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

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 ...

When you start studying factory equipment, you run into a very simple question."Couldn't this just be controlled by a regular PC?"Modern PCs are extremely high-performance.They have fast CPUs, large ...

Vendor Landscape - The global programmable logic controller (plc) market is fragmented, with the presence of several global as well as regional vendors. A few prominent vendors that offer programmable ...

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 ...

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 ...

The quest for better throughput, faster changeover times, and less waste and downtimes has made machine-automation systems more complicated. Besides handling logic or process controls, systems today ...

Industrial automation technologies have made manufacturing processes increasingly more efficient. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are commonly used in industrial automation, and many of these ...

Most attack scenarios against industrial installations, whether in manufacturing or in critical infrastructure, focus on compromising programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to tamper with the physical ...

Researchers have devised a new malware attack against industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that takes advantage of architectural shortcomings in microprocessors and bypasses current ...