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 ...

The demise of Instruction List? One thing that hasn’t changed recently with PLC programming languages is that there are still two basic types: textual programming using typed out commands and ...

Until recently, programming and the integration of controls and motion components usually required several programming languages. Ladder logic was used for the control logic of a PLC and for the ...

For PLC programming, U.S control engineers and technicians turn typically to ladder logic, a programming technique that’s been around since the birth of programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, in the ...

Arduino has released Arduino PLC IDE a new version of its IDE (integrated development environment) software for use with PLCs (programmable logic controllers). The software supports the use of Ladder ...

STÄUBLI TEC-SYSTEMS is launching the uniVAL pi software that will allow robot programming to be implemented via the PLC, using Plug & Play in Siemens TIA Portal. Thanks to this optionally available ...

SIMD: parallelism for vectors Computer scientists have a fancy name for vector instructions: SIMD, or “Single Instruction Multiple Data.” If we think of a regular add instruction as a SISD ...