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Learn How to Bring Your Old Machine New Life in Our June 2013 Issue

June 17, 2013

Dynamite it and start over is not always the way to bring next-generation performance to your machines. In this month's cover story, Executive Editor Jim Montague provides some examples of how you can graft new automation and controls to an old machine with strong roots, and get the performance you're after. Also in the June Issue: One of our periodic flashback articles — this time, Ernst Dummermuth's very popular 2003 practical example piece on how fuzzy logic works

Dynamite it and start over is not always the way to bring next-generation performance to your machines. In this month's cover story, Executive Editor Jim Montague provides some examples of how you can graft new automation and controls to an old machine with strong roots, and get the performance you're after. Also in the June Issue: One of our periodic flashback articles — this time, Ernst Dummermuth's very popular 2003 practical example piece on how fuzzy logic works; a product roundup of the latest machine vision systems and products on the market; an MRO robot that could simplify how complex industrial machines are supported; and a thoughtful OEM Insight column about innovation and the importance of taking time to "tinker."

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