Gary Kirckof
Articles
System Integrators
February 20, 2014
Can and should vendors fill the engineering gap?
Suffering a technical brain drain? Here are five specific ways customers can get effective help from vendors and distributors.
By Gary Kirckof
PLM, Control Design
July 11, 2013
System design: Agile programming streamlines software development
Agile programming helps identify and prioritize programming tasks in need of attention and address them one at a time. This involves some research, coding, and especially testing, and aims to streamline the code development lifecycle to enhance future machine designs.
By Gary Kirckof
Motors and Drives
January 18, 2013
Servomotor technology contributes to productivity
Servo drive control: Improved computing power advances servo motor technology. Fast processors in PC-based controllers (especially multi-core PCs) enable updates to multiple servo control loops while handling machine control logic.
By Gary Kirckof