Behind every control system, every manufacturing improvement, every safety layer and every digital innovation are ...

During the PLCopen Process Control Work Group kickoff meeting, members came to a consensus regarding a goal: harmonization ...

In late 2023, hackers tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps broke into programmable logic controllers at American ...

User-defined instructions (UDIs) let engineers write logic once and reuse it across many components, eliminating tedious copy-paste duplication. Any updates to a UDI definition automatically propagate ...

As the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday, six US federal agencies have warned that Iran-affiliated threat actors have compromised internet-exposed programmable logic controllers at critical ...

Five new Elektor courses help beginners take their first steps in microcontroller programming with Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi Pico. Each course combines hands-on projects, hardware kits, and ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Abstract: This paper explains how to set up the communication between PLC and Arduino based on Modbus Protocol. PLC is a master and Arduino is a slave. A Fx2N-48MR, a Fx2N-485BD, an Arduino main board ...

Developed in partnership with Finder, Arduino Opta combines industrial-grade reliability with the flexibility of the Arduino ecosystem. Whether upgrading legacy systems or deploying new automation ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...