Progammable Logic Controller (PLC) Tutorial Allen-Bradley Micro800 Paperback – Big Book, 21 March 2013

Not the best PLC book that I have seen but does have some practical programming examples. The quality of the printing is poor, some diagrams are slightly blurred. It just looks like someone has photocopied some pages and put them into a binder. All pages are black and white, only the cover is coloured. The CCW software used is way out of date although the principle is the same. There is an opportunity for someone to write a better book than this for the Micro800 series.

This is the ONLY book I could find for micro800 PLC programming in CCW. I am overall disappointed as the book does not go beyond the very basics. I am currently using the software with a micro850 PLC and a panel view 800 for a local/remote magnetron modulator control system. This book goes over basic setup for HW and SW, PC/PLC communication, a UDFB example (less detailed than the tutorial that comes with CCW) and then has sample code examples and an incomplete indexing/glossary of CCW/LD functions. Though is not complete or detailed by a long shot. So it is useful as a reference after going through basics, which is readily available from other free AB/Rockwell publications already.However, no analog programming examples, no HSC examples, no reference to using system variables other than a set to fixed value example (why bother), no reference at all to panel view components or tags for an HMI which are programmed with the same CCW software, does not go through more than 15% of the pre-defined function blocks in code examples, explains very little of the nuances of the CCW software.If you have had any experience programming a PLC or ladder logic experience, don't bother with this book, just be ready for the CCW software to drive you insane at first.I learned far more from the free AB/Rockwell documentation and youtube videos than from this book.This book might be for you if you have never programmed in ladder logic, want to use Connected Components Workbench and are going to use the simplest of functions possible with a micro800 series PLC. (All of which information and far more than is in this book can be found for free online.)