Hello folks,
I would like to request your input and opinions to help me choose a PLC make/model for my company. I’m a manufacturing engineer with a mechanical / design / tooling background. I know next to nothing about PLC’s, instrumentation and process controls. So your opinions and experience would really help me out.
My company is a small commercial truck accessory manufacturer located in the southeast USA. I’m the only engineer here and there are no PLC’s in this facility. I would like to put some PLC’s to use for some small machine automation projects and for some automated product testing. I’m thinking that a PLC with 30 I/O would be more than enough for anything we would do here.
I would like to standardize on one brand, and even one model, if possible, to keep things simple. So I would like to solicit your opinions, viewpoints and biases on make/models that would be good for beginners from the following points of view:
* ease of programming
* durable / robust / trouble free use
* good value for the features, cost effective
The question I’m really asking is: if you had to start all over again in a small company with very basic automation needs, knowing what you know now, what make/model PLC would you choose?
Any and all opinions welcome and thanks very much for your input!
Nick
I would like to request your input and opinions to help me choose a PLC make/model for my company. I’m a manufacturing engineer with a mechanical / design / tooling background. I know next to nothing about PLC’s, instrumentation and process controls. So your opinions and experience would really help me out.
My company is a small commercial truck accessory manufacturer located in the southeast USA. I’m the only engineer here and there are no PLC’s in this facility. I would like to put some PLC’s to use for some small machine automation projects and for some automated product testing. I’m thinking that a PLC with 30 I/O would be more than enough for anything we would do here.
I would like to standardize on one brand, and even one model, if possible, to keep things simple. So I would like to solicit your opinions, viewpoints and biases on make/models that would be good for beginners from the following points of view:
* ease of programming
* durable / robust / trouble free use
* good value for the features, cost effective
The question I’m really asking is: if you had to start all over again in a small company with very basic automation needs, knowing what you know now, what make/model PLC would you choose?
Any and all opinions welcome and thanks very much for your input!
Nick