After more than a decade of articles touting the benefits of PC-based control over programmable controllers and predictions of the PLC's demise, this much is clear: both PCs and PLCs have their place ...

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 ...

While PLCs (programmable logic controllers) are an industry norm, demands for data, memory, and processing power are intensifying. Soon enough, the PLCs may no longer be the go-to industrial computer.

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Modern PLCs now have enough processing power to handle complex robot calculations that previously required separate proprietary controllers and programming ...

The centerpiece of Yaskawa’s iCube Control™ platform, the iC9200 is an EtherCAT®-based machine controller providing control for motion, logic, safety, security, and more. Powered by the Triton ...

The NUMSafe application program for machine safety control uses the same software development tools used to commission the overall system, including CNC, PLC, drives and I/O modules. This unified ...

Komatsu Proactive Dozing Control logic is a dozing control system that allows operators to perform auto-stripping, auto-spreading, high production dozing, and finish grading. The system is available ...

Machine control technologies range from 2D and 3D grade control to automation, robotic control, and augmented reality. GPS/3D control – eliminating the need for placing stringline by hand – is ...