David Greenfield: Welcome to the Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered podcast, where we connect with industry experts to get the answers you need about industrial automation technologies. And ...

There is an ongoing effort to make programming languages and software platforms for machine automation easier to use and more versatile, to speed commissioning and improve equipment performance. Scott ...

Standardized programming for automation equipment is here to stay. At the forefront is IEC 61131-3-compatible software, which generates standardized code for use on any number of controls. Kevin Hull ...

In today's application programming interface (API) economy and generative AI-obsessed world, automation initiatives are at the forefront for every company and enterprise. The topic dominates ...

Managing control programs is no longer a one-man job on a rainy Sunday afternoon, says Eelco van der Wal, managing director of PLCOpen (www.plcopen.org), in Zaltbommel, The Netherlands, a vendor- and ...

Thanks to powerful tools, the need for speed, and the shifting nature of programming itself, your next nerd fight will be over framework APIs, not syntax In the 1980s, the easiest way to start a nerd ...