Industry protocols
After much thought and outside suggestions, I have added this preliminary section to talk about industry protocols. I specifically narrow in on Modbus and Ethernet/IP since our Koyo CLICK PLC has the ability to leverage both of these protocols. However, I feel that it would have been almost an injustice to not at least touch on the width and breadth of the industrial protocol space. Every industry and region that I have come across has tended to gravitate toward one specific vendor or another. On some continents, I have seen products, vendors, and protocols of equipment uniquely specific to that region of the world. With that said, I am going to quickly cover some of the major industry protocols that you will encounter:
- Modbus: One of the oldest and most universally adopted protocols, most control applications are engineered in Modbus first and then ported to a different protocol and tested side by side to ensure that the process control strategy functions...
