AutomationDirect has added stripping, cutting and crimping tools from Weidmuller which are designed to streamline wiring tasks with greater speed, precision and consistency.

Cisco Talos researchers have found over a dozen vulnerabilities in AutomationDirect PLCs, including flaws that could be valuable to attackers. Cisco’s Talos research and threat intelligence unit has ...

Click micro brick PLCs now include standard CPU units. The new units feature eight discrete inputs and six discrete outputs, and are available in four combinations of built-in I/O types. Click micro ...

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has informed organizations that AutomationDirect has patched several high-severity vulnerabilities in some of its programmable logic ...

LS Electric servos systems from AutomationDirect provide extremely accurate motion control and include the most requested features — setup wizards, auto-tuning, built-in indexer and more — in an ...

AutomationDirect has added PS-AMC motion controllers designed to work seamlessly with select Productivity PLCs to provide accurate, coordinated, plug-and-play motion control. These controllers are ...

Industrial automation systems have historically relied on digital elements installed locally to the controlled equipment and machinery. As computational capabilities progressed, users took advantage ...

As end-users take advantage of more capable PLCs, they must also consider security. By increasing the overall computing power of PLCs, controller vendors have made room for additional capabilities.

The AutomationDirect Productivity2000® PLC is a modular, rack-based system with a full lineup of discrete, analog and specialty I/O modules providing over 400 local I/O points. With remote expansion, ...

It isn’t that the terms programmable logic controller (PLC) and programmable automation controller (PAC) are necessarily divorced from IIoT; in fact they may form the very core of IIoT. But early on, ...