By Andy The Automated machines replace humans for repetitive tasks, freeing humans for tasks that require decisions Ironically, human interaction introduces the inaccuracies that lead to…

By Andy The Outsourcing labor to reduce costs or to maximize efficiency makes sense, but I would never have predicted outsourcing safety.  However, if you…

By Andy The Here’s another interesting article from Industrial Automation about how a variety of machine vision systems are being implemented within the same manufacturing line. As…

By Andy The Following up on a previous post on touch and gesture HMIs, and their influence on industrial automation, here is an interesting article…

By Andy The There is a lot of debate whether WinCE is a hard real-time or soft real-time operating system.  The answer is yes and…

By Andy The Here is point-of-view paper from Texas Instruments on how medical imaging is trending toward using of DSPs. I totally disagree with its premise….

By Andy The The demand for additional automation in Industrial markets is growing.  With demand comes innovation and competition, elements that benefit all end users….

By Andy The As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about machine vision’s impact on industrial automation , it’s worth noting that robotics is another emerging…

By Andy The I have posted recently on EtherCAT and its positive impact on Industrial Automation.  EtherCAT’s high precision and high bandwidth provide a scalable and powerful backplane for industrial control….

By Andy The I ran across this interesting article from EDN that discusses how FPGAs and multicore CPUs are impacting embedded designs. While I agree that multicore CPUs significantly impact today’sembedded designs, for…