As reported in the article,"Wireless Control in the Process Industries: Blasphemy or Common Sense?", some end-users in the process industries are taking the first steps toward use of wireless technology for control applications. But what about the future for wireless control in the discrete manufacturing industries?

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Ford has tested a number of off-the-shelf wireless products for potential use in automotive manufacturing control applications, says Read. “What we find is that we can set up a [wireless] network that does exactly what we want, and maybe it just squeaks by on performance characteristics.” But then, for unknown reasons, the system will periodically require much longer update rates than normal, Read relates. “And that’s just not acceptable, because it could cause a tool to crash.”

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