What Are the Essential Differences Between PLC and Microcontrollers?

What Are the Essential Differences Between PLC and Microcontrollers?

Search on WeChat Technical Training Can Microcontrollers Replace PLCs? Microcontrollers cannot completely replace PLCs. Although microcontrollers can achieve similar functions through programming, they are relatively less reliable and stable compared to PLCs. PLCs are widely used in industrial control and automation due to their good programmability, real-time performance, and stability. PLCs have the following advantages … Read more

Six Major Application Areas and Characteristics of PLCs

Six Major Application Areas and Characteristics of PLCs

With the advancement of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) technology, there has been a leap from wiring logic to storage logic since its inception; its functions have progressed from weak to strong, achieving improvements from logic control to digital control; its application fields have expanded from small to large, crossing over from simple control of individual … Read more

The Ten Key Differences Between PLC and DCS

The Ten Key Differences Between PLC and DCS

When it comes to control systems, many people seem to speak with great confidence, but when delving deeper, they become speechless about the definitions of controllers, PLCs, DCS, and FCS. After a brief introduction to the basic concepts, it feels like the conversation misses the point. Today, let’s discuss what DCS is. First, we can … Read more

How to Improve the Anti-Interference Ability of RS485 Communication?

How to Improve the Anti-Interference Ability of RS485 Communication?

Search on WeChat Technical Training The RS485 bus has advantages such as simple structure, long communication distance, fast communication speed, and low cost. It is widely used in industrial communication, power monitoring, instrumentation, and other industries. Due to the harsh industrial control environment, there is more interference coupling in the communication lines, which affects the … Read more

Key Points for Siemens Network Wiring

Key Points for Siemens Network Wiring

Click the blue textFollow me! ☀The Jicheng WeChat platform has become an invaluable mentor for industrial control students. Follow Jicheng, and technical improvement is guaranteed! QQ consultation: 4001114100 Source: Jicheng Training Network (Teacher Liang Zhibin) ▏Siemens S7-200 Series 17 1.6.4 Network Wiring   For RS485 networks such as PPI, MPI, and Profibus, it is recommended to use … Read more

Siemens 200smart Modbus RTU Communication Example

Siemens 200smart Modbus RTU Communication Example

Siemens 200smart Modbus RTU Communication Example Communication Materials: 1) Two PLCs, namely the 200smart CR60 and SR20; 2) Two DP connectors (6ES7972-0BX12-0XA0) 3) Several connecting wires (for PLC power and communication) Verification Content: Set: CR60 PLC as the master station, sending the PLC system clock (8 bytes of information) to the SR20 slave station; the … Read more

How to Achieve Animation Effects on Siemens Touch Screens (Part One)

How to Achieve Animation Effects on Siemens Touch Screens (Part One)

Click on the top “Technical Training“, and select “Pin Public Account” 130,000+ industrial control professionals follow this WeChat platform: Technical sharing, learning exchange, industrial control videos To make the display on our touch screen more intuitive, we usually need to implement some animation functions on the touch screen. There are two common types of animation … Read more

How Touch Screens Control PLCs

How Touch Screens Control PLCs

Click the image below to enter the industrial control industry platform The control of the PLC itself is completed by changing the state of control registers D, input ports X, soft relay states M, and time relay states T. Therefore, as long as you can modify the states of these variables, you can control the … Read more

Introduction to Siemens Touch Screens and Applications

Introduction to Siemens Touch Screens and Applications

Over 90,000 friends have followed this industrial control WeChat platform:Technical sharing,Learning exchange,Industrial control videos “Free Online Trial” This course provides a detailed explanation of the hardware functions and system composition of Siemens panels, as well as the various software functions. Upon completion, you will be able to independently design, select, configure, and integrate HMI systems. … Read more

Network Security Protection for Hydraulic Engineering Control Systems

1 Network Security Status Analysis of Hydraulic Control Systems The hydraulic engineering industrial control system is widely used in various aspects such as hydrological monitoring, water resource monitoring, soil and water conservation monitoring, water network scheduling, reservoir dam (gate) monitoring, hydropower monitoring, pump station water supply and drainage monitoring, and water quality monitoring. It is … Read more