All three of the Rockwell Automation ControlLogix analog motion modules, 1756-HYD02, 1756-M02AS, and 1756-M02AE, have reached end-of-life and, as of December 2024, will be discontinued and no longer available for sale.
The testing can be used in a pre-production environment as companies evaluate changes in materials designed to improve the characteristics of end products.
Materials testing and characterization is often a lengthy process. It can take more than a year and billions of testing cycles for a manufacturer to characterize the properties of a new metal alloy to be used in a critical application, such as a component of an automotive or jet engine.
Automotive testing applications present a diverse set of challenges to the designers of test systems, and the need for ever-more powerful and user-friendly test stands continues to grow as vehicle systems become more complex and more is understood about what actually occurs in real world conditions.