Understanding Instance Call Paths in TIA Portal

If you’ve ever gone online in TIA Portal and seen values flicker or change unexpectedly, it might not be your code, it might be your call environment.

When the same Function Block is used multiple times, each call has its own instance data. If you’re monitoring without checking which instance you’re viewing, you could be looking at the wrong one entirely.

In this week’s Q&A Weekly, we look at how to identify the correct instance, why TIA Portal sometimes shows misleading data, and how to prevent hours of confusion when debugging live systems.

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