Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2016 19:31:10 GMT -8
99 out a 100 you ask this question to, will answer “do projects, and then more projects”. But those we deliver PLC training to we show our out of the box thinking and tell them the best way, not the typical way necessarily. Because you asked ‘how to improve your PLC programming skills?, that would indicate you have already done the necessity, a project or two. The best way is the quickest way, without having to re-invent the wheel. That would be to study all the real world existing programs you can get your hands on. The more you study, the more you will pick up both standard methods of accomplishing task, but also will spot better was of doing task you already knew one way to do.
Its just like your professor, he/she did not do all the experiments to figure out how everything works, or even how is the best way to perform the experiments them selves. They studied a bunch of books and research of the scientist that came before them who already figured out the bulk of how to and best way to. Then they use the collective knowledge and experience they gained from studying others, as a starting point for their own projects while trying to think out of the box and improve on them.
You apply that same educational principle to becoming better at PLC programming. while doing projects, study as many PLC programs currently being used in applications, written by others. If you only study examples given by your typical college instructor or a mentor, you will only learn 1 of 10 different way to write something. So you will not be able to assess, is it the best way? That is another advantage of getting PLC training by someone who specialized in PLC training for decades, they have seen many more programs than one instructor or mentor may have, so have privy to more best ways to do things.
Even if you just study one current PLC program being used in a real world process, typically it represents many engineers and start up tech’s collective knowledge over the years of experience. You will gain more knowledge than you could have, if you spent a lifetime of doing projects one at a time. Projects is the slow road, but also necessary. Studying existing PLC programs gets further, quicker.
Its just like your professor, he/she did not do all the experiments to figure out how everything works, or even how is the best way to perform the experiments them selves. They studied a bunch of books and research of the scientist that came before them who already figured out the bulk of how to and best way to. Then they use the collective knowledge and experience they gained from studying others, as a starting point for their own projects while trying to think out of the box and improve on them.
You apply that same educational principle to becoming better at PLC programming. while doing projects, study as many PLC programs currently being used in applications, written by others. If you only study examples given by your typical college instructor or a mentor, you will only learn 1 of 10 different way to write something. So you will not be able to assess, is it the best way? That is another advantage of getting PLC training by someone who specialized in PLC training for decades, they have seen many more programs than one instructor or mentor may have, so have privy to more best ways to do things.
Even if you just study one current PLC program being used in a real world process, typically it represents many engineers and start up tech’s collective knowledge over the years of experience. You will gain more knowledge than you could have, if you spent a lifetime of doing projects one at a time. Projects is the slow road, but also necessary. Studying existing PLC programs gets further, quicker.
