Automation Tech Talk

IND360 on Ethernet/IP: Using with Logix and View (S2E31)

[https://theautomationblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-860x100-B2-PVP-Reviews.jpg]https://theautomationblog.com/product/pvp-basics-online-course/ SHAWN WALKS THROUGH ADDING A METTLER TOLEDO IND360 ON ETHERNET/IP TO STUDIO 5000 FOR USE WITH COMPACT AND CONTROLLOGIX, AND IMPORTS AND TESTS THE IND360 FACEPLATES FOR FACTORYTALK VIEW IN EPISODE 31 OF THE AUTOMATION SHOW, SEASON 2. FOR ANY LINKS RELATED TO THIS EPISODE, CHECK OUT THE “SHOW NOTES” LOCATED BELOW THE VIDEO. ---------------------------------------- WATCH THE AUTOMATION SHOW FROM THE AUTOMATION BLOG [https://theautomationblog.com/podcast]: ---------------------------------------- Note: You can unlock hundreds of “member only” episodes for just $5/mo here [https://theautomationblog.com/memberships]. ---------------------------------------- LISTEN TO THE AUTOMATION SHOW ON THE TECH TALK PODCAST: ---------------------------------------- THE AUTOMATION SHOW, SEASON 2 EPISODE 31 SHOW NOTES: LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT METTLER TOLEDO’S IND360: * IND360 DISTRIBUTED CONTROL EBOOK [https://www.mt.com/global/en/home/library/guides/industrial-scales/oem/ebook-distributed-control-enables-manufacturing-agility.html?cmp=em-tp_GLO_Influencer_IND_KH_IND360-RateControl-Episode_20251001] * IND360 INDUSTRIAL WEIGHING SOLUTION [https://www.mt.com/global/en/home/products/Industrial_Weighing_Solutions/scale-indicator/IND360.html?cmp=em-tp_GLO_Influencer_IND_com_IND360-RateControl-Episode_20251001] * IND360 EASE OF INTEGRATION WHITE PAPER [https://www.mt.com/global/en/home/library/white-papers/industrial-scales/ease-of-integration.html?cmp=em-tp_GLO_Influencer_IND_WHP_IND360-RateControl-Episode_20251001] * IND360 DOWNLOADS (EDS FILE)*** [https://www.mt.com/us/en/home/library/datasheets/industrial-scales/terminals/ind360-weighing-terminals.html] * IND360 AOI AND FACEPLATES*** [https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-pr/support/product/product-downloads/innovation-center/ease-of-integrating-a-weight-indicators-via-ethernet-ip.html#modal-id1] *** LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE PROGRAMMING NOTE: DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICTS, EPISODE 31 IS RELEASING PRIOR TO EPISODE 30 😉 ---------------------------------------- READ THE TRANSCRIPT ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: (AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Automation Show. Sean Tierney here from Insights and Automation. And today on the show we’re going to integrate the Indy three hundred sixty from Mettler Toledo into studio five thousand with Compact Logix five thousand three eighty, as well as into Factorytalk View Studio. And I think you guys are going to really enjoy this. This is a pretty cool integration here, and they did a great job, I think, with, uh, providing all the files that we need to make this happen. Now, that said, I do want to thank Mettler Toledo, who sponsored this episode, so we would make it completely ad free. So thank you to them. And with that said, let’s go over to the computer here and get started and let me press the right button here. Okay. So here we are on the computer. You can see I’ve got SES links open. You can see I have well getting ready for another in-person hands on class. Um, we’re going to be doing a special here. So if you guys want to buy block of times for in-person training next year, let me know. The special price is only good through the end of twenty twenty five. So even though you don’t have to take the training until twenty twenty six. But in any case, um, what we’re going to see here is this is the PLC I’m going to use this is my Or pack. This is my uh, L368 fifty three eighty, I think I got thirty seven in it. And then up here you can see the IND three sixty shows up on the network. But it’s got the big yellow question mark. Right. And you guys all know what that is. If you’ve been watching me for a while we need to load the file now. I already have a Logix uh, studio five thousand project open, and this is the one I used for the 3D, uh, digital twin that I’ll be given to my students. Actually play with that quite a bit this weekend, trying to refine it, get it ready for students. But in any case, that’s great for those students who can’t come in to do hands on training. We’re going to give them a virtual trainer at no charge. So in any case, we’re just going to repurpose this for use with the Mettler Toledo. No. And let’s go ahead and find out a little bit more about the version here. I think it’s thirty seven. Yeah. Thirty seven. There you can see the, uh, catalog number. And so let me go ahead and close that. Now the first thing I want to do here is bring that file in. You guys know I have a shortcut on my desktop to both the editors installation wizard and the device installation wizard. Pretty much the same thing, but, you know, it’s under here on the tools as well. So the device description installation tool will open that up here. And I will include in the description the links to where I got the files I’m using today. So you don’t have to search that and worry about where to get them. You’ll find both links there. There’s one for the editors file, and then there’s another for the add on instruction we’re going to be using. And the faceplates for Factorytalk view. So pretty cool stuff. Let me just walk through the wizard here. Uh we’re going to register a single file. Let’s go browse I think I put it into my documents on this virtual machine. Okay. So empty. And there’s my editor’s file. Okay. And next. Okay. Pretty quick. Brought it right in. There it is. And we’re all done. Beautiful. So now the next thing I forgot to do is I’ve got to add that to my studio five thousand project. I just happen to know I’m plugged into A2. So I’m going to right click and do new module. After a moment it comes up and I’m going to just search on Indd three hundred sixty. Yeah. And there it is. Okay. So because we added the editors file, now it shows up here in the available items to add to our Ethernet. So let’s go ahead and create that. Okay. You can see the configuration. Of course every time we add something to Ethernet IP right. We got to have or add it to the uh to the I o tree. Right I o configuration. We got to have a name for it. So I’m going to call this empty underscore I three sixty underscore zero one. Now the important thing to note here is whatever I name the physical device I cannot give the instance the same name. So we’ll just give our AI. When we get to that point. We’ll just call it indie three sixty without the underscore in the front. Now I’m not going to give it a description, the IP address. I’m going to use the default IP address one nine two dot one six eight dot zero dot two. We talked about that in the last episode that we did on the indie three sixty, and we’re going to go ahead and click on okay. And with that done I’m just going to go ahead and click on okay. And now you can see it down here under A2. All right. So that’s all the I o I wanted to add. Now that’s great I have a unit there I can talk to. But usually you want to get an add on instruction right. That’s going to get all the information and put it together in a nice easy to look at format. Plus it’ll format it for the faceplate we use in Talk View Studio. So let’s go ahead and see about importing that in. Again I’m going to give you the links to the files I’m using today okay. So in any case I’m just going to open up my main routine. And instead of bringing in the AI, I’m going to bring in a run with the AI on it. Um, kind of kills two birds with one stone. So let’s go ahead and import a rung, and I’m going to go back to those files I downloaded and under here. As you can see I drilled down I get to this and you can see you get the AI or rung. So I’m going to bring the rung in. You got to put it on a rung anyway. So eliminates one step right now at this point it’s going to come up and say hey we need some more information here. So on the tags right. It says the instance name. Well what do I want to give this instance. So let me go ahead and select that out of there. And then I’ll come up here and do a find replace. And I’ll say let’s replace instance with what do we say we’re going to do in D three hundred sixty. Underscore zero one making sure we’re not using the same name. We gave the object the actual I o itself. And we’ll do replace all okay. So now we have a real instance names. All right I’m not going to play around with the description. You can play with that if you want. But now I have to actually tell it. Well what’s the module. So let’s go down here and we will see. We have the IND empty IND three hundred sixty inputs okay. So let me select those and we’ll do the outputs as well. There we go. All right. So that’s all good. Now let’s come down here to other components and saying module name okay. What’s the module. Where is it. There she is right there okay. Now if you look over here I have no more flags. Right. All the flags are gone. So I’m in pretty good shape. So I’m going to click on okay. And we should see it. Bring it right in here. It’s going to add all kinds of data types and custom data types, add on instructions, and all kinds of stuff that go with what you would expect with an add on instruction. You see them over there on the left, all that get added in. But what we’re really concerned with is this add on instruction block. You can see right here. Right. And I want to show you something about that right now I think mine went as a program tag. Let’s see. Yeah it went in the program tags. That’s okay. So in any case look at all of this that you get you get all these command bits right. You get all of these uh set you get status. Status is really the stuff I’m looking at here just to make sure it’s updating. So, you know, is the current. Wait, I have a demo on the scale, so I have a demo case on the scale. I didn’t want to bring in all the lentils and make a mess. So I just have a demo case on the scale around thirteen kilograms. And so, um, all of this is done for you all in the names, right? You would think a name of a function block, you know, these kind of follow those same names. So in any case, it just makes everything very, very easy. Now there’s no description over here because I didn’t change the description. All right. So I probably should have put change the description too. But in any case. So I got instance description. Of course those are all coming down from the parent. So if I change this to let’s say empty underscore I three sixty underscore zero one, then all of them change. Right. Because you can see they’re grayed out. So they’re getting they’re inheriting the the beginning of the description from above. Okay. So let’s see what we’re going to do here next. So we get that in we get the main I think we’re ready to download. Let’s let’s try it. Let’s go ahead and go to communications to active. And just waiting for it to come up. Let’s go find our PLC here. Boom I know I say still say PLC sometimes guys, but I know it’s Rockwell. It’s officially a pack, but, uh, It’s just who I am. Same plc a lot longer than Pike. I think it’s funny too, because you’ve got partners of Rockwell who have connectors to their products, and they call them the Rockwell PLC connector. It’s not a PLC, it’s a PAC. But anyways, doesn’t matter to me. Call it what you want. So we’re downloading now to the controller and if everything was done correctly, we should be able to go in there and see the current weight. Right. I don’t have everything hooked up. We can’t spray lentils all over the place. But in any case, you should be able to see that we are connected. We should have green IO up and we should be able to see the current weight at least. And all right, so I got green io. That means everything’s working right. I’m online. I got green io. Everything’s happy here. Okay, let’s go and see if we can find the current weight here. Because I think it’s about thirteen kilograms. We got all these statuses coming in. Okay. Gross weight minus twenty three. That’s a little lower than I thought it would be. Okay, here’s the net weight. Thirteen. Now, I have something in here that weighs a little bit more. All right, so let me go ahead and put it on top of the scale here. Yep. We got up to fourteen point two five. So I’m feeling really confident that everything’s working. I got green lights no errors in my tree. I got the current weight coming in. I thought that was super easy right? And so as long as you have the links to those files, it’s easy. Now what’s also easy is getting it to work with the factorytalk view. Okay. Now, the first thing, of course, this is a what I did is I decided to open up the objects five screen demo. Just figured we’d use that. And the first thing I’m going to do, I already have effective talk links open. I figured we would create a shortcut here, and I’m just going to call it, uh, five thousand three hundred eighty. Okay. And so that’s my unit. And that is the one here at one seventy four. So I’m going to go ahead and apply that shortcut here. You guys I’ve been doing these videos on creating shortcuts for over a decade now, almost two decades now. So I’m sure you guys are familiar with that. I’m going to not that I’m going to download to a panel view. Plus, I do have panel view pluses on the shelf here. But just to just to be thorough, I’m going to copy from design the runtime okay. And then I’m going to click on okay to save everything. And so now my shortcuts done from my project. This object five screen demo doesn’t didn’t have any connections to a PLC. So the next thing I want to do is I want to bring in the face plates okay. And you typically will start with the images. Okay. Now I notice when I was doing the images okay I’m going to go back to my documents okay. Indd three sixty Mettler Toledo files, general files, device library and Factorytalk images. Not on the mask. It’s on the factorytalk images. And one of the things I noticed when I brought these in, they came in really slow. So I’m not going to. I already did it just to save us time. Okay, so all those images have been added, but you typically want to do that first because the objects, the global objects have you use those images. So the next thing we’ll do is we’ll go to global objects and let’s add those in. And if you’ve never added any type of faceplates or plant packs or anything like that, this is a standard procedure you go through. So the next thing is I bring in the global objects. Let me do me. I’m just doing me for simplicity. Um, let’s see here. I’ll bring both those in. I did not choose the update my SC license on my technical tech connect, because I don’t plan on updating my SC costs in the next few months, but I do want to update my piano view plus costs in twenty twenty six, so I forgot to get that on the support. Okay, so I brought in those global objects there. You can see them right there. Okay. Now let’s bring in the display Add component into application. And there’s the display. Okay. That’s great. Now, this display is it expects you to pass something to it. When I play test it, I don’t have anything pass to it. So it’s going to say hey what do you want to put in parameter number one. And I believe if I remember to documents in this there’s instructions in there’s actually a nice PDF with instructions in there. Um let me go ahead and do show server names, which I love to do. I wish that was on by default. Okay. And then there’s my pack and then it wants what it wants. Is that tag for the Indy three hundred sixty. So that’s it right there okay. So I’ll click on okay and say let’s test play it with that as parameter number. The first parameter okay. Give it a second. And boom okay. Customer defined under load okay. That’s great. Well I don’t have that big hefty uh thing on it. But as you can see here, um, we can come through here and we can look at things. I’m going to go ahead and just put a little extra weight on the scale, and we can see it changing. Oh, now it’s ready. So I must be at least as heavy as that big piece of equipment, the feeder that we were using in the last episode. Okay. And, um, we have already we don’t have the error anymore. You can see all of this information here. Okay. And this is just great. You get this for free. It’s all done for you, right? There’s our error. Let me see if I, uh, take some weight off of it. Yeah, we get another error because it’s expecting to have that big, um, feeder on top of it. Right. Okay. And so this is all done for you. You don’t have to do anything. And I just think that’s amazing. Um, if you’re using mettler-toledo, the NDI three hundred sixty, and you’re going to use Factorytalk view now, I believe they also have files across view. Um, very, very similar. I thought I saw something in there for panel view Five thousand. I didn’t see anything for optics, but I could be wrong on that. But in any case, I’m just varying my weight on here as, um. As. So we can see the chat goes up and down, but you see how easy that was? I mean, really, we just have to tell it you’re looking for. And again, this is all in the manual. You’re looking for the actual instance we want to, to connect this to. And you could you could actually have different buttons for different instances. Let’s say you had ten insta360’s out there. Or you could have ten different buttons to choose which one. Or you could use a select a list, whatever you want to do, right. But in any case, I just wanted to show you this because I thought it was just. The integration is so sweet, so quick. The really the only thing you need are those files and I’m going to link to them. Right. Some of them are on my website, some are on Rockwell’s website, which I thought was interesting. But in any case, you know, they’re in a compass partner. So, um, and I do want to thank let’s go back to the main screen here. I do want to thank, um, Mettler Toledo for sponsoring this so I could show you this with zero ads and let me know. Did you like that? I thought it went together really quick. It’s not one of those videos where I was spending a day banging my head against the wall. No, it was very easy. As long as you have the right files, boom, boom, boom. It’s all set up and working. And again, I appreciate Mettler-toledo for letting me borrow their demo and for sponsoring these two episodes so that I could bring them to you ad free, and I could afford to actually spend the time with the product and learn it and use it. So with that, we’ll be shipping this back out. You may actually see this exact demo at Automation Fair if you’re going. I actually have a different vendor who has hired me to come and do interviews at their trade show, so I won’t be at automation fair, at least not Tuesday and Wednesday right now, because I’ll be somewhere else. But in any case, you got to you got to follow the money, right? If you want to keep the lights on with that, I want to thank you all. I want to thank you, members. I want to thank all you viewers and listeners, and I just want to wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends. 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Discrete vs. Digital: Automation Tech Talk for 10/20/25

[https://theautomationblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2025-860x100-TAS-Learn-Logix-in-a-Day.jpg]https://theautomationschool.com/live SHAWN DISCUSSES HOW MANY SO CALLED “EXPERTS” DON’T USE THE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY WHEN REFERRING TO ROCKWELL AND SIEMENS MODULES IN TODAY’S EPISODE OF #AUTOMATIONTECHTALK LUNCHTIME EDITION LIVESTREAM: ---------------------------------------- WATCH AUTOMATION TECH TALK ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- LISTEN TO AUTOMATION TECH TALK ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: ---------------------------------------- AUTOMATION TECH TALK SHOW NOTES: THANKS FOR LISTENING! IF YOU’D LIKE TO JOIN THE SHOW SOMETIME, DON’T HESITATE TO USE THE CONTACT US [https://theautomationblog.com/contact] LINK. LINK MENTIONED IN VIDEO: – SHAWN’S ONLINE COURSES [https://theautomationschool.com] – SHAWN’S IN-PERSON COURSES [https://theautomationschool.com/live] ---------------------------------------- READ THE TRANSCRIPT ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: (AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey everybody. It’s Sean Tierney here from Insights and Automation. And I’m trying something completely new. I hope it’s working. I hope you can hear me. I’m actually in a different room here. What I’m calling studio C, which as I’m updating all my PLC courses, I need to I needed another spot to be able to, um, film videos. And so I’m kind of looking off to the side because I need to get another monitor in here. But in any case, I hope you’re doing well. I don’t know if you guys are seeing my audio. I don’t know if you’re hearing my audio or seeing my video. I don’t know what the quality is, but hey, you get to try things out. I’m actually trying Restream instead of StreamYard because there’s some audio delays with the StreamYard that, uh, if you’re not using the webcams, audio or whatever. So in any case, I just figured I’d just, uh, show you, uh, you know, test this out. And I wanted to talk to you about discrete versus digital. I o so I’ve seen some people who call themselves experts. Of course, you guys know I train for a living. I teach, uh, you know, Allen-bradley, Siemens PLC, HMI and SCADA and, uh, you know, there’s a lot of competition out there, a lot of people saying they’re experts and a lot of them actually share incorrect information. And one of the not so, not so horrible information is shares when they’re calling Rockwell’s IO discrete IO. And of course, if you want to use the word discrete, fine. Right. I always use the word digital. And I’ll show you why I use that word. And I know even in Rockwell, there was controversy years ago, I remember seeing a, uh, a letter come out from Rockwell. I don’t know if it was rescinded or not, saying we’re going to go from one to the other or whatever, but in any case, it kind of came to mind. Uh, I was reminded of this. Let me go to my my screen here, but I recently, uh, partnered with Schneider Electric, uh, great company to cover their modicon edge. Io wants a new a whole bunch of io they came out with, and I think it’s really cool. I filmed, I think, a forty five or fifty minute, uh, episode on it. They’re reviewing it now Ensure there’s no additional graphics they want to add or anything I technically got wrong. That’s one of the things we do with our sponsors, is they can go through and say, did you cut this? Add this. You know, just just we want to make sure it’s technically correct. They don’t they don’t get the storyboard, a script, the the episode. But in any case, it was a lot of fun doing that episode. It’s again, it’s not ready to go out yet, but soon. Uh, in any case, um, I noticed I kept saying digital I o and their modules specifically say on them discrete I o. And so, um, I just noticed that the restream is putting their logo right over my face. Isn’t that nice? So let me take care. See, this is what we call about testing things. You get to test things out. And I have a very easy fix for that. No, that’s not what I wanted to do. Thank you. All right, we’ll put that over there. Okay. That solves that problem. So in any case, um, you know, and I so I’m recording the video. I keep saying digital I o and then I’m opening the boxes and they see discrete and I’m like, oh that’s, that’s very interesting. It’s a different um, they use a different name for that. And I’m like, you know, I’m curious, you know, I’m saying digital I o because it’s a Rockwell thing, right? I’m like, I’m curious, what does Siemens call their I oh, now they call their I o modules. Signal modules. Right. Which is a slight difference. So I brought up the online uh tool here with Siemens. I said let’s see. And it’s digital modules digital and analog modules. Right. So you have digital and digital digital in out. Right. I’m like okay. So Siemens is using the word uh digital instead of discrete like Rockwell. And uh, but but Schneider is using discrete and not that it’s a big deal. Again, I’m doing this part as a, you know, tongue in cheek picking on some of my competition or uses the wrong terminology with the wrong brands, but also just to test out. And we already found some some mistakes already, but with the Restream. But in any case, before buying Restream, I want to test it out to make sure it does what I want it to do. So in any case. So I’m like, okay, Sean, are you are you sure Rockwell uses the word digital, right? And I remember this letter coming out twenty years ago saying, you know, digital, discrete, blah, blah, blah. I don’t remember the detail. So I said, let’s go up and look at the latest control logics IO module, um, selection guide and or control logic selection guide. And you can see right here very clearly they call them digital input and output modules. Let’s see if we go down we see some more of these. Okay. So the IB sixteen being one of the most popular ones. So I checked around and compact logics was the same. And I’m like well let’s go back in time. Let’s check. Uh slick five hundred. Yep. Digital I o and analog io. And I’m like, how about the flex back from the early nineties or mid nineties I should say. Yep. They use flex IO digital and analog okay. And I’m like, all right. Great. So these other people who claim to be experts aren’t using the right terminology with what they’re supposed to be an expert with. That tells you something, right? That tells you something. But I’m like, can I find any instance where Rockwell uses the word discrete? Right. So I came over to the selection guide for the Micrologix digital I o. Okay. Not discrete good. So I said, you know what? I’m just going to search the knowledge base. Um, actually the literature library on ABC.com, I’m going to say let’s look for anything that has the word discrete in it, because I know I’ve seen this word before with Rockwell, and I did find a few. There’s only twenty results out of the entire, I don’t even know, hundreds of thousands of literature out there that had discrete. And so I wanted to pick out a few that relate to plc I o cards that use the word discrete. And so here we have some of the old block I o. I actually got some will be adding that in the PLC course I’m filming. I will be doing that on remote I o but the old block I o you can see this manual. And what was the year on this? Let me just go to the. Sometimes you have to go to the back nineteen ninety four. And they’re calling it the block I o discrete I o blocks okay. So that’s an example right. And then there was another one here. Right. For I o Ponyo installation instructions. They use the word discrete as well. I thought that was interesting. What year is that from? Uh, well, it was updated in twenty. It’s twenty twenty five. So. So, you know, apparently they’re okay with using interchanging the terms here and there. And then I found this old compact io um, release note that called them discrete IO module. So my question to you is what do you call them. Now I know there’s there’s like twenty. And these all are some of these have to do with um machines with sensors, light arrays and all that kind of stuff. There’s very few, probably under ten documents you can find on Rockwell’s. Um, I’m just checking to make sure the video is coming out on Rockwell’s, uh, literature library. That will refer to IO module as discrete versus digital. And I already showed you at the beginning here, you know, all the current literature and all the old literature really had a preference for digital IO and that that kind of just reinforced when I was doing that. Modern, um, video. I was like, I keep saying digital, but the modules say discrete. Where did this where did this digital come from? It’s the vast majority of Rockwell’s documentation. Call it digital IO not discrete, but I’m curious, what do you use? Do you say digital IO or discrete IO? And do you agree with me that if you’re working with Rockwell or Siemens, as we saw on their website, that you should be using the term digital? But when you’re working with Schneider, at least the edge io nts, you should be using the term discrete. And I know it doesn’t matter one bit, but, you know, hey, if I’m going to test out the studio and the mic and the video camera, it might as well might as well have something to chat about, right? This is automation Tech Talk, Lunchtime Edition, and I thought this might be a fun little topic to talk about again. Does it really matter? No. But, um, you know, one of the things I try to do is pay attention to the different, um, vendors terminology because I don’t like getting it wrong myself. Right. And so in any case, I just thought that would be something fun to talk about. Now, I don’t know if because I’m trying out Restream. I don’t know if I’ll be able to see any chat to see if anybody’s chatted. So let me see if I can do that. Uh. I would need that. Okay, great. So I don’t see anything in the chat, and, um. Which is fine. As a matter of fact, uh, Restream seems to be a long way behind me. So if you’re. You may just be watching this now, it looks like Restream is, like, five, ten minutes behind me, which is really weird. I don’t know why they would be so far behind, but. Oh, well, it doesn’t matter. In any case, uh, I just a couple of things that I’m working on right now in case this video is working. Um, the first thing is, um, we are working on a second video on the indie three hundred sixty. That’s what I’ll be doing right after this. And then, um, with that, we have another video coming up on Prtg that was sponsored, and they’ve had some people come and go and had some time problems scheduling it. But I do want to show how to use that TRG with um, uh, factorytalk view, which I thought would be cool. And then we got a lot of new. I got a lot of new demos to make. Um, we covered most of the demo one, Siemens, one I have, I have a bunch of other third party products and some Rockwell products. I’m going to make those demo boards up for in-person training. If you know anybody who needs in-person training, tell them to reach out to me. I’m going to be actually sending fliers out, uh, with a special if people want to buy a block in time for twenty twenty six to come to in-person training. And, um, so it’ll be a, it’ll be a discount, but that’ll be it. That discount won’t carry into twenty twenty six. So with that, I think that’s everything. Hope to have more of these. Again. We’ll have some more demos in the studio probably maybe in here depending on how this is working out. But in any case, um, look for more videos coming out this week, maybe some even some more lunchtime videos. And I want to wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time my friends. Peace. ---------------------------------------- IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT SHAWN’S IN-PERSON OR ONLINE COURSES, PLEASE DON’T HESITATE TO SETUP A TIME TO MEET WITH SHAWN VIA MSTEAMS [https://calendly.com/shawntierney/presales-questions?back=1], OR DROP HIM AN EMAIL USING HIS CONTACT FORM HERE: HTTPS://THEAUTOMATIONSCHOOL.COM/QUESTION [https://theautomationschool.com/question/]/ ---------------------------------------- Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content 🙂 Shawn M Tierney [https://insightsinautomation.com] Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog [https://theautomationblog.com/join] or on YouTube [https://youtube.com/@InsightsIA/join]. You’ll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com [https://TheAutomationSchool.com]. (147 views) [https://theautomationblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2025-728x90-TAS-Learn-PAC-Basics-with-Logix.jpg]https://theautomationschool.com/live

MD-34A-DD Win10 IPC Tablet Dock (M5E45)

[https://theautomationblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2025-860x100-TAS-Learn-PLC-Basics-with-S7-PLCs.jpg]https://theautomationschool.com/live SHAWN DETAILS THE MD-34A WINDOWS 10 INDUSTRIAL TABLET DESK DOCK FROM SIEMENS IN EPISODE 45 OF THE AUTOMATION MINUTE, SEASON 5. ---------------------------------------- [https://theautomationblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2025-860x100-TAS-Learn-PLC-Basics-with-S7-PLCs.jpg]https://theautomationschool.com/live ---------------------------------------- LISTEN TO THE AUTOMATION MINUTE ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: ---------------------------------------- THE AUTOMATION MINUTE, SEASON 5 EPISODE 45 SHOW NOTES: THE LINKS MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO ARE LISTED BELOW: * MD-34A PRODUCT WEBSITE [https://www.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/industrial-computing/simatic-industrial-tablet-pc.html] * PREVIOUS EPISODE ON THE MD-34A  [https://theautomationblog.com/first-look-simatic-ipc-tablet-md-34a/] * SHAWN’S SIEMENS S7 COURSE [https://theautomationschool.com/courses/101-s7c/] ---------------------------------------- READ THE TRANSCRIPT ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: (AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED) Shawn Tierney (Host):  Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Shawn Tierney here from Insights. And today, we’re gonna take a look at the desk dock for the MD dash 34 a Windows 10 tablet from Siemens. You remember I took a look at this I five tablet a while back, and at the time, I asked if they could send me the desk dock or docking station so that I could leave it here on the stage and actually use it because it’s a gray I five Windows PC that happens to also be a tablet and a barcode reader and an RFID reader and all these other things too. In any case, it did come in, several weeks later, and I filmed an episode. I don’t know what happened to it, but it never got published. So, I wanted to in appreciation for them sending this over and sponsoring this episode so it’s ad free, I did wanna cover. So in any case, let me first, though, take this guy out and, shut her down because her fan is running. I got it doing all kinds of cool stuff. Now I was really surprised. I turned it on and it still had all battery. Even though I hadn’t used it in months, it still had a full battery. So I really appreciated that. That’s cool. A lot of times at home, my tablet, you know, even if it’s off, it still will, drain batteries. So I didn’t like that at all. So look at that guy turned off. Now I’m not gonna do an unboxing because the, the box was just a simple cardboard box that came in there wrapped in plastic and very secure, but there wasn’t a lot to show with that, so I didn’t go and dig up that archival footage. But what I do wanna do here now is go to overhead mode, and then let me go ahead and unplug the ethernet cable and the power cable. This This is the same power cable that came with the tablet. Right? So you don’t have to go and buy that again. And let’s take a look at what comes with this, what they call their, desktop or what I would call a docking station. And I think we can even zoom in a little bit more on it. Here, let’s try. Okay. The first thing I wanted to show you is that it has these two metal pegs that make it very easy to align the actual tablet when you go to pull it in. I’m gonna go ahead and bring the tablet back out here, and we can see those two little holes there. And so that makes it extremely easy to align it up and put it in there nice and secure. Right? And so I really like that. And so that’s the first thing here, and you can see all the connections down there at the bottom. Alright. And then if we take a look at the back here, this is where we see this is where I have the power going in. And here we can see two, sorry, two USB two point o’s, not three point o’s. Alright. There is a three point o and a USB c in the unit itself. And then we have another RJ 45. This is a ten one hundred. So this is great if you’re just leaving it on your desk and, when you plug in, you wanna get off Wi Fi. Again, there’s an r j 45 in the unit itself as well, for Ethernet. Then we have the, VGA out. Like I said on the unit, it has an HDMI and a USB c, But, VGA now a lot of you may be saying, well, VGA, what am I gonna do with that? I have a lot of VGA output devices here in the studio that actually are very easy to convert it to either DVI or HDMI or, you know, display port, you know. So, 99%. I have actually haven’t found a monitor or a television that didn’t, accept converting VGA to high definition and it looks great. Then we have our serial port, which is awesome too because if you had some legacy serial device you had to connect to the computer, you know, you could do that right here. Right? So, a lot of times, you may have that if you’re replacing legacy equipment. So those are the major ports here. Now on this side here, we do get two more USB two point o’s and these are great for I I just plugged in the dongle for my wireless mouse and keyboard, but, that’s great having that on the side as well. And then on this side, there’s really nothing. You can see the front. Again, this is sturdy. It’s it doesn’t feel like it’s going to float away. Like, it has some weight to it. So when you set it down and it has rubber feet too. Let’s take a look at those. And, you know, I can zoom in too. So So I I feel very comfortable about leaving it here on the workbench and that it’s not gonna slide off. And, you know, it has enough, heaviness to it. I know some of the the inexpensive stuff you buy these days, you put it on your desk, every time you move a wire, it sloshes around. Right? But, in any case, you can see it’s the MDDash34 A Dash D D. So you can see that there. And, I gotta say, I haven’t had a docking station for a really long time. But with a tablet like this, I think it’s extremely useful because, you know, the whole point of having the tablet is that you’re going out and, you know, you need to be mobile. Maybe you’re checking on instruments or maybe you wanna just check on maybe you have an HMI or WinCC running on this. You wanna check on your, you know, and they do have a hand strap that you can get for this. Maybe you need to use the barcode reader. They also have a dock for the forklift if you’re gonna use it with a forklift. But this allows you to get out there and do what you need to do mobile. A lot a lot easier to use than a laptop. Right? Trying to juggle a laptop. But in any case and it’s aeronautic too. I know what my laptop, my, and I did a review on it, the MSI. It has some, some of its mounting feet depending on how you hold it. I’m not very comfortable. I’ll do that. I’ll do an update on that in the future, but in any case, but, you know, you get back to your desk. You don’t wanna use this little screen. And then I know if you’re like me, you want a full size keyboard and a mouse. Right? So if I’m gonna be doing any type of serious, work on my computer, I need a full none of these small ones. I need the full number pad. I need the full up, down, curses, everything. Right? All function keys if I’m gonna be efficient. And so you can do that with this. Right? So I actually plugged this keyboard and mouse in there, and it was what is you know, it was exactly as, expected. One thing I didn’t do is to see how many monitors I could put up to it. I just didn’t wanna take everything apart and see if I could hook up, like, three different monitors to it. But in any case, I do think it supports, multi monitors. And according to, the the manual for this set talking about extending the display versus mirroring. So in any case, you know, something to check out. You might wanna talk to your Siemens rep if you want more information about it. You know, if you’re thinking about, getting this and using the dock in your workspace. But with that, that’s really all I had unboxing of this desktop. I’m gonna set it up over here, and I hope to use it from now on every day when I’m doing my videos and doing our automation, Tech Talk lunchtime additions, which will be coming back. Haven’t forgotten about those, but I do have a backlog of videos I’m trying to get through by the end of the fiscal year. So in any case, and this is one of them. I mean, like I said, I filmed it. I don’t know what happened to it. Didn’t get released, so I wanted to make sure I got that out. And I got some other great stuff coming for you as well as we just had an episode of the History of Automation podcast that I’m doing on weekends with people talking about old automation products. So if you’re interested in that kinda old stuff, you know, pre February, like, you know, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, PLC five, some old monocons, and whatnot. We were talking about old TI five zero fives in a recent episode. Check that out. If you go to the automationblog.com/automationmuseum, also, automationmuseum.org should take you there as well. But for some reason, it’s not redirecting today, so I got a tech support link in again, this is common stuff that should never have a problem, but I gotta take support link into them to get that redirect fixed. But in any case, I did wanna bring this to you. I do also wanna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace. ---------------------------------------- Vendors: Would you like your product featured on the Podcast, Show or Blog? If you would, please contact me at: https://theautomationblog.com/contact [https://theautomationblog.com/contact] ---------------------------------------- Until next time, Peace ✌️  If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content 🙂 Shawn M Tierney [https://insightsinautomation.com] Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog [https://theautomationblog.com/join] or on YouTube [https://youtube.com/@InsightsIA/join]. You’ll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com [https://TheAutomationSchool.com]. (117 views) [https://theautomationblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2025-860x100-TAS-Learn-PLC-Basics-with-S7-PLCs.jpg]https://theautomationschool.com/live

Adding IO-Link Devices to Logix: Automation Tech Talk for 09/12/25

[https://theautomationblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2025-728x90-TAS-Learn-PAC-Basics-with-Logix.jpg]https://theautomationschool.com/live SHAWN WALK’S THROUGH ADDING IO-LINK DEVICES TO AN IO-LINK MASTER CONNECTED TO A ROCKWELL LOGIX PAC USING STUDIO 5000 IN TODAY’S EPISODE OF #AUTOMATIONTECHTALK LUNCHTIME EDITION LIVESTREAM: ---------------------------------------- WATCH AUTOMATION TECH TALK ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: ----------------------------------------  ---------------------------------------- LISTEN TO AUTOMATION TECH TALK ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: ---------------------------------------- AUTOMATION TECH TALK SHOW NOTES: THANKS FOR LISTENING! IF YOU’D LIKE TO JOIN THE SHOW SOMETIME, DON’T HESITATE TO USE THE CONTACT US [https://theautomationblog.com/contact] LINK. LINK MENTIONED IN VIDEO: – IFM AL1322 Webpage [https://www.ifm.com/us/en/product/AL1322] (includes AOI downloads) – Shawn’s Online Courses [https://theautomationschool.com] – Shawn’s In-Person Courses [https://theautomationschool.com/live] ---------------------------------------- READ THE TRANSCRIPT ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: (AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey everybody. Happy lunchtime. I hope everything is going great for you today. It is Friday, and I am pretty excited about that. Planning on spending a lot of time building more of these demos, this weekend. I got all the stuff finally came in. So and then I’ll be sharing it with you over the next couple of weeks. Next week, I may have, more recorded content than live content. I’ll still try to release it at lunchtime, but, just some of the things I gotta do requires me to have, you know, to go through and do edits and whatnot. So in any case, though but I should be around almost all of next week, lunchtime, whether it’s recorded or live, I’ll be here. But in any case, I just hope you all are having a great Friday. And today, we’re gonna do part two, and we’re gonna actually set up the two devices, the two IO Link devices. I thought this would be fun. Now if you guys are having any troubles hearing me or seeing me, please put it in the chat. Everything on my side looks like it’s working. So, I’m just gonna go ahead and get started. Now I did play around with, some settings early this morning to see if I could get this to work. There we go. Okay. I I’m not a a huge fan of how they design everything, but, at least this is better than what we’re doing the other day. In any case, we’re back in Studio 5000. And for anybody who didn’t catch yesterday’s show, what we did was we added these two. Let me see if I can switch over to those. We added nope. That’s not what I wanted to do, and that has to do with the selection. You always have to select this. So let’s try it again. There we go. So we added these two devices to our ControlLogix, And we have one IO Link device here and one IO Link device here, but we already have the masters added to logic. So let’s go back here, and, yeah, I’ll click over here. And now we’re inside logic, so you can see them right here down here. Make sure you guys are seeing what I’m seeing. And, now what we need to do is get the data in from the devices. We already have it coming in as, you know, just control the tags, but this is this is not, you know, what you would want. I mean, it’s it’s the twenty first century for crying out loud. Right? We want our data, you know, to be more, massage than that. And, thankfully, the vendor, IFM, has some AOIs, and they’re in that same folder, that same download, the Allen Bradley download. They put all the AOIs in here, which I think is great. At first, I went to the actual pages for the different products, and there were no AOIs there. And I’m like, I think they’re actually in the, the starter package for Allen Bradley. So I went into there. Again, we downloaded this yesterday. I talked about where to get this yesterday. There’s the add on instructions, IFM devices. And the first device I have well, the device plugged into number, the first, IO MetLink master is, this was the RVP. So we’re looking for RXP. Okay. And so what we wanna do is bring in this. We have an eight port, so we need one that goes all the way up to eight ports. And so what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna copy this path here. I’m gonna come over to our assets folder here, add on instructions. I’m gonna, input and add on instruction. I’m gonna give it the path open. We have eight port devices here, so I’m gonna use eight port, and that’ll bring it in. I’m gonna accept all the defaults when it comes in. Bada bing, bada bang, bada bada boom. Excellent. Excellent. And now I know the other one I have is a temperature sensor, TN something. So let’s see here. TN. K. A port, because that’s what I have in the field, eight ports. And bringing that out of instruction as well, except the defaults. And on just a mere moments, they both come in now. You know, you probably know you can go to this add on, you know, toolbar here and bring them in that way. Although, did you know you can bring them in like this too? Right? Which is pretty cool because sometimes it’s easier to see it here because this text is really small. Okay. So in any case, we have them in. Now let’s see if we can zoom in here now. We have to create tags for these. Okay. So I’ll just do a new tag, and I’m just gonna call this these are the AL1322. I’ll call this a. Actually, this is actually for the device. So let me call this the RVP 510. I’ll just call it a in case we have another one in the future, and then, I’ll create it. K. And I’ll do the same thing here. I might as well do that right now, and this is for our t n I think it’s a 2511 a. K. Boom. So I got the backing tags for each of the add on instructions. Now I have to give it the PLC input. This one, you you know, it’s pretty obvious. Of course, we have I named thirteen twenty two a and b. Those are the two devices, the masters out there, but you have to grab the data. K? You have to grab the data. I tried grabbing this when I was testing it early this morning. It’s like, oh, I don’t like that. I want the data. K. So we’ll do that. That’s a, and then this guy is connected up to b. K. So we’ll go over to input data. K. Port number. Now if we I don’t know if this thing will let me do this. Let’s try it like this. Okay. Good. So let’s see this guy. K. This is the RVP he’s in. And this encoder, we’ve we’ve showed it in the show before. We’ve we’ve had it on connected at, Allen Bradley and Siemens PLCs, but, we can see it’s, plugged into port one. K. This is the power port Ethernet in and out, and then this is an IoT port. And, again, we we’ve covered that in previous episodes. And then for the temperature sensor, I have it in Port 2. K. So let’s see if we can get string yard to go back to this view here. Alright. Great. And now, so this guy is gonna be Port 1 because that’s the RVP, and this is gonna be Port 2. This is, no nobody’s complaining that they can’t hear me, so that’s good. The vendor ID. So, let’s see. I do have the website up here, and let’s start with the temperature sensor. So this is IFM. So the vendor ID is always going to be 310, and this particular device ID is 582. So this is a temperature sensor. So let me go back here, and it will go 310. And what is it? 582582. And in the gradient listed in that if we search on gradient, we will see it’s point zero one. You guys see that? Yeah. Yeah, that’s on the screen. Okay. So let’s go back over to the VMware point zero one. Beautiful. Okay. Now we gotta do this guy. Point number one. Vendor ID, we know it’s gonna be 310 because it is still IFM. And then device ID. I have no idea what it is. So let’s go back to the IOD datasheet, and I think it’s at the very top. Just scroll up. Yep. It wasn’t. Here we go. Device ID, 496. 496. K. And then I’m gonna leave that all blank. Alright. So if we’ve done this correctly, this should massage that data and give us, you know, a counter, like, how many pulses per rev. I think this is defaulted to ten twenty four. And then the temperature and for whatever reason, this is even though the unit’s set for Fahrenheit, this block is showing that it’s Celsius. I did not have a time to figure out why that was. I did look through the block to see if there’s any way I could toggle it in the block itself. There wasn’t. And so, let’s go ahead and download this bad boy and see if we get it to work. Come on, puppy. Yeah. So all these limitations of StreamYard StreamYard is great for doing, interviews. Right? But, when it comes to doing things like this, I’m really struggling. I may have to go back to, restream. Yep. Put the controller back into run mode. I’ve been using StreamYard for the for the interviews we’re doing the automation museum, which will come out Monday, but, the first episode anyways. We’re recording episode four this Sunday. But, in any case so you can see it right here, and everything looks like it’s working. So let’s take a look here. I am going to turn you just have to trust me because I can’t do a split screen with this software. I’m gonna turn the encoder slowly, and we can see the counter turning up. Right? And that is now represented by a tag, not just some random data tag, but it’s actually did these go as a program tags? K. Yeah. That’s, the add on instruction. That’s not what I wanted. Nope. They’re controller tags. So here’s the RVP five ten. And we can see the count right there. See all the information about this. Let’s leave it in this view. See if you guys can see that. K. And then the beautiful thing is, yeah, it’s in the data table. Right? In the controller tags. Caught me there. Went a little legacy on you. You can see it here right on the block too, which is really nice. Right? So it just takes that data, massages it, and, makes it look nice. And then on the temperature You know what? Something happened. How come my vendor ID didn’t get put in there? Because I I thought I pressed center. Sometimes when you do it yeah. Look at it. Did I get that number wrong? That’s weird. You guys thought it was easy to live stream. 310582. I’m just joking. 310582. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Port 2. You see this? I didn’t choose the right one. Typo. You guys probably saw that when I did that too. K. Interesting. Interesting typo. Yeah. So we have two different masses here. So we’re you know, it was right for us to get zeros here because there was nothing nothing attached to port two. So the feedback was zeros. And so that’s good. So if I woulda had another thing, I guess, I coulda done is I could actually have moved the, temperature controller over to the other master, and it should’ve worked. Okay. So right now it says, 23. That’s Celsius. Of course, it’s probably well, we could just take a look here. 75 degrees in here and climbing, sadly. Let’s see here. Oh, yeah. We’re going up. Not going up as fast as I was it went up earlier. Interesting. Got up to 77. Now it’s falling because I let go of it. And, yeah, that was actually pretty easy to do. Just come out here and show you the devices one more time. So you could see this is what I was doing to turn the encoder, and, I was just holding on to this to get the temperature to go up. Let me get that on there. Yeah. But, yeah, that was pretty easy to do. And so with that, I think that’ll wrap up wrap up today’s automation tech talk about IO Link. Did you guys catch the IO Link show from yesterday? It came out a little later. It just been so crazy, but I did get that out, and I thought that was an excellent I actually sponsored it, so the video would be, ad free. I sponsored it myself. So I talk a little bit about, the automation school and whatnot. But in any case, just wanna, just remind you, Monday, we should have the episode of the automation museum. It will not come out on LinkedIn. LinkedIn does not, want people to, have long format videos. So So they only they limit you to, like, a ten minute upload, and they don’t want your live streaming from long videos like that from, from a file. So, Monday, if you’re on LinkedIn, watch it on LinkedIn. That won’t be, the automation museum. You’ll have to go to automation blog, or you’ll have to go to YouTube to see that. And then on, Tuesday through Friday, my hope is to have, some recorded content because I’m doing sponsored videos, more IO Link videos, more distributed IO. We’ll be doing Rockwell. We’ll be doing Siemens, and, all kinds of different, stuff. So, hopefully, you guys will enjoy those and learn something too because the whole purpose of this is to, you know, just share knowledge with you guys and hopefully make your you more efficient at your jobs and, you know, give you a reference you could share with somebody else in case they have the same questions. You don’t have to go through the whole thing all over again. But with that, I wanna thank I haven’t even eat lunch yet. I gotta go eat lunch. But I wanna thank you all for tuning in today. I wanna wish you all a very happy Friday. If you didn’t catch yesterday’s podcast on IO Link, please check it out. Michael did a great job. And, get some METTLEDO content coming up soon as well as, a bunch of podcasts were scheduled for podcasts out through Thanksgiving. So, we got some great content, and we’ve met with some great vendors. So I look forward to sharing that with you as well. And with that, I’m just gonna wish you all good health and happiness. And until next time, my friends, peace. ---------------------------------------- IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT SHAWN’S IN-PERSON OR ONLINE COURSES, PLEASE DON’T HESITATE TO SETUP A TIME TO MEET WITH SHAWN VIA MSTEAMS [https://calendly.com/shawntierney/presales-questions?back=1], OR DROP HIM AN EMAIL USING HIS CONTACT FORM HERE: HTTPS://THEAUTOMATIONSCHOOL.COM/QUESTION [https://theautomationschool.com/question/]/ ---------------------------------------- Until next time, Peace ✌️ If you enjoyed this content, please give it a Like, and consider Sharing a link to it as that is the best way for us to grow our audience, which in turn allows us to produce more content 🙂 Shawn M Tierney [https://insightsinautomation.com] Technology Enthusiast & Content Creator Support our work and gain access to hundreds members only articles and videos by becoming a member at The Automation Blog [https://theautomationblog.com/join] or on YouTube [https://youtube.com/@InsightsIA/join]. You’ll also find all of my affordable PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at TheAutomationSchool.com [https://TheAutomationSchool.com]. (317 views) [https://theautomationblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2025-728x90-TAS-Learn-PAC-Basics-with-Logix.jpg]https://theautomationschool.com/live

IFM AL1322 IO-Link Master to Logix: Automation Tech Talk for 09/11/25

[https://theautomationblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2025-860x100-TAS-Learn-Logix-in-a-Day.jpg]https://theautomationschool.com/live SHAWN WALK’S THROUGH CONNECTING AN IFM AL1322 IO-LINK MASTER TO A ROCKWELL LOGIX PAC USING STUDIO 5000 IN TODAY’S EPISODE OF #AUTOMATIONTECHTALK LUNCHTIME EDITION LIVESTREAM: ---------------------------------------- WATCH AUTOMATION TECH TALK ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: ----------------------------------------  ---------------------------------------- LISTEN TO AUTOMATION TECH TALK ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: ---------------------------------------- AUTOMATION TECH TALK SHOW NOTES: THANKS FOR LISTENING! IF YOU’D LIKE TO JOIN THE SHOW SOMETIME, DON’T HESITATE TO USE THE CONTACT US [https://theautomationblog.com/contact] LINK. LINK MENTIONED IN VIDEO: – IFM AL1322 Webpage [https://www.ifm.com/us/en/product/AL1322] – Shawn’s Online Courses [https://theautomationschool.com] – Shawn’s In-Person Courses [https://theautomationschool.com/live] ---------------------------------------- READ THE TRANSCRIPT ON THE AUTOMATION BLOG: (AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED) Shawn Tierney (Host):  Happy afternoon, everybody. Shawn Tierney here from Insights and Automation. Today is Thursday. What is today? September 11, I believe. I hope you all are having a great day. And, you know, I didn’t even know if I was gonna be able to do this, give it everything that’s been going on. Plus, I just got off the phone, actually off of out of a meeting with a larger vendor talking about their brand new IO, which I’ll be covering in a few weeks. Pretty awesome stuff. Can’t wait to share it with you guys. But in any case, if you were here yesterday, I actually ended up deleting the livestream after the livestream because I ran into an issue that something didn’t work. And I believe I resolved that. So I’m gonna try it again today. And what am I talking about? What are we gonna cover? Well and, again, if you can’t hear me or if there’s a problem with the visuals, let me know in the chat because there’s no nobody in the control room. It’s all just me. But in any case, we’re gonna be integrating these two. I have, a long time ago, the folks over at, IFM sent me in some products. They didn’t sponsor any coverage on it, and I’ve really struggled covering it. So I did cover these modules with a, with a, a PLC they sent me, and I did, cover these devices with Allen Bradley and Siemens products as dumb devices, not as IO Link devices. But I thought, you know, the automation, automation tech talk lunchtime edition, I think, would be a great time to cover some of these unsponsored products that have been piling up, and I try not to accept anymore because I’m out of room. But in any case, it’s it’s, I thought this would be a good time to test them out. And today, based on what happened yesterday, today, I’m going to try to get both of these set up on our CompactLogix. Now try to go back here to full screen. What happened yesterday was Logix kept crashing, and I believe it’s because of, Connect Components Workbench when I upgraded it and installed something that was incompatible with the version of Logix I had. So we’ll find out. But in any case, let’s go over to the computer here, and I have to do this kind of a different way because if I do it through the camera system, I do have a I do have an, request into the company, this whose software this is, and it’s not showing me the view I wanted. That’s the view I wanted. But I’m like, guys, you gotta help me make my you know, zoom in on this camera, but in any case, I won’t, bother you with that. What we are looking at here, though, is what’s the first step in getting these things to work? And the first step is where’s the web page I had up? K. We gotta go to the product’s web page, and on the product’s web page, we wanna grab a couple of downloads. Okay. If we’re gonna integrate these, IO link blocks on EthernetIP to our CompactLogix, we’re gonna wanna get the download. So this is the web page. After the fact, this is an AL thirteen twenty two. After the fact, I’ll go and put all links. And, again, I ran right over here from the meeting I just had, so I didn’t have a chance to put those links in. But any case, we wanna go to downloads. And the two downloads I needed, and I apologize if you caught yesterday’s show. I’m gonna repeat myself a little bit, but I got the Allen Bradley collection here. Right? And I also got the, NetSetter software. K. So this allows me to configure the device’s IP address. Okay. Now I don’t know if both of these are set up or not. So let me minimize that, and let’s go over to, the net set of software, which I just opened. Right? Unzipped it, and you get this error here. I didn’t show this yesterday. You gotta have a PCAP library. Now PCAP, if you’re not familiar with that, packet packet captures. Right? Capturing packets as they go down your Ethernet. Okay? So we need to have, some software that does that. So let me close that, and they they recommended two different ones. I just went and got WinPCAP. It seemed like, seems like good software. And, no. I don’t wanna start it all the time, and finish. Now let’s go back to the NetSetter, IFM NetSetter here, and let me know if I’m leaving anything out. I’m kinda did this yesterday, so I wanna make sure I’m being clear on what I’m doing here. And what we’re looking for let me go back to the overhead, and nope. That’s not what I wanted. Let’s do this. K. So these are the a l. Let’s see if I can get an even closer here, and I don’t have the overhead lights on. I feel like I’m missing a light, but in any case, let this one be easier. So you can see that this is the Ethan IP version of the a l thirteen twenty two. So I also have PROFINET versions of this, and maybe I’ll do those next week. We’ll see how things go. But I wanted to show you guys that, and let me back that out. Alright. Excellent. So let’s go back over to it it hides that view. Okay. And now we can see the net setter. Alright. So let’s go ahead and run a scan here and see if the IFM nets, and it says, the installed PCAP library has been restricted to limited to admin rights. I’m also got this security. I’m gonna get rid of that. There we go. And it says, hey. The PCAP library you guys see in this has been, restricted to to admin rights. And saying I won’t find anything pro profi profinet if it’s restricted to that. So let me go ahead and see if it’s running. Let’s see here. PCAP, when PCAP? K. Let’s run this as an administrator. K. It’s saying it’s already installed. So windows, why didn’t you find it? You always get you had to love that. Let’s go down to the w’s. There she is. Now see, I don’t see, I don’t see an executable to allow that. So we’re just gonna press on here. I don’t wanna get stuck with any of those issues. Let’s go ahead and do a scan. And I know it saw my 7069 l 30 e r, and it’s not finding these because I just wired them up. Again, I just run-in here, and so I did not put power back on. Looks like no smokes coming out. I shouldn’t joke about that. We had a fire alarm today, which also kinda threw a cold curveball in. But, in any case, Yeah. Now they’re coming up. K. Let’s see here. It does seem like it’s cutting off part of my screen. Why is it why would it do that? Stream. Yeah. What’s wrong with you? Maybe it’s just the browser I’m in. Alright. So you can see it found them. And you know what? I wanna make one of these one thirty 1, and, the other one’s already 132. So I’ll make one one thirty one, right to device, and 132. So that’s how you configure these out of the box. That’s how you would set them up. And so now let’s go ahead and, close this up and go to RSLogix. Now to save time, I, just created a blank, l 30 e r program. Okay? And this is where we were having problems before. I would right click and do new module and I crashed, but one of the things I had to do to make sure this would work before we went live is I wanted to go into the downloads and register the EDS files. K? So inside the starter package for Rockwell, there are EDS files. Right? And so what I did is I copied this path, and then I ran the EDS hardware, installation tool, or there’s another one called the device, depending on the version of software you have. There’s another one called the device hardware installation tool. Let’s see if we can find that here. Yes. See, this one has the EDS one. Sometimes you’ll see the device hardware installation tool. They they do the same thing. They just change the name to device because it can support IO Link as well. So let me go ahead. IO Link uses an IODD. Oh, speaking of IO Link, let me switch over here. They did not get the IO Link did not get the IO Link episode out last night. I’m hoping to get it out tonight. So, stay tuned if you follow the automation podcast and you look at those kind of technical presentations. We should have the IO link out tonight. So let me go back to this view. Okay? And we’re going to bring in those EDSs. Now I’ve already done this because I, after what happened yesterday, I want to make sure everything was working, but if you’ve never done this before, I just wanted to walk through it with you. Okay. And now in Logix, and I may have to close and reopen Logix. I’m hoping I don’t have to. It’s acting a little funny. It’s like refreshing. K. I’m gonna right click on Ethernet here. I assume it’s already refreshed, and I’m gonna add it in. You can see I already did it once. Oops. Yeah. It’s it’s definitely host. K. New module. K. AL1322. It’s been added as an EDS, so there it is. Create and this is where it was crashing yesterday. And what I did with and you see it then it crashed this time. Thank you. AO1322. We’ll call it A and b A, and it was 1921681Dot131. K. And I even checked the version. Hopefully, the version’s right. K. And then the next one will be I accidentally hit, add again. AL1322B. I’ll give that an address of one ninety two one sixty eight. Come on. Sometimes in VM, if your mouse goes off the screen, it stops working. +1 32. Okay. Close. Alright. So they’re both in there. And, again, just to kinda stress the point here, when I was doing that and it was crashing yesterday, you know, I thought maybe Studio didn’t like me bringing the EDS files while it was open. But I was like, you know, I tried it on another computer, didn’t have that problem. So I went home, spent a couple hours last night on it, actually, trying to update the old VMware image on here with a new version. Some people said it was had to do with FactuTalk, a services platform, so I downgraded that. I downgraded our Sling. So I was trying to see what did I install that broke my Studio 5,000 VM. And it was same Windows version, same version of Studio 5,000 on other computers I had at home, and everything was working. So, what I did on this VM is I went back to before I installed the CCW update. I updated CCW, and I don’t use it a lot, but I updated it because I wanted to show the MicroLogic’s to micro 800 conversion. We did that in a previous episode, and so that is what was triggering. Now I haven’t nailed it down to what component CCW installed. Again, I went from 13 to 22, and I already had studio 5,034 installed. I didn’t nail it down to what component was in there that caused the problem, but I’m kinda thinking with that kind of problem, I may just spin up my own VM. I used to do this, and I kinda, like, was having so much luck. I was putting everything on the same VM, but I may spin up, separate VMs in the future for CCW if installing 22 on a system that has version third 34 on it, Studio 34, if installing CCW version 22 on that, it’s gonna hose it and break it. And, then, yeah, that’s not that’s something I can do. And and spring up new VMs is so easy to do that. A little time consuming, but, again, I already lost two hours last night, plus didn’t get the, episode out yesterday. So, you know, it’s kinda like you’re looking forward. You’re kinda like, well, let’s, let’s, you know, take the least the road of least resistance. But in any case, so I have these two installed. Let’s go ahead and download them. So we’re gonna go download. Yep. Can’t download because I’ve never connected to it before. So let’s do a network who here. Who active? I have you oh, no. I didn’t want the f one. Why am I that’s from the L30, l 23, l 30. Most of these are off. I don’t leave stuff on when they’re when I’m not using them. I think yeah. $1.73. That’s what I want. Download. Again, I chose 34 because the last in person class I had here was in 34. Saying, do you really want to download? Yes. I do. And this is just gonna take a moment. So, you know, the proof and the putting here is, you know, will the IO come up as valid or will it come up as errored? You know? Do we get a green IO light or not? Okay. So we’re not getting the green IO light, and I’m proud because of the versions I chose. Right? So let’s see if that’s the pro the problem. So I’ll go to properties here, and let’s go to module info. These are one OFives. Right? It says, owned, no. Configured, unconnected. Yeah. It’s, you know, it’s 105. I chose 106. Right? Very interesting. You know what? My first guess would be that it’s a, mismatch here. So it’s a status failed faulted. Status faulted. Now I could try to reset the module here to see if that fixed it. Again, I did use it previously with a code SYS PLC, but I don’t think I don’t think that’s gonna fix it. But, hey, I’m here. Might as well try it. I think we’re gonna have to go offline and change the version to match. I’m not getting the, version mismatch error, but this is not a Rockwell product either. So let’s see. Nope. Still not happy. So what could it be? Let’s let’s go ahead and go offline real quick. We will, change the versions to match even though we’re not getting a mismatch. Let’s see here. Oh, this is one thing. Yep. This is one thing I skipped over that I didn’t skip over yesterday. So the I’m gonna leave the minor rev at one zero six, but I’m gonna change this to match what’s in the book. And the book says you wanna do int. And not dent, but you want to do int and let’s go take a look at that here. Okay. So we’ll go to PLC setup. We’ll go to this manual and I was just going so quickly. I just browsed right over it. Let’s see. Oh, no internal. They don’t want that. Okay. We added the EDS files. Yeah. This is what I overlooked. Yep. K. So it needs to be int. Okay. It wants exclusive owner. It wants int and then 223151. Alright. Well, let’s take a look at that. Exclusive owner, 223151. So really was int. That’s I forgot that you make that change. I did make it yesterday, but, well, last time I did this, I don’t even know if I get that far yesterday. Let’s see. Properties. A lot of times I’ll practice for lunchtime. I’ll do this, like over coffee in the morning, you know, four or 05:00 in the morning before work just to practice and make sure everything’s working. Alright. Now let’s download and try it again. Really confident that’s the problem because we didn’t get a firmware mat mismatch or version mismatch. And because that was a minor rev, not a major rev, I’m, really feeling like That was the issue. So let’s give it a second here. Oh, yeah. No. It stopped updating why whenever I clicked on it. So, yeah, it is. It is saying electronic key mismatch right here now. So let’s try one more thing. We’ll match them up. Typically, the minor revs don’t don’t matter, but this will be the last thing we’ll try. Matter fact, when I was doing the, lessons for the, IO modules, the new CompactLogix and ControlLogix IO modules for my courses, I was like, yeah. I’ve never seen a minor rev cause a problem, but this is a third party product, so that could be a problem. Just gonna double check, make sure it’s +1 05. +1 05. Okay. Download. Okay. Let’s see if this is what we were looking for. We’ll we’ll know soon. I had another idea too on how I can make that camera bigger, so I may try that tomorrow. I do plan to continue this tomorrow or part two of this tomorrow. I didn’t have a chance to you know, with that meeting I had this morning, I didn’t have a chance to go through all that. I am excited to show you that new IO, though. That that was it. So we had to change it from, dent or cent to int, and we had to make the IO match perfectly. And now the next thing I would do is I would you know, we could look at the controller tags, but the the better thing probably would be to add their add on instructions. So, you know, if I look at the data coming in from number one, you know, I have just this this data here. Now number one, I believe, is the well, let’s see. No. I think number one is the let’s see which one it is. Can we see any data changing? Lots of data in there. And this is why you wanna use the add on instruction because who wants to well, there it is. You can see I’m turning the you can see I’m turning the right. So these two. K. I’m turning the encoder, encoder, and you can see it’s updating. But you know why? You can see it’s it’s spread across two words, two dents, and so the add on instruction is gonna give me that in a nice tag. Right? Now if we look at the other one, so I wouldn’t I wouldn’t I would use their add on instruction to mass massage the data. I wouldn’t use the raw data, but you could if you wanted to. Let’s look at the other one. The other one is temperature. Again, what port is what? I mean, who we used to have to document this all ourselves, you know, back in the day, remote IO and whatnot. Wonder if that nine eighty is the temperature. Oh, yeah. So as I hold on to it, you can see the temperature’s going up and up. K. So what we’ll do tomorrow let me go back to full screen here. Gonna find a better way to make make all these buttons work. The reason I’m not using, OBS for everything while I’m sharing the screen natively inside of StreamYard is because I looked at the resolution, and StreamYard does not when it gets the camera feed from OBS, it doesn’t it’s not the quality of, of the screen you would want, ten eighty p. So that’s why I did it that way, but it makes the camera view a little op, awkward. But in any case, so we got them working. We got both these IFMs. It was pretty easy. Right? Once I figured out what was wrong with my Studio 5,000, I just backed up to a snapshot. This is why I never use do do anything without VMware or virtualization because you’re gonna be able to back up to a snapshot. Install all that software again. Not even not even that’s a nonstarter. But we got both of these on the network. We saw their values coming in. So what I’ll do tomorrow at lunch, assuming everything goes well, we’re gonna bring get the go get the add on instructions for the encoder and for the temperature sensor. We’re gonna download those. We’ll add on the Studio 5,000, and then we’ll take a look at how it massages the data to give us some really good data. I know a lot of you guys have used IFM out there. You’ve given a great reviews to me. You guys have told me you love using their products. They have great products. Not every product, but most of their products have been, well received. So I figured we’ll, do that tomorrow. And we will have the IO link, We will have the IO link, episode of the podcast come out today. I think what I’ll do is I’ll go grab some lunch, and then I’ll record the bumpers for that, finish editing that, and publish that, this afternoon. So, you know, I’ve I kinda felt better than going yesterday. I usually do on Wednesdays, but then again, with everything that happened yesterday, it’s probably for the better that I get delayed today. So with that, I wanna end the show by wishing you all good health and happiness and safety. 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