When a PLC is used primarily to replace relays, timers, and counters, it's hard to beat the simplicity and usefulness of ladder diagram programming. Their ability to accept programming in ladder ...

The programmable logic controller (PLC) is a microprocessor-based system that accepts input data from switches and sensors, processes that data by making decisions in accordance with a stored program, ...

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 a ...

Virtual PLCs run control logic in software instead of hardware. Here's what that means for your manufacturing operation.

You can download these software on your Windows PC and practice by creating different logic diagrams. The best part of these software is that you do not require any ...

These small controllers deliver cost savings and many advantages over traditional methods of control. Seems like everything is getting smaller-cheaper-faster these days. So why not go smaller while ...

An HVAC company in search of modern machine-control advantages finds an Arduino-compatible open PLC controller is the solution. Like many modern-day makers and hobbyists, I have always been inspired ...

Stäubli has launched uniVAL pi , a software solution that will enable robot programming to be implemented in the future via the PLC, using Plug & Play in Siemens TIA Portal. A PLC, or programmable ...

A team of Indian students, which developed an artificial intelligence–based platform that simplifies industrial programmable Logic Controller (PLC) programming, has won the Gold Cup at ...