AmbiLogic Pty Ltd is a designer and manufacturer of user-programmable electronic devices for the automatic control of industrial processes, machinery, building services, lighting etc.
Usually known as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), these inexpensive but reliable modular controllers now have wide ranging analog and digital capabilities.
AmbiLogic processors incorporate a handy set of digital and analogue inputs and outputs, and dedicated input/output modules can be added to increase the number of process points which can be controlled.
AmbiLogic's unique drag-and-drop graphical programming software empowers relatively unskilled people to program these controllers after a few hours training or tutorial, instead of days or weeks with other programming systems.
History
AmbiLogic was formed by Ray and Glenda Wales in September 2004 as a management buyout from Marchwood Technologies Ltd in the UK. Ray was formerly Technical Director of Marchwood and has over 40 years experience of electronic controllers for a wide variety of industrial purposes.
The first AmbiLogic product, announced by Marchwood Technologies in 1993, was a range of high-integrity logic blocks aimed at offshore fire and gas protection. The AmbiLogic name was derived from "A Much Better Idea," and was registered as a Trade Mark in the UK in 1994.
The gradual acceptance of PLC solutions in the industry diminished demand, and the product range was discontinued in 1998.
Throughout the '90s and up to the present, AmbiLogic key staff have been involved in the design and production of a large number of diverse industrial controllers for a variety of different industries and applications. A great effort was made to standardize much of the microprocessor core of these controllers and the firmware which went into them. In particular, a simple but powerful and reliable operating system core was developed, and a continuing design study was run to arrive at an embedded PLC solution for future control systems.
The result of all this background and work is the AmbiLogic PLC of today.
