Time is money, and for industrial automation software development, nothing saves more time than the ability to reuse programming code. Until now, the norm in automation has been custom and proprietary ...

IEC 61131-3 programming has had a large impact on the high-performance motion industry. Learn how the language and standard relates to your design work. Since the mid 1990s, substantial efforts have ...

A family of programming languages for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Of the three graphical and two textual languages, ladder logic (see example below) was the first language and widely used.