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Alex Pavloff
> I keep hearing about all the customers who are abandoning PLCs but
> haven't seen it in my markets. Maybe our old school clients are just
> resistant to change...
I haven't been in this market long, and I'm actually more on the software/development side rather than out there in the field, but my boss,
who does have the experience, was mentioning to me about how the different geographic regions of the US use very different hardware sets.
In the midwest, PLCs abound, while on the west coast, and to a lesser extent on the east coast, PCs are much more common place. The fact that my
company, with offices in California, tends to sell more to the midwest, fits into this nicely. Our main piece of hardware, a "smart" operator terminal (where one can do some pretty complex programming along with merely displaying items from an attached PLC or motion controller) is a much harder sell in California, because people like to use PCs.
> haven't seen it in my markets. Maybe our old school clients are just
> resistant to change...
I haven't been in this market long, and I'm actually more on the software/development side rather than out there in the field, but my boss,
who does have the experience, was mentioning to me about how the different geographic regions of the US use very different hardware sets.
In the midwest, PLCs abound, while on the west coast, and to a lesser extent on the east coast, PCs are much more common place. The fact that my
company, with offices in California, tends to sell more to the midwest, fits into this nicely. Our main piece of hardware, a "smart" operator terminal (where one can do some pretty complex programming along with merely displaying items from an attached PLC or motion controller) is a much harder sell in California, because people like to use PCs.