Chuck Ridgeway & Jake Hall Interview
Early in the Automate show Chuck had the opportunity to sit down with Jake Hall – the Manufacturing Millennial – for a podcast. Jake is an online personality and industry influencer who is pretty well known – with a large following on LinkedIn. They discussed a host of topics – including trends in the industry
What is a "Masked Move" Operation?
Cscape provides a whole host of "bitwise operations" - function blocks which are highly useful in parsing variable data. In industrial communications - multiple data fields are often tightly and efficiently packed to optimize bandwidth - and that means parsing. But NOT included in the list of Cscape bitwise operations is a "Masked Move". In
Horner OCS & the AC Power Monitor in Action!
Are you looking to provide a more energy-efficient machine to your customers? Or have you been tasked with reducing energy usage in your facility? We're going to show you how we use our very own Horner OCS and ACM300 SmartBlock Power Monitor for those purposes on a machine in our plant. We'll show you how
Horner LIVE from Automate 2023!
It's Trade Show time! And that means an opportunity to meet the Horner team and check out "What's New?!" and "What's Coming?!". Now even if you can't make your way to Detroit May 22nd through May 25th - we'll give you an opportunity to at least check it out from afar. We'll be recording this
Using the NEW IO-Link Masters with Horner OCS
Fresh off our surprise announcement of TWO new IO-Link Masters for Horner OCS - it's time for a technical session to explore these products. How do they connect? How are the IO-Link Masters configured? How are IO-Link sensors configured? What Cscape programming is involved? We'll explore all these areas so you'll be ready to use
Using an Ethernet Bar Code Reader with Horner OCS
There are a variety of ways to interface Bar Code readers with automation systems - and these days Ethernet is the preferred approach. Join us as we get hands-on with the Horner OCS and the Datalogic MATRIX-320 Ethernet Bar Code Reader. We'll walk you step-by-step through the process of integrating this world class component from