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[PLC Alarm]

Good morning

Today I have the honor to present you our project, on which we have worked the last months.

We have been annoyed for years that when creating software in special machine building, sometimes the same/similar messages are created over and over again and then they are described similarly or the same in the machine documentation. The thought, if the mechanical components are mostly the same/similar, the error description can also be "copied" (at least initially).

An Excel table with the error numbers seemed to us here a good beginning, however it would be practical, if with each message text also still the description to the message in a document, including pictures, tables etc., were deposited. This was then the point where we first thought about an online tool. This also solves problems with collaboration and makes it possible to work together. Also additional languages can be added if a machine is to be rolled out to a new market.

PLC-Alarm is a young Austrian startup founded by PLC programmers to ease the handling with machine messages and their descriptions. Therefore we tried to solve the following problems besides the creation of an error list:

• Working together on message lists
• Hierarchical creation of message lists
• Inheritance of message texts and message descriptions to lower-level projects
• Adding additional message lists to make message texts more variable.
• Adding a description to any message text in any language via Google Docs. (Connection to Microsoft Word-online is in progress)
• Document template for uniform presentation
• Combining all message descriptions into one machine document file.
• Highlighting used messages to avoid having unused message text in the message list. And to shorten the machine document file.
• Upload a file containing the used message numbers to mark them automatically.
• Any export options for PLC, SCADA and HMI systems possible. (Currently optimized for TIA Portal only).
• Suggestions for additional features welcome

As mentioned in the last point, currently only exporting for a TIA Portal text list is possible since the first customers are also programming on Siemens. But we are looking forward to extend this according to customer requirements. Do not hesitate contact us via e-mail.

We invite you to test our free web applications and leave your feedback. The application is already successfully in use at the first customer and we are looking forward to more users.

Homepage: https://plc-alarm.com
WebApp: https://www.plc-alarm.app

Thank you for reading to the end ;)
Have a successful day

Franz Pachinger
PLC-Alarm.com

Support@plc-alarm.app