The European programmable logic controllers (PLC) market witnessed a heavy decline in growth in 2009, owing to the recession of 2008. However, it made a strong recovery in 2010 with all major market participants in Europe experiencing high growth. A new Frost&Sullivan study anticipates continued moderate growth, under some conditions.
An important station of many industrial automation systems is the product packaging - be it in electronic component manufacturing or in food processing. Especially industries with a very diversified product spectrum require flexibility in this area.
Stepper motors are the engines of choice for belt control or mult-axis machine control - or would be if controlling was simpler. A new type of controller might make it possible to get rid of more expensive motors and facilitate regulation.
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