A manager's responsibility is to get her team to achieve the organization's goals. The four functions of a manager are to plan, organize, lead and control her team. Feedback control is a process that ...

The PLCopen Motion Control Specification harmonizes the access of motion-control functionality across platforms, explains Eelco van der Wal, managing director of PLCopen (www.plcopen.org), Zaltbommel, ...

Inventory planning and control are functions relating to inventory management. Business owners pay close attention to inventory as it usually represents the second largest expense in their businesses.

Control Barrier Functions are safety certificates that can be used to design add-on control units that filter the control action provided to the system. The objective is to modify the input command as ...

Modern master control rooms, like the one shown here in Turner Broadcasting’s new HD facility in Atlanta, have different paradigms of monitoring and control. Over time, master control has changed, but ...

Read part 1 of this series on construction and operating principles here. Having understood the construction and basic operating principle of BLDC motor in the first part of this article, it becomes ...

ISA-95, also known as ANSI/ISA-95 or IEC 62264, is an international set of standards aimed at integrating logistics systems with manufacturing control systems. It organizes technology and business ...

VGAs are available with continuously variable gains or, in simpler topologies, with gain in discrete steps. Discrete steps are preferable in measurement circuits or in applications that can tolerate ...