![]() That is, it’s road legal, fairly rare, requires lots of TLC and understanding and may not be as reliable, but will take you places you’ll never get to go in a Ford Taurus. If ControlLogix is the Ford Taurus of control systems (common, reliable, with lots of performance for most tasks, lots of room, and fairly maintenance free) then TwinCAT 3 is something like the Rally Fighter. ![]() We often fall back on car analogies, and I don’t want to break with tradition. ![]() It speaks well of Allen-Bradley that they are the de-facto default control system platform around here. I say that because I’m familiar with that platform, and so are most of my North American readers (I assume). I think the best way I can describe TwinCAT 3 to the non-initiated is by comparing it with Allen-Bradley’s ControlLogix platform with their RSLogix 5000 programming environment. What follows are my impressions of the current state of TwinCAT 3 based on our experiences with those 2 systems. I was lucky enough to be involved in the TwinCAT 3 beta, and now that the 32-bit version of TwinCAT 3 is available for general release we’ve deployed 2 production systems based on TwinCAT 3, and will likely deploy more in the future. So back in 2010 I wrote about my first impression of TwinCAT 2 and later that same year I wondered if automation programmers would accept TwinCAT 3. Edit: Note that I have posted an updated TwinCAT 3 Review in 2014.
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