General proceedings to program PLCs

Apart from creating a new Solution, which is necessary for any other activity, the order of the steps to follow is up to the user. However, the most common way is described below.

1. Start the engineering of one or more PLCs by creating a new Solution
2. Add one or more PLCs to the Solution
3. Assign platform parameters to the PLC
4. Add a communication channel to the PLC and set its communication parameters
5. Add communication elements to the channel
6. Add communication parameters to the elements
7. Create a project, add references
8. Create global variables, pam them on physical variables
9. Create a program in Fupla (in ST)
10. Define task(s) of the controller
11. Upload project to controller

Of course, do not forget to compile the solution every time the data structure changes (new variable, variable type change, new reference etc.).