PLC Programming Tutorial. How to automate a conveyor with sensors. siemens Ladder logic. Pulse timer

Is it possible to use this program without a real PLC device?

Hello,
I have a spare channel (296) wanna use it instead of another one (294), after I do the wiring, what should I do in the software using Simatic manager to enable the spare channel and make as 294?

I want channel 296 to have all the configuration as 294.

Channel 294 is for reading the load in TON