Programmatical safety and traditional hardwired safety are two different approaches to ensuring safety in control systems. Each approach has its own advantages and disadvantages, and the choice between them depends on the specific requirements and constraints of the system in question. Let's compare these two approaches:Programmatical SafetyProgrammatical safety utilizes safety PLCs along with robust ethernet-based
Every plant should have a robust SCADA (supervisory control and data aquisition system) to capture and store data about the manufacturing process to maximize output. The data from the process can be used in a many ways to improve the process and even implement Industry 4.0 features such as machine learning. Here are some
Not all PLC code is created equal. Too often every bit of code is developed from scratch for a specific machine. Each device on the machine has custom code to control it. Each device on the machine has an custom alarm built and tested specifically for that output. Each device has a custom set of
