1) The integration process needs to be reliable and shareable with all other plants to standardize the process for ease of maintenance; 2) the integration plan should be flexible for adaptability to ...

The synthesis of sensors, actuators, and logic controllers with an HMI forms the basic architecture of all automated control systems. Accessing a PLC remotely . There are communication interfaces ...

PLC-based control systems began to function like a mini-DCS. At the same time, the DCS hybridized to incorporate PLCs and PCs to control certain functions and to provide reporting services. The DCS ...

As a industrial controls engineer that has worked globally, keep the arduino in hobby zone where it belongs. There are machines running with 20, or 30 year old control systems that are PLC controlled.

Although the PuffinPLC is intended to emulate a standard PLC, it has a very different architecture. This is partly to take advantage of the fact that it will be running over a full-fledged operating ...