An electronic survey of Control Design readers was conducted in August 2013 in order to identify usage and application trends of HMI & industrial PCs among the industrial machine builders that comprise Control Design's readership.
Respondents reported the greatest drawbacks to using hydraulics were environmental issues/high maintenance (33%), low flexibility/speed control (22%), lack of system diagnostics (15%), insufficient vendor support (10%) and customer pressure to convert to electric power source (8%).
This paper examines highly sensitive piezoelectric sensors for precise vibration measurement which is critical in semiconductor production to prevent quality and yield issues....
Motor encoders are rotary encoders adapted to provide information about an electric motor shaft's speed and/or position. Like rotary encoders, motor encoders are most commonly...
