1. Don't fear servos. There are many different levels of positioning and motor controls now. Some basic variable frequency drives can even be used to do what could have been done only with coordinated ...

Embedded engineers designing modern industrial systems for advanced robotics, automated machines, and motion systems require putting together many elements to build an industrial servo drive. That ...

Trinamic Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG, now part of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., has claimed the smallest and lowest-power single-axis servo controller/driver module with integrated motion control.

As manufacturing industry continues to replace manual processes with automated versions, servo motors are replacing pneumatic and hydraulic systems (Fig. 1). It’s resulted in a rapid increase in, and ...

Tolomatic's new ACSI integrated servo motor with ODVA conformant EtherNet/IP features a keyed Add-on Profile (AOP) and a full suite of Add-on Instructions (AOI) for easy integration into Rockwell ...

SIEMENS reports that its SINAMICS S210 “next-generation” servo-drive system brings a new level of high-dynamic, motion control in mid-range operation to stand-alone and multi-axis machines. Recently ...

When it comes to automation systems, complexity tends to grow faster than performance. Each new generation of machines ...

Servo controllers commonly use traditional cascaded configurations in which a velocity loop is nested within a position loop. This configuration originated when current and velocity controllers were ...

Brushless DC motors, and their associated drive electronics, tend to be expensive and complicated. [Ottoragam] was looking for a cheaper alternative and built this Brushed DC motor servo controller ...

As a specialist in drive and automation technology, Lenze offers application‑specific motion control solutions for the ...