AMR vs AGV and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 21, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 18, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about ISA/IEC 62443, XS26 Safety Controller, Efficient Servos, J1939, Pick & Place, Industry 4.0, Digitalization, SIMOCODE, Single Pair Ethernet, InTouch, Augmented Reality, asset inventory, OPC Data Logger, robot safety, Maker HMI, OpenPLC, Tape Storage and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 17, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about ISO, ArcFlash, OPC UA A&C, Safety Monitor, Visual Guidance, 12mp Code Reader, Extreme IPC, 24A Servo, NUCs, 3-D ToF Sensor, Pancake Automation and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 16, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Compact Controller, Codesys License Model, Mitsubishi & RTR, Dalsa, HMI PLC, ATI & Fanuc, IIoT, Aveva, Rockwell Ways, groov Epic, FTOptix and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 9, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Cybersecurity Pillars, Line Monitoring Relays, Air Management System, Wireless I/O, AGV and Delta Robots, DALI-2, Liquid-Metal Battery, Li-Fi and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 8, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Festo, PhotoEyes, RFID, Safety Light Curtain, NAT, AgTech, Aveva, 3D Scanning, Device Trust, Pick & Place and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 7, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about a new Inductive Alliance, Schneider Security Service, Balluff IO-Link, Antaria 5ghz, SMC Dual Port, MTBF, Digital Alphabet, ABB & White Castle, DeltaV Bioreactors, Cement SuperCap and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 4, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Programmable Electric Actuator, GracePort, PhotoEyes, Slip Rings, Troubleshooting, Node-RED, groov Epic, Cybersecurity, Digital Twin, Sinamics S120, Q-Silicon and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 3, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about a IO-Link Master with 5 Protocols, Configurable IPC, Copia Adds SFC, Extreme Temp HMI, ATEX/IECEx Servo, Compact Ultrasonic, Mini Gearhead, LinMot Pick and Place, Industrial NUCs, Ignition Education, Hybrid Cores, Cobots, SIL 3 Apps and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 2, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about On-Machine Servo Drives, FailSafe over EtherCAT, IoT Box, IOLink Capacitive sensors, UHF RFID Readers, XGB PLC, Stereo Vision Applications, NAT, Ai, Delta Robots, OT Security, MicroLogix 1500 Migration and more in our Automation Morning Show for August 1, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Machine Tending, ASi-5 Safety, LJ Linear Heads, Wireless Hart, Kollmorgen, Ignition MQTT, Modern DCS, Locus Robotics, Fanless IPCs, Microsoft Cloud, Digital Twin, TIA Portal Cloud and more in our Automation Morning Show for July 21, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Inclination Sensors, Fuse Holders, Industrial Robots, NET-ENI, 10G, Safety distances, Condition Monitoring, AVEVA, RF Ideas, OT Security, 80ghz Radar and more in our Automation Morning Show for July 20, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about and more in our Automation Morning Show for July 19, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about HMIs, Sick, Kuka, PI, SMC, IO-Link, OPC UA, Ethernet APL, Cobot's Future, Intel NUCs, Signed GSDs, Ignition 8.1.30, AutomationML, OPC Router, GPS to ICS, Cognex, Pilz and more in our Automation Morning Show for July 18, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about OptixPanel HMI, NYE HMI, K100 Beacon, Pro 2 Ethernet/IP, Fork Sensors, Mini PhotoEyes, OEE, Ethernet-APL, Consumer Packaged Goods, Robotic Investments, Packing Trends, Micro800 MQTT, Logix Safety Library, 5570 Redundancy, PowerFlex, Altivar 610, Lexium 18 and more in our Automation Morning Show for July 17, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Copia, Kollmorgen, P&F, Pilz, SMC, Opto22. Linmot, RTA, Inductive, Danfoss, Cognex and more in our Automation Morning Show for July 7, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Machine Tending Cobots, new IPCs, HMIs, Racks, Safety, Redundancy, Ai, the first MAC and more in our Automation Morning Show for July 6, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Robots, Cobots, IO-Link, 120vac VFDs, 360 Scanning to CAD, Perpetual Power and more in Automation This Morning for July 5, 2023.
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Until next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content Creator Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Ai Cameras, MQTT & C#, Ending SneakerNet, Digital Twins, Zero Trust, Capacitive Proxes, MIA and more in our 70th consecutive Automation Morning Show for Monday April 10, 2023.NOTE: I will be traveling to, and attending, MIA the rest of this week, and next week I will be off on a family vacation, so I won’t be able to produce that morning show during this time. If you’d like me to bring the daily morning show back when I return, it’s very important that I hear from you* here*. Producing the show takes 4 hours each day, which is why viewer feedback and sponsorships are key in determining if I bring it back after vacation.Thanks as always either way, Shawn.
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Links below are from today’s show: (all show links available at Automation.News.)Press Releases:* Copia – Article: SOC2 Type 2 Compliance
Product Announcements:* Advantech – Product: Industrial Ai Camera – iCam 520 * ISA – Product: HiveMQ adds C# client
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Daily Pick: Audio / Video* WWT – Video: Authentication in a zero trust framework * IEEE – Video: Peep handling
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Kuka, Siemens, Schneider, OmniServer, Pi, Dalsa, Intel, ChatGPT, Pilz and more in our Automation Morning Show for Friday, April 7, 2023.
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Links below are from today’s show: (all show links available at Automation.News.)Press Releases:* KUKA – Press: 125 Years Anniversary * Intesis – Press: Improved HVAC Interfaces for BACnet
Show Sponsor:* Siemens * Siemens Giveaway Contest link Watch or Listen to show for contest keyword
Sponsorships:* Sponsorship Details and Contact Form Media Guide
New Articles:* Schneider – Article: North America Returning To People * Software Toolbox – Article: Omniserver Implementation * Pi – Article: Air Bearing Benefits * ISA – Article: Siemens linear motors * ISA – Articled: Cybersecurity response – specific or common ISA 62443 & Cybersecurity Podcast P110 * A3 – Article: Dalsa Smart Camera Trends * OnLogic – Article: 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake Hybrid Core * WWT – Article: Leveraging Samsung devices in digitization and mobilization * WWT – Article: ChatGPT programming interfaces
Insights’ Product Spotlight:* Logix Online Course Bundle
Daily Pick: Publications* Siemens – Pub: Analyzer Intelligence Director Manual * Siemens – Pub: SICAM Q200 Help Manual * Siemens – Pub: SICAM Q200 IEC61850 Logical Nodes and Data Objects Manual * Siemens – Pub: SICAM Q200 Multifunctional Recorder Device Manual * Emerson – Pub: ROC Protocol Manual for FBX Series
Daily Pick: Upcoming Events Horner – Webinar: Array Math in Horner OCS, 4/18, 2PM ET * Pilz – Webinar: Machine Safety, 4/19, 2PM ET * Manufacturing In America, Detroit April 12th & 13th Sign-up Link* If you come to the event, stop by and share your favorite segment to get access to visitor’s log & giveaway
Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Maple Systems, Linmot, Banner, Turck, Siemens, Parker, Cognex, Grace, IEEE, Opto22, RTA, Exida, Automation Direct and more in our Automation Morning Show for Thursday, April 6, 2023.
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Automation Morning Show Notes:If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.If you’d like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!
Links below are from today’s show: (all show links available at Automation.News.)Press Releases:* Maple Systems – Press: HMI’s In Stock * Automation Direct – Press: New Signal Conditioners
Product Announcements:* Linmot – Product: Multi interface drive is new standard * Banner – Product: T30RW Washdown Radar Sensor * Turck – Product: New IM18-CCM Condition Monitoring Device Expert Talk video on IM18-CCM
Show Sponsor:* Siemens * Siemens Giveaway Contest link Watch or Listen to show for contest keyword
Sponsorships:* Sponsorship Details and Contact Form Media Guide
New Articles:* AMT – Article: Architecture for manufacturing digital systems * Digi-Key – Articles: Basics of motor contactors and application * Parker – Article: Five advantages of condition monitoring * Cognex – Article: Boost 3 areas of outbound operations * Graceport – Article: Take First Steps In Reliability Journey * IEEE – Article: Legacy of Gordon Moore
Insights’ Product Spotlight:* S7 PLC Level 1 Online Course
Insights’ What’s New? IIA Gear* TAP 150 (4/19, SuperTune) & 151 (4/26, Rockwell) Edits Complete! * Recording two more TAP episodes this afternoon with big vendors
Daily Pick: Audio / Video* Opto22 – Video: Configuring Node Red Packages * Tech Talk with John Rinaldi, owner of Real Time Automation (TAP 148)
Daily Pick: Publications* Siemens – Pub: Simatic S7-400 CPU Specifications / Manual
Daily Pick: Upcoming Events Exida – Event: What is FMEDA, 4/19, 10am ET, 4pm ET * Manufacturing In America, Detroit April 12th & 13th Sign-up Link* If you come to the event, stop by and share your favorite segment to get access to visitor’s log & giveaway
Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Cognex, Advantech, EAO, Siemens, Rockwell, Schneider, RTA, Rittal, Stahl, Pilz, Posital, Leuze and more in our Automation Morning Show for Wednesday April 5, 2023.
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Links below are from today’s show: (all show links available at Automation.News.)Press Releases:* Aegis – Press: New Release Enables Lean Material Management
Product Announcements:* Leuze – Product: AMS 100i Laser Positioning Systems * Cognex – Product: In-Sight 3800 * Advantech – Product: IPC-320 Compact Tower IPC * Cincoze – Product: New Slim IPC for Embedded or Touch Screen applications * EAO – Product: New Series 09 Rugged Keypads with 8 pushbuttons, CANopen
Show Sponsor:* Siemens * Siemens Giveaway Contest link Watch or Listen to show for contest keyword
Sponsorships:* Sponsorship Details and Contact Form Media Guide
New Articles:* Cognex – Article: Solve barcode challenges with newest handheld reader * Schneider – Article: How IEC61499 Streamlines Plant Processes Schneider on TAP IEC61499.com * Rockwell – Tech Note: CodeMeter and Flexera activations compatibility and differences * Real Time Automation – Article: Best Protocol Gateways * Rittal – Article: “Wire Terminal” machine offers superior speed and precision * R-Stahl – Article: Thanks Goodness for Digital Nameplates benefits for Firmware Updates
New To Digital Newsstands:* Pilz – Newsletter: March 2023 * Posital – Newsletter: March 2023
New Application Profiles:* Temposonics – Application: Smart Automation in Champagne Production
Insights’ Product Spotlight:* HMI / SCADA Online Course Bundle
Insights’ What’s New? IIA Gear* New Banner Logo
Daily Pick: Audio / Video* IEC 61499 Tutorial for Industrial Automation
Daily Pick: Downloads* Siemens – Download: TIA Portal V18 Update 1
Daily Pick: Upcoming Events Mettler Toledo – Event: Resistivity Measurement for Microelectronics, Tue 4/11, 1pm ET * Horner -Event: Setting up AC Power Monitor using Horner OCS, Tues, 4/11 2pm ETExida – Event: Pathway to safe machine learning, Wed 4/12, 10am and 4pm ET * Manufacturing In America, Detroit April 12th & 13th Sign-up Link* If you come to the event, stop by and share your favorite segment to get access to visitor’s log & giveaway * Cognex – Event: Safe and Defect Free Products with Easy Vision, Wed 4/19, 9am ET * Auvesy-MDT – Event: Sleep well at night with Backup, Recovery & Cybersecurity, Wed 4/26, 10am ET
Daily Pick: Upcoming Content* Video 3:30pm ET – Talking Tech with John Rinaldi of Real Time Automation
Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Digi-Key, Aegis, Leuze, Littlefuse, Siemens, Yaskawa, Motoman, Schneider, Mettler Toledo, Unitronics and more in our Automation Morning Show for Tuesday April 4, 2023.
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Automation Morning Show Notes:If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.If you’d like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!
Links below are from today’s show: (all show links available at Automation.News.)Press Releases:
- Digi-Key – Press: Celebrates 50 years
- Aegis – Press: FactoryLogix Update
Product Announcements:
- Leuze – Product: New Contrast Sensors
- Littelfuse – Product: DC Contactors for emobility and industrial applications
Show Sponsor:
- Siemens
- Siemens Giveaway Contest link
- (Watch or Listen to show for contest keyword)
Sponsorships:
- Sponsorship Details and Contact Form
New Articles:
- Motoman – Article: Additive manufacturing and robotics
- Motoman – Article: Motopick 4 adds “no-code” capability
Insights’ Product Spotlight:
- FactoryTalk ViewSE Online Course – ViewSE Basics
Insights’ What’s New?
- SCADAmatic Recording today
Daily Pick: Downloads
- Siemens – DL: Simatic PCS 7 v8.2 sp1
- Siemens – DL: Sicam PAS PQS v8.20
Daily Pick: Publications
- Siemens – Pub: Ai Model Manager
- Schneider – Pub: ASCO SPD
- Emerson – Pub: Bettis RDM-XTE3000 Quick Start
Daily Pick: Upcoming Events
- Mettler Toledo – Event: Prepare for harvest season, 4/10, 4:30pm ET, 4/11, 8am ET
- Unitronics – Event: Servos Made Simple via EtherCAT, 4/19, 10am ET
- Manufacturing In America, Detroit April 12th & 13th Sign-up Link
- If you come to the event, stop by and share your favorite segment to get access to visitor’s log & giveaway
Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about ABB, Beckhoff, Delta, SICK, PI, SMC, Mettler, Siemens, P+F, Rockwell, Aveva and more in our Automation Morning Show for Monday April 3, 2023.
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Automation Morning Show Notes:If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.If you’d like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!
Links below are from today’s show: (all show links available at Automation.News.)Press Releases:* ABB – Press: Providing complete range of robots for high tech kitchen factory * Beckhoff – Press: Nominated for Hermes * Deltaww – Press: VTSCADA * ISA – Press: Automate 2023 Speaker List
Product Announcements:* SiCK – Product: UC40 Ultrasonic Sensors * Hilscher – Product: Passive-EtherCAT Network Data Tapping * ISA – Product: Beckhoff EPX EtherCAT Intrinsically Safe IP67 IO * ISA – Product: PI v-857 high-speed linear motion slides * SMC – Product: JSY Plug-in bottom ported manifold * SMC – Product: JAS Compact Speed Controller * SMC – Product: CQS Longer Life Cylinder CJ2 Longer Life Cylinder * Mettler Toledo – Product: Auto Label Inspection
Show Sponsor:* Siemens * Siemens Giveaway Contest link * (Watch or Listen to show for contest keyword) HINT
Sponsorships:* Sponsorship Details and Contact Form
New Articles:* Pepperl+Fuchs – Article: Selecting Purge and Pressurization systems * Aveva – Article: Reactors – Heart of a refinery * Global American – Article: OEM IPC Services
New To Digital Newsstands:* Rockwell – DigMag: Automation Today, Asia Pacific
Insights’ Product Spotlight:* PanelView Plus Online Course – PVP Basics
Insights’ What’s New? IIA Gear* Media Guide, TAP148 Edit Check, TAS Catalog Updating, Trade show setup check (backdrop, table skirt, new business cards)
Daily Pick: Publications (Pub Crawl)* Siemens – Pub: IE Cloud Connect 7 Operating Manual Cloud Connect 7 APi Server
Daily Pick: Upcoming Events Beckhoff – Event(s): In Person Accelerated TwinCAT 3 Training, Burlington, MA, 4/11-13, ++ * Manufacturing In America, Detroit April 12th & 13th Sign-up Link* * If you come to the event, stop by and share your favorite segment to get access to visitor’s log & giveaway
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Balluff, Pepperl-Fuchs, Siemens, Endress-Hauser, OmniServer, Hilscher, PLCnext, Automation Direct, AS-i, Schneider, Omron, UniCloud and more in our Automation Morning Show for Friday, March 31, 2023.
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Links below are from today’s show: (all show links available at Automation.News.)Press Release:* Siemens – Press: Digital Data Chain
Product Announcements:* Balluff – Product: Inductive Couplers for washdown applications * Pepperl-Fuchs – Product: Purge and Pressurization Solutions
Show Sponsor:* Siemens * Siemens Giveaway Contest link * (Watch or Listen to show for contest keyword)
Sponsorships:* Sponsorship Details and Contact Form
New Articles:* Endress-Hauser – Article: Ethernet-APL ready to use * SoftwareToolbox – Article: Omniserver Byte Ordering * Hilscher – Article: Adding IoT value through passive Profinet data tapping * PLCnext – Article: Beehyve projects launch
New To Digital Newsstands:* Automation Direct – Newsletter: Volume 25 Issue 3 * AS-interface – Newsletter: 2023-E1
Insights’ Product Spotlight:* CompactLogix Online Course – Compact Basics
Insights’ What’s New?* Programmable Controller Trainer – Building self-made units
Daily Pick: Publications* Siemens – Pub: WinCC/ProAgent V8.0 * Siemens – Pub: WinCC/Calendar Options * Siemens – Pub: WinCC/PerformanceMonitor V8.0 * Siemens – Pub: WinCC/Audit V8.0 * Siemens – Pub: WinCC V8.0 WinCC/IndustrialDataBridge * Schneider – Pub: ATV6000 VSD Manual * Schneider – Pub: Altivar Machine ATV340 VSD Catalog * Schneider – Pub: MZ95 Thermal Zone Valve Actuator * Schneider – Pub: Load Center Catalog * Emerson – Pub: EZH Relief or Backpressure Regulator Manual * Omron – Pub: G5-Linear-Drive Selection Guide * Omron – Pub: G5 Linear Servo System Manual * Omron – Pub: EtherCAT Network Solution Brochure
Daily Pick: Upcoming Events Unitronics – Event: UniCloud, in-depth, Tue Apr 4, 11AM * Manufacturing In America, Detroit April 12th & 13th Sign-up Link* * If you come to the event, stop by and share your favorite segment to get access to visitor’s log & giveaway
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Phoenix Contact, ABB, Siemens, Automation Direct, Prosoft, ASi, ChatGPT, SPE, Kuka, Rockwell and more in our Automation Morning Show for Thursday, March 30, 2023.
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Shawn M Tierney
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about B&R, Softing, Balluff, Pepperl+Fuchs, Siemens, Schneider, ABB, Emerson, Rockwell and more in our Automation Morning Show for Wednesday March 29, 2023.
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Automation Morning Show Notes:If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.If you’d like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Sinamics G220, B&R, Rexroth, Advantech, SMC, SimServe, CAN XL, FlexEdge and more in our Automation Morning Show for Tuesday March 28, 2023.
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Automation Morning Show Notes:If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.If you’d like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Ignition 8.126, Dalsa Z-Trak2, Robot Controllers, AnyBus Bluetooth, RFID for HMIs, Inductive Couplers and more in our Automation Morning Show for Monday March 27, 2023.
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Automation Morning Show Notes:If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.If you’d like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Festo, Idec, PLCnext, Top Server, Cyber Security, Ai, Advantech, Red Lion, Siemens, Emerson and more in our Automation Morning Show for Friday March 24, 2023.
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Automation Morning Show Notes:If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.If you’d like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about IPCs, PB Stations, Distance Sensors, Opto22 API used with Ignition, PAX, DH+ vs Ethernet and more in our Automation Morning Show for Thursday March 23, 2023.
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Automation Morning Show Notes:If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.If you’d like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about OPC UA, Ethernet IO, Edge AI, MFA, Flush Rings, Scan Cameras, IPCs, Warehousing & Material Handling Automation and more in our Automation Morning Show for Wednesday March 22, 2023.
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Automation Morning Show Notes:If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.If you’d like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Industrial Networks, Linear Actuators, Raspberry Pi IPC, Upcoming Automation Events and more in our Automation Morning Show for Tuesday March 21st, 2023.
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Automation Morning Show Notes:If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.If you’d like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator
Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Motor Sizing, RFID, Dual Rod Cylinders, OT Security, ControlLogix, EtherCAT, IO-Link and more in our Automation Morning Show for Monday March 20, 2023.
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Automation Morning Show Notes:If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.If you’d like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Until next time, Peace ✌️
Shawn M Tierney
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news from ABB, Balluff, Maple Systems, Advantech, Siemens, Softing, Rockwell, Parker, SoftwareToolbox and more in our Automation Morning Show for Friday March 17, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Warehouse Automation, MQTT, IP69K IPCs, Light Curtains, Vision Sensors, PLCs vs PACs and more in our Automation Morning Show for Thursday March 16, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about IPCs, DLOTO, Ethernet APL, Ai, Robots, Barcodes, Automation vs Jobs, Wireless IO-Link and more in our Automation Morning Show for Wednesday March 15, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about PLCNext, 6DoF Robots, Rotary Stages, 12th Gen IPC, IO-Link, OPC UA, IEC-61850 and more in our Automation Morning Show for Tuesday, March 14, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Ethernet/IP, CC-Link IE, Single Pair Ethernet, Machine Vision, Machine Tending Robots, Augmented Reality, Surge Protection and more on today’s show for Monday March 13, 2023.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about IO-Link Products, Ethernet to DeviceNet to Modbus Bridges, Codesys Updates, AI, DCOM, SCADA and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday March 10, 2023.First up we have a press release here from Pepperl+Fuchs about being chosen as Rockwell Automation’s Ecosystem award winner for 2023.In new product announcements, today we have four new IO-Link products detailed here in the latest edition of Profinews. First up is a new line of full metal inductive sensors from Gavazzi here.The next here is a programmable incremental encoder from Baumer.We also have a new IO-Link version of Trafag’s pressure transmitters here.And finally we have a new combination temperature and vibration sensor with IO-Link here from Turck.In other new product news, Codesys announced here the release of v35 SP19.Our first new article of the day is from ProfiNews here and covers the impact of the move to digitalization.Next we have a new article here from Prosoft discussing the advantages of it’s updated DeviceNet to EthernetIP/ModbusTCP/ModbusRTU bi-directional bridge.And over on the ISA’s website here we have an article covering a proposed standard to allow Robotic products from different manufacturers to work together.An on the Antaira website here we have a new article about how the latest products with advanced AI features are bound to affect industry.In our product spotlight today we’re featuring our PLC Course Bundle of our PLC and Nano Basics courses, designed for users who want get started learning PLCs using free software and free PLC emulation. To learn more, click here.On the Digital Newsstand today we have a new multi-part article from Software Toolbox here covering the latest developments in with their products.And in downloads today we’re featuring a free new SCADA Guide here from Onlogic.In our “pub crawl” today we found several new documents of interest. The first here is a new manual for the Siemens XP-200.The next is a new catalog here from Schneider which includes all their products for Panel Builders.And we have two updated manuals from Emerson today, with the first here being for their Bettis RTS Electric Actuator.And the second here on their Rosemount 6888C Oxygen Analyzer.New to Audio and Video today is an Automation Tech Tip here covering Reporting and Data Logging options for FactoryTalk View Site Edition.And in upcoming events we’re highlighting two new events. The first is an IO-Link workshop in Detroit which you can learn about here, and the second is an Omlox online seminar you can learn about here.And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition “Automation Morning Show,” you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically available within an hour of this article being published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Transmitters, Aveva, Touch Sensors, Groov Epic, Wifi 6, LOTO, Level Monitoring, PowerFlex, Micro800 & RIO, Modicon TM3 RIO and more in our Automation This Morning blog for March 9, 2023.First up we have a press release here from Honeywell about their new Versatilis condition monitoring transmitters for rotating machinery.Today we also have a new press release here from Aveva about their commitment to make their entire portfolio available via their subscription service, Aveva Flex.In new product announcements, today we have a touch sensor announcement from Banner here detailing their new on/off and dimming LC25T touch switch.Our first new article of the day is from Opto22 here and covers commissioning their Groov Epic controllers, and also links to a free course on the same subject.Over on the ISA website here we have a new article detailing Wifi 6 products from R3 Solutions.On the Grace Engineering website here we have their weekly article which this week focuses on their CheckVolt product and how it can be a big timer saver when used in Mining and Water/Waste Water applications.And on the Digi-Key website here is a new, well done article covering level monitoring sensors used in tank applications.Today in our product spotlight we’re featuring our 2013-2020 Video Collection with over 280 videos ad 29 hours of content available on USB for $35, or as a digital download for $30. To learn more, click here.In our “pub crawl” today we found several new documents of interest. The first here is a new programming manual for the PowerFlex 6000T VFD.Also on Rockwell’s website is a manual here on using PointIO as distributed IO with the Micro800 line of PLCs.On the Schneider website we came across three new documents. The first here is a catalog of Distributed IO for use with the Modicon TM3 line.The next here is an overview of Robotics and some of the solutions Schneider Robotic products can be used in.And the third here is a control panel guide to breaks and transfer switches fit for generator applications.And on the Emerson website here we have a new manual for their FBxStation Controll application.New to Audio and Video today is the latest edition of The Automation Podcast with featured guest Diane Davis of Red Lion Controls who discusses their brand new Managed Gigabit line of Industrial Ethernet Switches, the NT5000 series.In today’s Automation Tech Tip (see video from today’s show below) we walk through the different options that exist for those who want to log and report on data inside of FactoryTalk View Site Edition.And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition “Automation Morning Show,” you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically available within an hour of this article being published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about AI Identification, SoftPLCs, IPCs, ZeroTrust, Industrial Wireless and more in our Automation This Morning blog for March 8, 2023.First up we have a press release from Siemens here about their new Passenger Train manufacturing facility in North Carolina. Score one for manufacturing local!In product announcements, today we have a new product from Cognex here which is an AI driven product identification camera touting quick and easy setup.We also have a new IPC here from Neousys with the latest rugged 12th Gen cpus from intel, and an nVidia RTX graphics card capable of 9 Teraflops which is the equivalent of a PS5.Our first new article of the day is from Schneider Electric here and it covers Digitization through phased migrations.Over on the Straton website here we have a new article about their collaboration with Welotec to bring their SoftPLC engine to IPCs supporting IEC61850-3.And I also came across an interesting article here on the DNP website which summarizes Zero Trust and how DNP SAv6 implements that model.Today in our product spotlight we’re featuring our Logix Book Of Knowledge™, a compilation of all of my ControlLogix articles from the last ten years into a single ebook which is on sale now for just $9.99 here.In our “pub crawl” today we found a great new manual from Siemens here which covers the technology of Industrial Wireless Ethernet. We also found a new manual here for Siemens Soft Start products.On the Rockwell website we found one new publication of interest here which is an updated user manual for the 6300B and 6300T line of IPCs.And on the Emerson site we found a newly updated manual here on their Topworx PD100 Smart Valve Positioner.New to Audio and Video today is an Automation Tech Tip here covering TIA Portal v18 and how to create and simulate a PLC program using it.As far as coming content releases, this afternoon at 3:30pm ET here we will be releasing our latest episode of The Automation Podcast with featured guest RedLion to discuss their brand new Gigabit line of Industrial Ethernet Switches, the NT5000 series.And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition “Automation Morning Show,” you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically available within an hour of this article being published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about PLCSim v18, Bar Codes, Ethernet, FID02, Optimization, Smart Devices, AOIs, MTConnect, Flash Memory, Vision, Steppers and more in our Automation This Morning blog for March 7, 2023.First up we have a press release here from Endress-Hauser about their new location in Indianapolis, Indiana.Next, in product announcements today we have news here about a new Cognex Dataman 282 Bar Code Reader.We also have a new product announcement here from Advantech about their CC-Link IE TSN certified switch.And RF Ideas announced here support for End to End FIDO2 credentials supporting IDmelon.Our first new article of the day is from Schneider Electric here and covers thoughts on process and plant automation for the purpose of increasing productivity and profits.Next we have a new article here from the ISA about the need for implementing Smart Infrastructures in facilities.We also have a new article from Advantech here about AOIs – no, not Add-On Instructions, but Automated Optical Inspection.Over on the RTA website we have a new article here explaining what MTConnect is.And on the IEEE Spectrum website here there’s an interesting article here on recent advancements in Flash Memory.In our product spotlight today we’re featuring our S7-1500 & 1200 Level 1 PLC Course designed for users with some PLC experience who want to learn how to use, program, and troubleshoot the Siemens S7-1200 and 1500 PLCs. To learn more, click here.In upcoming events we’re highlighting a two new online events. The first here is by Cognex and is an Introduction to Machine Vision scheduled for March 22, 2023 at 3:00 PM ET.The other here is from Faulhaber on Accuracy with Stepper Motors and will go live on Tuesday Mar 28, 2023 11:00 AM CEST (which I believe is 5am ET.)In today’s Automation Tech Tip (see video below) we walk your through how to create a new PLC Program in the TIA Portal v18 Trail we downloaded previously, and then simulate it with PLCSim.And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition “Automation Morning Show,” you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically available within an hour of this article being published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup:Today we’re covering news about Ultrasonic Sensors, Chillers, Speed Control, DFM & Industry 4.0, Data Protection, Condition Monitoring, Simulating Modbus and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Monday March 6, 2023.First up we have a new product announcement from Pepperl+Fuchs here about their new ultrasonic sensors with CAN interface.Next we have a couple of new products from SMC, with the first here being a new Thermo Low Temp Chiller.The other here is a new Metal Speed Controller.As far as new articles, the first new article of interest is from SMW here and covers “Design for Manufacturing” in the age of Industry 4.0.The other new article here is from WWT and is an update list of trends that are shaping data protection.In applications today, we have one new profile here on the Rockwell website about a customer application that required 140 GraceSense condition monitoring devices along with the gateways for connectivity both to the Grace cloud offering as well as to the Rockwell control system.In our product spotlight today we’re featuring our FactoryTalk View Site Edition Course, ViewSE Basics, designed for users who want to learn how to create, deploy, and troubleshoot View Site Edition applications. To learn more, click here.New in downloads today is a free utility here from Doug Lyons which allows users to simulate a Modbus Device using their PC. Please thank Doug for sharing his utility with the community free of charge!In our “pub crawl” today we found several new documents of interest. The first here is a new manual for the Siemens ET 200pro Motor Starters.The next here is a new brochure for Schneider Electric’s 3 Phase UPS line.Also from Schneider Electric is a new brochure here on their in-rack air conditioners.And over on the Emerson website we have two new manuals here and here on the Rosemount 5408 Transmitter with Hart and Foundation Fieldbus respectively.And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition “Automation Morning Show,” you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically available within an hour of this article being published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Siemens FDE, FactoryTalk Optix, Banner Temperature Sensors, Turck RFID, TopServer as Modbus Device, Stepper Troubleshooting, Zero Trust and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday March 3, 2023.First up we have a press release from Siemens here about providing access to unused field data from production for the integration of IT and OT.Next we have a press release from Rockwell Automation here about their new FactoryTalk Optix products which they bill as an Open, Scalable, Flexible HMI platform with Unlimited Options.Over on the Banner Engineering website here there’s a new product announcement about their S15S non-contact infrared temperature sensor.And on the Turck website here there’s news about their new smart RFID Forklift System.Our first new article of the day is from Software Toolbox here, and it covers how to setup TopServer as a Modbus device/server.And the other new article of interest today is from Oriental Motors here and covers the basics troubleshooting steps for a Stepper motor control system.In our product spotlight today is The Automation School’s PanelView Plus Course, PVP Basics, designed for users who want to learn how to use, program, and troubleshoot the PanelView Plus line of HMIs. To learn more, click here.In our “pub crawl” today we found two new documents on the Emerson website. The first here is a quick start guide for the Rosemount 1208C Transmitters.The other here is an updated edition of their ControlWave handbook.And in our upcoming event spotlight we’re highlight a new webinar here from WWT titled, “The Journey to Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture”And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Motors, Reporting, Modbus, KNX, Pwn2Own, LOTO, Light Curtains, Simulating XYZ Machines, Node-RED, Coils, Alto, IEEE, Tower Lights, Valves, Ethernet IO and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Thursday March 2, 2023.First up we have a press release from Siemens here who is launching a new motors and large drives company named Innomotics.Next we have news here about the release of the latest version of SyTech’s XLReporter, v15.Over on the Banner Engineering website here we have the release of a new Modbus to Analog Output device, their R90C.And on the Intesis website here they have announced the latest edition of their Modbus to KNX Building Automation network gateway.Making the pivot from new products to new articles, first up today is a very interesting article from Inductive Automation here about their recent trip to the Own2Pwn event.And on the Grace Engineering site here we have the latest in their series on Lock Out Tag Out and their Check Volt products.Omron also has a new article here covering Safety Light Curtains used in conjunction with automated retrieval systems, and how features like muting and blocking are used.Omron also has a new tech note here on how to create an XYZ machine in their Symac Simulator and connect it to a PLC.Over on the Opto22 website here we find a new technical article detailing the best practices of implementing Node Red for MTQQ communications.And on the Panasonic website here is a new article covering three methods for reducing coil holding voltage.On the IEEE spectrum site here we have a real treat for computer enthusiasts – an article detailing the original mouse based computer, the Xerox Alto.While on the IEEE website we also noticed they are running a membership special here where new members can sign-up at 50% off.In our product spotlight today is The Automation School’s ControlLogix Course, PAC Basics, designed for users with some PLC experience who want to learn how to use, program, and troubleshoot the ControlLogix line of PACs. To learn more, click here.In our “pub crawl” today we found several new publications of note. Over on the Schneider Electric website here we found a lot of updated publications on their SCADAPack product line.We also found an updated catalog here for their Harmony Tower Lights.Over on the Emerson website we found new editions of their Fisher Catalog 96 on Valves Actuators, Catalog 95 on Caged Sensors, and a new Quick Start for their Valve Controllers.Today in our daily Audio / Video section we have two videos. First up is a new video here from Acromag detailing their Ethernet IO system.The second is Episode 143 of The Automation Podcast with special guest David Peterson of Control.com. In this episode we discuss his experience using Industrial Arduino and Pi systems as PLCs, as well as IPCs.And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about AI, Light Curtains, Next Gen Wireless and Encoders, Ignition Cloud, SuperTrack, Flex5000, Scalance switches and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Wednesday, March 1, 2023.First up we have a press release from Rockwell Automation here announcing an update to their line of Branch Motor Control Protection devices.Next we have another press release, this one from Yokogawa here detailing their new Autonomous Control A.I.Over on the Banner Engineering site here we have a new Light Curtain series, the S4B, with 30mm spacing and lengths from 300 to 1800mm.On the MOXA website here we find a new product line announcement about their next generation of industrial wireless devices.And Inductive has a new article here on their soon to be released Ignition Cloud product.As far as application stories, the first one today is from Rockwell Automation here that covers a recent upgrade to the control systems at Chicago Heights Steel.The second here is from B&R about a recent installation of their SuperTrak system.In our product spotlight today is The Automation School’s CompactLogix Course, Compact Basics, designed for users with some PLC experience who want to learn how to use, program, and troubleshoot the CompactLogix line of PACs. To learn more, click here.In our Digital Newsstand section we have two new newsletters today. The first is from Posital here and starts out with a detailed look at their next generation of Encoders.Also new today is the second issue of Automation Direct’s 2023 newsletter here which covers multiple subjects and includes links to a series of free, well written ebooks.As far as downloads, today our search found a new update from Idec here of version 4.04.01 of their Automation Organizer suite of software for programming their PLC and HMI products.In our “pub crawl” today we found several new publications of note. Rockwell Flex 5000 users may be interested in the first one here which is an updated manual for the IJ Frequency modules.They may also find the second publication here of interest as it’s includes specifications and wiring diagrams for Flex5000 I/O modules.Over on the Siemens site here we have a new manual here on using the Command Line Interface with Scalance Lever 2 switches.Also new today here is an updated manual on using Web Based Management with the Scalance Lever 2 switches.As far as new events go, today we’re highlighting a series of upcoming free webinars here from Endress+Hauser that cover such popular topics like Ethernet/IP, Profinet, IOLink, and Hart.In upcoming content, this afternoon we’ll be releasing Episode 143 of The Automation Podcast with special guest David Peterson of Control.com who shares his experience using Industrial Arduino and Pi systems as PLCs.And in our question of the day we share our thoughts on a user’s question on how to update the program of a remotely located CompactLogix that does not have remote access.And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about CAN XL, PLCNext, EtherCAT, Actuators, Robot Controls, Packaging Trends, Raspberry Pis, Ransonware, Data Trends, Pipetting and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Tuesday, February 28, 2023.First up we have a press release here from CAN In Automation about the third generation of CAN, CAN XL, being shown in recent live demonstrations.Next we have a press release here from the PLCNext community announcing that their Beehyve project is now up on Slack.In new products today we have the release of detailed product information here on Omron’s new EtherCAT slave module.We also have information here about Faulhaber’s new L line of Linear Actuators.Over on the SMC website we have an announcement here about their new Deceleration Controllers.And on the Oriental Motor’s site here we have new information about their MRC01 Robot Controller with Ethernet/IP.From new products to new articles, our first today is on the Omron website here and covers the top six trends they see in packing.On the Onlogic site here we found a new article on the Raspberry PI and its use as a low cost industrial PC (IPC.)On the ISA website here is a new article on Ransomware and how it affects manufacturing and industrial automation systems.And today on the WWT website here, they’re sharing the 8 trends they see for Big Data in 2023.Today we also have one new application profile here from Festo, on how their DHOP closed-loop pipette head enables high speed robotic pipetting (dispensing of exactly measured amounts of liquid.)In our product spotlight today is The Automation School’s Micro800 Nano Basics Online course, designed for users with electrical experience who want to learn how to use, program, and troubleshoot Micro800 PLCs. To learn more, click here.In our “pub crawl” today we found one new publication of interest here, which is an updated manual for the Rosemount 3410 Flowmeter.Our audio video file of the is a new Tech Tip here on how to change the visual properties of Numeric and String Inputs in FactoryTalk View Studio.And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about IPCs, Robot Trends, High Speed Systems, Tunnel Tech, PanelView, Redundancy, Industrial Networks, ViewSE and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Monday, February 27, 2023.First up we have an announcement here from Advantech about a new 15″ and 21″ editions of it’s UTC-500 lines of industrial PCs.Next we have a new article from Schneider Electric here discussing how their Harmony wireless devices can increase productivity. To learn more, check out the associated brochure here.On the ABB website we found a couple of new articles. The first one here includes their prediction of the top three robot trends of 2023. The other here discusses their solutions for monitoring data data centers.Over on the B&R site we have two new application stories. The first here details how they were able to help a customer shave 30ms off a 150ms cycle time.And the other here discusses how a new tunnel utilizes over 100 X20 PLCs to keep the trains on time.In our product spotlight today is The Automation School’s PLC Basics Online course, designed for users with electrical experience who want to learn how to use and troubleshoot PLCs. To learn more, click here.In our “pub crawl” today we came across two new publications from Rockwell Automation. The first here is an updated manual for the PanelView 800.The other here is an updated edition of the redundancy manual for the 5580 line of controllers.Over on the Siemens Website we also came across three new publications of interest. The first here is a brochure outlining their Wireless Indsutrial Lan Products.The next here is a quick selection guide to their Managed Switches.And the final one here is an updated brochure for their Sinumerik One product line.In our audio video file of the day we’re spotlighting Friday’s new Tech Tip here on how to Export, Edit, and Import Tags in FactoryTalk View Studio.In today’s Tech Tip we cover how to change the Graphical settings for Numeric and String Inputs in FactoryTalk View Studio (see today’s video below.)And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Barcode Verification, Windows 10 IoT, Top Server, Commutation of DC Motors, IEC104, S7-1500, Codesys 3.5, Sharing Distributed I/O and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday, February 24, 2023.First up in our new article section is an article from Cognex here about the difference between Barcode Verification and Barcode Quality.Next we have a new article here from OnLogic discussing Windows 10 IoT and how it differs from Windows 10 Professional.Over on the Software Toolbox website here we found a new article discussing Top Server’s client and server roles.And on the Digi-Key website here is a new article about Commutation of Brushless DC Motors.In our product spotlight today is our Logix Book Of Knowledge, which is an updated compilation of all of Shawn’s ControlLogix articles. To learn more, click here.In our downloads section today is a new sample code file here which supports IEC104 communications and works with most CompactLogix and ControlLogix controllers.And in our “pub crawl” today we came across two new publications. The first here is from Siemens and is an update to their popular manual collection for the S7-1500 and ET200 MP I/O.The other here is from Emerson and is a new manual on their MR98 Series of Backpressure Regulators and Relief Valves.Today we also have a “news tip” from Brandon T. He writes in to share news from WAGO about support added to their PFC200 series of PLCs for CodeSys 3.5. Brandon also sent in two links here and here where you’ll find more information (Thanks Brandon!)In our audio video file of the day we’re spotlighting yesterday’s new Q & A video here where we discuss what may be causing a user’s CompactLogix to revert to an old IP Address each time power is cycled.In “what’s coming up,” today at 3:30pm ET a new Automation Tech Tip releases here which covers how to Export, Edit, and Import HMI Tags with FactoryTalk View Studio.As far as upcoming events, today we’re sharing news about an event here on Tuesday, February 28th at 2pm ET hosted by Horner Automation and will cover share I/O between multiple PLCs.And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about IIoT, SMC, HMI Cybersecurity, Thermal Monitoring, Stratix, UPSs, Profinet, Pendant Stations, Power Monitoring and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Thursday, February 23, 2023.First up in our new products section is a new IIoT focused industrial PC from ASRock here.Next we have new Vacuum Pad/Bowl attachment from SMC here.From new products to new articles, the first in this morning’s roundup is from Stahl here, and covers Cybersecurity as it pertains to HMIs.Next we have a new article from SME here which discusses Continuous Improvement in a post COVID era.And today in the Grace blog we have a new article here about their Thermal Monitoring solution.In our product spotlight today is our Video Collection 1: 2013-2020, which contains over 280 of our videos totaling over 29 hours. To learn more and pickup either the physical collection or digital edition, click here.In our audio video file of the day we’re spotlighting two new videos. First up is the latest edition of The Automation Podcast here in which we look at four new or popular I/O and HMI products from Rockwell.Today we’re also featuring a new video here from Linmot showcasing their product in use in a Kroning packaging machine.In our “what’s coming up” section, today we’re highlighting a new episode of Automation Q & A due out at 3:30pm ET in which we discuss why a user’s CompactLogix keeps returning to an old IP Address.As far as upcoming events, today we’re sharing a new PROFINET one day in-person training course in Richmond, VA on March 2nd. To learn more, click here.And in our “pub crawl” today we came across new publications from Rockwell and Schneider. On the Rockwell side we have a new Stratix 5800 User Manual here.And on the Schneider side we have new publications on their Pendant Control Stations, UPS PowerChute Software, and their PM5000 Power Monitors.And that’ll wrap up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Cobot Grippers, PoE Budgets, AS-i Safety, Machine Vision, 3D Printing & Robots, NEC 2023 Changes and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Wednesday, February 22, 2023.First up in our new products section are new grippers here from SMC designed specifically for cobots.We also have a new product announcement here on A3’s website about a new gripper coming from Flexiv which is based on Geckos.And over on Flexiv’s website here is another new product announcement, this one about their new Force-Controlled Parallel Robot.From new products to new articles, the first article in this morning’s roundup is from Schneider Electric here and covers the basics of what is Industrial Automation.Next is an article from Antaira here about how to develop a POE Power Budget.On the Bihl-Wiedemann website here there’s a new article about their AS-i to EtherCAT safety gateways.And on the Electromate website here there’s a new article which defines what Motor Dynamics and Motor Dynamism is.On the Real-Time Automation website here is a new article that take takes a look back at Data Highway.And on the Cognex website here we have an article on the importance of tracking regulatory compliance of product labels, and how machine vision can help.And our final article today is from IEEE here, and it discusses a recent presentation by the president of AMD about power consumption challenges designing next gen microprocessors.Today we also found a new application profile here from Fanuc which covers how one of their customers is using a robot to increase production after their staff leaves for the day.In our product spotlight today is The Automation School’s PanelView Plus online course, PVP Basics. Designed for those who’d like to get up to speed on FactoryTalk View Studio and the PanelView Plus line of HMIs, it comes with lifetime access and support.New to the Digital Newsstand today we found two newsletters. The first here is from Antaira and focuses on their new NAT Router.And the other newsletter here is from Maple Systems and focuses on their new, high performance HMI.In today’s downloads we also have two new product updates here from Auvesy-MDT.In our audio video file of the day we’re spotlighting our Automation Tech Tip here on how to get the TIA Portal Free Trial.And in our what’s coming up section today we’re highlighting a new episode of The Automation Podcast due out at 3:30pm ET in which Shawn interviews a long -time friend and Rockwell product expert on what new and coming products he’s focusing on for Spring of 2023.As far as upcoming events, today we’re highlighting three new online sessions. The first here is hosted by Universal Robots and covers how manufacturing technology impacts employee retention. The free event is scheduled for February 28, at 11am ET.The next event here is a two half-day training online event from Beckhoff from 2-28 to 3-01. For more information including cost check out the event using this link.The final event we’re covering today is from Opto22 and HiveMQ and will focus on using MQTT Sparkplug. To learn more, click here.In our Automation Tech Tip and Q&A today we share our thoughts on why a user is having issues Exporting and Importing Tags to and from CSV files in View Studio (see show video at the end of article to view tech tip.)And in our “pub crawl” we came across a couple of new publications. First up is a new publication from Leviton here covering the recent changes to the National Electric Code.The next is from Siemens here and covers everything you need to know to setup communications between S7 PLCs.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Stepper Drives, Digital Nameplates, Robot Trends, Ransomware, ViewSE, CIP Safety & Security and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Tuesday, February 21, 2023.First up in our new products section is the announcement here of the P8000 Stepper Drive from Kollmorgen,We also have an announcement on the ISA’s website here about Fuzzy Logic’s release of their Fuzzy Studio robot programming software.First up in our new article section is an article here from Ignition about three tools that can help with rapid HMI & SCADA development.Next we have an in-depth article here from STAHL about the emerging standard for Digital Nameplates.Over on the ISA website we have a couple of new articles. The first here covers the Top Five Robot Trends for 2023, and the second here covers Communication Safety Challenges for Mobile Robots.And today on the WWT website we have a new article here which covers Cyber Resilience to defend against some of the newest forms of attacks.In our product spotlight today is The Automation School’s View Site Edition online course, ViewSE Basics. Designed for those with existing PLC experience who’d like to get up to speed on FactoryTalk View Studio for Site Edition applications, it comes with lifetime access and support.In our coming content release, at 3:30pm ET here we will be releasing a new Automation Tech Tip on how to get the TIA Portal Free Trial.In upcoming events we came across a new event here from Horner Automation scheduled for 2pm ET today that will cover installing their all-in-one PLC/HMI outdoors in conjunction with a Stahlin Solar Shield.We also came across to upcoming events here and here from the ODVA scheduled for March 6th. The first will cover CIP Safety while the second covers CIP Security.In our Q & A section today we share our thoughts on why a reader’s CompactLogix continues to return to a previous IP Address each time power is cycled (see the morning show video below for today’s segment.)In our “pub crawl” we came across three new Emerson Manuals, including a new manual on their Sola HD UPS’s here and here, and a new Quick Start Guide here for their Rosemount 2240s.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about 3D Safety, NAT, Din Rail UPS, Regulator, Filtration, ControlLogix and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Monday, February 20, 2023.First up in our new products section is a new Din-Rail mount UPS from Eaton here.Next is a new Sick Safety Rated 3D camera here supporting an area up to 4 meters, and a safely level up to PLc.Wago also has new Terminal Blocks here in its TopJob line, of which my interest was peaked by the Lever version.In new articles today, first up is one from Antaira here featuring it’s Wired Router with 1:1 NAT and VPN features.Parker also has a couple of new articles of interest. First up is an article here on how to go about select a pressure regulator.The next article from Parker is here and covers “game-changing” developments in water filtration.In our product spotlight today is The Automation School’s ControlLogix Online Course, PAC Basics. Designed for those with some existing PLC experience who’d like to get up to speed on the CompactLogix, it comes with lifetime access and support.Today’s “video file” is a new episode of Automation Q & A here and covers our response to a question about a users PVPlus error, “Unable to load ActiveX.”And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Cobots, Haptics, IPC, APC, MQTT, UPC UA, DIO, Free TIA Portal and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday, February 17, 2023.First up is a press release here from the IEEE celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the IEEE Foundation which does many good things like providing free STEM lesson plans here.Next we have an interesting article (and video) here from Fanuc about using Cobots with AMRs or AGVs to operate other machines.In related news, we also have an announcement here that Wittenstein is starting a new joint venture to bring haptic feedback (touch sensors) to robots.And Global American has a new article here detailing what makes Industrial PCs different from their commercial counterparts.PiControl Solutions also has a new article out here discussing how their APC software can help companies reduce waste and increase efficiency.On the Opto22 website this morning we found a new blog here detailing all the resources they have available to help users of their groov products implement MQTT communications.And today on the Software Toolbox website here there’s a new article detailing OPC UA Directory Servers, and how to add their OPC UA servers to them.In our product spotlight today is The Automation School’s CompactLogix Online Course, Compact Basics. Designed for those with some existing PLC experience who’d like to get up to speed on the CompactLogix, it comes with lifetime access and support.Today’s “video file” is a new episode of Automation Tech Tips here in which we show viewers how to use the RSLinx Classic’s Ethernet Devices Driver.In our “what’s coming up” segment, today we’re featuring a new episode of Automation Q & A releasing at 3:30pm ET here and covers our response to a question about a users PVPlus error, “Unable to load ActiveX.”And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about 3D Sensors, IEC 61850, Condition Monitoring, Dual Booting, ITOps, Saving Energy, Python on PLCs, HDMI vs DP, and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Thursday, February 16, 2023.First up is a new product announcement here from Banner about their ZMX Series 3D Time Of Flight Sensor which can measure and monitor objects within a three-dimensional area.Next up is the latest update of Inductive’s Ignition product here. New features include IEC 61850 and RS-485 support, as well as Custom Right Click menus and One Shot buttons with Disabled States.Over on the Grace Engineering website here we have their latest mid-week blog, this one covering different advantages of using condition monitoring products like those in their GraceSense line.OnLogix has a new blog here which does a great job of walking readers through how to setup their PC to dual boot between Windows 11 and Linux.And Global American has a new blog here discussing the differences between HDMI and DisplayPort.On the WWT website today I found two new articles of interest. The first here explains ITops, DevOPs and Agile Software Development. The Second here discusses the steps you should take to insure a successful hypervisor installation.And the final article for today is one from AspenTech here detailing the concrete steps they help customers take to substantially reduce their energy bills.In our product spotlight today is The Automation School’s S7 PLC Online Course. Designed for those with some existing PLC experience who’d like to get up to speed on the S7-1200 and S7-1500, like all their courses it comes with lifetime access and support.On the digital newsstand today we have a new newsletter here from RTA, and this one lives up to it’s name for being pretty “darn” good!Today we also have two new audio video files. The first here is the second in a series of videos from Opto22, this one covering the use of Python with their groove products.The other video file for today is a new episode of The Automation Podcast here in which our guest brings us up to speed on what’s new in CNC Automation.In our “what’s coming up” segment we’re featuring a new episode of Automation Tech Tips releasing at 3:30pm ET here which covers what to do if the RSLinx Classic Ethernet/IP driver won’t find your device.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Rockwell, Prosoft, Leviton, Locus, Cybersecurity, Intel, OnLogic, Siemens, Omron, Schneider and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Wednesday, February 15, 2023.First up is a new blog from Rockwell Automation here which touts the many benefits of it’s new FLEX500HA Universal I/O.Next we have a new article here from Prosoft Technology about the latest version of its Ethernet/IP to DHRIO gateway.There’s also an announcement here from Leviton about their new CAT 6 and CAT 6A line of patch cables.As far a new articles, first up is one here from Locus Robotics which dives into the how Human-Robot partnerships can increase productivity in warehouse operations.And over on the SME site here we have yet another excellent article on Cybersecurity for Manufacturing.Keeping up with every new iteration of Intel’s and AMD’s chipsets can be a challenge, but thankfully the folks over at Premio are helping with their latest blog here about the Intel’s Elkhart Lake release.OnLogic also has a new blog here which dives into how Asset Performance Management is used in the Oil and Gas industry.In our product spotlight today is The Automation School’s Micro 800 Nano Basics course. Designed for those with some existing PLC experience who’d like to get a jump start with the Micro800 line of PLCs, the course comes with lifetime access and support.In our daily search through new publications we came across a new Tech Data sheet here from Siemens on their SIMOTICS condition monitoring devices.And over on the Omron website here we found a new selection guide for their Traceability products includes Bar Code Readers and RFID products.Over on the Schneider Electric site we found three new docs. First was a new brochure here for their EcoExpert program. Next was a new brochure here on their VisiTrip Circuit Breaker with LED Indication. And the last was a brochure here on their Actassi line of networking products.Today’s audio video file is a Q&A here about what to do if the BOOTP-DHCP Utility won’t disable BOOT-P on your PLC or HMI.And in our “what’s coming up” segment, we’re highlighting a new episode of The Automation Podcast releasing today at 3:30pm ET here in which our guest brings us up to speed on what’s new in CNC Automation.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Straton, Seneca, EXOR, Cybersecurity, Rockwell, CiA and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Tuesday, February 14, 2023.First up we have a new press release here from Straton Automation about Seneca using their IEC-61131 PLC Engine inside of their PLCs.Next we have a new product announcement here about a recently released EXOR Industrial HMI, the ex7070, WEB.Over on the SME site we have three excellent new articles on Cyber Security, including Manufacturing Disruption & Securing Systems, Top Types of Cyber Threats, and Cyber Experts Speak.And from Rockwell Automation we have a new application story here about a recent installation of their Pavilion8 solution.In our product spotlight today is our PLC Basics course from The Automation School. Designed for Electricians, Technicians, or Engineers who’d like to get started using PLCs, like all our courses it comes with lifetime access and support.New to the Digital Newsstand today is the latest edition of the CAN in Automation newsletter here.And today in our pub crawl we found one new document of interest here from Rockwell Automation which details the actions they took based on feedback from their last customer survey.In our Q & A section today we answer a reader’s question here at The Automation Blog about what is causing his ViewME Station to prompt him with the error, “Unable to load ActiveX control.” We also previously covered flashing PanelView Plus firmware here.As far as our daily audio video file of interest, today we’re highlighting yesterday’s release here of our Q&A about Messaging a PowerFlex VFD from a ControlLogix.And in our “what’s coming” segment, we’re highlighting a new Automation Tech Tip video releasing here at 3:30pm ET about how to use the old Ethernet Devices driver in RSLinx Classic when the Ethernet/IP driver won’t find your PLC.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Cognex, Advantech, Siemens, Aspentech, Thermosystems and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Monday, February 13, 2023.First up we have an announcement from RS here detailing the addition of new suppliers including ILME and ABB Robotics.Next up is a new product announcement from Cognex here about their new high speed barcode reader, the DataMan 580.Advantech also announced a new product here, the UTC-300 line of Industrial Panel PCs. They state this new line of IPCs has the latest technology which gives them the top performance spot in the market today.Antaira is back with a new blog here about 8.02.3BT, and why it can be a real game changer for Industrial POE Switches. If you’d like to learn more about Antaira’s line of industrial switches, check out our podcast with them here.As for our product spotlight, today we’re highlighting The Automation Blog’s 2013-2020 Video Collection here. This is a great way to show your support for the work we do here at The Automation Blog, and it’s available on either a physical USB memory stick or as a digital download.Today in our pub crawl we came across one document of interest here, which is a new manual for the Siemens Sinamics G115D VFD. If you’d like to learn more about Siemens VFDs, check out our previous Podcasts with them on the Siemens VFD Line and on using Siemens VFDs on Ethernet/IPToday in our Q & A and Tech Tips section we discuss a question the came in here at The Automation Blog about what a user should do if their PLC doesn’t show up in the RSLinx RSWho window.And finally, in our “what’s coming up” segment, we’re highlighting a new Q&A video about messaging a PowerFlex 52x series VFD from Logix, and this video releases at 3:30pm ET here.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Banner, Pepperl-Fuchs, Acromag, SMC, Copia, Software Toolbox, Rockwell and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Thursday, February 9, 2023.First up in our daily product roundup is a new multicolor indicator with optical sensing for touchless activation product from Banner here. And for our podcast with Banner about their entire line of buttons and indicators, click here.Banner also has a new IP69K waterproof LED array which you can learn about here.Over on the ISA website here we find a new product announcement from Pepperl-Fuchs about its new KFU8-SR-EX universal powered switch amplifier for intrinsically safe and SIL2 applications.A new vendor to the Automation Morning Show, Acromag, has new Ethernet Remote I/O Modules here that allow mixing of Analog and Digital I/O.Acromag also has new Modular Ethernet I/O Modules here for up to 32 analog outputs on a single Ethernet drop.SMC has several new products out today, including new models of their Compact Guide Cylinder here.They also have an update on their Long Life Cylinders here.You can learn about SMC’s new Vacuum Bellows here.And SMC’s new Blow Gun here.From new products to new articles, first up we have a new article from Copia here about three benefits of using Git based source control in industrial automation. To listen or view our past in-deapth podcasts with Copia, click here.Back over on the ISA website we have a new article on CC-LinkIE TSN here titled, “Why CC-Link IE TSN Compatible Solutions Are Growing.”And over on the Software Toolbox here we have a good article explaining the REST API to new users.In today’s product spotlight we’re highlighting The Automation School’s Using CCW with A-B VFDs Online Course. Details on the course can be found here, and like all The Automation School’s online courses, this coursecomes with lifetime access and instructor support.Today in our pub crawl we came across one document of interest here, which is a brochure about using PowerFlex TotalForce in Pulp and Paper applications. For more on this subject see our podcast here where Rockwell explains their TotalForce technology.In our Q & A section today we discuss a question a community member had about disabling Boot-P DHCP in a MicroLogix 1400 and PanelView 800 using Rockwell’s Boot-P DHCP tool. Click on the following links to learn more about Rockwell’s BootP DHCP Tool, MicroLogix 1400 and the PanelView 800.And finally, in our “what’s coming up” segment, we’re highlighting a new Automation Tech Tip about importing content from ViewME to ViewSE which we will be releasing at 3:30pm ET here.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Banner, Inductive, Siemens, Schneider, Beckhoff, Opto22, Rockwell and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Thursday, February 9, 2023.First up in our daily new product roundup is a 10 Meter Range version of Banner’s Q5X Laser Sensor here.Banner has also added 3-Pin M8 editions to its S15L family, which you can learn about here.Over on the SME website we have a new Cyber Security article here, which discussed challenges facing IoT and OT devices.And on the Inductive website there’s a new customer article here which details the benefits of working with a stable company and SCADA product line.In today’s product spotlight we’re highlighting The Automation School’s S7-1200 and S7-1500 Online Course. Details on the course can be found here, and like all The Automation School’s online courses, this coursecomes with lifetime access and instructor support.Today in our pub crawl we ran across two new documents of interest on Schneider Electric’s website. The first is a new brochure for their Multi9 line of electrical protection devices here.And the other is a new brochure on their power monitoring and metering devices here.In today’s Audio/Video files we’re highlighting three new videos. First up is a customer application video from Beckhoff here.Next is a new Opto22 Developer Video on the groov series here.And the last is our latest episode of The Automation Podcast here with Rockwell Automation’s Ron Bliss.In our Q & A section today we express our sincere thanks to everyone who sent in questions on the PanelView Plus 7 Series B models. Unfortunately, try as we might we’ve not been able to obtain a sample so we won’t be able to help on this latest edition of the product.And finally, in our “what’s coming up” segment, we’re highlighting a new Q&A video which we will be releasing at 3:30pm ET here.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about ISASecure, ABB, PI, Electromate, Digi-Key, Inductive, SME, Rockwell and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Wednesday, February 8, 2023.First up is a press release from ISA here about an ISASecure initiative to develop OT cybersecurity site assessments.Also from the ISA is news here about the Digital Twin Consortium and OPC Foundation working together on new colabortations.The we have an announcement here from Digi-Key claiming they now have the largest offering of Electronic and Automation products.ABB also announced here that the latest release of their DCS system, SPR 2023.0, is ow out.As far as new product announcements, we start with PI’s four new product announcements here including products from Turck, LAPP, Balluff, and Baumer.On to articles, first up is an excellent design guide here from Electromate on Stages, Tables, and Gantries.Next is an interesting article here from Digi-Key on Traceability 4.0.And PI also has a new article here on efforts to make robot programming easier, and more integrated with PLCs.In today’s product spotlight we’re highlighting The Automation School’s Mastering Logix Applications course with PLCLogix. Details on the course can be found here, and like all The Automation School’s online courses, Mastering Logix Applications comes with lifetime access and instructor support.Today in our pub crawl we ran across two new documents of interest. The first is a new detailed brochure here from Rockwell Automation on their MCS system.And on the Emerson website we found an updated edition of the Fisher Catalog 95 here.In today’s Audio/Video file here we’re featuring a new Automation Tech Tip video about using the Micro800 Simulator.As far as upcoming events, we didn’t find anything of interest so we’re promoting the latest episode of our podcast that will release here this afternoon, and features Ron Bliss from Rockwell Automation.finally, in our Q&A section today we answer a community member’s question on adding a PowerFlex 525 to RSLogix 5000 v 13, which can watch in the below video edition of Automation This Morning.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Allied, Leviton, RTA, EtherCAT, ViewSE, RTLS, Omron, Fisher, Unitronics, MDT and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Tuesday, February 7, 2023.First up is a press release here that Allied Electronics and Automation is now RS.Next we have a new Fiber Optic product line expansion announcement here from Leviton.As far as new articles, the good folks over at RTA released a new blog here about three reasons to love EtherCAT. You can also watch our detail podcast on EtherCAT here.In today’s product spotlight we’re highlighting The Automation School’s FactoryTalk View Site Edition course, ViewSE Basics. Details on the course can be found here, and like all The Automation School’s online courses, ViewSE Basics comes with lifetime access and instructor support.Today in our pub crawl we ran across three new documents of interest. The first is a new manual here on the Siemens SIMATIC Real Time Location System (RTLS.) You can also catch our podcast with Siemens on this topic here.On the Omron site we found a new selection guide here on their line of Barcode Printers and Verifiers.And on the Emerson website we found an updated manual here for the Fisher 4200 Electronic Position Transmitter.In today’s Audio/Video file, we’re featuring a new Q & A about a community member’s PanelView Plus not finding the MER file, which you can watch here.Today we’re also debut a brand new Tech Tip which you can watch in the video edition of the morning show below. In it, I walk through how to migrate FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Applications and Graphics to View Site Edition.As far as upcoming events, two new webinars caught our interest today. The first is from Auvesy-MDT here covering Cyber Security.The other can be found here and is being put on by the folks at Unitronics, and covers PLC to VFD communications.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Picking an HMI, Telecom, Middle Mile Networking, Brakes and Clutches, Motion in PTZ Cameras, and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Monday, February 6, 2023.First up is an article on the ISA website here submitted by Anaheim Automation sharing six tips for selecting an HMI.Next up are two articles from the folks over at WWT. The first one here discusses what they see as four trends in telecommunications. The second article here discusses software-driven, middle mile networking.Over on the Electromate website here is a new introductory guide to electric brakes and clutches.And on the Digi-Key site is a new article here about what considerations go into making energy efficient PTZ Cameras, including Steeper and Motion Control.On the digital newsstand today we have the latest edition of Antaira’s newsletter here.In today’s product spotlight we’re highlighting The Automation School’s PanelView Plus course, PVP Basics. Details on the course can be found here, and like all The Automation School’s online courses, PVP Basics comes with lifetime access and instructor support.Today’s download is a new version of the Siemens SITOP Manager software here.In today’s featured Audio/Video file here, we have a new announcement from AMT (Association for Manufacturing Technology) that they are merging with SVR (Silicon Valley Robotics.)Today we also debut a brand new Tech Tip, which you can watch in the video edition of the morning show below. In it I walk through how to use the new CCW Simulator to simulate a Micro800 Program, which you can also read about in my article here.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:Today we’re covering news about Softing, Mitsubishi, B&R, Balluff, Idec, Anybus, Denso, AS-i and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday, February 3, 2023.First is a press release from Antaira here about how they just obtained a patent on their iPoE Budget Control feature, which helps to avert damage to Antaira industrial PoE switches by preventing the switch from overrunning its set PoE budget.Next we have several new and updated product announcements to cover. First is a press release here from Softing about their dataFEED OPC Suite Extended which they describe as an all-in-one solution for OPC communication and cloud connectivity.Next we have Mitsubishi who announced the release of their MELSOFT Gemini 3D Simulator Software here, which is software designed to allow simulating of manufacturing processes.This week B&R announced its new X2X+ backplane bus here as a new option for those using its X20 I/O and want to take advantage of the 4x speed of the new X2X+ bus.Balluff announced its new line of Compact BML magnetic encoder systems here, which are targeted at applications that need precise positioning and speed detection in dynamic applications.And IDEC announced their new BTBH-H easy-stack Surface Mount Terminal blocks here.With new products covered, we now turn to newly published articles. First up is an article from Anybus here covering the basics of what OPC UA is, and why it’s used in industrial automation applications.Next we have a new article here from Denso about the technology involved in manufacturing inverters.Copia also has a new article here discussing how Git based source control solutions like theirs can help when it comes to IT/OT Convergence.And Digi-Key has a new article here introducing readers to the technology behind Signal Relays.In today’s product spotlight we’re highlighting The Automation School’s ControlLogix course, PAC Basics. Details on the course can be found here, and like all The Automation School’s online courses, PAC Basics comes with lifetime access and instructor support.In today’s Pub Crawl we found three new documents of interest. The first is a sample of the ASi-5 compendium here.And the next two are new Quick Starts for Siemens Soft Starters which you can find here and here.In today’s featured Audio/Video file, we have the latest episode of Automation Tech Tips here which is both a video and article walking users through how to get Rockwell’s Connected Components Workbench for free in 2023.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:This morning we’re covering news about Opto22, Electromate, Robotiq, Copia, Process Automation, Rockwell, Siemens, Omron, CAN and more in today’s edition of Automation This Morning for Thursday, February 2, 2023.First up is a press release from Opto22 here that they are again holding in-person training on the groovEPIC controllers.Next we have a new product announcement here on the Electromate website about two new vacuum grippers from Robotiq.On the Copia website here we have a new “git” tutorial, this one on the use and function of the “.gitignore” file.And on the ISA’s website here we have a new article about Open Process Automation and the Open Process Automation Forum.Today on the Grace blog here, they discuss the growing use of IIoT devices in Water and Waste Water applications, and how their GraceSense product helps these facilities with predictive maintenance.This morning on the Rockwell website we also found two new articles. The first is a case study here which talks about an application that removes hydrogen sulfide from Biogas.The other article here is about Lock Out Tag Out, and how it can be used to improve productivity.In today’s product spotlight we’re highlighting The Automation School’s CompactLogix course, Compact Basics, which can be found here. Like all The Automation School’s online courses, Compact Basics comes with lifetime access and instructor support.First up in downloads today is an update here to the Siemens S7 PLCSim Advanced Trial.And the second download today is an update here for the AutomationML editor.In our Pub Crawl today we found two new documents of interest. The first is a new brochure here for the Omron Ck3C PMAC Controller.The other here is a new manual on the Omron Power PMAC EtherLite ARM product.Today in our featured Audio/Video file, we have the latest episode of The Automation Podcast here, in which we interview Thiago Alves about OpenPLC.And today we found one new event here which is a free workshop from “CAN in Automation” about CAN Physical Layers, and is being held on February 15th.In our Q & A section today, we answer a reader’s question about using the USB port on A-B Programmable Controllers for uses other than programming, and you can find our response in the companion episode of the Automation Morning Show below.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:This morning we’re covering news about KUKA, TATSOFT, CODESYS, MOXA, TSN, HMIs and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Wednesday, February 1, 2023.First up is a new article here from CODESYS about the most recent release of their Safety SIL2 support.Next is a press release from Moxa here about being the first IPC manufacturer to win IEC 62443-4-2 Certification.We also have a new product from Kuka which you can read about here. It covers their new KMP 600-S diffDrive which you can see pictured below:From new products to new articles, our first story is from the ISA’s website here and is about using TSN (time-sensitive networking) in manufacturing.Today we also have a new article here about a recent implementation of TATSoft’s FactoryStudio in a Waste Water facility.And at Global American’s website we have a new article here explaining what an HMI is, and what is does.Today in our Product Spotlight, we’re featuring our Micro800 course, Nano Basics. Learn to confidently program all of the Micro800 PLCs using CCW in this online course here.When it comes to new publications, today we came across two new Quick Start Guides. The first one here is a quick start guide for Rockwell’s PowerFlex 750 series.The other here is a Quick Start Guide for a TopWorx PD100 Smart Valve Positioner.In today’s video file segment we’re feature a new video released yesterday here about why the PLC-5 uses Octal Addressing.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:This morning we’re covering news from Rockwell, Aveva, SME, Schneider, Omron, Emerson, and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Tuesday, January 31, 2023.First up is a new article from Rockwell here promoting their expertise in Semiconductor applications:Next up is a new article here from Aveva about their Manufacturing Execution Software and its capabilities:We also have two new articles from SME this morning. First up is one discussing multi-axis applications here. The next here details how to mitigate burnout in manufacturing.In today’s product spotlight, we’re featuring our ControlLogix Book of Knowledge which you can learn details about here. Every purchase goes to helping us bring you more free how-to and news articles right here on TheAutomationBlog.com:In today’s publication crawl we have several new manuals and catalogs, starting with a new Application Technique here from Rockwell Automation that covers using their VFDs in Common Bus Configurations:Next up are three new documents from the folks over at Schneider Electric. First up is a new catalog here on the Modicon TM5 series of IP20 I/O:Next is a new catalog here covering their PowerLogic Easergy RTUs:And the last is a new brochure here covering their Micro Data Centers:From Emerson we have a new manual here on their Rosemount Ultrasonic Test Transmitter:And from Omron we have a new manual here on the Delta Tau Power PMAC-NC software:In our Audio / Video section today we’re highlighting three new video excerpts from previous Morning Shows, including the first one here on how to get RSLogix for free:The next video is our Q&A here from 01/25/23:And our final video today is here and covers how to use RSLogix with RSEmulate:As far as events go, we’ve found one new event this morning that is coming up Friday and is hosted by Omron. It’s a product spotlight webinar on their new Slim Relays, and you can learn all the details about the event here:As far as Q&A, on today’s morning show we discuss a community member’s question about a PVPlus failing to load an MER, and you can see the article and video we recommended they review first here.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:This morning we’re covering news from SMC, Digi-Key, ISA, Antaira, PTC, Prosoft, and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Monday, January 30, 2023.First up in our new product category are two new products from SMC. First we have a new Electric Actuator here, followed by a new Vacuum Flow device here.NOTE: Those looking to learn more about air amplification can catch our previous podcast on the subject here.As far as new technical articles, our first pick for today is a new article at Digi-Key here about Implementing Galvanic Isolation.Next we have an article from the ISA here discussing what it takes to produce a battery that can power an IIoT device for up to 40 years.We also have an article from Antaira here about some of the unique products they offer. You can see our recent podcast with Antaira here.PTC has a new article here about how Agile Product Development can benifit vendors, and how it has its roots in the Agile Software Development movement.New to the Prosoft Blog is an article here about the benefits of using Cellular in industrial applications, and you can catch our podcast with Prosoft on this topic here.On to today’s product spotlight, we showcased our PLC Basics online course. To find out details about the course, and purchase lifetime enrollment, click here.As far as new events, today we’re highlighting an upcoming Webinar by Auvesy-MDT here about migrating from AutoSave or VersionDog.And in today’s pub crawl we’re highlighting two new documents from Rockwell. The first is a new Emontior brochure here, and the second is a new manual for Thin Manager here.And on today’s show in our Q&A section, we covered a new student question about PLC-5 and Octal addressing, which you can watch in the below companion video of Automation This Morning. The manuals referenced in the video can be found here and here, and the course pre-order can be found here.And that wraps up today’s edition of Automation This Morning! If you’d like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)If you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who’d like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.
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Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:This morning we're covering news from PLCopen, Unitronics, Software ToolBox, Universal Robots, Fisher, ISA, as well as upcoming events, new videos, and a Tech Tip on Rockwell's CCW (and more) in this edition of Automation This Morning for Friday, January 27, 2023.First up in our new product category are some new DC to DC converters and End of Arm Tooling from Automation Direct. Learn all the details about these two products lines here.Next up is the latest TOP Server for Aveva from Software Toolbox, with many new enhancements including better communications with the S7-1200 and 1500 CPUs. Learn all of the details about v6.13 of TOP Server for Aveva here.First up in our new articles category, Universal Robots just released an article about the "next era of collaborative robots" which you can read here.ISA also has a few new articles today, including the first one we'll highlight which convers "Integrating Robots into Automation Networks." This article, which also includes information on TSN (Time Sensitive Networking,) can be found here.Next up from ISA is a new article about "high speed temperature measuring" here, and another about "the importance of OT cybersecurity" here. Readers may find this second article helpful when trying to breach the subject with upper management.For additional reading on Cybersecurity, check out AMT's newest article in their series on Cybersecurity here about "building advanced cybersecurity plans."For those with an interest in electronics, today we also have a new article here from Digi-Key which covers how to apply GaN Field Effect Transistors.As far as new product literature, today we found a single new publication, a new manual from Emerson on their Fisher HPNS control valve which can be viewed here.On to today's product spotlight, we're showcasing our S7 PLC Level 1 course which is currently 50% off, but that sale will be ending very soon. To find out details about the course, and purchase lifetime enrollment, click here.In today's Audio/Video File segment, we're highlighting a webinar on-demand from Unitronics. This webinar was held earlier in the week and does a great job of introducing viewers to the Unitronics line of PLC and HMIs. Those interested can sign-up for instant access to the video reply here (starts at 7:20 mark.)In today's Automation Tech Tip (ATT03) we covered the latest procedure to get a free copy of Rockwell's Connected Components Workbench, which you can also learn to do in this article. In our next episode (ATT004) we'll be covering how to create a simple program and then simulated it in this free software.As far as upcoming events, today we're highlighting a new webinar being held later today by Universal Robots entitled, "10 POINT CHECKLIST TO BENCHMARK YOUR COBOT SUPPLIER," and which you can sign up for here.And finally, our last story today is about a request for feedback from PLCopen . They are looking for your input on "PLC Industrial Controller Software Quality." Learn the details about their request, and how you can provide feedback, in this article here.And that wraps up today's edition of Automation This Morning! If you'd like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)And if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link.Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly, using this link.Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation This Morning and the Automation Morning Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who read, watched, or listened today!If you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automa...
Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:This morning we're covering new products, gateways, regulators, fieldbuses, bacon and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Thursday, January 26, 2023.First up is a new product from Banner Engineering. The product was designed to provide in-line protection for critical devices with M12 connections. To find out more, check out the Banner product announcement here.Next we have a new Gateway product from Automation-Networks. The new ANC-800E is an EtherCat to Modbus RTU gateway converter and lists for just $575 USD. To learn more, click here.As far as new articles, today we start with one from Festo about how their VPPM precise proportional pressure regulator is helping OEMs and Manufacturers solve demanding applications. Learn all the details in Festo's new article here.We also have a new article from the folks over at Digi-Key, which despite its name I found to be an excellent primer on IO-Link. If you've been looking for an IO-Link refresher, or work with someone who needs to come up to speed on IO-Link, check out Digi's new article here, and our previous podcast on the subject here and here.Over on the ISA's website we found two more new articles. The first article here covers promising new technology coming to Image Sensors. And the second covers how automation is helping one company revolutionized bacon production, and you can read about that here.In this morning's Pub Crawl we came across three new publications that caught our interest. The first is a new Miniature Circuit Breaker, Electronic Protection, and Fuse Holders selection guide here.Next is an updated version of Siemens' WinCC Ethernet/IP Connection function manual here.And the last is a new brochure from the folks over at Schneider Election discussing their flexible DCS migration solutions here.In our product spotlight today we're showcasing our 2013-2020 Video Collection, available on USB 3.0 or Digitally. Consisting of all our Show and Minute episodes from 2013 to 2020, this first collection spans over 29 hours and 280 videos. You'll find a complete list of videos and purchase either edition here.As far as upcoming events, today we're highlighting a new webinar from GracePort scheduled for next Tuesday, January 31st Central Time. To learn more, check out their Wednesday Blog here.Our Audio/Video File for today is from the latest Opto22 Blog which is the latest episode of "IntegrateLive" that covers a multi-vendor MQTT Sparkplug build and can be watched here.And in today's Automation Tech Tip (ATT02) we covered how to use the free RSLogix and Emulator that we detailed how to find and download in yesterday's tip. For more about using the MicroLogix, check out our 160+ articles and videos here.And that wraps up today's edition of Automation This Morning!If you'd like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using one of the links at the bottom of this post (the audio and video editions are typically released an hour after this article is published.)And if you think we missed something, or just want to share a news tip, please do so using this link. Vendors who'd like to sponsor our show can learn about the options we offer, as well as contact us directly using this link.Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation This Morning and the Automation Morning Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who read, watched, or listened today!If you'd like to join our community and support our work, you can do so for the price of a cup of coffee each month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Vendors: Would you like your product featured in our product spotlight? If you would, contact us directly at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question?
Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips:This morning we're covering guides, valves, switches, fieldbuses, cybersecurity and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Wednesday, January 25, 2023.First up are a couple of new press releases. In the first here, Allied Electronic and Automation claims to now have the largest selection of industrial controls in North America. You can check out their industrial controls offering here, and let us know in the comments if you think they're right?In the next press release here, Digi-Key announces they have teamed up with Make to release a new "Board Guide" and AR App. In the guide you'll find details on single board computers that run anything from Windows to Linux, including popular hobby boards based on the Raspberry Pi and Arduino.Next up are a couple of product announcements, include one from Festo here that details their new, uniquely engineered angle seat valve.The other product announcement is on a new product we've been following for a few days, and today we got the official RedLion press release here detailing their new N-Tron Series NT5000 gigabit industrial switches,As far as new reading materials, the first article we'll highlight today is one from DigiKey here about Single Pair Ethernet (SPE, aka 10BaseT1L) and how to use it to cost effectively network sensors for building management systems.Next is an article from the folks over at Bihl-Wiedemann here about how easy it is to use of different drives on AS-i thanks to a standardized data image.As far as new eMagazines and/or Newsletters on the virtual newsstand, today we have the latest edition of Automation Directs newsletter here (v25 i1) which covers several topics including Remote Access and Cyber Security, Sizing Transformers, and more.From the virtual newsstand to a virtual pub (publication) crawl, the only new literature I found interesting this morning was a new application diagram PDF here on RedLion's new NT5000 switches.In today's product spotlight we're featuring our S7-1200 and 1500 Level 1 course which is currently on sale for 50% off here.And in one of our new segments, The Audio File, today we have a new episode of The Automation Podcast featuring an interview here with the Manufacturing Hub Show co-host Dave Griffith.In another new segment, Automation Tech Tip, today we're featuring how you can get a copy of RSLogix Micro Starter Lite and RSEmulate 500 completely free, which you can learn about here.And in our final new segment, Automation Q&A, in response to a community member's message we discuss using an Autorun Script to copy files off a PanelView Plus, and you can learn how to do so yourself here.And that's it for what's new in Automation This Morning! If you'd like to watch or listen to the companion edition of the Automation Morning Show, you can do so using on of the links below (the audio and video editions typically release an hour after this article is published.)Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation This Morning and the Automation Morning Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who read, watched, or listened today!If you'd like to join our community and support our work you can do so for the price of one cup of coffee a month at Automation.Locals.com.Huge thanks to all our supporters there!Vendors: Would you like your product featured in our product spotlight? If you would, contact us directly at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here,
Your Daily Industrial Automation Update:This morning we're covering new application stories, facilities, articles, product literature and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Tuesday, January 24, 2023.First up is a new application story from ABB about how they helped a automotive sensor manufacturer implement co-bots to increase productivity. You can read the full article here.Next is a story from Endress-Hauser about the grand opening of their new office in Mexico which you can read here.As far as new literature is concerned, RedLion just released details about its new, next generation line of N-Tron industrial switches, the NT5000 series. You can grab a copy of the new NT5000 brochure here.Over on Electromate's site, we have news of a new high-performance hollow shaft gear unit from Harmonic Drive which you can learn more about here.And on the RTA website there's a new article comparing the OSI model and the TCP/IP model that you can read here.As far as Cybersecurity goes, the folks over at ISA have put together their top nine ICS Cybersecurity news stories from last year in a article here. Let us know which stories you feel will truly have a lasting effect in the comments below.Over on social media we have Mitsubishi sharing an article about TSN and their CC-LinkIE implementation which you can read here.We also have a new edition of Rockwell's Journal Magazine which you can read here.In today's product spotlight is our Five Star Rated ControlLogix online course, PAC Basics. You can learn all the details and enroll at TheAutomationSchool.com:And that's it for today's Industrial Automation News Roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below (once they are released:)Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (24 views)
Your Daily Industrial Automation Update:This morning we're covering grand openings, AI, new products, patches, downloads, and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Monday, January 23, 2023.First up is the opening of the "eXplore Live" exhibition at "The Smart Factory @ Wichita." Located on Wichita State University’s Innovation Campus, The Smart Factory includes a fully operational production line and other exhibits which you'll find the details about here.Next up is the grand opening of Trenholm State’s brand-new, high-tech Advanced Manufacturing Training Center in Montgomery, AL. Featuring products from Festo and Festo Didactic, potential students and interested readers can find out more here.From Training to AI, today we're featuring a new article by the good folks over at WWT about the Future of AI. Which of the the 15 predictions here do you think will come to pass? Let us know in the comments section at the bottom of this article.For new products, we start with the R45C from Banner. This device allows you to bring in two analog devices into and IO-Link system, or bring in one analog input to IO-Link while also mirroring it as an analog output for local visualization or for use with an IIoT system. To learn more, click here.SMC also has a new product out - a new size 20 Bernoulli Gripper which you can learn more about here.From new products to new software updates and downloads, next on our list is a notice from Codesys about a newly discovered bug in v3.5 SP17 Patch 5. If you're currently using that patch, please take a moment to read the Codesys recall notice here.And a huge shoutout to Hassan on the Rockwell Engage forum for sharing this Totalizer code for the Micro850, which you can learn about and download here.And to round out this morning's news, we have two new pieces of literature from Schneider Election. First up is a new brochure about migrating Moore APACS DCS systems here.And the next document is a new catalog for the Modicon M171 and 172 which you will find here.And that's it for today's Industrial Automation News Roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below (once they are released:)Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (33 views)
Your Daily Industrial Automation Update:This morning we're covering a new community project and well as new products, networks, network interfaces and cabling, and new literature in this edition of Automation This Morning for Friday, January 20, 2023.First up is a new, public "crowd" project from the folks over at PLCnext. The goal of the "Beehyve" project is to get input from the community on new solutions to make beehives better for bees and beekeepers alike through automation. Learn all the details here.Next up is a new article from the folks over at Softing about Ethernet-APL. The article covers the "why" of Single Pair Ethernet, as well as some of the architectures that Softing is developing products for, and you can read the article here.Next is an article about training AI systems from WWT. The article does a great job of explaining how AI models get "pre-trained," and can be read here.From AI to Anybus, our next story is about a Robot Tool Manufacturer who needed to find a quick and affordable way to add Fieldbus connectivity to it's Robot Tools. In the article from Anybus here, they walk through how they helped this customer by developing a new PROFINET IRT communications board (show below.)No physical network is complete without the physical cabling, and over the last 24 hours Leviton has announced two new CAT 6A cables: Once with the smallest diameter on the market, and the other for outdoor use. You'll find the details of these new Leviton Cat 6A products here.Also recently announced are two refreshed products from ESD. Below you can see both their PROFINET to CAN, and their PROFINET to CANopen products, and you'll find the details on both here.As far as new literature released since yesterday's article, today we have four new documents from Rockwell Automation.First up are three newly updated Getting Results Guides, one each for FTLinx Gateway, FTLinx Data Bridge, and RSLinx Classic.The other document is a application guide for, "Safely-limited Position with Rollover via a GuardLogix Controller," which can be found here.In our product spotlight today we're highlighting our Micro800 Online Training Course, Nano Basics.Like our other courses, this course comes with lifetime access and support, and the Extended Level 1 & 2 Edition also comes with bonus videos and a free upgrade to the Ultimate Edition that we start filming this summer. To learn more, click here.And that's it for today's Industrial Automation News Roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below once they are released:Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (22 views)
Your Daily Industrial Automation Update:This morning we're covering New Products, Articles, Interviews, Podcasts, and upcoming Events in Automation This Morning for Thursday, January 19, 2023.First up is news from Phoenix Contact that they have acquired IS5 Communications. Not having heard of them before, I checked them out and they appear to be a company focused on industrial networking products, as you can see here on their website.Next is news from Opto22 that they will be featuring a demo of MQTT and their EPIC Groov PLC and IO at the upcoming Onshore Wellsite Automation event being held from January 31 to February 1 in Huston, Texas (as well as online.) To find out more, click here.Kuka just announced a new heavy lift robot arm product, the KR FORTEC Ultra. This line include a lift capacity of up to 800kg, or 1764 pounds, and you find the details here.Over on the Rockwell Automation forums we have a new post by Ron Bliss about all the recent developments with FactoryTalk Linx and RSLinx Classic. If you're a Rockwell user, I recommend checking it out here.Yesterday was "hump day," and right on schedule the good folks over at GracePort released a new blog. This week the focus was on Material Handling and the latest challenges in this field, and they "gracefully" worked in their GraceSense product as you can see here.Panduit also had a new article up, and this one dived into the different adhesives used on its line of Adhesive-backed Mounts (aka “sticky-backs”.) While it might sound a little pedestrian, I really enjoyed the article which you'll here.Over on the SME site there was a new interview with Microsoft's Industry 4.0 expert, Jeff Winter (formerly of Grantek.) It's an interesting discussion about how Jeff became an expert on Industry 4.0, which you can read here, and I'll also include a link to his previous article demystifying the subject here.On the video side, RedLion just teased a first look at their next generation of Industrial Switches, which you can see below as well as in their video here.As far as podcasts go, the first one we'll cover is the latest from ABB in which they talk about their new EV Chargers used specifically in Profession Electric Car Racing. While a little off the beaten path from mainstream automation, I think anyone interested in racing or ABB will enjoy this episode, which you can find here.And for our last news item today, I wanted to share our just released podcast in which I sit down with Mark Berger from Siemens to learn all about their ET 200SP line of Motor Starters, which you can watch or listen to here:And that's it for today's Industrial Automation News Roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below once they are released:Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (37 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Rundown:This Wednesday morning we cover the News, new Articles, and upcoming Events in our Automation This Morning blog.First up is news that Emerson has made an all cash offer for National Instruments at a premium price of $53 per share. To learn more, read the entire press release here.Next we have a new article about Omron's new G2RV-ST and G3RV-ST Slim Relays which discusses many of its features including high speed on (.02ms) and off (.4ms) switching times. See all the details at Omron's site here.Festo has also just come out with their new "Pneumatic Essentials" program featuring easy to order and fast shipping products. To see a complete list of products covered by this program, as well as grab the new essentials catalog, click here.Today over on the Opto22 website you'll find a new article spotlighting Convergence Controls and the four pillars of their business model which I found resonated with me as well. To find out what they are, check out the full article here.A new article from SME is up which focuses on Event Based Vision and features new products from companies like DataLogic and Nikon. Personally I found the Nikon Laser-Radar measuring device of most interest, but you'll find the details about all the products covered in the article here.AMT also has a new article out, this one about Hardinge Groups effort to re-shore some of their production from Asia back to Elmira, NY, and to learn the lessons they came away with from the transition, click here.Today's final article is from the folks over at Global American, in which they discuss what Edge computing is, and the advantages of it over Cloud Computing in this article here.There's also three upcoming events on our list today, with the first being another location that will be holding an Emerson Tech Expo. This one is being held in Bakersfield, CA on February 1st, and you'll find all the details here.New we have the Onshore Wellsite Automation 2023 show schedule for January 31 through February 1st in Huston, Texas (as well as online) and you'll find all the details here.Finally, if you are in the Long Beach area, on February 2nd there's a free Profinet traing courses being hosted by the good folks at PI North America, and you'll find all the details here.And that brings us to our product spotlight, and today I'm featuring my "Logix Book of Knowledge" which contains updated versions of all my ControlLogix blog articles. See all the details or pickup a copy here.And that's it for today's Industrial Automation news roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below once they are released:Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (33 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Rundown:This Tuesday morning we cover new Articles and Product Documents.First up is an article from B&R about how Strama-MPS implemented their SuperTrak linear transport system in an Medical Devices assembly system. To learn the details and check out the video of the system in action, click here.Next up is an updated line of Rosemount Radar Transmitters from Emerson. Said to be more reliable than ultrasonic and hydrostatic devices, these devices come in either IO-Link or Hart modules, each with 4-20ma analog outputs. To learn more, click here.If you live or work in the Minneapolis area, you may be interested in the Emerson Technology Expo going on this Thursday. For complete information including a session agenda, and to register, click here.From events to new product literature, next up is a new brochure for Schneider's Din Rail Mount 24vdc Easy UPS. Coming in 240Watt and 480watt versions, as well as with a separate battery pack, you find the details of this line in the new publication here.Also new to Schneider's literature is a brochure on their 1U Rack Mount APC Smart UPS. Supporting up to 300watts / 500va at 120vac, the details on the SC500RM1U can be found here.From UPS's to Relays, the next new item on today's list is a detail guide to Omron's Slim Relays. This "training document" is more than just a brochure, including details I think most users will want to know, and you can grab a copy of it from Omron's website here.In additional to new literature on Omron's smart relays, we also have a new brochure on Omron's line of Power Supplies which you can find here.And that brings us to our product spotlight, and today's we're featuring my Mastering Logix Applications with PLCLogix 5000 simulator. This course comes with a 15 Day trail license of PLCLogix, or get it for free when you buy a lifetime license of the simulator from us at The Automation School here. If you'd like to know a little more about PLCLogix 5000 first, we also covered it previously here.And that's it for today's Industrial Automation news roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below once they are released:Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (19 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Rundown:This Monday morning we cover Product Updates, Articles, and a couple of new Documents.First up is an article from Inductive Automation about the latest release of Ignition which includes several security and usability updates. If you're an Ignition user you can read all about the latest update here.Next we have an article by the folks over at Real-Time Automation covering th basics of CANopen, which you can read here.Over on the Antaira website we have a new piece about the growing use of Industrial Automation in the Agriculture space. In the article they detail many of the demands of these systems, and why selecting a reliable Industrial Ethernet Switch is so important. To read this article, click here.The latest article at SME that sparked my interest is the new article entitled, "Moving Past People, Planet, and Profit." Don't let the title fool you, this is an article covering the many aspects of production that can be considered when looking at reducing waste, and you can read the full article here.Digi-Key also has a new article our detailing the considerations that go into creating compact and flexible circuits that have accurate circuit protection that meet IEC and UL standards. Those of you electronically inclined will find the article here.The folks over at ISA also have several new articles out, and the one that I found the most interesting was "Complexity and Contention: The Future of Digital Infrastructure." While I don't see all the technology they mention as factors in the future of industrial automation, many are, and the key take-a-way for me was the importance of designing your facility's digital infrastructure with the future in mind. You can see if you agree by reading the article here.Over at the Global American site we find a new article entitled, "Demystifying USB C," which I found not only interesting but something I'll probably come back to and share when questions about USB come up in the future. If you're also interested in this topic you'll find the original article here.And our final article for this morning is from the good folks over at LabForge. In their article about Bin Packing Robots and Machine vision, the cover the key items that come to play when designing a system where the Robot Arm must pick out certain items from a bin of mixed parts. To read the full article, click here.The last two items on today's list are two new manuals from the folks at Siemens. First up is a new manual for the Scalance X-200 switches which you'll find here. The other is a new manual for the ET 200eco PN module communication's manual, which you'll find here.And that's it for today's Industrial Automation roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below once they are released:Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (28 views)
Daily Industrial Automation News Rundown:This Friday morning we cover new Products and Articles, plus a new Download and new Documents.First up is an article from ABB about how a customer implemented their robots to improve the manufacturing of spices for a Chinese Food and Condiment manufacturer, Teway Foods. To read the article and watch the video of the process, click here.Next us is an article from Copia Automation about their latest release and newest features. If you don't know, Copia has been on The Automation Podcast a couple of times (here and here) to discuss how their product brings GIT based source control to industrial automation. To learn more about Copia and their latest features, you'll find their article here.Also new for today is an article from the good folks over at The Association for Manufacturing Technology about building an advanced cybersecurity plan, including maintenance and incident response. It's part of a ten part series, and you can find the article here.So, what do you know about adaptive manufacturing? This is the question asked in the latest blog from the folks over at B&R. The article takes a look at who need to consider Adaptive manufacturing, and how it differs from Flexible manufacturing, and the full article can be found here.Now, I'll admit I've lost track of what's new and happening with the folks over at PI (Profinet International,) which is why I was glad to see their latest blog covering their top five articles of 2022. The articles their followers read the most include topics I'm also very interested in, including Single Pair Ethernet, IO-Link Safety, and TSN. To see all their top articles, as well as new products of January 2023, click here (you can also learn about CAN FD here.)Next is an article shared by Inductive about Sparkplug, and this leas to a website has a great primer on what Sparkplug is and how it relates to MQTT here.From Sparkplug to EMI, our next story is from DigiKey and covers how to implement robust, miniature EMI Control for Automotive and Industrial Power Converters, which you read here.As for new downloads, today we have new firmware available from Siemens for their ET 200SP IM 155-6 PN R1 here.As far as literature, we have two new releases from Rockwell. First up is a guide to their NEMA Contactors and Starters which includes all of the specifications for these products, which you can find here.And our final item today is a new Brochure for Rockwell's FactoryTalk Edge here. While it looks interesting, I'm not sure if this product will find broad appeal - what do you think?And that's it for today's Industrial Automation roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below once they are released:Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (30 views)
Daily Industrial Automation Rundown:This Thursday morning we cover new Products and Articles, plus a new Podcast and Document.First up is an article from Grace Engineering about their ChekVolt product which allows users to test for absence of voltage while also providing voltage presence LED indication. You can read the full article here.Next is an article from Opto22 detailing three industrial applications using Opto22 products and MQTT which you'll find here.Opto22 also published a new round-up of its ten most popular videos of 2022 here.As far as new products go, Balluff announced the release of its new line of High Speed Inductive Measuring devices here.And Emerson announced its new ultrasonic metal welder for bonding larger batteries, conductors and wire terminations here.Over on the Pepperl+Fuchs site we noticed they've opened registration for their Hazardous Area Training Programs which can include up to 15 modules. You'll find more information about them here.As far as new Podcasts are concerned, RedLion released a new episode of its Lion's Den podcast on which they discuss "Why Managed Ethernet Switches Matter," and you'll find that episode here.In the downloads category, today we have an updated GSD file for the Siemens ET200SP distributed IO system, which you'll find here.And when it comes to new literature, Rockwell just released the latest copy of its EtherNet/IP Socket Interface application guide here.And that's it for today's Industrial Automation roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below once they are released:Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (30 views)
Daily Industrial Automation Rundown:This Wednesday morning we cover new Podcasts, several new Products, as well as new Downloads and Literature.First up is the latest episode of The Automation Podcast in which I sit down with Scott Preston from Antaira to learn about their line of Industrial Ethernet Switches. You can view or listen to this episode on your favorite Podcasting platform or right here on The Automation Blog.Next up is a new podcast from the folks at SME discussing Knowledge Transfer during the current Labor Shortage. The interview is with the CEO of an MES company, and I found the discussion might be best suited for those in charge of whole departments or facilities, as discussion covers higher level strategies. Interested readers can listen to the podcast here.As far as new product press releases, we'll start with one from Bosch Rexroth and their "Locator" system. Essentially, this system is designed to allow mobile robots to independently determine their position without users needing expert knowledge to commission them. Their Locator product allows the robots to determine their position and orientation using compatible industrial controllers and laser sensors, and without physical markings and manual training. To learn more, check out the article here.Over on the A3 website we have a news article about a recently release plugin for Robotmaster, an offline programming and simulation tool for robots. This new plugin allows the importing of Mastercam CAD/CAM data into a robotic program. To learn more, check out the article here.nVent announced the release of a new line of Stainless Steel Enclosures and Air Conditioners for Extreme Environments. Features of the HOFFMAN Extreme Environments line includes a Adhesive-free gasket mounting, new hinge design with lift-off door, multiple corrosion resistance options, including for internal protection. To find out more, check out the full article here.Festo Introduced an Online 3D CAD Configurator for Actuators and Accessories. The easy to use configurator allows users to select an actuator and then select "hot spots" on the 3D model to select each accessory. To learn more, click here.Prosoft Technology has a new article up about requirements of extreme environments, like IP rating, Conformal Coating, and Temperature Ratings, all used to remind the reader that Prosoft offers Extreme rated modules for Rockwell XT line of ControlLogix products. To read the article, click here.On the new literature front, Siemens just released an update to their S7 System Comparison manual. This manual compares the features and functions of the S7-300, 400, 1200, and 1500, and can be downloaded here.And as far as software updates go, MDT just released a new security update for AutoSave versions prior to v8.5. Users running those older versions are encouraged to apply the update. For more information, click here.And that's it for today's Industrial Automation roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below once they are released:Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us!
Daily Industrial Automation Rundown:This Tuesday morning we've found several new articles, products, downloads, and literature to cover in our daily roundup.First up is a new article from the ISA and MOXA about implementing Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) in Real World Manufacturing, which you can read about here.Next we have an article about how Emerson’s Analytics Software is helping utilities automate the monitoring and reporting for Clean-in-Place (CIP) applications, which you'll find here.Over on Rockwell Automation's website, when have a rundown of their top five six customer stories from 2022, which you can read here.On the Keyence website this week we find the announcement of a new Silhouette-based measurement system, the TM-X5000 series which you'll find here.I also found this Tweet from Red Lion Controls about a new N-Tron NT5000 series of gigabit network switches. Checking their website here, I didn't find much on this new product yet, but stay tuned as we hope to have more information about this product in the coming weeks.New to Downloads from Siemens is the latest version of the Drives Software, v5.2SP, which you can find here.Also new to Siemens downloads are TIA Portal Add-Ins, which you can learn about here.As far as new literature, we have three new documents from Siemens this morning including a new manual for their ET200SP Distributed IO here.You'll also find the latest Operating Instructions for their Industrial Flat Panels here.And a guide for using AWS IoT Greengrass with their IPCs here.And that's it for today's Industrial Automation roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below:Watch the show:Listen to the show::Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (21 views)
Daily Industrial Automation Rundown:This Monday morning we have new blogs, events, and details on Studio 5000 v35.First up is a new article from Automation Direct covering the basics of what PID Control is. While there are many such articles on the net, this one was just recently released and you can read it here.Next up is a press release from Siemens discuss their new collaboration with 80 Acres to scale up their vertical farming, including the use of SIMATIC Automation products. You can read the entire press release here.Over on the Aveva website (the folks behind InTouch WonderWare) we have a new blog article about the future of Industrial Automation Data, and what innovation may become the trend in 2023, which you can read all about here.Next up are some recently announced events, including the first one we'll highligh which is from Copia.This coming Thursday, January 12, Copia is holding a Introductory Webinar about it's Git based source control product as well as it's Device Link device backup solution, and you can sign up for this free event here.Next up is a Live Webinar on January 26 from Auvesy-MDT (the company behind "Autosave") discussing fatalism in production and 2023 trends with STATISTA. You can learn more about this event here.Also quickly approaching is the industry favorite trade show, ATX West. This year is seems like most of the vendors we follow will be attending the show from February 7th to 9th, and you can see a complete list of exhibitors here.On our own website we've just released a new article covering the highlights of what's new in Studio5000 Logix Designer, which you'll find here.And that's it for today's Industrial Automation roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this morning's show, you can do so below:Watch the show:Listen to the show::Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (27 views)
Daily Industrial Automation Rundown:This Friday morning we have new articles, documents, and some Q&A on ControlLogix.First up is and article from our friends at the ISA about Next-gen Warehouse Operations Start with Next-gen Wireless. The article discuses some of the common issues Warehouse's run into in the post-covid world, as well as some of the challenges of using wireless in warehouses. To see the entire article, click here.New we have anew book announcement on Automation.com. The book, New-Technology Flow Meters is by Jesse Yoder and published by CRC. Volume 1 is available now, and you can learn more about this book here.Turck also released it's "In Stock Product Guide" which lists all its Sensors, Connectivity Products, and Fieldbus products which customers can expect to be in stock at any given time. To grab a copy of this PDF, click here.Next we have updated literature from Siemens detailing its ET 200SP Siwarex Weighing Module, which you can grab a copy of here.Rockwell also released a new publication, this one its latest edition of the Studio 5000 Architect, which you can download here.With the news and new product lit covered, I wanted to highlight a recent question that came in from one of our supporters at Automation.Locals.com. The question regarded replacing a 1756-L5x with a 1756-L6x due to the desire to add a 1756-EN2T to the system, and the complete conversation can be seen here (and is summarized in today's edition of the morning show below.)And that's it for today's Industrial Automation roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this mornings show, you can do so below:Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (18 views)
Daily Industrial Automation Rundown:This Thursday morning we have new articles, podcasts, and a couple of product announcements to discuss.First up is the new Single Axis Motion Controller from Galil. The DMC-3x01x is Galil's latest generation single-axis controller sporting a 32-bit RISC processor while still supporting Galil's simplified with two-letter, intuitive commands and full set of software tools for Tuning and analysis. It also comes with two daisy-chainable Ethernet 100 Base-T ports. One 115kbaud RS232 port:For full details about the DMC-3x01x, checkout the product page here.There's also a new article from GracePort discussing the advantages of Wireless Condition Monitoring products like GraceSense. I thought the article did a great job of explaining where and when products like these make sense, and recommend checking it out here:While we are on the subject of products, I wanted to announce the coming end of the sale of my S7-1200 / S7-1500 Online Training course. Currently set at $99, as I work to finish up the course I will also be raising the price. So if you or someone you know needs to learn how to use and program Siemens PLCs, you may want to signup prior to the coming price increase. For full information about the course, click here.Next up we have several podcasts, the first being just release epsiode of The Automation Podcast in which I interview Curt Anderson about how he helps Manufacturers implement eCommerce on their websites, often times paid for using Government Grants. You can view or listen to the podcast here.Next we have the good folks from Opto 22 who recently were on The Atlas Podcast to talk about recent tech trends here.Opto 22 also has an upcoming live show on MQTT and Sparkplug scheduled for January 11th and 18th which you can find out more about here.Another couple of upcoming events that CAN Network users might be interested in are two from CAN in Automation, or CiA. The first is for newcomers, and the next will discuss the "Physical Layer." To learn more, click here.Available as an Article and Podcast is a new episode from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) in which they discuss the Latest Industrial Automation Trends in Food Processing, which you can listen to or read here.And our final bit of news for today is a new article from the good folks over at ISA and Automation.com which talks about using historical and conditioned based data for use in predictive analysis. To read the article, click here.And that's it for today's Industrial Automation roundup! If you'd like to watch or listen to this mornings show, you can do so below:Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Thanks to everyone who watched read, watched, or listened to today's roundup!You can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (26 views)
Welcome to the Automation Morning Show for January 4, 2023!For more information, check out the "Show Notes" located below the video.Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show Show Notes:Special thanks to everyone who watched today's episode of The Automation Morning Show! To see all the topics and links covered, visit https://Automate.NewsYou can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (12 views)
Welcome to episode 1 of our new morning show for today, January 3, 2023!For more information, check out the "Show Notes" located below the video.Watch the show:Listen to the show:Automation Morning Show for 01-03-23 Show Notes:Special thanks to everyone who tuned in to The Automation Morning Show! To see all the topics and links covered visit https://Automate.NewsYou can now support our work and join our community at Automation.Locals.com!Thanks in advance for your support!Vendors: Would you like your product featured on our websites or shows? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contactUntil next time, Peace ✌️ Shawn M TierneyTechnology Enthusiast & Content CreatorHave a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com.Sponsor and Advertise: Get your product or service in front of our 75K followers while also supporting independent automation journalism by sponsoring or advertising with us! Learn more in our Media Guide here, or contact us using this form. (15 views)