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What is a PLC, Acronyms

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
CSA Canadian Standards Association
DIO Distributed I/O
EIA Electronic Industries Association
EMI ElectroMagnetic Interference
HMI Human Machine Interface
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
I/O Input(s) and/or Output(s)
ISO International Standards Organization
LL Ladder Logic
LSB Least Significant Bit
MMI Man Machine Interface
MODICON MOdular DIgital CONtoller
MSB Most Significant Bit
PID Proportional Integral Derivative (feedback control)
RF Radio Frequency
RIO Remote I/O
RTU Remote Terminal Unit
SCADA Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol