Allen-Bradley HMI: PanelView 800 with Connected Components Workbench

Six modules, an hour of material and an hour of hands-on work each, which is twelve hours, two six-hour days.

It is shorter than the FactoryTalk View course on purpose. The PanelView 800 is designed inside Connected Components Workbench, which IATCW01 already teaches, so the software, the project model and the connection to the controller are familiar before this course starts. What is left is the terminal itself.

The course is honest about the trade from the first module. There are no global objects, the alarming is a list rather than a banner-and-history system, and the security is coarser. None of that is a fault. It is a terminal for a machine with twenty tags and six screens, and specifying it for a plant-wide interface is a specification error rather than a product one. The design module treats the small screen as the subject rather than an inconvenience.

The middle of the course is the part that transfers everywhere: connecting objects to controller variables, the chain from variable through expression to object property, and what a push button actually does, which is set one bit and let the ladder decide. A maintained start button is a machine that restarts itself on power-up, and the course says so with the rung on the slide.

It closes with the features people do not expect on free tooling: recipes held on the terminal, which remove changeover errors on a machine that runs three products, and then the download, the emulator and what it cannot prove, commissioning on the hardware, and handover.

1. 1

   PanelView 800 and CCW: what the free toolchain gives you

   Where the PanelView 800 sits against a PanelView Plus, why it is designed in Connected Components Workbench rather than FactoryTalk View, the terminal sizes and what they cost you in screen real estate, and what this free toolchain can and cannot do.

   Available now 8 slides ~60 min 60 min lab
2. 2

   Adding a terminal and connecting it to a Micro800

   Adding a PanelView 800 to a CCW project beside a controller, setting the IP addressing on both ends, configuring the communications, and proving the terminal can actually see the controller tags before you design anything.

   Available now 8 slides ~60 min 60 min lab
3. 3

   Screens, objects and navigation

   Creating screens and the screen list, the object types available, laying out a display where space is genuinely tight, and moving an operator between screens on a terminal that may have no function keys at all.

   Available now 8 slides ~60 min 60 min lab
4. 4

   Tags, animation and operator control

   Connecting objects to Micro800 tags, animating state and value, and push buttons, numeric entry and selectors that write back, with the ladder in the controller still deciding what is allowed to happen.

   Available now 9 slides ~60 min 60 min lab
5. 5

   Alarms, recipes and the built-in features

   The alarm list and how it differs from FactoryTalk View, recipes held on the terminal, multiple languages, the real-time clock, and the security a small terminal does and does not offer.

   Available now 8 slides ~60 min 60 min lab
6. 6

   Download, runtime and handover

   Downloading to the terminal over Ethernet or from a USB stick, testing on the hardware, what the emulator will and will not show you, firmware, and the project backup that ships with the machine.

   Available now 9 slides ~60 min 60 min lab

Lab times are approximate: they are a guide to how long the hands-on part usually takes, not a limit. You can ask for more lab time whenever you need it.