Career
Struger left the Vienna University of Technology in 1956 for a job at Asea Brown Boveri, a Swiss power company. In 1958 he became a research engineer at Allen-Bradley in Milwaukee. Here he headed a team that developed the programmable logic controller. Struger later became a vice president for Allen-Bradley and held that position until he retired in 1998. He worked for the company for nearly 40 years.
Struger played a leadership role in developing the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) standard for PLCs and its international successor, IEC 61131.
Struger patented means for detecting malfunction conditions at the inputs to a logic gate. One was for the "Fault Detecting and Fault Propagating Logic Gate." That patent was U.S. Pat. No. 3,743,855 issued July 3, 1973. Another control circuit employing fault mode logic gates was U.S. Pat. No. 3,751,684, issued to Struger on August 7, 1973. Struger also received U.S. Pat. No. 4,302,820 for a similar electrical apparatus as well as U.S. Pat. No. 3,240,951. Struger also received Canadian patents. Struger has received and been involved with several other patents.
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