An electronic survey of Industrial Networking readers was conducted in August, 2013, in order to identify usage and application trends of industrial Ethernet among the magazine's readership.
When asked about the benefits of industrial Ethernet, the majority of respondents indicated open standards (72%), interoperability (65%), low cost (55%), web-enabled data access (43%), uniformity (38%), and leverages corporate IP infrastructure (26%).
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...
