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Allen Bradley/ Rockwell Communications Course - Course Duration
3 Days - Documentation
Allen Bradley Communications Manual. -
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The course has been designed to familiarise students with many different communication options, when using Allen Bradley controllers.
Each communication option will be explained and demonstrated, then a total network will then be created by the student.
The student will be able investigate the program and hardware for fault finding.
The student must have attended a maintenance course or Higher, or have previous Allen Bradley experience.
Objectives
To introduce students to the concepts and operation all the Allen Bradley communication options, including the ollowing areas:
- Structuring programs of the program.
- Profibus communications.
- Ethernet Communications.
- DH+ and DH485 communications.
- Devicenet comms.
- Controlnet Communications.
- Communications to drives.
- Communication to other PLC’s.
- HMI network.s
Course Content
- Program Structure for communications.
- Configuration of Controlnet and devicenet:
- I/O networks.
- PLC to PLC ControlLogix and PLC5.
- PLC to Drives.
- Ethernet communications for:
- PLC to PLC.
- PLC to HMI.
- Profibus communications between PLC’s and drives.
- Profibus Allen Bradley to other manufactures PLC.
- DH+ and DH485 communications.
- Communications to HMI’s.
- Student project.