Do in Industrial Control (PLC programming in particular) something like Design patterns, written "Best practices", "When to look where" guides exist? If yes, I would much appreciate pointers provided to them.

The purpose of such pragmatic guides is surely prevent one form constantly inventing new ugly bicycles.

Yours sincerely
Ariel Burbaickij

 

Lots. See e.g. standards and recommend practices by ISA: "www.isa.org":http://www.isa.org

The book "Fieldbus for Process Control" has a chapter specifically for engineering practices for Fieldbus that system integrators can adopt. It
highlights the difference between the practices for PLC and gives ideas on how to integrate Fieldbus with HMI using OPC.

Follow this link, mind the line wraps.
"http://www.isa.org/Template.cfm?Section=Shop_ISA&Template=/Ecommerce/Product
Display.cfm&ProductID=3036":http://www.isa.org/Template.cfm?Section=Shop_ISA&Template=/Ecommerce/Product
Display.cfm&ProductID=3036

Jonas

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Not that I've seen. The problem is that the wheels that fit one bicycle only work with that one bicycle and you can only buy tires and tubes and parts from that company or the wheels fall off. And rather than recognize that bicycles should all work the same, each company has done extensive R&D to produce one that works differently so that your experience with one
doesn't necessarily mean you can ride another. Some have soft bikes where the wheels turn only so long and then lock up. There's nearly infinite variety so you need the owner's manual for the one you intend to use. And they're really expensive. This makes it quite hard to suggest best practices, except to wear your helmet and pads.

Regards

cww