While robot original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) each offer their own tightly integrated controllers, recent developments now enable control by a programmable logic controller, or PLC. For ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Historically, motion controllers, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and industrial personal computers (PCs), which ...

As part of our research for the February 2011 feature story, “Control Vendors Put More in the Box,” Automation World posed a handful of questions via e-mail to vendors of integrated logic and motion ...

Soft PLC PC Worx Softcontrol MC from Phoenix Contact software provides machines with powerful sequential control and integrated motion control. A variety of motion functions such as electronic gearing ...

Over the past decade, the functionality of different control systems has been merging. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) now have capabilities once found only in distributed control systems (DCSs) ...

New automation module cuts time to market for system compliance, regardless of process complexity Addressing EN ISO 13849-1, EN 62061, etc. Fully scalable architecture Dedicated safety PLC Minimizing ...

This MTConnect-compliant, IMA Citizen M6 Adapter captures live machine data, empowering manufacturers to make smarter, faster ...

HEIDENHAIN is a world-leading provider of encoders, machine controls, touch probes, digital readouts and metrology solutions—empowering engineer...READ MORE Siemens is expanding its Sinumerik One ...