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Automation Engineer Career Path: From Apprentice to Senior Controls Engineer

February 5, 2026 Liam (Site Owner)
Siemens Siemens Q&A

Siemens TIA Portal – Q&A Podcast – Episode 5

February 4, 2026 Liam (Site Owner)
Siemens Siemens Q&A

Siemens TIA Portal – Q&A Podcast – Episode 4

January 28, 2026 Liam (Site Owner)
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Managing Pre-Sequence Issues in PLC Control Systems

January 26, 2026 Liam (Site Owner)
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Using LLMs as a Distributed System: ChatGPT, Claude, Obsidian, and MCP

January 25, 2026 Liam (Site Owner)
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Automation Engineer Career Path: From Apprentice to Senior Controls Engineer
General
Automation Engineer Career Path: From Apprentice to Senior Controls Engineer
Siemens TIA Portal – Q&A Podcast – Episode 5
Siemens Siemens Q&A
Siemens TIA Portal – Q&A Podcast – Episode 5
Siemens TIA Portal – Q&A Podcast – Episode 4
Siemens Siemens Q&A
Siemens TIA Portal – Q&A Podcast – Episode 4
Managing Pre-Sequence Issues in PLC Control Systems
General
Managing Pre-Sequence Issues in PLC Control Systems
TIA Portal – Using BLKMOV and AT Constructors
TIA Portal
TIA Portal – Using BLKMOV and AT Constructors
TIA Portal – TON / TOF / TP Timers And Different Use Cases
TIA Portal
TIA Portal – TON / TOF / TP Timers And Different Use Cases
TIA Portal – Optimized / Non-Optimized – What’s The Difference?
TIA Portal
TIA Portal – Optimized / Non-Optimized – What’s The Difference?
TIA Portal – Working With Variants
TIA Portal
TIA Portal – Working With Variants
Automation Engineer Career Path: From Apprentice to Senior Controls Engineer
General
Automation Engineer Career Path: From Apprentice to Senior Controls Engineer
Managing Pre-Sequence Issues in PLC Control Systems
General
Managing Pre-Sequence Issues in PLC Control Systems
Using LLMs as a Distributed System: ChatGPT, Claude, Obsidian, and MCP
General
Using LLMs as a Distributed System: ChatGPT, Claude, Obsidian, and MCP
Centralising System Options With a PLC Configuration Block
General General PLC Rockwell Siemens Studio 5000 TIA Portal
Centralising System Options With a PLC Configuration Block
TIA Portal

TIA Portal – Bit Access

February 11, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 6,827 In TIA Portal, you can access Bits in Bytes / Words by using the .%# notation In the example above, we’re taking a Byte and setting Bits…

General

16K Followers – LinkedIn

February 7, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 1,414 I’m always amazed at the amount of followers I have, and always grateful that so many of you decide to get involved with the learning, asking questions,…

Studio 5000

Studio 5000 – Calling Other Routines

January 30, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 2,952 Any well laid out project will consist of more than just the Main Routine. When a project is first created in Studio 5000, a pre-created Task called…

Studio 5000

Studio 5000 – Creating User-Defined Data Types (UDTs)

January 29, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 3,475 UDTs are one of the most important aspects to PLC programming you can learn. This is because they inherently force structure, and structure is good! Like many…

TIA Portal

TIA Portal – Using BLKMOV and AT Constructors

January 29, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 6,928 The BLKMOV and AT constructors can be used to manage moving data from one data type to another. This can be useful if you are managing buffered…

Siemens

What’s Happening Here: Time Passed Since Wash Question & Solution

January 14, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 1,848 A post went out on Linkedin describing some code and a question along side it. The post is embedded below – Or you can visit it here…

Siemens TIA Portal

TIA Portal – Finding Which Version Of TIA A PLC Is Using

January 11, 2023 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 5,070 Ever needed to know which version of TIA Portal you need to perform an Upload from a PLC and you don’t have the original project? If you…

TIA Portal

TIA Portal – Reference Projects

December 21, 2022 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 4,418 TIA portal offers a great alternative to opening multiple instances of TIA to reference another project… What Is A Reference Project? It’s exactly as it sounds! A…

General

Guide To Getting Started With Git & Revision Management

December 11, 2022 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 2,727 Git is a revision control and management tool that helps developers keep track of changes in a development environment. It can also be used to create development…

TIA Portal

TIA Portal – Defining Variables

November 22, 2022 Liam (Site Owner)

Unique Views: 4,883 It’s no secret that you have to define variables in a block in order to assign values to them, but how do you go about doing that?…

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Q&A Time! How can I access a Byte inside A Word, symbolically?

If working with protocols such as Modbus, or hardware like Variable Speed Drives, it's common to come up against needing to extract part of some data, a Byte from a Word or a Word from a DWord.

TIA Portal can do this directly, and easily, but it's not very commonly known and TIA doesn't make it very obvious either!

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Commissioning often requires simultaneous visibili Commissioning often requires simultaneous visibility of logic, status bits, and diagnostics.

If the editor area is compressed, engineers rely on scrolling instead of observation. This increases the chance of overlooking conditions or transitions.

By floating diagnostics and collapsing unused panels, the logic regains priority on screen. The information that matters most becomes immediately visible.

The result is not just comfort. It is reduced cognitive load and faster, safer decision-making during live system work.

Watch more about this in The Complete Guide To TIA Portal V20 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaRi5fvk2h4

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