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 ...

In part one of this series, we looked at the PLC’s internal architecture, briefly discussed Ladder Logic programming, Human-Machine Interfaces, advantages of the PLC’s ability to react consistently ...

FactoryForge allows students, automation engineers, and software developers to write PLC logic (Ladder Diagram, SCL, Function Block Diagram) in TIA Portal, OpenPLC, Node-RED, or Ignition SCADA, and ...

Though PLC (programmable logic controller) programming languages may not receive the attention that general computing programming languages, such as JavaScript, C#, or Python do, they remain critical ...

This article is one in an ongoing series about programmable logic controllers and their applications in broadcasting. You can read past articles online at radiomagonline.com. In the last article, we ...

Modern industrial automation owes much of its flexibility to programmable logic controllers. Before programmable logic controllers (PLCs) appeared in the 1970s, factory control was dominated by ...