Time is money, and for industrial automation software development, nothing saves more time than the ability to reuse programming code. Until now, the norm in automation has been custom and proprietary ...

IEC 61131-3 programming has had a large impact on the high-performance motion industry. Learn how the language and standard relates to your design work. Since the mid 1990s, substantial efforts have ...

Old habits die hard. But change is inevitable. And in this case, if proponents are right, change is on the way in the form of an open PLC programming standard known as IEC 61131-3. Promulgated by the ...

The debate between programming languages revolves around the necessity of sticking to ladder logic for ease of troubleshooting versus adopting higher-level languages for enhanced functionality and ...