As part of our research for the February 2011 feature story, “Control Vendors Put More in the Box,” Automation World posed a handful of questions via e-mail to vendors of integrated logic and motion ...

Today's fast-changing, highly competitive global marketplace is driving many system and machine designers (both end-users and OEMs) to aggressively seek goals that are very demanding: greater machine ...

This builder of liquid filling machines maintains its belief in a motion controller that is separate from the PLC that governs a machine’s logic. A manufacturer of liquid filling machines used chiefly ...

ORMEC's ServoWire Motion & Logic Controller (SMLC) provides cost-effective motion solutions from one to16 axes. It features IEEE 1394b (FireWire) technology that supports higher data rates with ...

Most industrial facilities include electric motors that require overload relays for protection, control and monitoring purposes. The latest overload relays are often called motor management relays ...

Automating the factory floor is a growing trend across the industrial space. It’s not hard to understand why, since such applications help improve efficiency and production rates. To create the ...

Rexroth MLC with Version 10 may lower control costs, simplify integration The MLC motion logic controller from Rexroth, with Version 10 firmware, is based on a one-gigahertz PAC controls platform that ...

Beckhoff explains how PC-based control reduces complexity and boosts performance in modern automation systems.

The precision, reliability, and high torque of stepper motors make them attractive to manufacturers for many applications. German-based Trinamic Microchips GmbH (Trinamic USA; Scottsdale, AZ) ...

Unlike traditional image-to-video AI tools that often produce unnatural movements, Kling 2.6 fuses a reference image with a ...

For quite some time now, Marlin has been the firmware of choice for any kind of custom 3D printer, with only Klipper offering some serious competition in the open-source world. [Liam Powell] aims to ...