The tool then generates an alarm message for each trigger, using the tag’s Description text as the alarm message. In this example, we will use any bit with Alarm in the title as a trigger value. This tool takes in a CSV file of the controller tags, which is easy to generate in RSLogix ( Tools -> Export -> Tags and Logic Comments). That’s why during one of our annual FedEx days, DMC engineers built a custom Windows application to do all the grunt work for us. When you have a system with lots and lots of devices, as DMC often does, this can become nearly impossible. Manually adding alarms in FactoryTalk View can be tedious.
