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This week's featured article, Confessions of a Looney Tuner – "See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak No Evil", was written by Sylvain Millette of Millette Control Engineering Inc. Sylvain shares an experience tuning a flow control loop in one of his field lectures.
In this issue, we're featuring the book, IEC61131-3 Programming Methodology: Software Engineering Methods for Industrial Automated Systems, published by ICS Triplex ISaGRAF. The book introduces software engineering methods for the development of control code for industrial automated systems using the IEC 61131-3 standard programming environment.
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Featured Article
Confessions of a Looney Tuner – "See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak No Evil"
I firmly believe that, given a set of initial conditions (and enough time), everything will gravitate towards their natural state. In this month’s adventure, I was again giving a loop tuning/troubleshooting lecture in the field. In this case, my students and I were hooking up to the input and output signals of a control loop.
Read full article by Sylvain Millette of Millette Control Engineering Inc.
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IEC61131-3 Programming Methodology: Software Engineering Methods for Industrial Automated Systems
This book introduces software engineering methods for the development of control code for industrial automated systems. The target systems considered in this book are those based on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) or the more recent Soft Logic.
The proposed approach leads to a correct and effective use of the IEC 61131-3 standard programming environment, including the languages.
'IEC 61131-3 Programming Methodology' is of valuable use for Industrial Automation Software Engineers and Programmers since it fully describes the structure and role of each of the five programming languages defined by the IEC 61131-3 Standard. Moreover, it is a good way to widen your knowledge of PLC software and real time systems.
It includes a demo CD-ROM 61131-3 workbench based on ISaGRAF.
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