Today's fast-changing, highly competitive global marketplace is driving many system and machine designers (both end-users and OEMs) to aggressively seek goals that are very demanding: greater machine ...

As part of our research for the February 2011 feature story, “Control Vendors Put More in the Box,” Automation World posed a handful of questions via e-mail to vendors of integrated logic and motion ...

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 ...

This builder of liquid filling machines maintains its belief in a motion controller that is separate from the PLC that governs a machine’s logic. A manufacturer of liquid filling machines used chiefly ...

Capturing data signals during embedded system design can prove challenging. Modern logic analyzers make data acquisition tasks easier by providing advanced triggering capabilities that get to the root ...

In part one of this series, we looked at the PLC’s internal architecture, briefly discussed Ladder Logic programming, Human-Machine Interfaces, advantages of the PLC’s ability to react consistently ...

When learning ladder logic, I was told that some new PLC systems were moving to scripted programming languages. My instructor assured us that we would not need to know anything other than ladder logic ...

Answer Set Programming (ASP) and Logic Programming represent key paradigms in contemporary computer science, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence. ASP is a form of declarative ...