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Ask Control Engineering blog links to 60 years of motors, drives, and motion control coverage for t...

Automation tales in motion: Great changes have taken place in motion control systems over the past ...

Motor design and motion control: Earliest electric motor designs reach back 150 years. While motor ...

Compressed air is very common in all industrial facilities and there has been a major push to ident...

Automatic control operations can be described as either open-loop or closed-loop. The difference is...

A college’s decision to use reclaimed water lieu of a cooling tower saves millions of gallons of dr...

Engineering and IT Insight: Good coding habits reduce errors, save time, and can help you become a ...

Taking advantage of technology enhancements - and introducing a level of unwarranted risk - is a fi...

Having the guidelines of ISA-88 hierarchy and equipment structure, how can this basis be used to ma...

While PID control is often used because of its adaptability to a wide range of applications and ope...

New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers.

Engineers must strike the right balance on the centralized/distributed control system design spectr...

Engineering and IT Insight: Control programming is programming, even if it uses ladder logic, seque...

Oversized actuators can add unnecessary costs to the damper if improperly sized

When choosing a tuning strategy for a specific control loop, it is important to match the technique...

Guidance on performance monitoring is featured in a newly published guideline from ASHRAE.

Case study: Automated Industrial Machinery (AIM Inc.) moved from an analog interface to servo ampli...

Historically, the facility management challenge has been to do more with less. System integration p...

Technology Update: Industrial facilities should include a system evaluation, including a harmonic d...

Low power factor can drain generation capacity, waste energy, and increase maintenance costs with e...