Robotics, semiconductor equipment, and intelligent automation systems are evolving at an accelerating pace, placing OEM ...

MicroPower Direct (MPD), a Massachusetts-based supplier of AC/DC power supplies and DC/DC converters for OEM applications, has introduced two high-isolation encapsulated AC/DC power modules designed ...

Automating the factory floor is a growing trend across the industrial space. It’s not hard to understand why, since such applications help improve efficiency and production rates. To create the ...

Just when engineers thought they had mastered tuning parameters and torque curves, along comes AI-driven motion systems to rewrite the rules. Intelligent design tools and adaptive control algorithms ...

Monitoring takes the form of sensors and intelligent devices connected to a digital processor. These monitored values are used for computing and then controlling some sort of real-world action. Many ...

As with nearly any actuation technology in industrial automation applications, there is no shortage of opinions around the use of electric or pneumatic motion control. These predilections tend to get ...

Thanks to hype in the popular media, the term “automation” tends to conjure images of robots, artificial intelligence and the cloud in the minds of most people. The root of most manufacturing ...

Embedded motion controllers reduce multiple cycles of algorithm development, implementation, and testing to setting a few parameters and exporting the code to your own firmware What do self-driving ...

An electric driver is a system capable of converting electrical energy into mechanical energy. Today’s technology, of course, allows highly sophisticated drives. The autonomous movement of machines ...

Motion control has become a fundamental part of industrial, off-road equipment and other automation applications from simple to mechatronic, and programming motion control has been simplified with the ...