Fabio Malaspina

An introduction to one component level control technology — DeviceLogix

As the trend of traditional component devices having on-board intelligence with embedded programmable logic becomes prominent, this paper aims to introduce a well-positioned control technology - DeviceLogix. As a common technology, DeviceLogix has been widely adopted in a large variety of products on the market today. This technology addresses three major needs: scalability, hardware independence, and network independence. Based on these needs, the key benefit of adopting DeviceLogix is to allow local control decisions to be made by the device itself without having to go through a central controller. This inherently improves the response time of the control loop. Furthermore, using DeviceLogix enabled devices can bring greater design flexibility to simple, distributed control systems. This paper demonstrates this benefit using a material handling application example.