The world has faced many geopolitical, environmental, economic, and technological changes over the past several years, and with these have come new learnings and opportunities to refine our practices ...

Aging programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are exposing power generation and industrial water facilities to growing ...

When it comes to controllers, manufacturers and industrial companies are often inclined to leave something that works well enough alone. After all, with the right maintenance, programmable logic ...

To help address these challenges without adding the cost and complexity of multichip designs, Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) is expanding its Configurable Logic Block (CLB)–based microcontroller ...

The LS Electric XGB PLC family is designed to be versatile for flexible configurations. Users can choose to use a single PLC unit as a standalone controller with 32 built-in I/O points. Alternatively, ...

Industrial automation technologies have made manufacturing processes increasingly more efficient. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are commonly used in industrial automation, and many of these ...

Virtual PLCs can automatically recover from hardware failures by restarting on another server, thereby eliminating the downtime and guesswork of physical PLC replacement. Running control logic in ...

In late 2023, operators at the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, discovered that hackers linked to Iran’s ...

Federal agencies warn that Iranian-linked hackers continue to exploit vulnerabilities in Unitronics programmable logic controllers used in U.S. water systems, a campaign active since 2023. The devices ...