An electronic survey of Control Design readers was conducted in April 2013 in order to identify usage and application trends of HMI & industrial PCs among the industrial machine builders that comprise Control Design's readership.
Respondents who use graphical display screens indicated the most common size was 6-10 inches (29.4%), followed by 10 -14 inches (25.9%), 15-20 inches (23.5%) and 4-6 inches (8.2%). Only 2.4% of respondents use screens less than four inches while 10.6 use screens 21 inches or greater.
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...
