Re: Why is the Automation market declining? - Food technology
Nov 7, 2000 8:17 am, by Pierre Desrochers
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Just a little addition to this... I've been working in the past for a company which was built by a German conglomerat. It was built entirely with relays and controler (TTL transistors and analogic boards). When I ask one of the early engineer on why there was no PLCs and PCs, I was told that. 1. This plant was a copy of 7 others they add in Europe and they use all their spare parts to build it since the others were revamped to newer technology 2. They believed they could not find lower level technical personnel in North America which were up to the challenge of troubleshooting such beast ... (this was mid-80s) I've heard number 1 reason many other times after this occasion ... in different plants... My 2 cents Pierre integral@videotron.ca
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