• Introduction
• AC 800M
• Interactive Tutorial
• Feature Demonstrations

Interactive Tutorial

In this section we will take a quick look at the Compact Control Builder engineering tool.

This tutorial is built around a small control problem that involves the control of a door in an entrance to a shopping mall.

The control problem is specified below:

• The entrance consists of two sliding doors.
• The doors open when a customer’s presence activates a photocell
• Each door is opened and closed by its own motor.
• The doors return to default position (closed) five seconds after the last activation of the photocell. Consequently, several customers arriving one after the other will extend the time the door remains open.
• The number of customers is recorded for statistics. Manual resetting of this counter should be possible.
• The total number of times the doors have opened since they were last serviced should be recorded. Each opening of the doors should result in a counter being incremented. When the counter reaches a preset limit, a flag should indicate that service is required. Manual resetting of the flag should be possible.

The tutorial is devided in the following parts:

1. Installation of the Compact Control Builder Software on your PC
2. Start Compact Control Builder and create a new project
3. Declaring variables
4. Creating the Function Blocks for counters and timers
5. Creating the main Logic
6. Testing the control solution on the PC
7. Setting the I/O paths in the program
8. Upgrading controller firmware
9. Setting the IP of the controller
10. Mapping the controller IP in the project
11. Downloading project and going online

Please click the steps above to start the interactive sessions.

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