This article discusses three of the trends that are driving the evolution of existing embedded motion control products and acting as a catalyst for new ones Embedded motion control systems use ...

Decreasing a product's time-to-market can save a company valuable time, money, and resources. Taking this into consideration, Advanced Motion Controls (Camarillo, CA) has introduced a prepackaged ...

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 ...

Self-awareness describes a system with knowledge of itself based on an understanding of its capabilities and the system’s performance goals. In fact, self-aware motion control systems require the ...

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 ...

Manufacturers face complex decisions when it comes to upgrading legacy drives. Fortunately, several cost-effective retrofit ...

Automating the factory floor is a growing trend across the industrial space. It’s not hard to understand why, since such applications help improve efficiency and production rates. To create the ...

IBASE Technology announce the MAI602-M4D80 motion control system that can be used in various factory production applications such as automated optical inspection, semiconductor wafer handling, ...

Using a highly integrated, mixed-signal, system-on-a-chip architecture, the M3000 motion-control IC provides a complete system for motion control, handling time-critical motion and motor tasks in ...

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 ...

Motion and motor controllers are such an integral part of machines and automation systems, they often get taken for granted. But new manufacturing and machine-building demands for more modular system ...

For mostpeople, the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular is all about the leggy dancers.Daniel Sandoval has a much different take on the show. A senior systems design engineer with Festo's Customer ...