PLC software may be contained in a PC or in a standalone piece of hardware; either way, the panel(s) where all the wires are connected to energize or deactivate switches or timers or else, should be industrial quality or custom made; a possible application of the PC version of the software is included in the following article...
Paper Presentation:"Applying the Control Programming Standard IEC 61131-3 to Software Engineering"
Posted at: http://www.doylet.org/docs/simula.docAbstract:Preparing periodic batches to run updates or get reports from mainframes, requires a good understanding of the requirements of each component, to avoid the cancellation of any batch process and its resulting lost of time and resources. To improve that understanding, an industrial Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) was set to simulate a batch process; the industrial components included in the existing tutorial, were used based on their functionality, as equivalent software components.
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