Iec 61131-3 Second edition 2003-01 Programmable controllers – Part 3: Programming languages

2.6.4.1 Declaration
A programmable controller implementation which supports SFC elements shall provide one or more of
the mechanisms defined in table 42 for the declaration of actions. The scope of the declaration of an
action shall be local to the program organization unit containing the declaration.
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Table 42 - Declaration of actions
 a,b
No.
Feature
1
Any Boolean variable declared in a VAR or VAR_OUTPUT block, or their graphical
equivalents, can be an action.
No.
Example
Feature
2l
+----------------------------------------+
| ACTION_4 |
+----------------------------------------+
| | %IX1 %MX3 S8.X %QX17 | |
| +---||-----||----||-----()---+ |
| | | |
| | +------+ | |
| +----|EN ENO| %MX10 | |
| | C--| LT |----------(S)---+ |
| | D--| | | |
| | +------+ | |
+----------------------------------------+
Graphical
declaration in LD
language (see 4.2)
2s
+----------------------------------------+
| OPEN_VALVE_1 |
+----------------------------------------+
| | ... |
| +=================+ |
| || VALVE_1_READY || |
| +=================+ |
| | |
| + STEP8.X |
| | |
| +-----------------+ +---+-----------+ |
| | VALVE_1_OPENING |--| N |VALVE_1_FWD| |
| +-----------------+ +---+-----------+ |
| | ... |
+----------------------------------------+
Inclusion of SFC
elements in action
2f
+----------------------------------------+
| ACTION_4 |
+----------------------------------------+
| +---+ |
| %IX1--| & | |
| %MX3--| |--%QX17 |
| S8.X---------| | |
| +---+ FF28 |
| +----+ |
| | SR | |
| +------+ | Q1|-%MX10 |
| C--| LT |--|S1 | |
| D--| | +----+ |
| +------+ |
+----------------------------------------+
Graphical
declaration
in FBD language
(see 4.3)
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