Get practice using a simulator PLC from Connected Components Workbench (CCW) software and Factory I/O, a 3D factory simulation that mimics a real-life setting.
PLC Simulation Software: Factory I/O with Connected Component Workbench
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- PLC programming using a 3D factory simulation software
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- Connected Components Workbench software introduction
- Connected Components Workbench software download guide
- CCW software interface tour
- CCW Micro800 PLC simulator
- Establishing the connection path for the PLC Simulator
- CCW software demo
- Factory I/O overview and download
- Factory I/O software tour
- Connect Factory I/O software with CCW software
- Control panel project
- Ladder logic program in CCW software
- Project demo
- Conveyor belt project
- Part 1: Programming
- Part 2: Programming
- Project demo
- Optional: Retroreflective sensors overview
- Filling a water tank project
- Step 1: Program fill and discharge pushbuttons
- Step 2: Adding timer (TON) in CCW software
- Step 3, part 1: Showing time on display in Factory I/O
- Project demo 1
- Step 3, part 2: Showing time on display in Factory I/O
- Final project demo
- Sorting boxes by height project
- Understanding the Factory I/O scene, part 1: Entry conveyor and light array
- Understanding the Factory I/O scene, part 2: Chain transfer
- Understanding the Factory I/O scene, part 3: Right and left conveyors
- Step 1: Program Start button to start the entry conveyor
- Step 2: Program moving into the chain transfer
- Step 3: Program sorting the small boxes
- Step 4: Program sorting the large boxes
- Project demo
- Troubleshooting tips
- Next steps
Taught by
Zara Khalil
