Frank Lamb, Automation Primer

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I/O Systems, I/O Modules

Ladder Logic 306: Simulation

Mechatronics and Motion Control

Six tips for designing and building a small controls project

Mechatronics and Motion Control

Ladder logic 403: Message scrolling and multiple faults

Ladder Logic: Fault detection and messages

Discrete Manufacturing

Ladder Logic: Auto cycles and safety routines

PLM, Control Design

Guidelines for using a closed-loop control system

Users have to consider the aspects of a converter such as costs, location, and how to provide power to it and the detection device. Courtesy: Frank Lamb, Automation Primer

Discrete Manufacturing

Sensors 102: Signal conditioning

Thinking of sensors as a physical input to a control system can help an engineer realize there are a lot more possibilities than they realize in a field that is narrowly focused in its thinking. Courtesy: Frank Lamb, Automation Primer

Discrete Manufacturing

Sensors 101: Control system inputs

Figure 1 shows an Allen-Bradley RSLogix5000 ControlLogix program written back in 2006. The program communicated with a machine vision system that sent and received strings of data for everything from its camera triggering to its reporting of positional da

PLM, Control Design

Ladder logic 305: ASCII and strings

On the surface, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and computers are similar, but PLCs can perform discrete and continuous control functions that a computer can't. Courtesy: Automation Primer

Six key differences between PLCs and computers

Workforce Development

Five reasons to use local vendors for buying technical products

Reusable code for programmable logic controllers (PLCs) provide users with flexibility and allow structures to be built that can be exported from one application to another. Courtesy: Frank Lamb, Automation Primer

Simulators, Optimizers

Advantages of reusable code for PLCs