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At our site we use Allen Bradley PLC's almost exclusively. Our control infrastructure is wholly geared towards this. We do however, have one machine, which is quite critical to the operation and which uses a Modicon PLC. I have only recently assumed responsibility for this machine and when I made enquiries about its history I was surprised to find that we have no means of programming it or, for that matter, backing up the
program. This situation has arisen because it is a reasonably simple operation and the program never changes. It has however made me extremely nervous about the consequences of a major failure.
The processor, which is a few years old, has a part number - AS-M84A-002. Can anyone advise me on a cheap and cheerful method of programming this unit using a PC? Is there a cheap software package available which can be used? Obviously this does not have to be all singing, all dancing software. I only really need the ability to connect to the processor to upload and download and perhaps make minor modifications. Also, as an
Allen Bradley site I don't want to go making large investments in other manufacturers stuff.
Bryan Weir
Equipment Development Engineering
Polaroid UK. Ltd.
program. This situation has arisen because it is a reasonably simple operation and the program never changes. It has however made me extremely nervous about the consequences of a major failure.
The processor, which is a few years old, has a part number - AS-M84A-002. Can anyone advise me on a cheap and cheerful method of programming this unit using a PC? Is there a cheap software package available which can be used? Obviously this does not have to be all singing, all dancing software. I only really need the ability to connect to the processor to upload and download and perhaps make minor modifications. Also, as an
Allen Bradley site I don't want to go making large investments in other manufacturers stuff.
Bryan Weir
Equipment Development Engineering
Polaroid UK. Ltd.