AutomationDirect announces free online PLC training January 10, 2019 - AutomationDirect first partnered with Interconnecting Automation in 1996 to create a hands-on training program to familiarize ...

A new family of PLC-controlled robots combines a SCARA robot with a PLC Server that allows direct programming of the robot from the Allen-Bradley family of PLCs, through a DF-1 serial connection. The ...

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a new feature of PLC programming that has taken the automation world by storm. This book provides you with the necessary skills to succeed in the modern automation ...

AutomationDirect’s Productivity Suite PLC programming software version 2.4 provides two new software communications enhancements for the Productivity series controllers.

DirectSOFT5, 32-bit Windows certified programming software for the entire DirectLOGIC line of PLCs, contains many new features that make ladder logic programming faster and easier. The most important ...

AutomationDirect has launched DirectSOFT5 PLC programming software, a 32-bit Windows®-certified tool for the entire DirectLOGIC line of PLCs. The most significant of the software’s new features to ...

Industrial automation is largely based on PLC-based control systems. PLCs are today mostly programmed in the languages of the IEC 61131 standard which are not ready to meet the new challenges of ...

Industrial automation platforms have gained many open programming capabilities, providing many technical and commercial benefits for developers.