Questioning IEC 61131-3 From A Manufacturer’s Perspective

Questioning IEC 61131-3 From A Manufacturer’s Perspective

How Does IEC 61131-3 Help Manufacturers?
The main reason lies in its various language capabilities and ease of use. Users and vendors can expect less waste of human resources due to less system maintenance times, debugging, and training. Controllers can be used together from different locations, projects, or companies with fewer errors and increased performance. IEC 61131 allows manufacturers to stop being committed and disrupted by vendor lock-in to its universal state and nature. It’s applicable in a wide range of environments with enough connectivity features.

Why Not Use Other Standards?

Aside from IEC, there are various other standards that may apply in different countries. For example, ANSI (American National Standards Institute), and NEC (National Electric Code) caters to the United States.

Industrial Automation: 5 Factors To Consider When Choosing and Implementing OPC UA SDK

Industrial Automation: 5 Factors To Consider When Choosing and Implementing OPC UA SDK

Open Platform Communications United Architecture (OPC UA) is an IEC62541 international standard cross-platform, open-source, for industrial communication between sensors to cloud applications.

This machine-to-machine communication integrates and interoperates data between different devices and vendors. As a successor to the OPC Classic specification, OPC UA has posed as a crucial and vital solution as it proves to be one of the easiest and fastest channels of information transfer (with the right tools.)

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