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Data centers are at the heart of every digital interaction between consumers and businesses. As data consumption continues to surge, the prospect of unplanned downtime in the data center poses a ...

The programmable logic controller (PLC) is an important component in most modern automation and process control systems today. It's also susceptible to lightning-induced transients. To verify the ...

While robot original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) each offer their own tightly integrated controllers, recent developments now enable control by a programmable logic controller, or PLC. For ...

Over the past decade, the functionality of different control systems has been merging. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) now have capabilities once found only in distributed control systems (DCSs) ...

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 ...

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 ...

A three-day training program for automation technology and IEC 61131 programming—available for free from WAGO—will occur on five separate dates in 2016: March 8-10, May 3-5, August 2-4, September ...

The list of non-industrial technologies changing industrial automation seems to grow longer each year (see the list at the bottom of this article highlighting the IT-sector technologies currently ...

We have serious doubts about the technology, as even QLC is already a bit too much for most people (pardon the pun). For SSDs SLC is one bit written oper NAND flash cell, MLC is two bits, TLS is three ...