Issue Archive

Reader Reaction: Disposable Workers
Blue Collar Workers Made America What It Is--Well What It Used to Be

All or Nothing
There Is So Much Competition in the Manufacturing Industry That We Are All Having Difficulties Hiring

Automation for the Automater
Siemens' Facility Needed an Overhaul; Prima Power Had the Answer

Matching Apple’s Innovative Prowess
iInnovation: The U.S. Has Produced a Number of Key Innovators—Not Just Apple’s Steve Jobs, but Also Several in the Control and Automation Realm

Color Sensors Offer Reliable Check
Using Human Vision for Color Checking Is Unreliable. Machine Builders Now Use Modern Color Sensors That Are Economical and Reliable

What Goes Around Comes Around
Today’s Complex Chips Can Be Used to Design More Complex Chips, Those Chips Are Finding Their Way Into More Automation, and Automation Advances the Machines that in Turn Advance Automation

What Really Happens When You Update Software and Machinery
Keeping Up With the Joneses: With Computer, Machinery and Software Updates Requiring Varied and Ever-Shortening Update Cycles, It’s No Wonder It’s Complicated

No Servos Allowed
We Shouldn't Forget That Mechanical Speed Controls Sometimes Can Be a Better Solution Than Electronics

Panel Meters Take Control
Panel Meters Now Can Do Control in the Process, and so Many Users Don't Need All the PLCs and SCADA Software They Had to Use in the Past

Retro Fits
A Few Subtle Upgrades Might Be All It Takes to Make That Old Machine Perform Like New

Robot Buddies
Beware, Generation R Will Take Your Job

Signal In/Signal Out
Products That Connect the 'Dots' Enhance Control Systems

Reader Reaction: Throw Out What We've Learned
The Concept of Mainstreaming Is Killing America's Educational System

Troubleshoot From Afar
Does Anyone Have Any Advice for Providing Remote Machine Automation Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Services?

You Search, I Search
See the Most Popular Topics You and Your Peers Have Searched For in 2011

Readers’ Choice Drawing Winner
This year's iPad winner, chosen randomly among the voters in Control Design's 2011 Readers' Choice Awards, is Aaron Petrie