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The fundamentals of troubleshooting in industrial automation

Control Engineering

APRIL 18, 2023

More complex systems include servomechanisms, robotics, and machine vision. Understanding programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and computers are important in the control of machines, along with the operation of sensors and different types of actuators. The PLC program can be examined as a guide to the system layout.

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How to optimize industrial motor communications, Part 2, strategies

Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Now using Profinet, based on Ethernet, we have really a lot of the capability to do centralized control. Application classes are used because drives control more than one thing. It could be something as simple as a pump or a fan for a process control application, with a simple drive, typically open loop.

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