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Archive: July 2011

  • Jeff's Wining Again - Behind the Bar

    Jul
    25
    by Jeff Kordik

    If you are a sports fan near my age, and I won't tell you what that is, you might recall a sportswriter named George Plimpton. George felt that it wasn't enough just to cover professional sports; if you really wanted to understand the game, you had to see it from the inside. So one season Plimpton trained with the Detroit Lions as a backup quarterback, and then wrote about it in his most famous work, Paper Lion.

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  • Did You Know? - Embedded Help Files

    Jul
    18
    by Dennis Joyce

    Applied Motion has embedded help files that are tied to the physical attributes shown in our pictorial representation of the drive within the STAC Configurator™ and ST Configurator™ software applications.

    Simply open the STAC Configurator™ or ST Configurator™ software and position your mouse, for example, over the I/O connector of the drive shown. Left click the I/O connector with your mouse, and a new window will open with wiring information for the selected I/O connector.

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  • EtherNet/IP Stepper Drives

    Jul
    07
    by Eric Rice

    Many communication standards have been applied to machine and motion control with varying degrees of success. Some of the more popular are EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, CANopen, DeviceNet and Profibus. EtherNet/IP has become particularly popular because it is compatible with Rockwell/Allen Bradley PLCs, runs on standard Ethernet hardware, and employs the robust and proven Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) for communication, control and data gathering.

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