Don Pham
Don Pham is the senior product marketing manager at IDEC Corporation and has more than fifteen years of detailed experience with industrial automation products including PLCs, HMI touchscreens, machine safety, and sensors. He is responsible for product positioning and marketing strategies for these products, and he works with a research and development team to identify and add features needed by end users and OEMs. Don is proficient in several industrial programming languages.
Articles
Expanding edge control
Edge control can take many forms to access stranded data, with modern programmable logic controllers (PLCs) often the preferred alternative.
Automation products improve with customer feedback
Improved product automation is a result of customer feedback. As customers give suppliers valuable product feedback, suppliers will consider many factors that may result in a new feature being added to an existing product or launch a new product to provide a solution.
Controller selection criteria
Selecting a controller for an industrial application can be increasingly difficult with all the options available. These 11 selection criteria can help when deciding among relays, timers, analog instruments, smart relays, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and programmable automation controllers (PACs). See controller selection table.