PLC Forces is an important tool which can be easily misused. It’s something with which you need to deal on a regular basis and something you should have in your toolkit as a competent PLC Programmer. The primary purpose of PLC Forces is to either enable or disable an input or output residing within the PLC Program. By doing so, the programmer can be certain that a certain input or output is energized or de-energized.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.solisplc.com/tutorials/plc-forces-tutorial-working-with-forced-inputs-outputs-troubleshooting-disabling-online-forces-rslogix