. In this system I was responsible for the entire hardware, software and user interface design and implementation, from the top level down through all details, up to the crane... terminals (HMIs). For many years my PLC control programming was primarily done in ladder logic, with custom supervisory PC interfaces written in Visual Basic 6, using vendor interfaces... is a flowchart programmer but I most certainly am not. I find all of these platforms to be overly resource-intensive and slow, making it tough to write crisp, responsive user...