David Greenfield: Welcome to the Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered podcast, where we connect with industry experts to get the answers you need about industrial automation technologies. And ...

Being nimble and quick isn’t about fun and games for Jack Piper. It’s serious business for the engineering manager at Ridgeline Pipe Manufacturing in Eugene, Ore., because it’s his job to squeeze ...

At the core of the Arduino PLC Starter Kit lies the Arduino Opta mini PLC, a state-of-the-art microcontroller that serves as the brain of your automation projects. This powerful device boasts seamless ...

As OEMs continue to move toward leaner design, operator interfaces have evolved into replacements such as automated panels for PLCs in many machine applications. So what are the differences between ...

OpenPLC is an open-source industrial controls platform that allows the transformation of popular microcontrollers into a programmable logic controller (PLC). OpenPLC is a fully functional open-source ...

Driven by technological innovations, increasing applications, falling prices and greater adoption of factory automation, the use of robots is ballooning globally. From just 2013 to 2017, the number of ...