PLC!= PLD.PLCs are heavily used in industrial environments to control equipment and are not chip-level hardware. To answer the OP: You can definitely learn it on your own.

"It provides the programmer with more than 550 virtual instruments and controls within a single, familiar software environment. KAT now handles the entire engineering function for the jog mode, speed ...

STÄUBLI TEC-SYSTEMS is launching the uniVAL pi software that will allow robot programming to be implemented via the PLC, using Plug & Play in Siemens TIA Portal. Thanks to this optionally available ...