by Kurt Sundberg | Mar 10, 2023 | Electrical Control Panel, PWA6000 Wire Processing Center
Modern Factory Automation The story of modern factory automation begins in 1782 when Oliver Evans (1755-1819) and two of his brothers bought part of their father’s farm in Delaware. Their plan was to build and operate a grain mill. Oliver, who was an inventor,...
by Kurt Sundberg | Nov 30, 2022 | Electrical Control Panel, Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), Factory Acceptance Testing, Manufacturing, programmable logic controllers (PLC), PWA6000 Wire Processing Center, Quality Control, UL Certification, Wire Custom Panels, Wire ducts, Wire ducts
From Steam to PLCs In the factories of the Industrial Revolution, steam engines powered a central steel drive shaft that ran along the length of the factory and sometimes continued outside into a second building. Other shafts, connected via belts and gears, drove...
