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PLC Basics – Latches

September 12, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 5,151 Latches are an important part of PLC programming, they allow you to leave something in a state of Persistence, even after the initial trigger event has passed.…

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CoDeSys – Using Data Unit Types (DUT) to Simplify Code

August 3, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Learn how to use DUT (Structures) in Codesys 3.5 to simplify your programs and code

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August 2, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

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TIA Portal – TON / TOF / TP Timers And Different Use Cases

July 30, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Learn about TON, TOF and TP timers. Learn how each of them work, what they have in common and some basic use cases. Do & Grow members also learn additional…

TIA Portal

TIA Portal – Creating Arrays With Constant Limits

July 29, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Learn how to use constants to define Array sizes and limits

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Siemens TIA Portal V18 – OB1 & Organization Blocks

April 1, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 2,140 Let’s take a look at the OB1 object, an Organization block. OB1 is the default object for management of the PLC tasks, it is a cyclically executed…

TIA Portal

Siemens TIA Portal V18 – Exploring PLC Properties & Setup

April 1, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 1,834 This video touches on the subject of the PLC properties in TIA Portal. Without setting up some of these properties, you’ll be unable to get connected to…

TIA Portal

Siemens TIA Portal V18 – Creating PLC Tags For Hardware Signals

March 28, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 2,046 Once you’ve added your IO modules, the next step is to create a place for the data to sit. TIA Portal uses Tags to achieve this. In…

TIA Portal

Siemens TIA Portal V18 – Add IO To A PLC And Configure Hardware

March 23, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 2,097 Once you’ve added a PLC to your project, its likely that you’ll need to configure some IO. The video below explains how to add IO modules to…

TIA Portal

TIA Portal V18 – Adding A New PLC To A Project

March 21, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 1,748 If you are new to TIA Portal, or V17 onwards, then adding a new PLC to a project could be a little more complicated than other platforms…

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In this lesson, the focus is on creating asset data and understanding what is expected to be included inside a user defined type.

Before working directly in TIA Portal, the video provides an overview using a quarter turn valve as an example. The valve is shown in different states, along with a corresponding UDT that represents its data structure. The key concept introduced is that every asset in an asset oriented programming design should have a matching UDT.

The lesson explains that UDTs can contain other UDTs. Examples include valve alarm data and asset operation mode data being nested inside the quarter turn valve UDT. These supporting structures help manage alarms, operating modes, and shared functionality across assets.

The video also discusses the types of states and data an asset must handle. This includes open and closed states, healthy and failed conditions, alarm handling, status reporting to HMIs, and both automatic and manual control requests.

A major takeaway is the importance of identifying common behavior between assets. By finding this commonality, shared UDTs such as an asset operation mode can be reused across different asset types. This approach helps standardize how assets behave and interact within the control system.

Overall, the lesson sets the foundation for turning what an asset can do and report into a structured UDT that clearly defines the data required for its operation and integration.

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Siemens TIA Portal – Asset Oriented Programming - Creating Asset Data
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Asset Oriented Programming starts with data, not c Asset Oriented Programming starts with data, not code. Each asset in the system is represented by a UDT that captures all required information for control, status, alarms, and interaction with higher level systems.

In this lesson, a quarter turn valve is used to illustrate how an asset exists in multiple states such as open, closed, healthy, and failed, and how those states must be represented explicitly in data. The UDT becomes the single source of truth for the asset's behavior.

This approach allows logic, HMI, and diagnostics to rely on a consistent structure. When data is clearly defined up front, function blocks become simpler and more reusable.

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