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2025 State of Technology Report: PLCs & PACs

June 24, 2025

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and programmable automation controllers (PACs) provide viable options for machine control. This Control Design collection explains the differences and why they’ve withstood the test of time.

This new State of Technology Report from the editors of Control Design explains practical use cases, such as:

  • discrete logic control
  • safety-critical operations
  • motion commands.

Sponsored by: Bihl+Wiedemann and IDEC