The PLC Program Nobody Could Read We took over maintenance on a custom machine that another integrator had built. The PLC program was 1,200 rungs long. There were no comments. The tags were named “Sensor1”, “Motor2”, “Valve3”. There was no structure — one long line of ladder logic that started at the top and ended …

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