Allen Bradley Controllogix / Logix5000 PLC Platforms

• Basic understanding of Control Systems & LOGIX5000
• Getting Started with Project Creation & Modification
• Organizing Data & Basuic Ladder Logic Design & Rules
• Hardware Identification & Module Selection & Configuration
• Ladder Programming Using More Advanvced Instruction Types
• Using Specialized Instructions & Communications
• Documenting & Searching a Project & Sharing Data over a Network
• Fault finding Techniques
• Creating an Add -on Instructions & Online Actions
• The Netlinx Philosophy & Earthing Considerations
• Firmware Upgrade & Setting Up Communication Modules
• Introduction to Other Programming Languages

Topics included are

• Understanding control systems

• How a PLC works and why we use them

• Drafting basic ladder logic for an RSLogix 5000ladder routine

• Operating and navigating RSLogix 5000 software

• Fundamentals and definition of terms

• Creating and modifying an RSLogix 5000 project

• Relationship between the binary, decimal and hexadecimal numbering systems

• Creating tags and monitoring data in an RSLogix 5000 project

• The difference between tags and addresses

• Drafting basic ladder logic for an RSLogix 5000 ladder routine

• Selecting and entering basic ladder logic instructions for an RSLogix 5000 routine

• Organizing data

• Tasks, programs, and routines

• Tag arrays

• Hardware of the different platforms, chassis, controllers, I/O modules and communication modules

• Configuring Controllogix digital I/O modules

• Configuring Controllogix analog I/O modules

• Ladder programming using more advanced instruction types

• Using expressions

• Programming a procedures

• Retrieving and setting controller status values with GSV/SSV instructions

• Programming a BTD instruction

• Configuring a message instruction

• Programming program control instructions

• Creating user-defined data types

• Using RSlinx for controller to computer communication

• Searching for project components

• Documenting a project

• Configuring Logix5000 controllers to share data over an Ethernet/IP network

• Communicating with an I/O Module over an Ethernet/IP network

• Forcing I/O tags and toggling bits

• Analyzing and troubleshooting a system using a trend chart

• Analyzing and correcting controller faults

• Analyzing and correcting I/O faults

• Chassis and power supply problem

• Entering and editing ladder logic online

• Developing an add-on instruction in a ladder diagram

• Managing RSLogix 5000 project files

• The three major industrial networks used by Controllogix

• The network topologies explained

• Installation considerations including earthing and power supplies

• Updating Logix5000 Firmware using Controlflash

• Setting up communication modules

• Introduction to BootP server

• Introduction and creation of a function block diagram

• Introduction and creation of a structured text routine

• Introduction and creation of a sequential function chart