When teaching Industrial Automation to students, you need to give them access to the things they will encounter in industry. Most subjects can be taught using computer programs or simulators — for ...

Accumulator-type conveyor systems can be difficult to control and often have problems that are hard to diagnose. A modular approach developed at Humphrey Products Inc., Kalamazoo, Mich.

Today’s conveyor systems have to deal with a wide variety of products and smaller batches, yet still be easy to reconfigure for handling new tasks. To address those demands, Bosch Rexroth Corp., ...

Andrew Akers commutes a long way each day from Pennsylvania to Hanover not just because he enjoys his mechanical engineering job at Intralox, a conveyor belt maker, but because he appreciates the self ...