Control Engineering

JANUARY 19, 2023

Increased focus on sustainability There is growing concern around sustainability and climate issues among robot manufacturers and their customers, Masic said. For example, by moving away from ground-based sources of materials as much as possible and by exploring the whole lifecycle of our products to discover which parts can be reused.”

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 22, 2023

In support of these best practices, this article identifies how some newer products and/or the addition of automation, can increase the effectiveness of safety controls. Upon detecting a button push, an automatic safety system will move the equipment to a safe position and de-energize electrical, pneumatic and other power sources.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 11, 2023

“As a manufacturer of motors and drives, having that capability all under your roof allows the biggest flexibility to get the right mix of product that’s the best solution for the customer, versus them just settling on what’s available,” Sklierenko said.

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Control Engineering

MAY 26, 2023

Lidar systems emit their own light, making them less susceptible to interference from external sources such as sunlight, fog, or rain. Unlike ultrasonic sensors, lidar sensors can detect objects at longer distances and in a wider field of view.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 17, 2023

“It’s about flexibility and control,” said Ramon Boncompte, a sales director and co-owner of Industrial Shields, whose company sold industrial programmable logic controllers based on open-source hardware. We’re about saving resources and having the customer use our products to gather the data they need.”

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Now that the robots are working next to these sources, Coty is able to move employees farther away from this environment and redeploy them to less repetitive and more interesting tasks. One of the key reasons is that traditional robots don’t run off a low-power source. Right now, we’re running the carts off 110 volts,” he said. “We

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Hollywood is a go-to source of inspiration for roboticists. The sensors can measure a strain range up to three times higher than typical sensors, making them valuable for applications in soft robotics, wearable electronics, prosthetics, and biomedicine.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 4, 2023

It was remarkable to find that characterization is the major source of greenhouse gas emissions in materials research,” said environmental economist Lucía Serrano-Luján, co-author of the paper and a researcher at Rey Juan Carlos University and the Technical University of Cartagena.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 4, 2022

With the previous system, we sourced the encoder separately and built it on the back of the motor,” Molleran said. “To Before using integrated motors, CI employed other I/O modules for separate brake communications and power circuitry. Now, all of that is integrated within the motor itself. .

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This inline cleaning is typically achieved with a remote plasma source (RPS) that uses an RF-generated plasma to dissociate gases, such as NF3, to clean the chamber. Technologies for today’s process power requirements.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 12, 2023

This led to severe price volatility and the problem looks set to continue as – despite some easing in the supply of microcontrollers – power modules remain difficult to source. Moving toward 2027, the Americas region is expected to grow at a revenue CAGR of 2.8%

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Control Engineering

JUNE 19, 2023

This simulated jet model was open-sourced in 2018 and had been designed by flight control experts as a testing challenge. To push their method even further, they used it to fly a simulated jet aircraft in a scenario one might see in a “Top Gun” movie. Could researchers create a scenario that their controller could not fly?

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Conventional safety concepts do not consider the sources and effects of cyber threats that could create new hazards. In practice, when a machine operates in an application-specific context, its limits and applicable hazardous situations may differ significantly from those considered under worst-case and stand-alone scenarios.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you are doing a merge, you are affecting source code on developer side, so if there’s a glitch, it could propagate. . We can walk you through, if you contact customer support. Using Git for PLC workflows: Fixing issues, distribution, storage. Q: What sort of bugs have you seen?

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

While earlier versions of assembler bots were connected by bundles of wires to their power source and control systems, “what emerged was the idea of structural electronics — of making voxels that transmit power and data as well as force.” “When we’re building these structures, you have to build in intelligence,” Gershenfeld said.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 10, 2022

Data is sourced through reported data from motor suppliers. As established motor vendors and start-ups alike look to sell and refine their high-efficiency motor tech, it will be data centers who are among the earliest customers. High-efficiency motors are defined being IE4 (NEMA Super Premium) or higher. Courtesy: Interact Analysis.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 18, 2023

Keep in mind the jam could have been caused by something else and there may be other sources of power that power the devices. It can save a lot of time to check for simple explanations like power, circuit breakers or fuses before moving on to more difficult or less obvious causes.

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Control Engineering

MAY 16, 2023

Manufacturers use different features and labels, so it is very important to carefully read the manual. There are a lot of options shown in this diagram; sink vs. source wiring for discrete signals, 0 to 10 V vs. 4 to 20 mA for the analog I/O, and two wire vs. three wire control as indicated by the jumper from terminal 1 to 11.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This helps manufacturers automate programming by applying their own standard CNC programming, inspection path methods, tools and program templates, and ensures that correct revisions of parts are programmed and measured on the shop floor, creating one source of data for the digital manufacturing process.

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