I am a newbie to plc's who needs to implement a 2 axis motion control project. 10 yrs ago I built a pc based machine which worked fine, all done in asssembler. The trouble was as I was learning as I went it all took so long! I now need to do something similar for my business and I suspect it will all be a lot easier to use a plc for the rotary encoder inputs, and the ac motor drive outputs, with some sort of link to a pc based user interface. Are there plc's that are suitable for this application?