Parker Hannifin’s Electromechanical & Drives Division now offers a motion-control design tool for engineers to help with proper selection of electromechanical linear motion. Virtual Engineer presents an intuitive interface where users can easily enter their application specifications (for example — speed, load, external forces) and then quickly navigate to accurately sized product options. The tool […]
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PID design using frequency-domain methods
With motion control applications, a PID or proportional + integral + derivative controller is often implemented using tuning or by a trial-and-error process on the shop floor. But modeling of the motion control system allows analytical derivation of the PID controller terms. By Tom Radigan | Advanced Motion Concepts Inc. Modeling a motion control system […]
Maximizing performance of precision motion stages in industrial applications
Motion controller and drive features can address the natural behavior of motion stages that can otherwise degrade throughput and accuracy — including those arising from mechanical resonances, inertia mismatch, motor cogging, backlash, friction effects, and encoder signal distortion. By Jason Goerges and Boaz Kramer • ACS Motion Control Precision motion stages operate in industrial applications […]
Festo Motion Terminal has apps to replace more than 50 components
Pneumatics is intrinsically a user-friendly technology — and it is set to become even more straightforward, versatile and flexible as the brand new Festo Motion Terminal Versatile Time Domain Electro-Magnetics (VTEM) is bringing pneumatics into the era of Industry 4.0. That’s with apps that can replace more than 50 individual components thanks to developments in […]
Rexroth Open Mechatronics Demo at ATX West 2017
Bosch Bosch Rexroth will showcase an Open Mechatronics demonstration at this year’s ATX West trade show. The demonstration utilizes Rexroth’s Open Core Engineering solution on an L25 controller in conjunction with an Excel spreadsheet to program the motion. The motion design demonstrates the position of a two-axis Cartesian system with a CKR X axis, an […]
Designing (seventh-axis) linear motion tracks for robotic positioning
By Lisa Eitel • Robot-positioning tracks can add flexibility to manufacturing spaces, but must be fast, accurate, and safe to be truly useful. Here we take a look at drives that deliver. Robot positioning systems are long tracks in warehouse, aerospace, and automotive facilities to let one robot perform multiple tasks. Also called robot-transfer units or […]
Internet of things in linear motion
The latest trend in machinery design is to take advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its many benefits. Internet connected “smart” technology is found in connectivity, control, and automation throughout industrial machinery and applications. PBC Linear recently released a new technical video, Internet of Things in Linear Motion. The video provides an intuitive […]
New video — Internet of Things (IoT) in linear motion
The latest trend in machinery design is to take advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its many benefits. Internet connected “smart” technology is found in connectivity, control, and automation throughout industrial machinery and applications. PBC Linear recently released a new technical video — Internet of Things in Linear Motion. The Internet of Things video […]
Online app has guides and calculators for selecting jacks, cylinders and bearings
Nook Industries, a leading innovator of linear motion components and systems, now offers a DesignGuidePro application, which lets engineers and designers quickly find the appropriate worm gear jack, bevel gear jack, electric cylinder and bearing products for their application. The application makes for easy navigation when searching for design considerations for worm jacks, bevel jacks, electrical cylinders […]
Laser-Express Machinery Expands in-house Capabilities
U.S. Tsubaki Power Transmission, LLC is pleased to announce the recent addition of state-of-the-art laser cutting machine to its Holyoke, Massachusetts Manufacturing Facility. This laser machine, along with the new CNC Brake Press and Mill, makes up U.S. Tsubaki’s LASER-EXPRESS capability. This will open the door to new opportunities which U.S. Tsubaki would have previously […]
