Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 XAE is based on Microsoft Visual studio and is seems pretty simple at first glance, but there are many little features that can help make programming more efficient and enjoyable. Here are a few of my favorites. Tall Cursor Hold Alt and drag to make the cursor tall and type
Siemens Totally Integrated Automation Portal Siemens TIA Portal is an extremely powerful programming platform. Siemens has truly achieved a "totally integrated automation" solution as all of their current generation PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA platforms are programmed using the TIA Portal from budget to high-end. The TIA Portal also contains many cool shortcuts which help
Beckhoff Controllers Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 offers an extremely powerful PC-based industrial automation platform with the reliability of a standard PLC. Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 resides within the Microsoft Visual Studio shell which provides a freature-rich integrated software package to program both the PLC code and HMI. Connecting to the Beckhoff TwinCAT controllers is easy, here's how.
Maskine recently worked on a project with 100+ Allen-Bradley Kinetix 5700 drives. Over the course of commissioning these drives the same faults came up over and over again. These faults where typically caused by incorrect wiring or configuration. Often the faults displayed in Rockwell Studio5000 can be somewhat cryptic and don't make the problem
