Bob Trask, PE
Articles
Industrial PCs
December 17, 2011
Programming software turns IPCs into all-in-one HMIs, PLCs, NCs, PACs
Industrial programming software: IEC 61131-3 programming, plus C++, C#, and object-oriented extensions and third-party software modules can operate on industrial PCs (IPCs), serving as multipurpose programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and/or numerical control (NC) targets. This extends the IPC well beyond a human-machine interface.
By Bob Trask, PE