For applications combining traditional automation, multi-axis coordinated motion control, and a need for data handling, a motion-optimized PLC platform provides an elegant and streamlined solution.

The era where PLCs are used by AI—few people yet truly understand what that means.For those who have long been involved in ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - The ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI) has announced that a programmable logic controller (PLC) from Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) has received ISASecure ...

Industrial automation projects tend to use standardized components and employ common features for good reasons, primarily to promote simplicity and re-usability. But occasionally, technology ...

One controls supplier put it this way. "What is specified is the direct communication to the MES and SCADA level through OPC. But for communication on the machine level, the work was not finished. The ...

If you go back long enough, before programmable logic controllers (PLCs) were around, we had relays, timers and electric loop controllers. Process control systems were highly distributed and hardwired ...

The BinMaster C-100 control console provides convenient walk up or drive up access to level and volume data indoors or outdoors at the push of a button. The C-100 offers measurements displayed as feet ...

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 ...

PLCs (programmable logic controllers) are the control hubs for a wide variety of automated systems and processes. They contain multiple inputs and outputs that use transistors and other circuitry to ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Historically, motion controllers, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and industrial personal computers (PCs), which ...