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Shake Them Up
A Black Box Won't Do It This Time. You and Many Others of Us Need to Get Up, Stand Up, Get Out and Push Some Buttons-On Some People
2009 Readers' Choice Awards Winners
High Fliers: The 2009 Readers' Choice Awards Winners Soar High in a Sometimes Unsettled Automation Supplier Sky
Routers ride the rail to success
ControlDesign.com
This article takes a look at how the linear ball screw choices made by a North Carolina-based CNC router OEM resulted in a simpler, more productive router machine for applications in the woodworking industry.
Tighter controls lead to cutting remarks
ControlDesign.com
September's OEM Spotlight shines on a Milwaukee-based cutting systems machine builder that designs its plasma and oxy-fuel cutting machinery well above commodity performance levels for its customers.
White Papers: In Depth Research
Software-based CNC saves machine builders cost
Author: Manufacturing Data Systems
Posted: 06/02/2005
In recent years, the world of CNC controls has seen a trend toward more open, PC-based architectures. This White Paper contends that new control concepts in the form of open software CNCs based on standardized, market-ready embedded PC platforms can offer potential savings of more than 30 percent.
All wound up
Posted: 10/15/2004
News
Product Announcements
- ControlLogix L73 and L75 programmable automation controllers can support 100 axes.
- The PI controller has many functions and value feedback can be supplied as a standard signal (4-20 mA/0-10 V), frequency or RTD signal, or directly to the universal controller.
- Snap-PAC-R1-W is a rack-mounted programmable automation controller with 802.11a/b/g networking, two independent 10/100 Mbps wired interfaces for standard Ethernet, and one RS-232 serial port.
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