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Machine-builder PLCs
Mitsubishi, Omron, Schneider and Delta: the compact controllers inside packaging, textile, plastics and food machines across India.
Step 1PLC programmingBeginnerMitsubishi FX with GX Works2
The Mitsubishi FX family instruction by instruction: devices, contacts, timers, counters, data, analog and high-speed counting in GX Works2, with a look ahead to GX Works3.
- Use X, Y, M, D, T and C correctly, including octal numbering and what survives a power cut
- Write ladder with SET, RST, PLS, PLF and the pulse contacts
- Control flow with MC/MCR, CJ, CALL, FEND and SRET
Step 2PLC programmingBeginnerOmron PLC with CX-Programmer
Omron from first principles: automation, the PLC, CX-Programmer, every instruction family, and the worked programs that make it stick.
- Explain automation, control systems and the PLC from scratch
- Use Omron addressing: CIO, W, H, D, T, C and bit-of-word notation
- Latch with a seal-in, SET/RSET or KEEP, and know which input dominates
Step 3PLC programmingBeginnerSchneider Modicon PLC with EcoStruxure Machine Expert Basic
The Modicon M221 from the first download to a hundred solved ladder problems, with the official Schneider how-tos for the tooling.
- Install Machine Expert Basic and pick the M221 from the controller catalogue
- Build AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR in ladder and prove them with truth tables
- Latch with a seal-in or set/reset and know which one restarts after a power cut
Step 4PLC programmingBeginnerDelta DVP PLC with ISPSoft
Delta from the memory map to Modbus: instructions, timers, counters, analog, PID, high-speed counters, PLC Link and an HMI, with Factory I/O projects throughout.
- Read the DVP device map and wire a CPU with extension modules
- Simulate with COMMGR and monitor a running ladder
- Use timers, counters, MOV, arithmetic, floats and comparisons
How the path works
Join the path and every course is added to your account at once, each with its own progress, notes, quizzes and final. Take them in the order shown: each assumes the one before. Module quizzes are five plain questions and the final is twenty, pass mark 50%, with unlimited retries, so the assessment checks that you followed the lessons rather than testing exam nerves.
Questions
- Is the Machine-builder PLCs free?
- Yes. Every course in the path is free in full: lessons, notes, practice tasks and assessments. Joining the path adds all of them to your account in one step. The only paid item is the optional EDWartens Certificate of Completion for each course.
- In what order should I take the courses?
- In the order listed: each course assumes the one before it. Every course keeps its own progress, quizzes and certificate, so you can also take one on its own.
- Do I get one certificate for the whole path?
- Certificates are per course, issued when you pass that course's final assessment and bought only if you want them. Finishing every course in a path gives you one certificate per course.