Nobody speaks SCHNEIDER
But what is a Schneider PLC?
After buying/merging etc differente corporation, there are or have been, several PLCs brands within Group Schneider:
- Telemecanique
- April
- Square-D
- Modicon
- ??
(Did AEG and Merlin-Gerin have own PLCs?)
The same with MMI (ups I mean HMI...)
Proface bought Xycom and later Group Schneider bought Proface. (Yes I hope they throw Magelis in the bin)
In addition to other SCADA software, Group Schneider also have their own version of USData's Factory Link, with its own name.
Group Schneider looks like an active partner in the market.
My experience with PLCs from Group Schneider has been some projects with the Telemecanique PLCs Micro and Premium.
They are not my first choice, it was because of decisions made by customer's.
But there was functionality that I DID like, e.g.
- Structured text (writing program BASIC-like)
- Arrays, index etc
- Many functions
- DFB: Possibility to write own funtion blocks, like the multi-point scaling/convert function I postet some weeks ago:
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With the size of Group Schneider, I think we are stuck with them for many years.
But as I said, Telemecanique is not my first choice, and the other brands within Group Schneider have I no experience with.