Ladder Logic is one of the top 5 most popular types of PLC programming languages used in manufacturing environments. Before Programmable Logic Controllers, manufacturing plants employed relay-based circuitry to energize different loads based on how the relays were wired together. Relays were costly, required constant maintenance, and could not be easily reconfigured. As PLCs took over this process, it was essential to keep a similarity of the old system; thus, ladder logic was created as the first PLC programming language.
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