No, for reliable operation you’ll need a PLC – a programmable logic controller – to automate all your hardware. PLCs are usually pretty expensive pieces of hardware, which led [Warwick] to ...

Contacts can be normally open or closed and in series or parallel to form AND and OR gates, for example, while coils can activate contacts. In industry, ladder logic is well understood, and PLCs ...

Industrial automation technologies have made manufacturing processes increasingly more efficient. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are commonly used in industrial automation, and many of these ...