NOTE: This program has been terminated and isn't accepting new students. Faculty advisors will work with current students to complete the certificate by August 2027. The Advanced PLC Programming ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

FactoryTalk Design Studio represents Rockwell Automation’s software-defined automation (SDA) development tool. It is modern, cloud-based, multi-user and controller agnostic. “It’s also a strong ...

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Universal Robots (UR), a supplier of collaborative robots (cobots), has now integrated the Standard Robot Command Interface (SRCI) into its software. UR said it is among the first cobot vendors to ...

Researchers demonstrate that remote Stuxnet-style attacks are possible against many modern PLCs using web-based malware. A team of researchers has developed malware designed to target modern ...

JavaScript’s arrays can hold heterogeneous types, change size on the fly, and readily insert or remove elements. Traditional methods like slice, splice, and push/pop do this by operating on the array ...

Dick Morley, the "father" of the PLC explained in a recent exclusive interview, "Our design philosophy was simple; put a bunch of relays in a box!" At the time, Morley was working at Bedford ...

On the surface, a programmable logic controller (PLC) might seem like nothing more than a generic microcontroller, perhaps outfitted to operate in industrial settings with things like high ...

Abstract: This abstract discusses the integration of virtual and physical worlds in Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) programming using virtual plants with a physical interface. The combination of ...

Japanese electronics giant Omron recently patched programmable logic controller (PLC) and engineering software vulnerabilities that were discovered by industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos during the ...