Maxim releases new white paper: Highly integrated micro PLCs create factories for the future

    Maxim Integrated's latest white paper explains how Industry 4.0 will impact programmable logic controller requirements and design strategies.

    Beijing, China, December 18, 2014. Industry 4.0 has created new opportunities in the equipment market, and manufacturers are switching from traditional programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to micro PLCs and embedded PLCs. A new white paper released by Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM) describes a new design strategy that meets customers' needs for greater flexibility in less space.

In the white paper, “Meeting the Integration Challenge for Programmable Logic Controllers,” the following is discussed:
 How Industry 4.0 affects device requirements and what this means for PLCs
 Why analog circuits play a critical role in saving board space
 How the latest analog integration solutions provide big advantages in a small package size
o PLC size is reduced by an order of magnitude
o Heat dissipation is reduced by half
o Digital I/O data processing is 70 times faster
o Integrated safety protection circuits to protect against emerging security threats