Overview: Rockwell’s does not natively give a method to export controller tags from the PLC and import the tags as alarms to FactoryTalk. This can be problematic as some projects can contain thousands of alarms with mostly repetitive information. This article will serve as a guide on how to automate the creation of trigger
Now that Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 is installed, the next step is to create a new project for the PLC. To begin, Visual Studio creates an empty project which is the framework on which the PLCs, code, motion axis, licenses, libraries, and more are built upon. Under the Beckhoff folder in the start menu, open TwinCAT
TwinCAT 3 XAE (Extended Automation Engineering) takes advantage of the highly polished Microsoft Visual Studio as the programming environment. This is an extremely powerful piece of software typically used for creating custom .NET software, but Beckhoff has utilized it to program their PLCs. This provides very good tools for quickly creating, debugging, and dissecting
