Add-On Instructions are presented creation with software of RSLogix 5000, ver 16. They are routine instructions that you plan and generate. Starting in software of RSLogix 5000, ver 18, safety and high integrity Add-On Instructions are offered.
About Add-On Instructions
You can build new instructions for sets of generally-used logic with Add-On Instructions, give a universal interface to this logic, and offer records for the instruction. They are planned to be utilized to summarize generally used device control or functions. They are not planned to be a design tool of high-level hierarchical. Programs with customs are better matched to include code for the unit levels or area of your application.
There are a number of advantages to use Add-On Instructions:
• Re-useable code
a. You can utilize them to support reliability among projects by reusing generally-used algorithms of control.
b. If you contain an algorithm that will be utilized many times in the similar project or across many projects, it may build sense to integrate that code within an Add-On Instruction to construct it modular and easier to reuse.
• Offer an easier to recognize interface
a. You can put complex algorithms in of an Add-On Instruction, and after that give an easier to recognize interface by creating only important parameters noticeable or required.
b. You can decrease development time of documentation throughout automatically producing instruction help.
• Keep intellectual belongings
a. You can put your proprietary code in an Add-On Instruction, after that apply Source Protection to avoid others from showing or adjusting your code.
• Make simpler maintenance
a. You can make simpler maintenance code since Add-On Instruction logic, checked in software of RSLogix 5000, lives with tag values qualified to that particular example of the Add-On Instruction.
• Easily verify instruction functionality, and track revisions with high reliability Add-On Instructions
a. You can put in a signature of instruction to your Add-On Instruction, which creates a exclusive identifier and avoids the instruction from being changed with no resulting in a modify to the signature.
An Add-On-Instruction can be utilized crossways many projects. You can classify the instructions, they can be presented to you by somebody else, or they can be duplicated from other project. Just the once identified in a project, they perform correspondingly to the built-in instructions already presented in software of RSLogix 5000. They show on the toolbar of instruction and in the browser of instruction for simple access, just similar to built-in software instructions of RSLogix 5000.