AutomationDirect’s IronHorse line of motors and drives now includes the GSD series of DC drives. IronHorse GSD1 series DC drives are high-performance Pulse-Width-Modulated (PWM) controllers for 12 to…
Danfoss completes H1 family for intelligent, high-power drives
Danfoss has introduced the 210/250cm3 pump frame sizes that complete its H1 family of piston pumps and bent axis motors for high-power mobile machines. With these additions, the…
Serapid Expects Increased Sales with Telescopic Mast Products in Composite Manufacturing
Serapid Inc., a producer of lifts and horizontal motion products made with its exclusive rigid chain technology, has seen an increase overall in sales of its telescopic mast…
MCA Surpasses the 100 Company Membership Mark!
The Motion Control Association (MCA), the global trade group representing the motion control industry, announced that it has reached a milestone of surpassing 100 member companies. This reflects…
Altra Industrial Motion Completes Acquisition of Svendborg Brakes
Altra Industrial Motion Corp. (Nasdaq:AIMC) announced that it has closed on the acquisition of Svendborg Brakes A/S and S.B. Patent Holding ApS (together “Svendborg”), a global manufacturer of…
Trio Motion launches new concept Motion Coordinator
Trio Motion’s MC4N-Mini EtherCAT master is a new concept for its high performance Motion Coordinator series motion and machine controllers. The EtherCAT dedicated controller can handle up to…
Tough and durable: Rolling bearing cages with DLC coating
NKE Austria GmbH introduces rolling bearing cages with DLC (Diamond-like Carbon) coating. These steel cages coated with DLC are tougher and last longer than the standard, uncoated brass…
New Low-Voltage, Right-Angle Brushless DC Gearmotors from Bodine
Bodine Electric Company has added a new selection of high-performance right-angle INTEGRAmotor™ gearmotors to its product line. The new type 34B4/FV-5N gearmotors combine Bodine’s 34B brushless DC motor…
AutomationDirect adds small NEMA motor stepper gearboxes
AutomationDirect’s new SureGear™ PGCN series of stepper gearboxes is an excellent choice for stepper and other motion control applications requiring a NEMA-size input/output interface. Available in NEMA 17,…
New Absolute Rotary Encoders with Functional Safety
As the demand for functionally safe equipment products grows, so does HEIDENHAIN’s component product offerings. Now new to the market are HEIDENHAIN’s ROx 400 absolute rotary encoders, available…
ElectroCraft EXC-Series 2.3-inch AC Servo Motors
The new EXC-Series 2.3-inch AC Servo Motors, are high voltage, high performance brushless servo motors incorporating the latest electro-magnetic components creating high continuous torques with low inertia for…
Cabled Step Motors
Applied Motion Products has announced a new range of step motors for DC powered drives which are now available with 10 foot cables. These motors are available in…
New premium hollow shaft angular gearbox from B&R
B&R’s selection of premium-grade angular planetary gearboxes has been expanded to include the new 8GA75 model for flange sizes 60 to 142 mm. The hollow shaft differentiates these…
Johnson Electric Launches High Torque Motor for Cordless Impact Wrenches
Johnson Electric announced the industry’s highest power DC motor for cordless impact wrenches. TheCompact P™ – XC8 motor is custom designed for the highest power and efficiency in…
New Hazardous Area Encoder from Pepperl+Fuchs
The new 78E Series Ex Encoder from Pepperl+Fuchs is especially designed for applications in hazardous areas. The 78E Series with its “flameproof enclosure” has ATEX and IEC Ex…
Understanding DC Motor Curves and Temperature: Part 2
by Dan Montone, PITTMAN Motors/AMETEK Precision Motion Control, Harleysville, PA Motor performance changes with temperature. Understanding the effects of heat and temperature changes will help in selecting the…
Vacon enters the medium-voltage AC drives market
The global AC drives manufacturer Vacon will take its product offering to new heights with medium-voltage AC drives. In contrast to Vacon’s current low-voltage products, medium-voltage AC drives…
RKII Series Stepper Motor and Driver Packages from Oriental Motor
Oriental Motor is pleased to announce the introduction of our new RKII Series Stepper Motor and Driver Packages with Built-in Controller (Stored Data) Type and Pulse Input Type….
All-in-One Brushless Servo System from Teknic
ClearPath, from Teknic Inc., is an easy to use brushless servo motor, encoder, servo drive, and controller all rolled into one compact package. The state-of-the-art, closed-loop, AC vector…
Three-week Lead Time on Generation II Simotics® 1FK7 Servomotors
Field-replaceable 24-bit encoders in 10 styles and reduced lead times highlight complete line of servomotors; three inertia versions, seven shaft heights on highly-configurable line; now shipped in three…
New Programmable Servo Drives from Moog
Moog’s family of programmable single- and multi-axis modular servo drives has been extended to include optional safety functions compliant with the EN 61800-5-2 safety standard. The new programmable…
XSlide® Stages for Scanning and Indexing
Constructed with hard coat anodized, aluminum dovetail ways and PTFE bearings, XSlides are suitable for either incrementing or scanning applications, XSlides have a load capacity of 35 lbs.(15.9…
Johnson Electric Launches Miniature Drive Platform for Insulin Pump
Johnson Electric announced a miniature drives platform for insulin pump. This platform is developed with coreless brushless DC motor technology with an integrated high precision position sensing system…
New additions to B&R’s ACOPOSmicro lineup
B&R has made some new additions to its ACOPOSmicro line of compact dual-axis drives. In addition to the drives available with a resolver and EnDat 2.2 and LinMot…
POSITAL introduces new high-performance IXARC encoders
POSITAL-FRABA has revolutionized the world of rotary encoders. The new IXARC encoders combine the accuracy and dynamic response of optical encoders with the ruggedness and compact form factor…