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, ...

Several vehicle models have gone to infotainment screens, but they can be distracting and complicated. Here are new cars that still have physical buttons.

Executive function describes a set of cognitive processes and mental skills that help an individual plan, monitor, and successfully execute their goals. The “executive functions,” as they’re known, ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Modern master control rooms, like the one shown here in Turner Broadcasting’s new HD facility in ...

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 ...