MicroLogix to Micro800: Automation Tech Talk for 09/04/25

Shawn walk's through converting an RSLogix / MicroLogix program to a CCW / Micro800 project in today's episode of #AutomationTechTalk Lunchtime Edition livestream: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog:  Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. NOTE: There is no show planned for this Friday (9/5). Links mentioned in video: - Migration Guide - Conversion Tool Released - Conversion Tool Updated - Conversion Tool Download - Conversion Tool How To Article - Conversion Tool How To Video - Shawn's Online Courses - Shawn's In-Person Courses Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Welcome to Automation Tech Talk lunchtime edition. Shawn Tierney here from Insights. And today, we're gonna take a look at something different. We're gonna take a look at migrating a Micrologix program to a Micro 800 program, and we're going to do this because, I had somebody ask a question about connecting to a Micro 800 from a SCADA package. And, you know, when I did my VSC course, I did I think every Allen Bradley PLC except for the Micro 800. So I thought, you know, this would be a good time to convert my my VUSC application that I use to simulate the data for that for that course. And, anybody in my VUSC course can download that, in Micrologic, PLC five, ControlLogics, CompactLogics, multiple versions. You know, you know, I recently converted it to Siemens because I wanted to add those advanced graphical lessons to my unified comfort panel and unified, a basic panel course. So I need to convert it to Siemens, and then somebody asked me to test their SCADA package with Codesys. And as you know, I had a couple of vendors step up and send me Codesys PLCs. So I converted well, not all of it. There's five molding lines. I wanted to do something different than a bottling line or, you know, a a widget maker. And so, I only did one molding line into the into the code Sys because, you know, I I I we all we've talked about that before. But in any case, needs a little love and tender love and care to the code sys, IDE does. But in any case, yes. I figured, hey. Let's use this to convert my existing program, which I which I wrote from scratch to the micro 800, and let's see how it goes. Now I did this this morning around 04:30. I went through it once, and it seemed to work okay. So I figured, we would do this during lunchtime. And so if you guys have any questions on this or anything, let me know. Oh, a couple of housekeeping things. There will be no episode of the show tomorrow. I'm kinda backed up trying to get through a couple of videos that I'm, sponsored videos with vendors. And, also, I have to, just get all the stuff to do with the the automation school, but I do I did record this morning an update for any students at the automation school. So that I'm gonna schedule that to go out this afternoon because I said September 4 in it. Now looking backwards, I probably should have said September 5. But in any case, that'll come out this afternoon, and I kinda update a lot of the new lessons over at the automation school. So, especially customers and PLC courses, PAC courses over there, you wanna check that out. I did have a great conversation with a gentleman who was who knew what a Symax 300 was, so we'll try to get him on the automation museum podcast, which is I'm calling the history of automation. I have we've recorded three already. History of Triconics, history of Wonderware, history of, Rocco PLCs. And these are all from people's perspectives. This is, like, the definitive history, but, you know, it was been a lot of fun hanging out with these people who work with this old stuff, and, I really have enjoyed it. Sunday, my goal is to edit those three and, and,

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