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Controllers: More of Everything
The List of User Requirements Continues to Grow Longer

Three Specifications, or So, for Motor Choice
Machine Builders Discuss How To Avoid a Nightmare When Selecting Electric Motors

End Users' Needs Inspire Machine Builder's Inventions
Spartanics Celebrates 50 Years Providing Leading Solutions to Customers

Sense When to Go Wireless
What's the Point of Trying to Add Wireless Capabilities to Sensors and Related Components?

Manufacturing Renaissance Requires Automation
The Great Debate Continues: Is the American Sector on Its Way Back or Do Recent Gains Still Fall Short of a Rebirth?

Buckle Up With Built in Safety
Machine Builders Include Preventive Safety Early in the Design — And Get Paid Back Sooner

Machine Safety Pays Its Way
ABB Jokab Safety Reports Five Common Prejudices Machine Builders Must Confront

Industrial PC Timeline Marches On
How Automation Changed From Being a Tool to a Solution

Coming Soon: Toys for Embedded Automation
MIT Technology Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2013 Include Additive Manufacturing and Rethink Robotics' Baxter

Display Shows the Power of the Loop
Otek LPD Series Built to Brightly and Consistently Illuminate Its 51 Automatic Tricolor (R/G/Y) Bargraph and Four Digits

Social Media Pulse
The Most Popular Content Checked Out This Month on Our Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube Pages, and Our Blog and Forum

Machine Safety Risk Assessment
Software and Online Tools to Help You Better Understand EN ISO 13849-1's Calculations

Feedback Critical to Machining Precision
Vertical Turning/Grinding Machine Uses Optical and Magnetic Encoders to Aid High-Accuracy Production of Wind Turbine Bearings

Should Machine-to-Machine Scare Us?
Will Implementing Device-Level Networks and Ethernet in Machines Help Your Customers?

Strong Growth Forecast for Direct Drives
IMS Research/IHS Report Shows Global Market Is Predicted to Be Worth Nearly $300 Million in 2016

Digital Manufacturing Market Poised for Global Growth
Frost & Sullivan Analysis Finds Market Earned Revenues of $704 Million in 2012 and Is Estimated to Reach $928 Million in 2016

ODVA Forms SIG for Machinery Information
Developing Standards for the Exchange of Information Between Machines, and Between Machines and Supervisory Systems