monkeyhead
Member
Seems like a good season for coming up with wish lists. Post features and goodies that you wish your favorite PLC had.
Mine:
1. The ability to sync with NTP (network time protocol) servers. Seems like I'm forever fighting with clock drift and daylight savings time...
2. I wish that all Ethernet interfaces on PLCs would support plain old raw TCP for interfacing with standard networked applications. At some point most PLC's with an ethernet interface rely on TCP encapsulation, they should be able to transfer data this way, similar to the way data can be passed on a serial port.
3. Enough memory to store comments and descriptors in the PLC.
Mine:
1. The ability to sync with NTP (network time protocol) servers. Seems like I'm forever fighting with clock drift and daylight savings time...
2. I wish that all Ethernet interfaces on PLCs would support plain old raw TCP for interfacing with standard networked applications. At some point most PLC's with an ethernet interface rely on TCP encapsulation, they should be able to transfer data this way, similar to the way data can be passed on a serial port.
3. Enough memory to store comments and descriptors in the PLC.