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Good morning, I have a Zebra USB handheld scanner(DS3678) and am looking to pass the information to the PLC through the nearest Panelview Plus. I believe the scanner can be seen as a keyboard and then the string can be sent to the plc from the HMI. Does anyone have any documentation on how ...

Good morning, I am currently working with a 1756-82ES Guardlogix 5580 Safety Controller with Sil2. I am currently making some safety changes and noticed they are using a ROUT for the Numatics valve bank but not using for a Festo air dump valve which is the air supply to the valve bank. Instead ...

Good afternoon, We were swapping out an IB8S module. The MS light was flashing red. I went to reset the ownership in the module properties and when I opened the safety tab. We received a fatal application error. Does anyone know why this would happen or know a work around? Thanks for your ...

Good morning! I was curious if someone could help me. I have a customer who did some HMI work using View Designer with firmware 8.02 on a PV 5510. I only have firmware 7.02. Is there anyway to change the firmware of an existing project to 7.02 or would he have to redo the file? ------------- ...

Good morning, I'm having issues with a senseguard sensor. It is currently mounted to a fence post for a the cell safety door. I keep losing the sensor signal. The sensor is lined up properly and I haven't seen it change state on the sensor. when I bring the sensor out of the cell and place ...

I'm currently installing 8 Keyence IV-3 cameras on one of our weld lines. The issue I'm having is the OTE instruction for the buffer clear request is staying on with a false rung. It also happens to different cameras intermittently. Each camera has one OTE specific to that camera. The opposite also happens ...