Hello everybody,
I am working for an OEM and we are in the process for trying to raise the effectiveness of the pretesting of machines.
Basically we are building machines with quite a lot of motors and cylinders etc..
During pretesting we home all the actuators and then move them in their mechanical min/max limit to see that everything is working correctly.
We have an array in the PLC for manual movements and a switch/remote to trigger it once selected.
It is quite tedious to go back and forth the computer to change the manual movement number to move to the next actuator.
Since our actuator numbers are standardized, we were thinking to use a remote that could send numbers to the PLC to select the movement and use buttons on the same remote to trigger those movements.
For example if we have a motor M32.2, we would like to send to the PLC number 322 and use a button to trigger the movement in the PLC (could be a relay in the receiver that goes into an input or some signal through some protocol).
Issue is that I have been trying to google it back and forth but have not had any luck finding such a product.
Using binary and relays on a regular remote will overcomplicate it specially for the junior automation engineers.
I was thinking perhaps it would be possible to use IO-Link to send the value or Modbus or something.
We are using Siemens 1200/1500 PLCs and also different Rockwell PLCs so it should be compatible with both platforms.
Is anyone using something similar in their work or can someone point me in the correct direction please?
Thanks!
I am working for an OEM and we are in the process for trying to raise the effectiveness of the pretesting of machines.
Basically we are building machines with quite a lot of motors and cylinders etc..
During pretesting we home all the actuators and then move them in their mechanical min/max limit to see that everything is working correctly.
We have an array in the PLC for manual movements and a switch/remote to trigger it once selected.
It is quite tedious to go back and forth the computer to change the manual movement number to move to the next actuator.
Since our actuator numbers are standardized, we were thinking to use a remote that could send numbers to the PLC to select the movement and use buttons on the same remote to trigger those movements.
For example if we have a motor M32.2, we would like to send to the PLC number 322 and use a button to trigger the movement in the PLC (could be a relay in the receiver that goes into an input or some signal through some protocol).
Issue is that I have been trying to google it back and forth but have not had any luck finding such a product.
Using binary and relays on a regular remote will overcomplicate it specially for the junior automation engineers.
I was thinking perhaps it would be possible to use IO-Link to send the value or Modbus or something.
We are using Siemens 1200/1500 PLCs and also different Rockwell PLCs so it should be compatible with both platforms.
Is anyone using something similar in their work or can someone point me in the correct direction please?
Thanks!