ACC Automation: PLC & Industrial Control Learning
Practical Tips and Techniques
Until now, the ACC PLC Simulator ran one 3D scene at a time. You could program a motor starter, a conveyor, or a tank—but only one at a time— and the moment you connected a second scene, it fought the first for the same inputs. From version 1.121, that limit is gone. The multi-scene PLC … Read more
I Replaced a $5,000 PLC Trainer with a Free PLC Training Simulator. A PLC training panel costs between three and eight thousand dollars. Technical colleges buy racks of them. Self-learners look at the price and walk away. Companies send employees to week-long courses at two thousand dollars per seat. I built a free PLC training … Read more
In this tutorial, I am going to walk you through the Conveyor Scene in the ACC PLC Simulator. This is a single-axis belt conveyor with proximity sensors at each end and a box that travels back and forth along the belt. You will write a ladder logic program that starts the conveyor, detects the box … Read more
ACC Automation is growing — and part of that growth is bringing in voices from outside my own experience. I want to introduce you to Chris Urban, an automation educator and PLC trainer based near Montreal, Quebec, who has been teaching technicians and engineers for over 30 years. Chris reached out after finding the ACC PLC Simulator, and … Read more