An electronic survey of Industrial Networking readers was conducted in August, 2013, in order to identify usage and application trends of industrial Ethernet among the magazine's readership.
Nominal data rate required by most Industrial Ethernet specifiers was 100 MBps on Cat6 Copper (61%), followed by 12% at Gigabit with Cat5/6 Copper, and a further 12% 100 Mbps with Fiberoptics , and 8% 10 MBps with Cat5 Cooper.
Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and programmable automation controllers (PACs) are the brains of the machine in many regards. They have evolved over the years.This new State...
Special considerations and requirements make packaging equipment an interesting vertical market unto itself. This new State of Technology Report from the editors of ...
This paper examines highly sensitive piezoelectric sensors for precise vibration measurement which is critical in semiconductor production to prevent quality and yield issues....
