Yeah honestly, I'm in awe of how... weirdly well PLCs work? Yes they aren't exactly super complex usually, but they just work together. You can know exactly wha

Yeah honestly, I'm in awe of how... weirdly well PLCs work? Yes they aren't exactly super complex usually, but they just work together. You can know exactly what your Plc will work with, you can see what it does in its vendor supplied GUI, it can be basically plug and play. In a way that would be impossible without the insular ecosystem that the PLC world has, but that really doesn't matter considering how well they do the job. And yeah, I think the reason why it hides complexity pretty well is that they are meant to be field repairable by regular technicians who don't necessarily know a lot about the underlying systems. That also makes it super easy to use... once you set up everything that is haha. Thank you for the pointers, I heard about codesys but I always assumed that vendors all used their own proprietary islands of standards and only paid lip service to Interop. I'm only passably familiar with Siemens PLCs so not super knowledgeable either!