You want to improve machine safety at your facility, but you don’t even know where to start. Not only do you not know where to start, but you don’t even know what words to use to describe the things you want to do. By the time you get done reading this, you’ll feel more comfortable talking about machine safety and confident in starting your safety journey.
The world’s first software program to be denied inventor credit on a patent has a winding past, and immense goals set before it. Stephen Thaler is hoping DABUS can make him immortal. We have all contemplated at least once what it might mean to control someone’s mind. Steven Thaler, however, has been experimenting with the…
EMA stands for the National Electrical Manufacturers Association. NEMA maintains a ratings system for industrial electronics enclosures, arranged by the environments which they are designed to withstand. This chart defines the ratings, the environment where each is typically used and the standard characteristics of each rating.
Allen Bradley has two classes of low voltage drives, their Compact Class and their Architecture Class. The PowerFlex 7x families are part of the Architecture Class of drive, with the 70/700 series being the previous generation to the current 75x series drives. First off, one note about these drives. They are the previous generation of…
In the world of machine safety, most people think about the things that are out in the open – guards, emergency stops, light curtains, etc. The most important components are usually out of sight, however.
The CompactLogix line currently comes in a much larger range of options than the ControlLogix. Because of its popularity and the wide range of applications it can serve, there are several legacy versions of the CompactLogix that are still (and will continue to be) supported by the manufacturer. Currently, Allen Bradley offers three families of CompactLogix controllers, the 1768, 1769, and 5069 families.
