Free online software combines motion, pneumatics and I/O design in one workflow to reduce engineering effort and errors.

Machines are moving beyond single-point sensing. Multi-sensor fusion now delivers vision, ranging and inertial data. The ...

How to navigate the expanding market and avoid missteps where the newest sensors provide more capability than what you’ve ...

Breaking down a machine into systems based on both functionality and resources can simplify design and maintenance, a concept explored in a recent column from Control Design. For controls engineers, ...

Incremental upgrades are no longer enough. What the industry needs is to fundamentally rethink what an automation platform ...

Automation aims to standardize industrial operations and bring overall efficiency to today’s production lines. Such gains, however, may come with considerable effort, as engineering teams must ...

Simplified machine designs with fewer components run more efficiently and are less expensive to build. Older mechanical power transmission and actuator technologies, such as chain, rack and pinion and ...

Smart manufacturing is evolving beyond traditional automation toward autonomous "lights-out" factories where digital twins ...