The study of industrial controllers of companies worldwide under a common discipline
The purpose of this article is to acquaint teachers and professionals training centres with the methodology for the study within the General discipline of industrial programmable logic controllers companies worldwide that has developed in the laboratory "Modern technologies of industrial automation" of the Mordovian Ogarev state University and based on years of experience teaching these disciplines in several technical fields (directions) of training. Currently, the laboratory uses a series of controllers PLC OWEN (Russia), Simatic S7 of the company Siemens (Germany), FX Mitsubishi Electric (Japan). Substantiates the suggested order of studying the controllers and the tasks on the individual stages.