It can also be used for monitoring a PLC system, essentially adding IoT capabilities to existing systems, enabling continuous monitoring, debugging, and program updates.

Siemens is the first—and currently only—PLC vendor supporting SRCI in the automation market, according to UR. The SRCI is available for UR’s e-Series family and the next-generation robots UR20 and ...

For PLC programming, U.S control engineers and technicians turn typically to ladder logic, a programming technique that’s been around since the birth of programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, in the ...