As NASA celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first moon launch with videos, audio podcasts, photos, articles, and history on the Apollo mission page, Control Engineering looks at current and future robotic, instrumentation and automation technologies applied to lunar exploration. Links, images follow.
Windmills can operate for six months or more without any maintenance or supervision. They operate in some of the worse environmental conditions imaginable; all seasons of the year, in temperature extremes, in lightning storms, snow storms, high summer humidity as well as in dry arid extremes.
The summit will have two key objectives: reporting back to stakeholders on projects completed under the Department's Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative (SMI) since the 2007 event, and obtaining a second round of feedback from individual U.S.
Baumer has introduced its FFDK 16 photoelectric point-level sensor family for applications in laboratory automation, medical devices, pharmaceutical packaging, beverage processing, and other industries. The compact sensors are designed to be mounted onto transparent or half-transparent standpipes from 3 to 13 mm (.120 to .5…
Cyber security issues have taken center stage over the last few years, and their visibility seems to increase almost on a daily basis. New IT and industrial control system platforms are incorporating vastly improved security functions, but the problem for industry is that huge numbers of control systems predate these cyber security efforts, a…
Few will dispute that variable-frequency drives (VFDs) provide dramatic energy savings in myriad applications with varying loads and speeds. While power and energy savings are key benefits, VFD efficiency is also of interest because drives can experience significant efficiency losses at partial load operation—much like electric mot…
Minneapolis, MN–Sick, a manufacturer of sensors, safety systems, machine vision and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, announces its Inspector I20 Flex vision sensor.