Being nimble and quick isn’t about fun and games for Jack Piper. It’s serious business for the engineering manager at Ridgeline Pipe Manufacturing in Eugene, Ore., because it’s his job to squeeze ...

Old habits die hard. But change is inevitable. And in this case, if proponents are right, change is on the way in the form of an open PLC programming standard known as IEC 61131-3. Promulgated by the ...

A three-day training program for automation technology and IEC 61131 programming—available for free from WAGO—will occur on five separate dates in 2016: March 8-10, May 3-5, August 2-4, September ...

Market Size Worth US$ 19.5 Billion By 2033, Growing At 6.5% CAGR (20262033). EINPresswire/ -- The global programmable logic controller (PLC) market is projected to reach US$ 12.6 billion in 2026 and ...

Driven by technological innovations, increasing applications, falling prices and greater adoption of factory automation, the use of robots is ballooning globally. From just 2013 to 2017, the number of ...

OpenPLC is an open-source industrial controls platform that allows the transformation of popular microcontrollers into a programmable logic controller (PLC). OpenPLC is a fully functional open-source ...

Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s Automation Engineering Technology program prepares students to design, implement and troubleshoot automated industrial processes on robotic equipment and other ...

Zekelman Industries’ PLC equipment donation is turning Arkansas Northeastern College into a hands-on automation training hub, ...

Also, collaborative robots (cobots) and AI-enabled robots are increasingly adopted in production lines for assembly, welding, ...