Allen
Bradley / Rockwell SLC-500
Maintenance Course
The
course has been designed
to familiarise Maintenance
Engineers and Electricians
with the many different
aspects associated with
the operation and maintenance
of Allen Bradley SLC-500
controllers. Where possible,
application specific exercises,
actual drawings and programs
listings are used to allow
the students to gain the
greatest possible benefit
from the course.
Objectives
The
students will be able
to perform the following:
•
Locate and replace
faulty modules.
•
Reload programs.
•
I/O Fault finding.
•
Interpret and understand
basic ladder logic.
•
Implement changes
to the program.
•
Using RSLogix to connect
online and monitor
programs to
determine
plant problems.
Course
Content
•
Introduction
to the SLC-500 range.
• I/O
module and interfaces.
• Addressing
and file types. •
Program Structure,
ladder files and the JSR
function. • Creating
a project with RSLogix.
• Hardware
configuration. •
Select the drivers
for communications via RSLinx.
• Downloading
the project. •
Online monitoring
and searching with RSLogix.
• The
Basic instruction set. Relays,
timers & counters.
• Maths
functions. • Customised
data monitoring. •
Analogue modules
and analogue scaling.
• Data
monitoring using the data
table. • Forcing
techniques. •
Further in instruction.
Compare, moves and limits.
• Program
documentation and database.
• Searching
the comment database.
• Introduction
to communications with DH485,
DH+ and Ethernet. •
Introduction
to the MSG function for
communications. •
Histograms.
• fault
finding principles and procedures.
• Application
exercises on your plant
programs. • Trending.
