elecworks – Assigning I/O Information within elecworks™

By Miles Nicholson

In this Tips and Tricks we are going to look at how information can be taken from a manufacturer’s PLC program and reused within elecworks™. With elecworks™, you can enter the I/O description label text in two methods.

1. Manually double click on each Description (English) cell to enter the values.

N.B. With this method you cannot guarantee the descriptions defined in elecworks™ match the descriptions defined in the PLC program.

2. Assign multiple inputs and outputs at the same time by importing data from the PLC program or PLC XLS I/O estimate.

In this example, we will look at method 2.