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What’s New this Month

ControlDesign.com

Here’s what’s new this month at ControlDesign.com, the digital, online resource of Control Design magazine.

By Katherine Bonfante, Digital Editor

2007 Readers’ Choice Awards

Vote now in the 2007 Readers’ Choice balloting. Don’t miss your opportunity to show the vendors who’s boss. Open that ballot we e-mailed you on July 20 and vote!

Since vendors aren’t eligible, we can’t post the survey online and lose control of who votes.

We only send it to our machine control subscribers. If you think you should have received a ballot and didn’t, e-mail controldesign@putman.net, with “RCA” in the subject line. Vote now, the balloting ends this month.

To check the 2006 Readers’ Choice Awards results, go to ControlDesign.com/readerschoice06.html.

National Manufacturing Week 2007 Preview

For 2007, National Manufacturing Week joins the four main shows of NMW—Industrial Automation, Design Engineering, Enterprise IT, and Plant Engineering & Maintenance—with four other events: Quality Expo, Assembly Technology Expo, Electronics Assembly Show, and Plastec Midwest. The conference program reveals a few sessions that an attending machine controls professional might find useful:

• Monday, Sept. 24 — Career Enhancements for Engineers
• Tuesday, Sept. 25 — Asset Management
• Wednesday, Sept. 26 — Protection of Intellectual Property.

To learn more about the sessions offered, log on to ControlDesign.com/NMW2007.html

ControlDesign.com Web Poll

In which of these skills would you invest a lot of extra time to become proficient because you believe it would most help your job as a machine control professional:

• IEC 61131 programming languages
• C++ ,C#, and other higher-level programming languages
• FPGA programming
• Simulation software
• ECAD/CAE software
• Other

Log on and vote at ControlDesign.com.

Digital Magazine Download

Get free high-resolution PDF files of back issues of Control Design magazine at ControlDesign.com/issue. And while you’re there, sign up for a subscription to the digital version.

New White Papers

Stepper Motors Advances

This paper compares brushless DC (BLDC) and stepper motors, and shows the technologies used in stepper motors.

Gearing up to make Servomotors

This paper shows how manufacturers ensure that motor parameters meet standards, making it easier to specify motors.

Pneumatic or Servo-Based Systems

This paper shows how there has been a gradual increase in the use of servo-motor and servo actuators in pneumatic and hydraulic system machines.

Download PDFs of these white papers at ControlDesign.com/whitepapers.