An electronic survey of Control Design readers was conducted in June 2013 in order to identify usage and application trends of I/O and terminal blocks among the industrial machine builders that comprise Control Design's readership.
Nearly 37% of survey respondents use centralized I/O, but have some remote while a further 37% use Remote/distributed I/O, but have some centralized; 25% use mostly or entirely centralized/rack mounted I/O compared to nearly 7% who use mostly or entirely remote/distributed I/O.
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...
