The evolution of electronic control of industrial functions requires the ability to measure and precisely control equipment position, angles, and rotation. Today’s applications, such as assembly robots and surface and valve actuators, have the potential to provide higher quality finished products while also improving human safety by removing workers from harsh environments.
The wide variation of conditions mechanical industrial equipment must operate in provides a challenge as applications that historically have been purely mechanical now move to hybrid mechanical and electrical systems. For industrial integrated circuits to enable these capabilities, precision in a wide variance of environmental conditions is an absolute requirement. These new systems must operate in the same environments and with equal or greater reliability than the mechanical systems they replace.
Industrial systems designers are tasked with designing systems that must operate in extreme environmental conditions ranging from oil and gas exploration in the arctic to safe passage through the tropical Panama Canal. Read this article to learn about ON Semiconductor's Zero-Drift technology, created to make the designer's job easier by self-correcting for environmental changes that previously had to be corrected by the system designer.
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