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 ...

Power™ Stage ICs deliver fast fault shutdown, 100% duty-cycle operation, and a single-input PWM option to simplify ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shirts are full of curves—collars, cuffs, sleeves—but sewing machines operate in straight lines. Engineers opted to replace ...

Thanks to hype in the popular media, the term “automation” tends to conjure images of robots, artificial intelligence and the cloud in the minds of most people. The root of most manufacturing ...

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 ...

The Mdrive42AC Plus motion-control system integrates a brushless motor with drive and control electronics. The motion controller offers up to eight I/O lines, a 10-bit analog input, and microstep ...

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 ...

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 ...