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 ...

Andy Banaczyk, head of maintenance at Rock-Tenn, said they had to physically test each interlock until they located the fault. “This was a real time-waster,” according to Banaczyk. The programmable ...

A new family of PLC-controlled robots combines a SCARA robot with a PLC Server that allows direct programming of the robot from the Allen-Bradley family of PLCs, through a DF-1 serial connection. The ...

Industrial automation systems have historically relied on digital elements installed locally to the controlled equipment and machinery. As computational capabilities progressed, users took advantage ...

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

Housed in aluminum cases providing IP65 protection, the SCS10 series single-turn, parallel-output absolute rotary encoders are capable of connecting directly to discrete input PLCs. They specify a ...

This tutorial offers an in-depth introduction into programmable logic controllers (PLCs). The article starts with an overview of the history and the role PLCs in factory automation. The basic ...

On the surface, a programmable logic controller (PLC) might seem like nothing more than a generic microcontroller, perhaps outfitted to operate in industrial settings with things like high ...