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Articles by Greg Dieck
Microchip shortage inspires global cooperation
The U.S. CHIPS Act and the European Chips Act established governmental measures on two continents to alleviate the manufacturing dilemma birthed by the semiconductor shortage. Two organizations, one from North American and the other from Europe, have taken steps to join forces in a cohesive effort to bolster the availability of microelectronics in the western hemisphere. Get your subscription to Control Design's print magazine, free to qualified individuals in North America.
How the pandemic strengthened supply chains
Like many industrial automation manufacturers, Festo has weathered and triumphed over the worst of the pandemic supply-chain disruptions. The company was able to advance next-generation products, when certain electronic components weren’t available, and Festo continues to advance its use of supply-chain analytics and to localize is supplier base.
What is overall equipment efficiency?
Measuring machine performance and identifying issues can inform decision-making for upgrades. This can help improve product quality and cost, as well as enhance manufacturing line performance. Overall equipment efficiency (OEE) is the measurement of performance of manufacturing equipment used in industrial production facilities to measure their effectiveness.
3 types of proximity switches
Walk into any factory, and, if you look closely, you will see an incredible number of proximity switches on nearly every piece of equipment on every line. Proximity switches, or just “prox switches” for short, are a huge multi-billion dollar industry, and that’s not even including the associated cables and cord sets that connect them to the automation controller inputs.
A checklist for selecting industrial position sensors for optimal performance
Industrial position sensors are important in industrial applications. The determination of an item’s position in industry and manufacturing is a challenge that can have a wide variety of solutions. The most important consideration is that one matches the chosen solution to the application. The application is the starting point for any evaluation, and this point cannot be over emphasized. Get your subscription to Control Design's print magazine, free to qualified individuals in North America.
The roles of feedback sensors, motors, drives and controllers in motion control
In any motion-control system, a set of interconnected components is necessary. Two types of control are commonly used—open-loop control and closed-loop control. Each has its own system dynamics and its own pros and cons. Get your subscription to Control Design's print magazine, free to qualified individuals in North America. Each hardware item has a specific role to play in the overall system concept. The components’ roles, types and functions comprise the system.
How sensors can help manufacturers to improve overall equipment efficiency
To improve overall equipment efficiency (OEE), manufacturing operations must closely evaluate the underlying causes of downtime and explore strategies to prevent or minimize it. By separating downtime into planned and unplanned categories, manufacturers can quickly identify barriers to achieving target OEE metrics. Planned downtime includes activities such as changing tooling for a product change or stopping a machine to unload finished products and load raw materials.
How the capabilities of Motion Controllers enable greater flexibility compared to PLCs
What sets pure play motion controllers apart from other controller types, such as PLCs PLCs are designed to control large quantities of I/O and are used for synchronizing automation flow. PLCs are also quite adept at interfacing with vision systems, RFID systems as well as SCADA/MES applications, and IIOT requirements. While PLC’s can typically handle motion, if motion becomes the main focus of the application instead of simply a portion of it, we start to look at motion controllers.
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