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  • Cara Bereck Levy

    UniCloud: not just for Unitronics! Affordable, Do-It-Yourself IIoT for ANY Device!

    By Cara Bereck Levy

    Hi people! The team has been hard at work—and here is the result: now, you can easily integrate any PLC—or other devices that talk MODBUS, such as sensors—into UniCloud.  Our safe, secure, sophisticated IIoT platform is now available to any machine, process, or application—whether based on Unitronics' products or not—that connects to UniCloud via Unitronics’ UCR routers. People, I want to tell you that in the world of IIoT, UniCloud is a total game-changer. IIoT Cloud platform impleme
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  • Cara Bereck Levy

    Forum Mod. Joe T. in CE - and Wanted: Legacy Apps!

    By Cara Bereck Levy

    Joe Tauser - if you've spent 5 minutes on this forum,  you know Joe as a forum moderator, expert in all things Unitronics. If you have ever asked for help, you have probably benefited from his broad knowledge of control engineering. Joe offered some good, cautionary advice for those implementing IoT in their applications that appears in the May edition of Control Engineering, European edition,  in  an article on machine control technology developments, spotlight on IIOT,  Click here to
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  • Cara Bereck Levy

    Did you know? UniStream PLC - a 2020 Engineer's Choice!

    By Cara Bereck Levy

    We are proud to announce that the UniStream PLC has been awarded the prestigious Engineer’s Choice Award for 2020 in the category of Machine & Embedded Control – PLCs. This is the 10th consecutive year that Unitronics has been honored by the Control Engineering community. Our products have received a total of 10 CE awards in the categories of Integrated HMI Controllers, HMI Software, and now, for the first time, in Machine & Embedded Control – PLCs. We thank all those who vote
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  • Cara Bereck Levy

    New! Motion by Unitronics - Servo Made Simple - Easy to Set Up, Painless to Program

    By Cara Bereck Levy

    It's smooth. It's simple. Our R&D department has created a complete Motion Solution that includes all the hardware you need - AC Drives, Motors, Cables both standard and robotic – all seamlessly supported by Unitronics’ PLCs, HMIs, & VFDs. You can enjoy the simplicity of obtaining all components from a single supplier, plus our efficient Ready-Made Motion code - read on to learn more! New Motion Solution: Servo Made Simple - Easy to Set Up, Painless to Program Unitronics new li
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  • Cara Bereck Levy

    Please Vote!! TA32: Nominated for Control Engineering Engineer's Choice Award 2024!

    By Cara Bereck Levy

    Check it out!!!  Our UniStream TA32 controller has been nominated for the prestigious Control Engineering Engineer's Choice Award 2024! Our TA32 is an outstanding PLC specifically designed for process control. Its unique built-in I/O configuration features 6 analog inputs, 2 temperature inputs, and 3 analog outputs, enabling you to connect a wider range of devices and sensors, providing greater flexibility for your projects. As a member of the UniStream series, TA32 provides excellent funct
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Simon's Blog

The term HART is great for bad puns

I was offered an unused ABB pressure transducer with HART interface (see http://www.hartcomm.org/). HART stands for Highway Addressable Remote Transducer. Showing the ability to read all values from such a device using Unitronics is an advantage for applications in the mining and resources sectors in particular.Using the Turck BL20-E-GW-EN and BL20-2AIH-I a simple ModbusTCP gateway module was possible. Whilst all HART values are accessible as Modbus registers, the conventional 4..20mA input v
Simon

Simon

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Unitronics, Howman Style

Feelin' a little Loopy!

When Programmable Logic Controllers were first introduced, their programs were geared toward the replacement of simple relay circuits. Logic statement 0 was processed first, then logic statement 1, and so on until an END instruction was reached. Then the PLC's supervisory software, or "Operating System", would do some housekeeping - update timers and counters, send outputs to the physical devices, read inputs from the physical devices, and run the user's stored program again. Logic statement fiv
Phil Salkie

Phil Salkie

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Unitronics, Howman Style

Hey, you - what's the password?

One of the requirements I frequently find in customer specifications is that Operator Terminals shall have eight hierarchical levels of password protection. The idea there is that an operator, for example, enters the level 1 password to do operator things, and a supervisor can enter a level 2 password to do anything the operator can do, plus supervisor stuff. I have yet to actually see an application where all eight levels were used for anything, but somebody somewhere once decided that eight
Phil Salkie

Phil Salkie

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Unitronics, Howman Style

So I went to the Library for some Strings...

So I'm easing my way back into VisiLogic land, in-between phone calls from TV trucks. The other morning I get a call from one of our techs on a startup somewhere in Texas, telling me that the customer is requesting that all the panels on the "A" side of the facility have their primary power feeds fed from the "A" side breaker panels, and that on the "B" side, "A" side breakers should go to the secondary power inputs. For this they wake me up? Just swap the feeds on the "B" side, right? Unfort
Phil Salkie

Phil Salkie

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Powered by AMPS

Machine Controls - Overhead Conveyor

In this entry, I would like to highlight one of our machine controls projects that used the Unitronics V130 OPLC: AMPS has been working with JML Services and their die storage systems for over ten years. These machines have been installed in most states all over the country to help printing companies keep track of their die plates. A corrugated box manufacturer, for instance, may have over 1000 die plates to store and keep track of. This could take up valuable floor space and be a nightmare t
Matthew

Matthew

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Saragani's Blog

Multi Connection Listener on the .Net Communication Driver

You are probably saying to yourself "Hey, you promised that the next episode of 'Build your own SD Card Explorer' will be published, so how come Saragani posts about something else?"Well, I actually said that the next episode will be posted next week :-)It is going to have a lot of code and it will be a lot of work writing it so I might split it to few pieces.Besides, I can use this blog entry to post about new features of the Com Driver.I wrote this multi listener a while ago, but the source co
Saragani

Saragani

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Saragani's Blog

Build your own SD Card Explorer

People who see the SD Card Explorer in action usually sometimes wish to have the same functionality in their own application.Some of them contact Unitronics in order to get some details on the protocol, or ways that they can do the same, while others fear from the worst: that it's a lot of work.I know very few people that will be happy to write the whole protocol by themselves.The only guy I can think of in that matter is Ash Nielson... I have no idea where he gets his strength and energy from,
Saragani

Saragani

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Unitronics, Howman Style

Controls Engineer? How'd you get _that_ job?

It's been a couple of weeks since I've run VisiLogic - that's a bit unusual for me lately, since I generally don't go a day without doing something or other on a Unitronics system. The reason is that I've been spending my time on two of the nation's newest mobile HDTV production trucks, installing control systems which combine an embedded Linux computer with networked frames of Mitsubishi PLCs and a cross-platform PC GUI written in Perl/Tk. Working as a controls systems integrator has its bene
Phil Salkie

Phil Salkie

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Powered by AMPS

Wireless Serial Communication

Hello everyone, My name is Matthew and I am a long-time Unitronics distributor, customer and all around fan-boy. My company uses their controllers every chance we get, selling them to customers and using them in the control system design work we do for OEMs. Seems like lately every project we do has some sort of communication with an outside device. This prompted us to begin working with a company that's an expert in wireless devices to come up with a cost-effective wireless serial data commun
Matthew

Matthew

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Unitronics, Howman Style

Howman Controls - We Do Unitronics, Right?

Hi! I'm Phil Salkie, Lead Engineer for Howman Controls in Edison, NJ, USA ( http://www.howman.com ). We're a small distributor and manufacturer of industrial controls products, and a UL-508A panel shop. Howman has been in business for about 30 years, and I've been here for 25 of them - if you've watched a sporting event on TV, dealt with a large bank, had a wound sewn up, or bought a banana, a gallon of gasoline, or a computer chip, there's a good chance that some of our hardware or software
Phil Salkie

Phil Salkie

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Simon's Blog

Clearing the Decks

It has been a couple of months for cleaning up unfinished business. Old repairs have been completed, non-working demos restored to life, papers filed, notebooks purged and so on. My desk is now a streamlined surface of effiicient productivity. Just the perfect time to start a new forum and blog.I am looking forward to new level of interaction and a place to ramble about stuff without getting in anyone's way. Hopefully some of my ramblings might even be useful.
Simon

Simon

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Unitronics en Español

V120 en aplicación de cámara climática

En esta ocasión se ha aplicado un V120 de Unitronics con módulos de entrada PT100 y 4-20mA para el control y supervisión de una cámara climática dónde se realiza el curado de muestras de hormigón. El V120 ha sido programado para controlar la temperatura y la humedad ambiental mediante lazos PID o todo-nada con histéresis para calentar, enfriar y humidificar la sala. El propio equipo realiza una adquisición de datos durante el tiempo del proceso y los envía a través de una red RS485 a
Nacho

Nacho

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Unitronics en Español

Bienvenido

HELLO WORLD - HOLA MUNDO Mis primeras palabras en español dentro de este foro dominado por el idioma de Shakespeare y de la automatización en general. Espero que sea punto de encuentro de la comunidad hispano-parlante y donde serán bien recibidos todos vuestros trucos y casos de éxito, al igual que espero os sirva todo lo que vaya publicando. Me gustaría recopilar en este blog trabajos realizados por todo el mundo utilizando Unitronics.
Nacho

Nacho

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Ash Neilson's Blog

First Blog Entry!

Thought I would start off my blog with some thought generation! What sort of Technologies / Languages are sought after these days? I am basically interested in what any of you more "Techy" Unitronics users prefer as a Software Development language. My reason for this is to see what libraries / applications to support Unitronics hardware are missing on Non-Windows or Non .NET environments Do many of you long for a "Remote Operator" app on Mac or Linux (Maybe even the iPhone). Do many of you w
Ash Neilson

Ash Neilson

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Unitronics' Blog: PLCs, HMIs and more

Welcome to the Unitronics Support Blog!!

Welcome to the new Unitronics Support Forum!Our new forum offers a number of features that were not available in the old forum.There are Blogs that are written by Unitronics Distributors and Power Users, a Gallery that enables you to upload and link to pictures relevant to forum discussions. Our Support Team will publish interesting Sample Applications in the Downloads section. The Calendar will track events such as Unitronics training sessions and exhibitions. We also have a feature that was so
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