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Select and Test Connectors Wisely: Environment Is a Key Consideration When Choosing Connectors, but How and When Do You Validate Your System Once It’s Installed?

Elephants Are the Answer- Part II

Where the Chinese Excel at Producing Things, It's No Secret That the Quality Often Is Horrendous. Their Acceptable Standards Aren't the Same As Those in Western Countries

Wider-Scope Security

Security. What Does It Really Mean for You and Your Industrial Systems?

What Does NFPA 70E Allow?

FPA 70E Is Tough to Work Through. What Can Somebody Tell Us About This?

2010 Innovator Awards

Nominate the Most Innovative Machine Builders You Know to Be Considered for Control Design's Annual Machine Automation Awards

Control Design's 2010 Salary and State-of-Mind Survey

In '07 Our Salary Survey Showed That Money Wasn't Everything. The '08 Salary Survey Reported Skyrocketing Salaries and '09 Report Showed a Slight Up-Tick in Pay. Help Us Find Out What 2010 Salaries Say About the Industry and Its Professionals. Take the Survey

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Mortgaging Future Versatility in Metal-Cutting Machines

We use a micro PLC to control our metal-cutting machines with good results. When customers see that we use a PLC, they want to specify brand, causing us multiple headaches in design, programming and after-sales support. There's very little variability in the operating parameters from machine to machine, so we're actually thinking of switching to a preprogrammed relay that would be set up and delivered by the vendor ready to go with its own part number. If a machine needed something a little different, we would order it preprogrammed accordingly. Are we mortgaging future versatility for fewer headaches right now?  read more »

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