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Should You Add Linear Scales to Your Machine?

Modern Machine Shop

Source: Getty Images Reader Question: Our shop is ramping up to buy new equipment before end of the year and we’ve narrowed our choice down to a single machine. On a typical machine, your controller commands an axis to move a certain distance.

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Black-channel approach to functional safety

Control Engineering

The FSoE control command allows for advanced safe motion functions according to IEC 61800-5-2. Safety over EtherCAT (FSoE) is an open safety system with multiple vendors of safety controllers, safety inputs and outputs and functionally-safe drives. Users can distinguish safety-specific communication issues. . Robert Trask, P.E.,