With the pandemic changing the nature of the way teams collaborate to develop new products, work from home is becoming increasingly common. That freedom and flexibility come with their own challenges when there is PLC hardware required for developing and testing new programs. In most cases using an emulator can be a very good alternative to spending a fortune on replicating the hardware test setup at home.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.solisplc.com/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-rslogix-5000-emulate