Industrial control systems have grown increasingly complex, requiring faster response times, more adaptability, and seamless integration with digital ...

An overview of the hardware and software components of PLCs and their programming languages. A programmable logic controller (PLC) is an industrial solid-state computer that monitors inputs and ...

The modern programmable logic controller (PLC) is at the nexus of two debates that are taking place daily at opposite ends of the control-system spectrum. At one end is the debate over the ideal ...

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 ...

The world has faced many geopolitical, environmental, economic, and technological changes over the past several years, and with these have come new learnings and opportunities to refine our practices ...

When learning ladder logic, I was told that some new PLC systems were moving to scripted programming languages. My instructor assured us that we would not need to know anything other than ladder logic ...

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, today announced the release of its latest VersaMax® Micro Plus controller firmware revision 4.0. The new release expands the ...

New programmable logic controller (PLC) products researched and developed independently were launched by Shanghai Baosight Software Co Ltd on Friday in Shanghai, a major step in localization and ...

Dan Shapiro’s Robot Turtles board game Kickstarter showed there is serious appetite for kids’ games that aren’t just fun to play with but also sneakily teach core coding principles. Instead of the $25 ...