The PLC Tutorials category is made for anyone who wants to learn programmable logic controllers, using practical examples, instead of complicated theory.
If you are just getting started or already work with industrial automation systems, these tutorials cover the essential concepts needed to understand, program, and troubleshoot PLC-based control systems.
You’ll find articles on PLC basics, ladder logic, timers, counters, analog and digital signals, input and output modules, troubleshooting techniques, communication networks, and real industrial applications. Many tutorials are supported with examples that reflect situations commonly found in manufacturing plants and industrial facilities.
Every guide is written to make complex automation topics easier to understand and more useful in everyday engineering and maintenance work.
You have seen the webinars. Vendors pitching machine learning in your control systems. Conference talks showing dashboards predicting failures before they happen. Then you walk back onto your plant floor, look at your existing Siemens…
Walk into almost any North American plant and you’ll find Allen Bradley hardware in the control panel. That’s just the reality of industrial automation here. I’ve been programming, troubleshooting, and commissioning these systems for 15…
Why Industrial Cybersecurity Is the Most Urgent Problem in Manufacturing Today In 2021, an attacker accessed a water treatment facility in Oldsmar, Florida and attempted to increase sodium hydroxide levels to dangerous concentrations — all…
Why PLC Cybersecurity Matters in 2026 In 2025, I helped a water utility company recover from a ransomware incident that started with a single exposed remote-access tool on an engineer’s laptop. The attackers never “hacked”…
Vibration Monitoring with MQTT Sparkplug B: Best Practices for Topic Namespaces Vibration Monitoring with MQTT Sparkplug B: Best Practices for Topic Namespaces Find out the best ways to use Sparkplug B topic namespace for vibration monitoring. Quality of Service, retained/LWT, security, and historian integration. Introduction You already…
Create project in RSLogix 5000 is the first step for anybody learning Rockwell Automation controllers. This practical guide walks you through every step through each step, from starting a new project file to naming your…