An electronic survey of Control Design readers was conducted in August 2013 in order to identify usage and application trends of HMI & industrial PCs among the industrial machine builders that comprise Control Design's readership.
"It's a simpler solution" was the main reason respondents used pneumatics (30%), followed by "Compressed air availability" (30%), "Customer requirements" (14%), "we understand it best" (13%), and "Cost of conversion to electric/electronic not viable (8%)."
This paper examines highly sensitive piezoelectric sensors for precise vibration measurement which is critical in semiconductor production to prevent quality and yield issues....
Motor encoders are rotary encoders adapted to provide information about an electric motor shaft's speed and/or position. Like rotary encoders, motor encoders are most commonly...
