How to Program Allen Bradley PLC Training for Beginners

The basics of Programming an Allen Bradley PLC including Allen Bradley Controllogix, Compactlogix, Micro820, Micrologix, and SLC 500 PLC products. This is based off of our popular Allen Bradley PLC Training Course. We will go through selecting your cable, configuring your communications drivers, uploading and downloading a PLC program, and starting to write your first PLC program. In this PLC programming lesson, we will use Rockwell Automation's Studio 5000 / RsLogix 5000 and Connected Components Workbench.

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:33 Allen Bradley PLC Software
00:05:54 PLC Programming Cables
00:10:13 RsLinx Serial Driver Configuration
00:17:52 FactoryTalk Linx vs RsLinx Classic
00:18:20 RsLogix 500 Upload, Download, and Go Online
00:23:57 Connecting over USB with FactoryTalk Linx
00:26:06 Studio 5000 Upload, Download, and Go Online
00:32:22 Connecting over Ethernet with FactoryTalk Linx
00:58:46 Unrecognized Device in RsLinx Fix with EDS File
01:05:36 Connected Components Workbench Upload, Download, and Go Online
01:10:06 Basic Ladder Logic Instructions
01:29:25 Programming a Start Stop Seal In Motor Control
01:34:21 Studio 5000 Alias Tags
01:37:35 Studio 5000 Online Editing
01:45:14 RsLogix 500 Native Addressing to Studio 5000 Tags

[TimWilborne]

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[longlivelinux]

Thanks man, just got hired as a PLC Programmer - I start tomorrow. Your video was extremely helpful, and I feel much more confident walking through the door tomorrow.

[technicaleset]

The amount of detail you have put in this video is absolutely amazing. Loved it.
Definitely going to dig in more of your videos. great stuff.

[jeremymcdonald]

Thank you so much for this channel and your time! You are literally making my life better and i am extremely thankful! in the years to come, when my knowledge and experience will suffice, i will pay it forward by teaching the same as you have. This channel is truly a gift and a wealth of knowledge that is priceless! Thank you, again, Mr. Tim Wilborne!

[penfredrickson]

Thanks so much for this. Been working as a water treatment operator for almost a decade, have created my own SCADA in python. It used raspberry pi with a breadboard to display green and red lights for on/off operation of motors/pumps. I wasn't sure the direction I wanted to go, but as soon as I discovered plc programming, I really felt like this is for me.

[r-o-r]

I'm definitely about to Binge all hours of you guys videos

[mattmcgough]

loved this video and love all the content you put out. As a maintenance tech dealing with allen bradley plc's at a high pace distribution center your content has really helped. keep it up!

[Biokemist-ok]

This is awesome. I am a chemical engineer and I come across PLC's all the time. I just never had the time to learn to program them. This is so cool.

[sahand]

Thank you so much for this channel and your time! You are literally making my life better and i am extremely thankful!

[izlo]

thank you tim. watched the whole video tonight and will be going into day 3 of working with the trainer tomorrow with a lot better understanding of what is going on. have been using a laptop to connect with an awful right click function i’ll have to get a mouse to connect as that tip is essential

[dumbtex]

Appreciate the video it really helped me understand what exactly plc programming is and actually made the whole thing seem really simple. Now to dive into your other videos and make stuff start happening !

[cosmosprincess]

Omg thank you for explaining download vs upload! I've literally overwritten all my logic and thought it would be really embarrassing to ask for help at work... Only to realize I just didn't understand what downloading meant. Ah I definitely learned the HARD way

[dannywhite]

Tim and Amber, great video. Some of it I knew, a lot of it i did not. Thanks for your time

[craigtudor]

Morning sir, and thank you for providing this, nice refresher if ya been out if the field some

[LearningInVR]

Will watch again and learn something different later.

[navinsookram]

Excellent teaching technique Tim, hello from Toronto

[techtopics]

Just as a note at 38min in, to find an IP address. I use an IP scanner to find the address of a PLC. Most show a description and it will say something about AB... Product etc. Most modern routers have firmware improvements that reserve IP addresses matched to device descriptions so if you connect a device often it will "reserve" that IP for that device. Thought that might help.

[timgascoigne]

Great Channel and video. At the beginning of my PLC journey. What cable do you need to connect to the Allen Bradley SLC S/04 system?

[technicaleset]

Thank you Tim for this brilliant work. Could you please also tell about retentive tags?

[benedalati]

Could you please do a video showing how to create an internal relay in Studio 5000. I can't not find anything in YouTube that actually shows that. A simple ON/Off would be great. Thanks
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