An electronic survey of Industrial Networking readers was conducted in February 2014, in order to identify usage and application trends of I/O modules among the magazine's readership.
Survey respondents indicated their I/O systems are remote/distributed, but have some centralized (42%); centralized, but have some remote (31%); mostly or entirely centralized/rack-mounted (16%); and mostly or entirely remote/distributed (12%).
Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and programmable automation controllers (PACs) provide viable options for machine control. This Control Design collection explains the differences...
Motion control engineers tend to focus on torque and speed specifications during the design process, but often fail to notice the unique features that differentiate a high-quality...
This white paper describes advantages of using advanced angle sensor technologies and focuses on best practices for correctly implementing non-contact and touchless angle sensors...
