An electronic survey of Control Design readers was conducted in August 2013 in order to identify usage and application trends of HMI & industrial PCs among the industrial machine builders that comprise Control Design's readership.
"It's a simpler solution" was the main reason respondents used pneumatics (30%), followed by "Compressed air availability" (30%), "Customer requirements" (14%), "we understand it best" (13%), and "Cost of conversion to electric/electronic not viable (8%)."
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