IEN What innovations are in store for users of drives motors servers control systems software miniaturization customization and other motion-related technologies?Novak As a manufacturer of compact industrial motion coordinators Trio Motion Learn more

One of the greatest concerns of today's automation technology vendors is providing the cost and flexibility benefits of commercial mass market technologies without sacrificing performance reliability or security requirements to the customers Learn more

Excerpts presented here are taken from a transcript based on written responses from the panel members after the original roundtable scheduled for September 12 2001 during the ISA conference in Houston Texas was cancelled due to the previous Learn more

IEN How can manufacturers use existing technologies in new ways?MacCleery: The overall trend here is to add to the existing custom hardware a more flexible hardware and software environment where the complexities of a particular application can be Learn more