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Anindya Bhattacharyya
10-26-2013 04:25 AM

The diagnostic coverage of any commercial PLC? (NOT SAFETY PLC)

Does any one has any idea of the diagnostic coverage of any commercial PLC ? (NOT SAFETY PLC)
10-26-2013 06:32 AM
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Ken Natton
10-26-2013 06:32 AM
This is another question that really requires you to be much more specific about what exactly you require, before anyone can supply a useful answer. At the generic level of the question as you have posed it, pretty much every commercial PLC has some kind of diagnostic provision, but invariably, it is up to you to understand what that provision is and to make use of it. So, for example, some PLCs will automatically run interrupt routines on the occurrence of faults, but it is up to you to set those routines up and to fill them with useful code. Another common facility is diagnostic bits and words that can tell you all manner of things about what is going on in the PLC as it executes the code, but again it is up to you to be aware of those bits and words and to make use of them in the most telling way. That is about as much as I can say at the generic level of your question.
10-26-2013 08:51 AM
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Anindya Bhattacharyya
10-26-2013 08:51 AM
@ Ken Natton the problem arises from the fact that hardly any vendor actually gives the details of the diagnostic routines or bits.The example you gave of faults as interrupts is okay for non safety systems but due to unpredictable interrupt latency ,we never use interrupts in any form in safety systems.What i am looking for is a figure if anyone has ever calculated one. A safe failure fraction or the diagnostic coverage of a PLC .
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