WEEK 1

This week we have done a lot of things. Our challenge is about programming a screen called HMI_NA5 that is a screen from the company called Omrom. With this screen, we have to do basically 2 things. On the one hand, we have to put a lot of different parametres of a electric motor and a servomotor. On the other hand, we have to be able to modificate this parameters by this type of screen.

The first days we spend a lot of time doing exercises in the computer and programming some PLCs. First problems came when we try to connect the PLC with the computer. We were not able to connect because some parameters of the PLC were wrong. Andoni and Adrian spend a lot of time trying to do some exercises that were explained in moodle, but this explication was too bad. Because of that, they waste a lot of time watching videos in youtube, trying to find some information. While Unai and Xabier were doing some exercises about a variable frequency drive, Aritz started trying to connect the screen with the PLC. This one was too difficult, but he finally got it.

Another problem started when Andoni and Adrian finished they work and they tried to see if all the exercises were done well or bad. Apart from that, the explications that were in the first page, were so bad. Furthermore, when Unai and Xabier started programming the PLC, they saw that the PLC that we had wasn´t the same of the manual of moodle. For that reason, we knew that the parameters that we had were differents, so that´s a big problem.

While Aritz were connecting all the components of the program, he saw that the license of the Omron program was very old and it was expired. So Javi gave us a new license to be able to connect all the things properly. Once we get the last version of the programm in our three computers, in that moment we were ready to connect the programm from the computer to the other gadjets, such as the HMI_NA5 screen, the frecuency variator...etc. Unai and Xabier finished the frecuency variator exercises, and they started with the second task that was about programming the final challenge. At this moment of the challenge Aritz finished comunicating the computer with the other gadjets.

Finally, after been trying to connect all the gadjets several times, we got everything to work. Also we add some improvemets to the process, for example a laser, three counters, and some pilots.