/industrial-demonstrators

Code for the RS Components Industrial Demonstrators

Primary LanguagePythonApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

RS Industrial Demonstrators

DIN rail detail

The code in this repository is for a pair of demonstrator units constructed to showcase RS Components industrial products, that are each driven by a Brainboxes BB-400 Neuron Edge Industrial Controller, plus ED-538 (Ethernet to 8 x Digital In and 4 x Relay out I/O module).

Contents

The directory structure is as follows:

  conveyor/              - Conveyor demonstrator
  rotlin/                - Rotary and linear actuator demonstrator

Usage

Since this project is not intended to be used as-is, it has not been packaged for installation. However, the steps to install are quite simple:

  1. Create the directory /opt/rsid/bin
  2. Copy brainboxes.py and the appropriate PLC script (plc-conveyor or plc-rotlin) to the new directory
  3. Copy the associated .service file to /lib/systemd/system
  4. Enable at boot with sudo systemctl enable plc-UNIT

Licence

Copyright (C) 2019 RS Components Ltd.

This software is published under the Apache License Version 2.0.