Designed to interface PC or PLC logic to machines, the Releco Interfacer universal relays pack both ac and dc circuits in the same unit and include a built-in surge supressor. Dedicated ac or dc units ...

As part of our research for the February 2011 feature story, “Control Vendors Put More in the Box,” Automation World posed a handful of questions via e-mail to vendors of integrated logic and motion ...

Learn why deterministic PLC logic remains essential in smart manufacturing, and how context-aware AI can enhance, not replace, human operators' critical decisions. PLCs remain the foundation of ...

Thanks to an embedded nonvolatile memory core, chip designers can arm themselves with a multiple-time-programmable (MTP) fuse that's manufacturable via standard CMOS logic processes. Unlike several ...

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) traditionally have been considered inherently insecure. But a new security initiative that outlines 20 best practices for coding the industrial computing device ...