I heard the terms as cold restart and warm restart in the PLC as far as I am working on the SEIMENS plc so I am elaborating these terms considering SEIMENS plc .
Buttons to Change the Operating Mode:
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· Warm Restart
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· Cold Restart
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· Hot Restart
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· Stop
The following applies to the “warm restart” startup mode (provided cpu is backed up)
1.All data blocks and their contents are retained.
2.Retentive timers,counters and bit memory are retained where as non retentive data are reset. OB i.e. organization block 100 (warm restart) in any series of SEIMENS PLC e.g S7 300 or 400.
3.With a warm restart,the process input table is read in the step 7 user program processed starting with the statement in OB1.
The Cold restart first processes OB 102 block. The following applies to the “cold restart” startup mode
1.Data blocks are generated by system function are deleted in the work memory and the remaining data blocks have preset value from the load memory.
2.Process image and all timers,counters and bit memory are reset regardless of whether they have configured as retentive.
The following applies to the “ Hot restart” startup mode which only found in the S7 400 series PLC.
1.When cpu starts up ( e.g. when mode selector switch is moved from STOP to RUN mode when the power is switched on) before cyclic program processing starts (OB1) either OB 100(warm restart), OB 101 (hot restart only in S7 400 plc) or OB 102( cold restart) is processed first.
- If you want to carry “HOT restart” then first off all you have to take back up and in this all data areas are retained.
Where as RUN or STOP is PLC Operation mode and has nothing to do with resetting PLC data.
NOTE: I have answered this considering seimens plc.However definition of the terms will be same for all kind of plcs. You will find these terms in the HW window of seimens.