The PLC market offers significant opportunities driven by the rise of industry 4.0, smart manufacturing, and the automotive ...

The new PLC-INTERFACE Ethernet Gateway from Phoenix Contact combines relays and communication in one modular system.

Key market opportunities in the PLC sector include the shift to software-defined automation, driven by Industry 4.0 adoption and demand for modular architectures in large plants. Asia-Pacific leads ...

For most of our prototype, hobby, or one-off electronics projects it’s perfectly fine to use a development platform like an Arduino Uno or something to that effect. They’re both easy to program and ...

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

In the narrative of Industry 4.0, the cloud has long been the protagonist. It promised infinite storage, massive computing power, and the ability to aggregate d ...

In powerline communications (PLC), OFDM makes better use of bandwidth than FSK. Fast, reliable, and secure communications are critical for enabling the "energy Internet," an interconnected network of ...

To help manufacturers understand how they can mitigate potential negative impacts to production operations when message brokers are not yet or can’t be used to manage data required from PLCs, ...