If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to program PLCs — a very marketable job skills in some places — you can now build and simulate ladder logic in your browser.

PLCs can scan the entire ladder logic program in milliseconds (see specification for Typical Scan in the data sheet). The PLC is as close to “real-time” as you’ll likely ever get and with repeatable ...

Efficiency is another major advantage. “A ladder-logic program will be a lot more efficient if it is used in conjunction with PLCopen Motion Function Blocks,” Al-Ashqar asserts. Too, he says there’s ...

PLC Counters and Timers provides an overview of the functions of counter and timer instructions in a PLC ladder logic program. Counter and timer instructions are internal features of a program that ...

THE use of function blocks for programming of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) is gaining wider acceptance. Rather than the classic “contact and coil” representation of ladder diagram or relay ...