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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...

Sometimes all you need is a simple indication telling you the state of the device you are dealing with. Power indicator of you will. It...

PID (Proportional Integral Derivative) controllers are often used in feedback loops where temperature, pressure, speed flow and other...

Seven segment displays are often thought of as a single display but still they consist of seven individual LEDs that have to be...

Introducing delays is often needed in behavior modeling. Delays are usually required by the external circuit before which the data has to...

Debugging is never a trivial task. You need a way to stop the execution of the code and examine the state inside. Usually this involves...

In this post I would like to talk about type systems. You may have never heard this term before but it is an essential part of every...

Materials are used in every production line. These are goods of any kind needed to make the final product. It is also important to...

As written on the official site (https://fmi-standard.org/) FMI is a free standard that defines an interface for exchanging dynamic...

Counters? Isn't this just a variable of type INT? Why do they need special attention? Well if you have ever used a step counter you...

Types are good. They provide meaning to variables, arguments and functions by defining the set of operations that can be applied to them....

Recently I was asked for such an example from customers so I decided to make a post out of it. Interestingly they struggle implementing...

Conveyors are major building blocks of every factory. In Process Simulate we have support for them since quite long ago. Users are...

I am sure you have used bitwise operations in your practice but have you heard of bit indexers? Personally I didn't know this concept at...

No. This has nothing to do with weapons. Triggers are just the way to detect when the rising/falling edge of a clock signal passes...

Timers are used in order to introduce delays in your code. Delays are just time intervals between two events. However in this case we...