Artificial Brains: PLCs

Automation: A concept, the proximity of science fiction, says the modern and fast and efficient, where intelligent machines, in perfect harmony in all components to create finished products, packaging, and you for sending ...

... but we must remain, and with great attention, on one of the words, we can not be utilized, it is a very heavy word and although we are more easily into the common language, we must not forget this that really great what he represents.
We have the machines ... smart. And this, of course, is gross exaggeration. What we are saying it is true, but it works, it's really hard not to believe they are really smart, and an explanation of this tour, or better, the technique of this perception were Ascon and we asked, from the development and sale of small heads, which are the basis for automation: SPS.

SPS is an acronym, of course, and Programmable Logic Controller: The first approach we can describe it, coincidentally, also rightly, it is a computer. But there is one important difference: A computer is designed and built to function in a standard environment, as our home or our office, and it is usually to obtain input from a keyboard or mouse, output on a monitor or a printer. On the other hand, a robot was born in a specific area certainly, but also in addition to the conditions and for very different. That is why the input and output channels on an API is much more than the generic and the computer not only a connection to monitors and printers, but the sensors, electric motors, hydraulic cylinders in a word about the "meaning" and "muscles" that the complex "organism" is a device that, for this reason, an automaton has a insulation for protection against electrical disturbances, there is in the machine where it is, and the absence of danger in our office and once again for the same reason, a robot was born, unlike a computer to withstand a wider range of temperatures, and much harder physical impact, such as vibration and take those as a home computer will probably never face.

For clearly, as a PLC is more robust and a computer specialist, as we are, for example, to read this article, a statement yet about the reasons for the decision to implement, and benefits resulting from these decisions. An automaton has a specific area of application: The objective is to automate, to a digital logic operations that traditionally, management, industry machinery, by the complexity of large systems ( it was indeed an alternative to relay that General Motors in 1968, a new type of system-O), which requires a manual reconfiguration, if the production requirements are modified. The transition between an electromechanical system and a core software that is in the simplicity of programming and reprogramming the implementation of automation, although the number of finished products can traditional complex systems, or anti economic. This brings us back where we, in our first image of the rapid and efficient companies in which "intelligent" machines (and we now know, the scale and nature and the intelligence) harmoniously create finished products.