In late 2023, hackers tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps broke into programmable logic controllers at American water utilities using a technique that required no special tools and no ...

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MX RT1180 crossover MCUs from NXP Semiconductors. The dual-core, real-time MCUs feature a high-performance Arm Cortex-M7 core operating at up to 800MHz and a Cortex-M33 operating at up to 300MHz. The ...

Introduction: Why Older PLCs Are Still Everywhere. The hidden backbone of modern manufacturing Many plants today are ...

Learn what factors distinguish modern industrial controllers from earlier versions. Find out the impact of open architectures and interoperability on the flexibility of industrial controllers. Get ...

Virtual PLCs can automatically recover from hardware failures by restarting on another server, thereby eliminating the downtime and guesswork of physical PLC replacement. Running control logic in ...

Introduction to PLCs provides an overview of programmable logic controllers used in manufacturing. This class introduces the components of PLCs and their functions, provides basic information on the ...

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