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PLCHANDBOOK

History of the PLC


Chapter
2
Eventually Dick Morely spun off a new company named Modicon and started to sell those first PLCs, the Modicon 084 (named because
it was prototype #84). It was the Modicon 084 that was presented to GM to meet its criteria for its “standard machine controller.”
Modicon started to sell the 084 with very limited success. As Dick Morley puts it, “Our sales in the first four years were abysmal.”
But nevertheless the company continued to learn and develop. Eventually, Modicon would bring to life the controller that would change
the industry forever, the Modicon 184. Dick Morley writes this about the 184:

“The thing that made the Modicon Company and the programmable controller really take off was not the 084, but the 184. The 184
was done in design cycle by Michael Greenberg, one of the best engineers I have ever met. He, and Lee Rousseau, president and
marketer, came up with a specification and a design that revolutionized the automation business. They built the 184 over the
objections of yours truly. I was a purist and felt that all those bells and whistles and stuff weren’t “pure”, and somehow they were
contaminating my “glorious design”. Dead wrong again, Morley! They were specifically right on! The 184 was a walloping success, and
it—not the 084, not the invention of the programmable controller—but a product designed to meet the needs of the marketplace and
the customer, called the 184, took off and made Modicon and the programmable controller the company and industry it is today.”

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Chapter
Chapter 1
What is a PLC?

Chapter 2
History of the PLC

Chapter 3
How to Choose
a Controller

Chapter 4
PLC Hardware

Chapter 5
PLC Software

Chapter 6
PLC Communication
Figure 2C: Image courtesy of RepairZone.com
Chapter 7
Practical
PLC Topicss

Chapter 8
Application
Stories

Chapter 2

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