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 ...

Moving to PLC-based robotic controls brings additional advantages as well, including common programming controls, software interfaces, program backup and restore methods, and program documentation.

For PLC programming, U.S control engineers and technicians turn typically to ladder logic, a programming technique that’s been around since the birth of programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, in the ...