The Evolution of Motion Programming Devices

Here’s a closer look at software development for programming motion systems and how these choices affect software reusability.

By Chuck Lewin Performance Motion Devices

Software development can be the single greatest engineering cost for many machine design projects. This observation is especially true for motion control projects because of the inherent complexity of managing such real time tasks as profile generation, events, and throughput.

Do you protocol?

It’s easy to be a bit overwhelmed with the range of choices in motion control protocols, languages, interface standards, and control architectures. However, as it turns out, a few basic concepts provide the necessary foundation for understanding motion programming languages. Read more