OEMs are looking to adopt more AI-powered motion control, distributed drives and digital twins as the industry navigates cost ...

Printing presses are understandably very demanding machines with regards to motion control. The presses run at high speeds, many passes are required for full color printing, and image and print ...

When it comes to the world of motion control, it’s easy to take your feedback device for granted. After all, it’s a small ...

For savvy machine builders, distributed motion control is fast becoming the architecture of choice because it uses fewer system components, improves motion accuracy and throughput, and improves ...

Though they may be used to achieve the same goal, motion-control and robotics systems go about it in different ways. So, what exactly sets them apart? Automating the factory floor is a growing trend ...

1. Design for system. It is important to understand the accuracy requirements of the entire electromechanical system when specifying servo drives. The control system, position feedback sensing, the ...

Monitoring takes the form of sensors and intelligent devices connected to a digital processor. These monitored values are used for computing and then controlling some sort of real-world action. Many ...

These pre-configured servo systems deliver simplicity and flexibility in sizing, selection, installation and commissioning.

Sponsored by Rockwell Automation. A more flexible approach to motion control speeds up changeovers and boosts productivity. Designers of conveyor systems and other motion control systems have long ...

Embedded motion controllers reduce multiple cycles of algorithm development, implementation, and testing to setting a few parameters and exporting the code to your own firmware What do self-driving ...

In the next few years motion control interfaces will be put to the test. Here are the options for designers and developers. Why Did Apple Just Pay $360 Million For Microsoft’s Sloppy Seconds? Over the ...

Very early motion control systems used mechanical gearboxes and levers to select speeds and drive power, but these systems were quickly replaced by analog electronic controllers that provided much ...