Mastering PLC Programming: The software engineering survival guide to automation programming

Muy buen libro ya sea para migrar de lenguaje de escalera a texto estructurado o bien aprenderlo desde cero. Cada capítulo cuenta con un ejercicio de ejemplo que ayuda a comprender y asimilar el tema. Lo recomiendo!!!

I am a student at East Coast Polytechnic. The author is an instructor here, so I mostly bought it to be supportive. I was actually suprised when I cracked it open to take a gander. I thought it was going to be like all of the other PLC programming books filled with the same old content and silly routines. Upon examining it's content, I put this book up there with Frank Lambs "Advanced PLC Hardware and Programming", which is anohther project based learning book that holds it weight in real world value, just as this book here. The project based learning approach is the only way to go in PLCs. This book takes a free software called Codesys and steps you through the basics, fundamentals, and advanced level concepts in a silky smooth transition. I see the future of PLCs transiitoning towards ST programming to be quite blunt- if you want a future in automation you need to learn Structured text language. You also should buy this book. If you are an engineeering student or aspiring controls or automation engineer, you need this book. The software is free and the language is the same as any other high end software such as Studio5000 or Siemens TIA. I'm going to say this one more time. You need to learn to program and debug structured text, and you need to buy this book.

The book is not for a beginner PLC programmer. Most of the book focuses on the object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm. The OOP is a relatively new paradigm in PLC programming, so the book is for practicing control engineers and graduate students. As the authors state, this is only the introduction to the advanced PLC programming paradigm, but it is excellent. The examples can be downloaded from GIT so the reader can practice. Every chapter ends with a project/challenge.

A great instruction manual as well as a reference book.