Omron followed up its showing at the Consumer Electronics Show with an exhibit of advanced AI, automation and robotics at ATX West 2019. The company brought its new interactive Factory Harmony exhibit to California with a team of experts who collaborate with customers to provide customized automation solutions for factory line efficiency and business growth. At CES,…
Innovative electric motors sport axial designs
Novel axial flux designs now coming off the drawing boards could become the primary means of powering future generations of electric vehicles. Leland Teschler | Executive Editor If you build an electric motor whose rotor and stator are flat, not cylindrical as in ordinary motors, you are devising what’s called an axial motor. Axial motors,…
New RH-N gearbox kits from Nabtesco Motion Control are pre-engineered offering
Nabtesco Motion Control now offers pre-engineered RH-N gearbox kits. RH-N Kits use the manufacturer’s newest RV-N series of gearboxes … to 20% smaller and 30% lighter than the original RV-E series. RH-N gearbox kits make for a turnkey motion solution that trims on lead, engineering, and installation times. The RH-N directly bolts onto servomotors without […]
Elmo Motion Control offers mini drive with single power source, tests servo underwater
Elmo Motion Control this week announced that it is offering a new enhanced Gold-Twitter version of its mini servo drive with single source up to 95 Vdc. This allows users to use a single source power for both the drive and logic power. As part of its continuous engineering efforts, the Elmo research and development team…
Drive and logic in new mini servo drive from Elmo Motion Control use single power source
Elmo Motion Control (Elmo) now offers a new enhanced Gold-Twitter version with single source up to 95 Vdc. This allows users to use a single source power for both the drive and logic power. As part of its continuous engineering efforts, the Elmo R&D team was able to integrate a higher voltage internal supply into […]
The top 5 articles on Motion Control Tips for 2018
We here at motioncontroltips.com are not immune to a little bit of end-of-year reflection. It’s an opportunity to do a reckoning of sorts and find out what you, our readers, liked most. So here is a short list of the top 5 most viewed posts published in 2018, starting with Number 5 and building our […]
maxon precision motors awarded top LEAP prize in Motion Control for Exoskeleton Joint Actuator
At the recent LEAP Awards dinner gala in Costa Mesa, Calif., maxon precision motors was awarded the trophy for top design in Motion Control — for its Exoskeleton Joint Actuator. The judges commented: “Excellent product in a ground breaking application. maxon has taken a leadership role by packaging products specifically for the exoskeleton market … By providing an […]
New Physik Instrumente reference on precision motion control and positioning systems for electronics manufacturing
PI’s new brochure gives an insight on advances in standard and custom motion systems designed to satisfy the needs of industrial test, inspection, and manufacturing engineers in the electronics and semiconductor industry. With decades of experience in the semiconductor market, the technological diversity and the high vertical range of manufacturing enables PI (Physik Instrumente) to […]
Galil launches latest programmable motion controller for servo, stepper motors
The DMC-40×0 motion controller is Galil’s highest performance, stand-alone motion controller. It belongs to Galil’s latest generation motion controller family, which accepts encoder inputs up to 22 MHz, provides servo update rates as high as 32 kHz, and processes commands as fast as 40 microseconds – 10 times the speed of prior generation controllers. The […]
Autonomous Aircraft Odysseus Keeps an Eye on the Sky
Finally, after years of developing, Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed Odysseus, a full-scale, solar-powered, autonomous aircraft that can fly in the air for months at a time, according to New Atlas. The first test flight is scheduled in 2019, but Odysseus is not the only High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) under development. HAPS occupy the…
Solving real-time robot motion control challenges
Motion control is the software component of a robotic system that dictates how a robot should move to do tasks that have already been defined. Robot arms move through the action of rotating and sliding joints, while mobile robots move through locomotion and steering. Robot tasks, on the other hand, are done with tools (end…
Finalists announced for Motion Control category of LEAP Awards
Finalists were announced on Friday, November 2nd for the inaugural LEAP Awards Motion Control Category. The competition was scored by a panel of independent engineering judges. The judges below were responsible for the Motion Control category. Dan Jones • President | Incremotion Associates Dan Jones started as a production worker at a motor company in the late […]
All About Speed With a Hypersonic Wind Tunnel and Laser Tech
It’s about speed, and Sandia National Laboratories, with a hypersonic wind tunnel and advanced laser diagnostic technology, is in an excellent position to help U.S. defense agencies understand the physics associated with aircraft flying five times the speed of sound. With potential adversaries reporting successes in their own programs to develop aircraft that can be…
ACS Motion Control SPiiPlus library for MATLAB enhances application development
ACS Motion Control has created a MATLAB library that enables users to develop sophisticated applications with advanced diagnostics capabilities directly with ACS control systems. The MATLAB library communicates with ACS’ motion controllers, allowing users to implement custom motion profiles, learning control algorithms, a custom FRF measurements, advanced monitoring systems, and much more. The SPiiPlus Library […]
Power transmission/motion control tech tips
Enhance your product and industry knowledge by subscribing to PTDA’s Tech Tips. This monthly eblast of online tips, hints and techniques helps educate you on power transmission/motion control (PT/MC) products, technologies and concepts. Tech Tips are based on the expertise of PTDA members, content from Motion Control Made Simple or PTDA’s Power Transmission Handbook, the […]
Webinar: Motion Control and Robotics Opportunities
Thursday, November 8, 2018 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT ‘Motion’ in the physical world, whether in the form of changing place, position or posture, is perhaps the greatest differentiator between robotic systems and all other classes of engineered products. It is motion is that makes robotics systems ‘robotic’, and it is advances in…
Vibration, motion control, and processing tech highlight of ITT’s Pack Expo exhibits
ITT Inc. and its Bornemann, Compact Automation and Enidine brands are showcasing a wide portfolio of packaging industry solutions at the 2018 PACK EXPO International, this week through Wednesday, in Chicago. ITT’s highly engineered energy absorption, vibration isolation, motion control and processing solutions are designed to provide reliability and extended service life for the most…
Servo drives from Elmo Motion Control make for quick settling … for faster wafer testing
When semiconductor test-equipment manufacturer Proaut Technology GmbH began upgrading its PMA wafer-testing series, the goal was to reach a throughput of 40,000 components per hour. The company met its goal using high-efficiency servo drives from Elmo Motion Control. Recall that semiconductor fabrication relies on sophisticated and expensive equipment to move through complex sequences of time-consuming […]
AMK Automation showing smarter motion control solutions at PACK EXPO Chicago
AMK Automation Corp. will exhibit smart, versatile, efficient motion control technology to help solve many of the packaging industry’s most persistent challenges at PACK EXPO Chicago, October 14-17, 2018. The AMK Automation display will be at booth N-6129 in the North Building of the McCormick Place convention center. The AMK Automation motion control portfolio features […]
Energid Actin 5 simplifies real-time adaptive robotic motion control
Cambridge, Mass.-based Energid introduced at IMTS 2018 Actin 5, the newest version of its real-time adaptive motion control software. The new Actin 5 features are designed to further reduce the go-to-market time for a robotics developer looking to bring an application to market. The Actin software, which figures out a robot’s most efficient path from…
Industrial automation and motion control the focus of ITT Enidine’s IMTS booth
ITT Inc. and its Enidine brand will highlight its comprehensive portfolio of highly engineered and customized industrial automation and motion control solutions for the manufacturing industry at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2018) in Chicago this week Sept. 10–15. The company will present its latest industrial technologies at East Building, Level 2, Booth 12051.…
What type of cable management should you use in your motion control systems?
Where there is a myriad of cables and wiring, cable management becomes an issue. A simple, low-cost form of cable management uses twist-tie bundlers that groups wires and cables together. However, such bundling can pose weight problems that cause sagging and put undue strain on cables. For stationary applications, cable trays safely and cleanly route […]
eBook: IO-Link: Paving the Way for Digital Networking
IO-LINK enables seamless communication and digital data transfer from the control level right down to the sensor level. Intelligent devices can be used to their full potential with IO-Link, paving the way for Industry 4.0 in automation technology. The internationally standardized interface provides value at all stage s, from plant design to installation right through…
What types of connectors are used in industrial motion control systems?
Most cable assemblies used in motion control systems require some type of interconnect device to transmit the signals from the cable to the motor or drive. Commonly used connectors include M12 and M8 connectors, which are circular connectors with a 12- or 8-mm locking thread used for sensors, actuators, Fieldbus and industrial Ethernet, primarily in […]
August 2018 Special Edition: Motion Systems Handbook
Are the best engineers born or made? You might think the way to make better engineers is to improve engineering education. Although there may be something to that idea, it is becoming apparent that factors outside the formal learning process may outweigh anything done on a campus. For example, it increasingly looks as though the…