If your usual tools are the Arduino and the Raspberry Pi, you might find it surprising that the industrial world tends to run on Programmable Logic Controllers, or PLCs. You can think of a PLC as ...

No, for reliable operation you’ll need a PLC – a programmable logic controller – to automate all your hardware. PLCs are usually pretty expensive pieces of hardware, which led [Warwick] to ...

Industrial automation technologies have made manufacturing processes increasingly more efficient. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are commonly used in industrial automation, and many of these ...

There are many types of dedicated microcontrollers used to operate equipment, and there are also a variety of programmable logic controllers (PLCs). These all work well, but they lack the openness of ...

The integrated development environment software of Emerson’s PAC Machine Edition (PME) 10.6 can be used to configure and ...

Open PLC logic plays a crucial role in this transition by embedding HMI and component libraries into PLC code, enabling greater flexibility in power, communication and system design. While overall ...

This concept extends to the design of industrial automation systems. Even though industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are very reliable, they are a single point of failure susceptible to ...