Intrinsic Safety
When using control devices in hazardous areas such as explosive or flammable atmospheres special care must …
Hardware
Mechanical and electrical hardware
Timers and Counters
After spending a month in Central America I am glad to be back, energized and ready …
Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs)
From the Primer: A variable-frequency drive (VFD) is a device for controlling the rotational speed of …
HMI and Touchscreen Technology
During the process of specifying HMI hardware for my current project some fairly deep discussions were …
Tray Handling
A few weeks ago I covered robots and robotics a bit and it was recently brought …
Indexers and Synchronous Machines
From The Primer: 4.2 Indexers and Synchronous Machines 4.2.1 Rotary Cam Indexers Rotary indexers are used …
Misumi
Despite being an Electrical and Controls engineer I often have to do mechanical design, albeit on …
Photoeyes
Some basic info on photoeyes from the Primer: Photoelectric sensors or Photoeyes transmit and receive a …
LVDTs
One of the first applications I wrote about on this blog back in January 2011 was …