Why Are There So Many Languages in PLC 🤔🤔

[@saiello2061]

I come from a traditional programming background. I only have familiarity with the concepts of ladder logic and PLCs but no real practice in them. I have familiarity because when I was working on an industrial automation project for my company I needed to see if PLCs should be used or if I should go with a microcontroller based solution. I went with the microcontroller as I had vastly more experience with them. I find it very surprising to find out now that there is more than the one language of "Ladder Logic" that can be used on PLCs. I was under the distinct impression that one of the main advantages of PLCs is that there was only ONE universal language that any automation engineer needed to learn wherever you are in the world and whatever manufacturer. Unless of course by "language" you really mean different manufacturer syntactic "flavours" of the Ladder Logic...? Would have been nice if you'd given quick visual comparisons between them 👍.

[@autoplc]

Hello I hope you are always well and you are always successful. Yes, in a separate video I want to explain the differences between these languages in more detail and with examples. The languages mentioned are completely different.

[@rockyron28]

I think , present time the conversation of any language to another(ladder to FBD/Stl vice versa) not a easy task. or can not working properly.

[@johnsaati8451]

What do you mean by covert? So i can make a ladder project in TIA and there is a future that can convert my ladder into SCL?

[@autoplc]

Yes, exactly But this conversion does not happen 100%, yet it covers more than 90%