An electronic survey of Control Design readers was conducted in February 2013 in order to identify usage and application trends of motions, drives and motors among the industrial machine builders that comprise Control Design's readership.
Regarding update rates 13.8% of respondents indicated they required the slowest rate of 500 milliseconds or slower while 8.6% indicated the ultrahigher update rate of faster than 100 microseconds. 34.5% of respondents require an update rate of 99 – 1 milliseconds; 22.4% require 999 – 100 usec; while 20.7% require 499 – 100 msec.
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...
This white paper describes advantages of using advanced angle sensor technologies and focuses on best practices for correctly implementing non-contact and touchless angle sensors...
