Interview with Stefan Schönegger, B&R"There will be no either-or"
The programmable logic controller - PLC for short - has been around for 55 years. How has the controller changed since then and where will it go from here? Stefan Schönegger, responsible for the Controls division at B&R, provides an outlook in this interview.
Andrea Gillhuber, Editor-in-Chief of Computer&Automation
The question of trust
I am always fascinated by the demonstration of the high-voltage system at the Deutsches Museum in Munich: Arcs of light move purposefully through the room, the smell of ozone is in the air and a person sits calmly in a Faraday cage while 270,000 volts buzz around the sphere. A few meters below, visitors stand and watch the spectacle in amazement. What they all have in common is the confidence that nothing can happen to them - confidence in the technology and in the person operating it.