PLC glossary
Scaling
Turning a sensor's raw number into a useful measurement. The conversion must match the sensor's chosen range.
- Also called
- scale conversion
- On site
- A tank display converts input counts into a level from zero to 100 percent.
- Siemens
- NORM_X then SCALE_X in these exercises.
- Rockwell
- SCL with a SCALE backing tag in these exercises; this SCL instruction is not Siemens' programming language.
Taught in: Follow the signal