Engineers who design industrial machines still have to contend with a hodgepodge of networking technologies — perhaps a fieldbus or two for all the I/O, a proprietary motion control network and ...

Judging from last week’s IMTS Show, machine tool controllers have made strides not just in performance but also in their ease-of-use and flexibility. “Speed is always important, but there has also ...

Designed as compact, box-level controllers that connect directly to 90 to 260 Vac, the DMC-1415-BOX single-axis and DMC-1425-BOX dual-axis Ethernet motion controllers eliminate the need for an ...

Baldor Electric Co. has launched a new plug-in motion/machine control module for its Ethernet Powerlink drives. The new controller module allows machine builders to eliminate the need for a separate ...

EtherCAT is an open, realtime, and deterministic Ethernet fieldbus standard widely regarded as one of the best industrial networks to date. One reason for its growing use is that it's several orders ...

For a company that makes axles for global automakers, squeezing out costs while providing high reliability over the long term are both critical factors. American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) began ...

For applications requiring highly integrated motion control, such as packaging, pick-and-place, converting, assembly, and robotics, the network infrastructure For applications requiring highly ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today launched the RZ/T2H, the highest performance microprocessor (MPU) ...

Galil Motion Control announces the latest product in their RIO Pocket PLC Series. The new RIO-47300 includes more I/O, screw terminals and two Ethernet ports which allow management of an unlimited ...

EtherCat®-based high performance motion controllers play a key role in precision automation of highly accurate handling and alignment applications, such as those in laser and materials processing, ...

When engineers think of advances in motion control technology, they usually think of faster motors, improved accuracy, or seemingly never-ending improvements in MOSFET efficiency. While these advances ...