Automation and Control

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  • High reliability, durability and performance designed into every speed sensor

    Smith Systems® sensors are found on equipment that moves and has an engine or on equipment that creates power, all over the world.

  • Video: Benchtop industrial robot to improve pharmaceutical manufacturing

    Robot will take over repetitive tasks.

  • Watch: Robot lends a hand in strawberry fields

    The StrawBot automates some harvesting tasks.

  • Cross platform integration improves quality control for brands and retailers

    Cross platform integration allows brands and retailers to better manage quality control and supplier audit activities.

  • DC motor operation modes and speed regulation techniques

    Various modes of DC motor operation and the important ways to control motor speed are covered.

  • Keep critical crossbelt sorters up during peak times

    What if your crossbelt sorter had 100% availability with zero unplanned stops?

  • Passive sampling torpedo takes aim at wastewater-borne SARS-CoV-2

    The Torpedo Passive Sampler detects the virus responsible for COVID-19 in wastewater systems.

  • Watch: Moth-killing drones to protect greenhouse crops

    Moth-killing drones can distinguish good pests from bad.

  • Precise color recognition in industrial measurement tasks

    The color sensor CFO is used for color recognition and sorting in the production process.

  • How to reduce stepper motor noise and vibration in motion control

    Reducing the noise and vibration from stepper motors can increase their performance and lifespan.

  • Omron 'to free people from monotonous work' with new sensor

    New sensor will help to automate monotonous tasks.

  • Video: General Measure launches second generation intelligent bagging machine

    Process speed is increased, and a bag filler with single hopper can pack 1,000 pieces/hour.

  • Watch as severed swimming robots repair themselves

    Swimming robots demonstrate self-healing properties in the lab.

  • Video: Team of autonomous devices delivers data about hazardous environments

    The multi-robot, multi-sensor devices survey and sample potentially dangerous environments.

  • Trend energy usage over time to identify waste and inefficiencies

    What if you could lower your annual energy spending without significant capital investment?

  • Magnetically guided micro-bots to take aim at gliomas

    The micro-bots can deliver medicinal payloads to locations within the body.

  • RFID-reading robot determines consumer behavior

    Robot can make predictions about consumer behavior.

  • Industrial Motors in Motion (March 7-13)

    Electric motors are so ubiquitous that they often go overlooked and underappreciated. So how do we shine a spotlight on one of engineering's most integral technologies? We throw a week-long party for it.

  • Video: Rocket Lab plans on doing the Neutron launch

    A reusable rocket is being designed to launch satellites into mega constellations and support space missions helmed by humans

  • Video: Robots can scan and dig for cable, pipe installation

    A pair of robots will automate drilling for cable and pipe installation.

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