Faced with ever-increasing cost pressures and demands for improved performance, machine builders are actively seeking new automation solutions with improved cost/performance ratios. In response to ...

As OEMs continue to move toward leaner design, operator interfaces have evolved into replacements such as automated panels for PLCs in many machine applications. So what are the differences between ...

When striving for long-term sustainability, designers have latitude as to how complex a system they wish to design. Build sustainability into every aspect of the control panel’s life—design, ...

Integrating touchscreen and rotary-knob control into a single IC simplifies combining these two different but complementary user-input devices. Touchscreens and touchpads haven’t totally taken over ...

Construction equipment machine control is extending into more classes of equipment and encompassing lighter equipment. Grade control in particular is making its way beyond dedicated excavation and ...

Factory Automation encompasses the manufacturing and/or assembly of parts and subsystems to produce a product by passing it through a series of individual machines or work cells. Sometimes called ...