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 ...

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 ...

Embedded processors handle the rising complexity of automation tasks by employing architectures that are quite different from those of programmable-logic controllers. It is no secret that ...

Control systems are the backbone of a modern automated manufacturing plant, but their longer-term value lies not just in the moment-to-moment control, but in the deeper evaluation of how systems ...

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and Programmable Automation Controllers (PACs) are industrial computers built and adapted for manufacturing environments. These are the brains of a manufacturing ...

Over the years, control relays of various types have been used by the hundreds — even thousands — to control nearly every function in commercial and industrial processes. Today, many of those ...

There are various approaches to developing programmable logic controller (PLC) applications using experimental techniques. Modifying existing PLC ladder logic programs is another common approach ...