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    • January/February 2024

    The worst of the supply chain woes brought on by the pandemic are largely in industrial automation's rearview mirror, but microelectronics remains a sore spot. The supply and demand imbalance for electrical components was reaching another critical point earlier this year, but industry largely redesigned its way out of the crunch.
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    Motors

    How to choose machine motor type: upfront cost vs. maintenance vs. efficiency

    Anna Townshend
    Feb. 15, 2024
    Brushless dc motors provide the best efficiency but at a cost; brushed dc motors cost less but require more maintenance
    Financials

    How industrial automation supply chain woes led to wins

    Anna Townshend
    Jan. 30, 2024
    Vendors and manufacturers weathered the challenges with lessons learned and applied to ensure automation components’ futures
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    Robotics

    Open-source control architectures and the impact of collaborative robots in work cells

    Mike Bacidore
    Jan. 22, 2024
    Monitoring can increase efficiency and reliability of robot implementations
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    Robotics

    The future of robotic integration and collaborative robots

    Mike Bacidore
    Jan. 16, 2024
    How no-programming-required deployments change robot applications
    Financials

    Industrial automation redesigns around the broken supply chain

    Anna Townshend
    Jan. 11, 2024
    The supply chain crisis over microelectronics has largely been thwarted in 2023, but it did take patience, planning and some creative engineering

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    Jan. 25, 2023
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