We are pleased to announce that Futura Automation, Scottsdale, AZ, and Sanyo Denki Motion group have partnered up to provide motion control solutions in the American Southwest and beyond. Futura Automation will begin designing in Sanyo Denki servo and stepper drives and controllers on all its projects and solutions requiring precise motion control. Futura Automation
By Dave Perkon, Technical Editor Reprinted from Control Design, Jun 27, 2019 https://www.controldesign.com/articles/2019/the-accumulating-case-for-deterministic-control/ What do machine builders, system integrators and manufacturers need to know about time-sensitive networking (TSN)? In simplest terms, it is better Ethernet. What used to be many networks and gateways to meet performance requirements will be deterministic control and information on a
What you (may have) missed in Anaheim, CA Demos from the ATX West trade show earlier this month StepSERVO Motors and Drives for EtherCAT Networks 4 axes of SS-EC StepSERVO Drives and HT-SS StepSERVO Motors being controlled by a Beckhoff controller. The four axes are daisy-chain connected back to the controller with standard Ethernet cables
Industry 4.0 is a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It is also know as the Smart Factory or "Lights-out Manufacturing". It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing[1[2][3][4] and cognitive computing. Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a large role in executing the smart factory as do industrial robots and autonomous mobile robots, which are