At the celebration marking Festo’s 50 th anniversary in the United States, Festo board member Dr. Ansgar Kriwet made what might be considered a provocative statement: “Automation is too complicated.” ...

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 ...

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, ...

The core effort in improving machine performance is collecting data. The data provides the foundation for developing advanced digital automation. Artificial intelligence also plays a key role in ...

Embedding safety into your automated production processes from day one improves performance, reduces risk and drives ...

When it comes to automation systems, complexity tends to grow faster than performance. Each new generation of machines ...

Automation is often discussed in terms of technology — robotics, AI and advanced systems — but behind every implementation ...

Industrial robotics is scaling at a pace that would have seemed implausible a decade ago. More than 4.7 million industrial robots are now operating globally, with over half a million added each year.

At the heart of this shift is China Top Spatial Intelligence Designer, a title that resonates with the pioneering spirit of LEELEN. Founded in 1992, LEELEN has spent over three decades transitioning ...

Servo drives, motors, and PLCs from Inovance have enabled packaging machinery OEM Spiraltech to automate a machine capable of ...

How to turn graphical state-machine models into C, C++, C#, or Java code. Why using a tool like Visual State is better than building a state machine in source code. Artificial intelligence and machine ...