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Howdy,
I'm a Controls student at Fanshawe College in London, Ont. Canada. As a requirement to complete a technical report class, I am searching for information regarding PLCs/PCs. Originally, I chose to look into the "best" manufacturers of PLCs on the market today (naive I know). However, upon my preliminary research I discovered (much to everyone's surprise I bet!) that this topic is far too broad to ever be possible to produce in a 5000 word report. The sheer number of PLC manufacturers and diversity of their products are completely overwhelming to deal with my proposed scope. So, my plan is to keep researching as much as I can in the next while and hope that I can come across a more
refined angle to tackle this project... or look into the PLC vs. PC debate. I noticed from the message board that there is quite a heated interest in this issue and started thinking to myself that this might be a better topic for evaluating. I realize that this topic is also
very widespread, but I am hoping that maybe by studying the general advantages/disadvantages of each platform I can compare the two systems reasonably well. I think it might be better to compare PLC vs. PC control, than AB vs. ABB vs. Modicon vs. Omron vs. Siemens etc etc etc. If anyone has any information regarding said topics, personal experience, possible new topic ideas, or any input in general, it would be greatly appreciated.
I'm a Controls student at Fanshawe College in London, Ont. Canada. As a requirement to complete a technical report class, I am searching for information regarding PLCs/PCs. Originally, I chose to look into the "best" manufacturers of PLCs on the market today (naive I know). However, upon my preliminary research I discovered (much to everyone's surprise I bet!) that this topic is far too broad to ever be possible to produce in a 5000 word report. The sheer number of PLC manufacturers and diversity of their products are completely overwhelming to deal with my proposed scope. So, my plan is to keep researching as much as I can in the next while and hope that I can come across a more
refined angle to tackle this project... or look into the PLC vs. PC debate. I noticed from the message board that there is quite a heated interest in this issue and started thinking to myself that this might be a better topic for evaluating. I realize that this topic is also
very widespread, but I am hoping that maybe by studying the general advantages/disadvantages of each platform I can compare the two systems reasonably well. I think it might be better to compare PLC vs. PC control, than AB vs. ABB vs. Modicon vs. Omron vs. Siemens etc etc etc. If anyone has any information regarding said topics, personal experience, possible new topic ideas, or any input in general, it would be greatly appreciated.