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I have followed the performance guideline PDF from the knowledgebase. I was wondering if maybe there is some option to tick to enable the second core of the CPU as i am still experiencing slow screen change performance. Do 19 inch screens require more processing compared to smaller variants?

Hi, I made an alarm definition for an AOI which controls a solenoid. It's just a warning which gives a message saying a device is in manual. My plan was too generate tag descriptions for each solenoid and use these descriptions in the message of my definition. The description does not show up in the ...

So what's the difference between echo and logix emulate other than the name and cost?

Are the 5380 Compactlogix processors included? If not then when do we expect this to be available?

I am trying to replace my old ALMD blocks with the tag based alarm manager. Some of my alarms only allow the system to start after a screen acknowledgement. Is there a way to access the acknowledged bit of a tag based alarm in the PLC code? Alternatively is there a way to acknowledge all alarms ...

It's a bit of a catch 22. If they did it the way you want then people would complain its hard to tell if its being called at all. It really depends on how you program. Siemens actually does it pretty well in that if you are monitoring a routine which is scanned once (while you are monitoring it) ...

I think he has a JSR but is not calling it all the time. If you create a JSR with an always false XIC in front of it for some reason it displays green like it is being called. This indicates its still scanning the JSR but it shouldn't be?? I've noticed this as-well in other peoples code. I try to ...

Hi, I've made the switch from factory talk ME to View designer for one of my smaller projects. Overall I prefer the view designer software to factorytalk but i had difficulty when I tried using all the features at once. I ended up having load times of 20 seconds to a minute for some of my screens. ...

The 5069 and the 5580 controllers aren't supported by any emulators. Any news on when this will be available? Would be good especially with Covid forcing us to work from home.