IS Siemens taking over? Where is a British PLC?

[Lard_Baron]

Even as you read this post a filthy tide of Siemens equipment issues from bowels of Germany.
The PLC world is a playground for these people.
From their idleness comes the crime of over complication, and what happens? They leave site their pockets a-jingle with your money then go unchecked about their evil business of flooding the world with Siemens equipment.


Why is there not a British common sense PLC? Have we given up? Do I have to remind you who won the war?

[chuck]

I feel your pain. In the states we are being flooded by these things. We have ab but still people insist on the siemens. Siemens make the cheaper product here, so we have to make them work.

[Lard_Baron]

My pain is Seimens. What sort on creature wrote the software?
I imagine a some sciencetist Siemens have locked in a cellar somewhere in the ripped out heart of the Berlin who never talks to people so just does not know not to communicate simply. I would think he wears a black rubber suit.

Right now I have a technical problem of immense difficulty.
I am using MW's to build a shift register. It took me a week to do thanks to seimens wonderful software.
Its now finished leaving me a shattered wreck of a man, my confidence is in the basement, To finish i just want to lable the MW's but when I do, the things turn red and I cannot down load?
What the hell is up with this crap?
I just want to give the MW's a name but is just not cooperating.

[chuck]

I've had problems like that before and there is a hidden setting that may help you. In the main browser under S7 Program right click on Blocks and choose object properties. Then go to the Address Priority tab and you probably want to select the bottom right option, which is recommended for symbolic programming and gives symbols priority. Make sure you make this change on a backup of the program as strange things have been known to happen(you know that already having obviously worked with siemens).

[sparky]

I once in complete bafflement had to call in a Siemens engineer to help solve a problem with S7300F. He spent 2 hours on site did not fix the problem and charged me £90 per hour for the honer. He charged 4 hours travelling and 4 hours on site, he was a Dutch engineer and I was in Holland, you could drive right round Holland in 4 hours.

Are you doing a word or bit shift register?

Remember Siemens wonderful byte swap if your doing bit shift. I once did a double word bit shift and after much heart ache discovered the word swap as well.

[flint]

MW can be any format i.e. Hex, Int, Dint, Bin, but when you give them a symbol you must declare what type they are. once you declare type if a function requires an intager and you have declared the word as a Hexadecimal it wont let you compile it, remove symbol name and you will be alright.

[siemens user]

Hi,
Would you please intoduce me some companies that distribute siemens products in your country?
Hoshmandsazan@yahoo.com