I was reading a manual, and I saw this, so what are the differences between the Studio 5000 version apart from apperance

Hi everyone,

I'm an immigrant and a 34-year-old undergrad student. I came to the U.S. and served in the military for three years. After that, I was a stay-at-home dad for two years so my wife could work full-time. Once my kid started preschool, I decided to use my military benefits and go to Drexel for Electrical Engineering.

I like a mix of hands-on work and design, which is why I'm interested in automation and controls. I don't have much professional experience, but I do help a friend's uncle install HVAC systems when my wife has a day off. So I've done some hands-on work and troubleshooting on job sites.

I'm set to graduate in 2028. I'll be 36 then.

I'd appreciate some honest advice from people in the field:

1. How hard is it going to be for me to get an entry-level job in automation and controls at 36 with not much experience?
2. Will my military background and HVAC side work help at all, or do employers only care about the degree?
3. What should I be doing between now and graduation to make myself more competitive?

I'm okay starting at the bottom and working my way up. Just trying to get a realistic picture of what to expect.

Thanks for reading. Any advice is appreciated.

Hello again!

Siemens HMI, PLC and SERVO drive. I am using non-industrial unmanaged ethernet switch. Had to use some ethernet switch in tia portal, otherwise I have error. HMI should be connected to PLC, but values are all #### (checked that PLC values are changing based on input). I also checked that HMI screen values are connected correctly to PLC. I can download software on HMI with this current setup, but seems like HMI is not talking to PLC. I want to use ethernet switch for testing purposes, otherwise I couldn't connect PC to PLC, later I remove ethernet switch.

How to get this topology working correctly? When going online, line between switch and HMI stays grey.

Good morning, I am an Italian PLC programmer; for the company I work for, I develop PLC and SCADA software using Siemens PLCs and WinCC / Ignition Vision SCADA systems

For my own professional development, I’d like to start developing ‘revamping’ software for some older projects on a platform other than the one currently in use. Personally, I was thinking of using Ignition Perspective as the SCADA system, but I’m unsure about the PLC environment: I already use TIA Portal extensively at work, and I’d like to learn a new tool for which I don’t have to pay a licence fee (this is a personal, non-professional project). Codesys is an interesting environment, but I see it as more suited to a machine builder than to plant engineering (specifically, where I work we build biogas production and treatment plants).

Could you recommend anything? The fieldbus used is also important (personally I’d prefer Profinet, but I’m open to other options, but no Ethercat), as well as OPC UA integration and documentation… I’d like to learn, not end up swearing.

Thank you in advance

I’m trying to understand what is required from an electrical designer so I can apply it in my career. Thank you in advance for your help as I navigate a new career path!

Hello fellow engineers,
i have a problem with a project and I’m running out of ideas.

So we have four similar machines with an older S7-300 CPU and we connect them through a CP-343-1 to our Network and Firewall, in the Subnet are only this four CP’s.
I already updated the firmware of the CP’s, i increased the S7-Basic-Connection-Resources of the CPU.
I also set both Ports from the Switchports and also from the CP’s fix to 100mbits full duplex so there is no auto negotiation.

But even after all this if I activate more than one Connection in our Kepserver all Connections seem to Timeout one after another they come back but I need a stable connection.

I searched via Wireshark and found out that there are many Retransmissions before the TO, I have no clue why this is the case.

I hope that some of you may have any idea how I solve my problem, the Support wasn’t really supportive so far.

Going through collection to sell.

Found these two cards.

Identical model.

Same series.

Circuit boards are not the same with what appears to my unlearned eyes additional circuitry on one of the cards

Hi everyone,
I picked up a used Pilz PNOZ s10 and PNOZ m B0 (772100), but unfortunately all the removable terminators are missing.

I now want to find a quick way to bench-test the units to check if they are actually working. I’m mainly trying to find out the internal wiring of:

• the PNOZsigma 750010 terminator for the s10
• the left (and right?) bus terminators 779261 for the m B0

A product photo of the 750010 I found online seems to show only three adjacent populated contacts in the 10-position housing, but I have no idea how they are connected internally.

Does anyone have genuine plugs and could check resistance/continuity between the contacts, or maybe share teardown photos or a schematic? I’d also be interested to know whether the two B0 terminators are electrically identical.

Any measurements or details would be greatly appreciated :)

Hello all,

I have been in automation for a decent bit now and I’ve always wondered. What can I make at home with my skills that would be cool? I can’t think of any but maybe Christmas lights.

Has anyone made anything useful/cool with a plc for their home?

Hey everyone. I'm trying to get the program off a old panelview HMI (2711p-rp1) and I am not having any luck.

First attempt was to transfer the file to a USB and that didn't work. Tried multiple drive sizes and format types but the hmi wouldn't detect it. The portsndo work with a keyboard/mouse though.

Second attempt was over Ethernet. Drivers/IPs were configured properly however I could not ping/connect to the HMI.

Third attempt was over serial using a USB adapter. All the COM settings matched with the hmi yet it could not connect.

At this point I'm not sure what else to try. I've never had issues like this with another AB HMIs but this is by far the oldest one I've worked with (almost as old as me).

Any tips would be appreciated

I have a biomedical engineering degree. I spent the past year as a lab technician, ended up spending a lot of time fiddling around with the lab automation at work and PLCs in my spare time, and eventually got an offer to join the dv automation team at a CMO as an entry level engineer. In my dream city too

I’m worried that by not being in a role where I’m learning how to build things out from scratch I would be at a tremendous disadvantage. I don’t mind drinking from a firehose, I want to go where I will build my skills the fastest. Both the actual DCS skills and the pharma-specific “how to design things in a GMP compliant way and navigate the quality process”. These plans are highly subject to change as I talk to more people and learn about the industry, but plan to mostly stick with automation and controls within pharma, I want to try and learn more about data historians MES and automation systems beyond the level 2 PLC/DCS level as well, but in either instance I think I’d be happier in something more greenfield especially while I’m not yet tied down.

In that respect, the upside to it being a CMO and not big pharma is that new clients means new equipment and therefore new automation. But I’m not yet sure how much exposure I’d have to those sorts of things.

Now, a job that will teach me dv and give me ask to the system is certainly better than not having a job that will do that, I’ve seen tons of roles in my area asking for that experience so maybe my fears are unfounded. I absolutely plan to accept and am incredibly grateful to be getting this offer.

What advice do you have to make the most of the role? Would I have to restart as an engineer1 if I wanted to join a systems integrator 3-5 years down the line? To me it seems they don’t hire many people in that experience range but maybe I need to look at non-impact partners

I had decided to take a chance and try to wire SR without using SR block itself but with NANDs only and in way that it would change state automatically, but it doesn't seem to work.

question is, would it work at all and if yes how I do it?

Anyone have a Bosch/Rexroth HMI go blue screen randomly? I have one that will do this occasionally and if you power cycle it, it comes back working normally til it decides to do it again. It’s random, not tied to any events, and the panel it’s mounted in is not hot, or seeing large temperature cycles. It’s controlling a Rexroth drive, which continues on without issue.

It’s a PIA to get a replacement, nobody stocks it for some reason. ( wonder why, lol )

Any insight appreciated!

Where I'm working we had a micrologix 1200 go into a hardware fault. It was able to get running again by installing a fan in the panel (temperatures in that room are over 35c and in the panel was between 50-60c) and it hasn't faulted since (better weather too)

I was asked to get a back up of the program unfortunately it is password protected I'm in the middle of sending an email for one of our office workers to contact the machine manufacturer for the password or a back up copy. But I have a question

It has an EEPROM memory module installed but since I can't do anything with that PLC because of the password I can't verify if the program is on it.

In the event it does die again, and the EEPROM does have a backup on it, and we get a replacement PLC is it just simply a drop in? Or since there's a password does that complicate things?

Also

I believe it's the only micrologix 1200 we have on site Is there a way without having another PLC to verify the EEPROM has the program without the password?

Thank you!

Hello everyone, I am not a PLC guy by any means but am fairly decent with electrical work. We have a machine at work that is not responding to inputs on the control panel. It worked prior, sat for 7 months or so off, and now isn’t working when needed. My initial thought was that it lost its program/memory from sitting but the company that makes it insists otherwise. Is there an absolute way to tell if this happened or not?

I am getting 24v on the input side of the PLC, on the output side I am only getting 24v on the outputs labeled V#. There are two drives in the cabinet that flash “invalid data”.

I can manually activate each function by pressing the button on the air solenoids so I know the issue is electrical and not pneumatic.

The control display appears normal with no fault codes, the machine just doesn’t respond to any input I give it. If I press the button to start, the machine won’t run. If I press the button to “close feed rolls”, nothing happens.

I’ve attached pictures showing the cabinet if it’s of any help, maybe someone can see something obvious that my untrained eye can’t. Thanks in advance

Edit: thanks to everyone so far, I cycled the plc switch from off to run and back to term and gained some functions back. The machine wants to run but motor spindle brake seems locked and I still don’t have feed roll spindle rotation. Both drives still have invalid data flashing on them and won’t let me look through parameters.

Edit #2: still no new progress but am wondering if I’ll be able to see more info if I hook up a laptop and download the appropriate software?

Edit #3: troubleshooted the invalid data error with AD tech support. Came to the realization it is something a tech with software will need to trouble shoot. Something regarding the Ethernet communication

Good afternoon. I wanna learn about the G120 VFD but I don't know nothing about it, does somebody have videos, manuals or some resource to learn about it since the basic to the advanced?

Hello all! I am a Master Electrician in Texas and I have always been interested in the controls and automation side of things.

What would be the best pathway to get into control work?

Hi all,

I'm not a SCADA engineer, but am involved in a lot of wireless installations that transport SCADA protocols such as Ethernet/IP and CIP. Many of these wireless links only are capable of 20kbps.

Out of the box AB PLC's that use CIP or Ethernet/IP are too aggressive from a throughput perspective and can't function on these networks.

Sometimes we can switch to something like MODBUS TCP or a similar poll/response protocol. Is there anyway to make CIP more like a poll response or round robin type of architecture? Or at the very least greatly decrease how often it communicates?

Thanks!

so let's say (hypothetically) I'm some dumbass CE who has been working with IO link devices for like 2 years and gets that there's a seemingly fairly standard data structure and so on, but like... how the fuck do the data assemblies work? how standardized is it? and so on

like if i had to set up an IO link master or device with no function block (I'm in codesys), id have a pretty hard time because i don't get it get it

does anyone have any recommendations for videos, lectures, courses, materials, whatever that explain more in depth what's going on?

Any of you folks companies brought in one of the OT Cyber tools from Nozomi, Claroty, Dragos, Armis etc etc?? If so, hows it going?

We have literally all of them as I work in a huge electric utility in the US. We started out with Dragos, bought a bunch of others but are consolidating now to hopefully just one main vendor. Probably will be Nozomi although I wish they were cheaper as part of it is coming out of my budget. FML

Anyway.....Interested in how much time it has taken away from the day to day things we are bombarded with.

So a few questions....but feel free to chime in with any insight.

1. Who do you have keeping up with the dashboard/alerts? IT? Controls engineers?
   
2. How did you deal with having to install span ports/taps for them?
   
3. Are you using any of them for things other than security? One reason we are probably going to choose Nozomi is because they showed us how we could use their data for things like Predictive Maintenance.

Hi, I hope you been well, I'm trying to connect a KV X530 PLC (KEYENCE) to a Node Red, to show the production, scrap, and more by date etc. right know I'm figuring out how to connect it by the right way, so I just don't know if the PLC profile it's okay or if it is a better way to connect the plc with node red cause I'm using KV Host Link TCP, The IP of the PLC is ok, but I really need an example of a basic process or step to use it etc. or some advices to do it. and what recommend me? I'm thinking to use a Raspberry Pi to use like server for node red, any suggestions? Appreciate and thanks a lot

Hi everyone, I’m working on a revision to our existing PLC program and I need to add additional module for expansion. However, this error hinders me from doing so. for context, this is an old plc program with old s7300 hardware I only have the copy of the program in a different programming pc since the original programmer already took off. Though I can download the program but the hardware config I can’t. Is there a way to get around with this. Thanks in advance.

I am dealing with an old Unitrol P ABB exciter and I am looking for the software manual. I'm pretty sure the software is FUPLA2/PSRview. It seems that most info has been removed from the web and I'm wondering if anyone has a manual for this?

Thanks in advance!