Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and microcontrollers (MCUs) are becoming ubiquitous in the automation of a wide range of industrial and consumer applications. The PLC Laboratory houses six state ...

A programmable logic controller (PLC) is a computer designed to automate industrial machinery, and comes with protected interfaces and usually a specific PLC programming environment. Thus ...

No, for reliable operation you’ll need a PLC – a programmable logic controller – to automate all your hardware. PLCs are usually pretty expensive pieces of hardware, which led [Warwick] to ...

This paper attempts a journey right from configuring a PLC ... programming languages for programmable controllers (PCs), of which most widely used are Function Block Diagram (FBD) and Structured Text ...

Students build theoretical and practical background ... discreet sequential controls using programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Relay logic is used to introduce ladder logic and ladder logic is used ...