Control Design’s team of industry professionals stress the importance of maintainability, support and adherence to established standards like IEC 61131-3 in this article. The capability to upload ...

When learning ladder logic, I was told that some new PLC systems were moving to scripted programming languages. My instructor assured us that we would not need to know anything other than ladder ...

Until recently, programming and the integration of controls and motion components usually required several programming languages. Ladder logic was used for the control logic of a PLC and for the ...

That comes from operators doing the wrong thing, or from automation designed the wrong way,” says Woll. “One thing I’m seeing is a trend toward state logic control and away from block-oriented ...

Capturing data signals during embedded system design can prove challenging. Modern logic analyzers make data acquisition tasks easier by providing advanced triggering capabilities that get to the ...

Inversion of control is a software design principle that asserts a program can benefit in terms of pluggability, testability, usability and loose coupling if the management of an application's flow is ...

Traditionally, engineers have to redesign their control systems from scratch every time they switch to a different autonomous vehicle or environment. “We propose a smarter, simpler solution: an AI ...