Just went full time at the facility I interned with in college. I work in our maintenance department for the facility and they are allowing me to specialize in Controls and VFDs for the plant. I understand controls and VFDs pretty well the area I lack most in is Understanding the process of the facility. I work in the Pulp and Paper industry and was curious if anyone had tips or advice for an up and coming EE who wants to build a career in controls. Anything Helps. Thanks!

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Work mostly on Allen Bradley Products

My main area I lack in controls is the networking side of it

Does anyone know of a (straight M12 4-pin A-Code male)-to-(straight M12 8-pin A-Code female) cable? Or connector?

I want to connect an IFM (LR8000) level sensor to a LUMBERG (RKF 4/0.5M) receptacle. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

My chiller is ModbusTCP and I am monitoring some data in my FT:Optix project.
The core PLC is a Studio 5K project.
The thought crossed my mind of relaying some chiller data to the PLC.
I’m guessing it’s possible via a custom script but is it possible via a mapping function. Mapping Chiller:x into PLC:y

I know there are various options within Studio 5K for ModbusTCP but these are more work arounds and this isn’t that critical.

Was offered a role for I&C Engineer with a MEP engineering consulting firm.

What’s the work like? I’ve only ever been in manufacturing automation/systems integrations (PLCs, SCADA, Collab Robots) so I’m hoping to get a little insight.

Thanks!

I have a bank of g120 drives connected to an SSI absolute multiturn encoder everything works untill a power cycle the drive it resets the position back to 0, any ideas on something I'm missing?

I'm comparing options for small XYZ automation project and the old recommendations still seem to be Yaskawa, Mitsubishi, Omron, SEW, Kollmorgen, and Rockwell. What I’m less clear on is how people are choosing now when EtherCAT, cabinet space, diagnostics and multi-axis coordination matter more than they used to.

Would you still default to the established PLC-matched platform or consider something more specialized like Elmo Motion Control or Copley?

Hi,

Can a Siemens MTP400 Unified Basic (6AV2123-3DB32-0AW0) communicate directly with a Siemens LOGO! 8 12/24RCE (6ED1052-1MD08-0BA2)?

I'm using TIA Portal V19 and I can't find a LOGO! communication driver in the HMI connections.

Has anyone done this successfully?

Thanks!

Currently an electrician and have been working in industrial controls for a couple years. And I think I want pursue automation work full time. Bought a micro850 and have been doing some small projects on my trainer set up at home. Thinking about going back to school for electrical engineering technology degree. Is it worth it to pair up with my electrical license?

Title says it all. I'm looking to see if anyone has had trouble installing KS2000 on their Windows 11 system, and if they were able to resolve it. I've gone and added the required windows features like HyperV, installing from an admin account, and modified the registry to disable incompatible services. Every time results in the same issue, the install bar fills completely and then the system just hangs on the full bar.

I don't want to write all the steps I've attempted, incase it discourages someone from suggesting something that I may have overlooked.

Thanks