S1200 memory

How can i make S1200 stores 20 values of samples and display and export it in excel sheet.

The testing process is the robot picks the fabric sample and put it in a testing chamber to test the light leakage for different gases on fabrics.

I need the PLC to count how many seconds the fabric starts to leak gas then stores it then i can export it.

What hardware is needed for my system?

M.ELMOGEY

What hardware is needed for my system?

Actually all you need on hardware side is an Ethernet  cable and a PC with an Ethernet network adapter to run the Excel on it.

But, there can be also other software needed. And this depends on the application requirements and your ability to program/configure those PLC and PC to get data from the PLC.

Some options include (say in the order from less expensive to the most or from the hardest to the easiest):

- programming simple TCP/IP data exchange - requires programming on both sides;

- using OPC XML - requires configuring the PLC and programming the PC;

- using OPC UA/DA - requires an OPC Server software (only configuring) and programming the PC;

- using OPC Data Bridge - requires an OPC Server software and the OPC Data Bridge software - only configuration needed, no programming.

There are also other sophisticated solutions like writing directly from a PLC to a remote database. Or creating in a PLC and sending to a PC TXT or CSV files.

Here you can check if the Siemens already has got some more or less free solutions for you.