[PLUG] progammable logic controllers on ships

[Wayne E. Van Loon]

On 11/18/2010 01:57 PM, Aaron Burt wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 07:55:56PM -0800, Daniel B. Herrington wrote:
>    
>> All,
>>
>> I'm starting to do some investigation of PLCs for a project involving
>> marine (ship) management.
>>      
> Sounds interesting.
> It sounds like your best bet is to use Modbus over serial or ethernet.
> There's a lot of OSS Modbus stuff.
>    
I am curious as to why you immediately thought Modbus would be needed. 
For communications between the PLC and a computer?

Wayne