Buying Smart Guide
This Control Engineering Buying Smart Guide redesigns our annual print "Control & Automation Buyer's Guide" to better address how engineers and manufacturing managers are specifying and buying products today.
Brief, to-the-point articles in this guide offer highlights that every buyer should keep in mind when purchasing, including: most important features; main differentiators among principal products in the market; price ranges and cost-to-feature correlation; specific industry considerations; and market factors that may impact buying decisions. Page numbers follow.
s5 I/O devices
s8 PLCs
s10 Servo motors
s12 Photoelectric sensors
s14 Vision systems
s16 Operator interface terminals
s18 AC drives
s19 Flowmeters
For links to even more purchasing guidance resources, access this page online at www.controleng.com/archives.
www.cesuppliersearch.com
Online, the information traditionally found in our print and online buyer's guide can still be found at www.cesuppliersearch.com—a new supplier search tool formed by a partnership between Control Engineering and Kellysearch. Integrating Kellysearch's globally recognized, leading search engine with our online buyer's guide enables us to deliver thousands more categories for finding supplier and product information related to automation, controls, and instrumentation, and related sensors, networks, software, and systems. For example, searching on PLCs produces 59 more categories than the prior version; searching on flowmeters offers 137 more categories. The upgrade also contains more global companies and tools to narrow searches by region or state. In total, the upgrade includes more than 64,350 specific categories.
Start by choosing between Products/Services or Companies. Use the pull-down menu to narrow to the appropriate region of the world. Type in what you want. Get categories. After clicking into a category, select a company or narrow further by state.
Leading vendors
s21 A section of yellow pages alphabetically lists major CE suppliersearch vendors with contact information.
We hope you enjoy this Buying Smart Guide and the MORE results you'll get with LESS digging at www.cesuppliersearch.com.
Staff
12-Dec-2005