Productivity Series: Scalable from Top to Bottom
Issue 39 - 2018ProductProgrammable Control

Productivity Series: Scalable from Top to Bottom

With the release of the Productivity1000, the newest and smallest of the Productivity Series controllers, we now have a scalable product offering that gives you the flexibility to design your control system program for a broad range of applications and sizes, without sacrificing functionality. The Productivity1000 (P1000) is a compact, stackable micro Programmable Logic Controller…
Student Spotlight: Droid Names, Faraway Galaxies or Automation Components?
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Student Spotlight: Droid Names, Faraway Galaxies or Automation Components?

VFDs, RS485, PLCs — these terms may seem like names of droids or faraway galaxies and planets in a “Star Wars” movie. However, they really refer to earthly based components that Vermont Technical College engineering student Dan Rapoza learned about when he set out to help a dairy farmer save time and money by automating…
Brainteasers - Issue 39, 2018
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Brainteasers - Issue 39, 2018

1.) Conveyor Race Three boxes of automation equipment are traveling in the same direction on parallel conveyors in the AutomationDirect warehouse. At a certain moment, a box full of motors is a certain distance behind a box of gears, which is twice that distance behind a box of timing belts. The conveyors are all moving…
Brainteaser Answers - Issue 39, 2018
Issue 39 - 2018

Brainteaser Answers - Issue 39, 2018

1.) Conveyor Race The box of gears will pass the box of timing belts 6 minutes and 40 seconds after the box of motors passed the box of timing belts. 2.) Fuse Ruse They shipped four boxes of 17 and two boxes of 16 – for a total of exactly 100 fuses. 3.) Paint Match…