As growth continues amid economic headwinds, innovations like edge AI accelerators, safety relays and sustainable automation ...

Quantum Devices, a U.S.-based encoder manufacturer, designs and manufactures high quality, high performance incremental optical rotary encoders for a range of industries and applications. As seen at ...

Over-engineered automation systems create hidden costs and delays. Right-sizing, openness and resilience offer a smarter path ...

Breaking down a machine into systems based on both functionality and resources can simplify design and maintenance, a concept explored in a recent column from Control Design. For controls engineers, ...

A technical paper titled “Application of Machine Learning in FPGA EDA Tool Development” was published by researchers at the University of Texas Dallas. “With the recent advances in hardware ...

Beckhoff explains how PC-based control reduces complexity and boosts performance in modern automation systems.

Rockwell Automation recently launched FactoryTalk Design Workbench, a free design software aimed at streamlining programming, configuration, and troubleshooting for micro control systems, especially ...

The year is 2009, during the Design Automation Conference (DAC) at a press dinner in a posh little restaurant in San Francisco’s Civic Center. About two glasses of red wine in, one of the journalists ...

Packaging machine builder Syntegon has standardized using panel PCs with custom push-button extensions, along with control panels, to minimize enclosures and support its HMI 4.0 program. Source: ...

Siemens has a bit of experience in building industrial machinery. As you can see from the photo below, the company has been building industrial machines since the mid-1800s. Today’s machines bear ...