Over-engineered automation systems create hidden costs and delays. Right-sizing, openness and resilience offer a smarter path ...

Automation technology suppliers are integrating robot kinematics directly into PLCs, simplifying programming, reducing costs, ...

Beckhoff explains how PC-based control reduces complexity and boosts performance in modern automation systems.

Self-awareness describes a system with knowledge of itself based on an understanding of its capabilities and the system’s performance goals. In fact, self-aware motion control systems require the ...

Recent advances in motion control include high-performance servo drives, AI integration, and enhanced communication protocols like EtherCAT. These advances are designed to improve precision, ...

New research highlights how quickly automation is moving from pilot projects to mainstream strategy across US industrial companies. With nearly all firms planning new automation investments — and ...

There are many technical and commercial factors that original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must evaluate when designing motion control solutions for industrial machinery. Many types of industrial ...

Whether designers are improving a motion-centric machine or building a new one, it is essential they begin with motion control in mind. Then they can develop the design around the best way to get ...

Monitoring takes the form of sensors and intelligent devices connected to a digital processor. These monitored values are used for computing and then controlling some sort of real-world action. Many ...

This video offers a glimpse of the various commercially available piezomotors by Physik Instrumente (PI). Piezomotors come in various designs, which are optimized for different applications.

Birmingham, Alabama-based Motion Industries Inc., a provider and distributor of maintenance, repair and replacement parts and other industrial technology components, has formed a new business unit ...

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Regal Rexnord Corporation (NYSE: RRX) today announced it has appointed Kevin Long as Executive Vice President & President, Automation & Motion Control segment ...