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

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 ...

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 ...

Germany-based Beckhoff Automation, an automation solution specialist founded in 1980 and headquartered in Verl, has been operating in the field of industrial automation for over 40 years. Its ...

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