One of the most common questions that comes up early in any Allen-Bradley PLC project is which controller family to choose. Rockwell Automation’s Logix platform is unified in the sense that all of its controllers share the same Studio...
Walk into almost any plant production facility that has been running for more than 15 years in Alberta and you will likely find an Allen Bradley SLC 500 or PLC-5 humming away in a control panel somewhere. These old platforms are classic workhorses. Well...
Automation engineers have never been short on options for communications protocols. Over the decades we have produced a long and often bewildering list of fieldbus protocols —> PROFIBUS, DeviceNet, CANopen, Modbus RTU, and after that a wave of Ethernet...
Motion control hardware has always been a strong suit at Beckhoff Automation. Beckhoff has built a strong reputation in the industry over decades via TwinCAT NC, EtherCAT communications, and the AX5000 series servo drive. But “high performance” also...
The industrial automation industry has been talking about AI for years. Much of that conversation has been at the outside of the machine. Cameras with embedded AI, SCADA analytics, cloud dashboards that flag anomalies. The actual control layer, the PLC, the...
