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PLC Next Technology by Phoenix Contact has changed the game and opened up the world of factory automation to graduates versed in High Level Language and more importantly opened up this untapped talent pool to the factory automation industry.
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#Open source plc ladder logic software#
The open source community is an untapped pool of talent, on the whole, locked out of the world of factory automation due to the prevalence of IEC 61131-3 software packages to program Programmable Logic Controllers. These apps are a product of the open source community. They are written, by and large, in high level languages like C++, C#, Python, Rust. Do you realise that these apps, in a large part, are written by some of the brilliant young people graduating from our colleges and universities? At the press of an icon, you can order something online or even control your heating and security at home whilst you are out. Observe the array of apps installed on your device. But when set against the backdrop of the incredible technological explosion of the last 10 years of Opensource and high-level language programming and the industry’s insistence to cling on to the restrictive framework of IEC 61131-3, using one of the standard 5 languages of Ladder, Instruction List (IL), Function Block Diagram (FBD), Structured Text (ST) or Sequential Function Chart (SFC), what seems like a provocative jibe takes on a cerebral undertone! That is a rather baffling, outrageous and somewhat inflammatory statement to make. The factory automation ostrich can no longer bury its head in the sand!