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While working on SCL I got this idea of doing OLP with scripts. If you think about it the scripting approach is a direct match for...

To continue the topic of custom motion profiles I'll try to implement the built-in MOVE_JOINT_TO_VALUE FB with a script. The script will...

Recently I got into an interesting dilemma. The MOVE_JOINT_TO_VALUE FB is meant to be the way to move a joint based on the standard...

Ever since we introduced the CREATE_PART_APPEARANCE/ DELETE_PART_APPEARANCE SCL functions, we had a problem - how to get the names of the...

Palletization is a term used to describe the process of placing materials and packages onto pallets. Usually this is a use case for OLP...

It has been a while since we had this gap. The bit indexers were simply not implemented in the context of array elements. The syntax was...

In Process Simulate SCL scripts execute periodically. The period is provided by the sampling rate - "LB update rate" as we know it. Users...

Kinematics is often referred to as the "geometry of motion". It relies on initial conditions (known values) of position velocity and/or...

This one will be really short. When working with FMUs / SCL scripts we often ask the user to put them in a dedicated folder (vault) as a...

There are two approaches to solving a problem in computing that requires visiting a lot of states. Iterative and recursive. The iterative...

External connections are core part of the virtual commissioning capabilities of Process Simulate. They allow us to communicate with 3rd...

When debugging scripts you may want to alter the state of a variable to see the effect it has on the code. Until v2408 this was only...

A noise generator by definition produces a random signal. In the software world this usually means generating pseudo-random numbers. One...

As the name suggests this is a device that measures frequency. It counts the number of pulses in a periodic signal per second. Internally...

A multiplexer is a device that has several digital or analog inputs and a single output. It forwards a given input to the output based on...

I got some requests for this type of conversion recently so I decided to make a post out of it. The logic is quite straight-forward but...

Safety is a top priority feature in every manufacturing solution. With industrial devices it is often the case that safety buttons are...

The classic way to communicate with a PLC is to exchange tags with it. The tags are handled on each PLC cycle. This implies that tags can...

Expressions are language entities just like statements. The main difference is that expressions should be evaluated in order to calculate...

Statements that allow you to direct the execution of the program into alternative sequences of statements are known as control statements. In every programing language these are the primitives that make your code react to changes in the environment. Overall these are the conditional statements, unconditional jumps and the repetetive statments (loops). The conditional statements are probably the first that come in handy when learning a new language. In SCL these are: 1. IF