[.ca] Programmable Logic Controllers (ISBN 0134328817)

Informative:
Programming PLCs is an art that not everyone can understand and put into practice. This book helps the reader understand the basic provincials behind PLCs and how to get started on the programming side. Reading this book will not make you a programmer over night. It is something that takes years to develop and some people can do it while others just can't. I gave this book 4 out of 5 stars only because they reference Allan Bradley. They are over priced and over glorified as the industrial standard. Every time they come out with an update for their software they make it more stupid then the last. PLC 5 were awesome hot swappable and the processor didn't care if you had the wrong module in the slot. Then SLC Logix 500 it is not hot swappable but the software came out with an auto configure to automatically recognize modules in the slots and away you go. Then they came out with Logix 5000. Now you have to make sure you have the right revision number and this and that and everything else. They make it more complicated then it has to be. Their HMI and panel programs have gotten worse for being a pain the a**. Panel builder 32 was a decent program but ME is a gong show. None of their new software is institutive or easy to use. I don't like AB products their software sucks and so does their tech support. I guess you can use AB to learn the basics and then in the real world setting you can use GE, SCADA, or Bristol Babcock.