Processing fresh fish necessitates a hygienic environment with regular washdowns, followed by frigid temperatures for freezing final products. That’s why machinery in such settings must be extremely rugged — and why one fish supplier has used motors from Bauer Gear Motor for the last few years. Van Der Lee Seafish processes approximately 200 tons of […]
Schaeffler acquires Elmotec Statomat GmbH
The global automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler last week concluded a contract to acquire Elmotec Statomat Holding GmbH, based in Karben near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Elmotec Statomat GmbH is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of production machinery for the high-volume construction of electric motors and possesses unique expertise in the field of winding […]
Medical applications benefit from precision encoders
Encoders are essential to accurate positioning in most motion systems, particularly where high precision is most needed. For instance, applications like semiconductor manufacturing with nanometer precision, or medical applications where there is virtually no room for error, because that could mean the difference between life and death. Designers of medical equipment are able to use […]
New microcontroller-based brushless dc motor controls from American Control Electronics
American Control Electronics (ACE) has introduced the PML Series, a new family of versatile, feature-rich, configurable controls for brushless dc motors. PML drives can control motors that range from 90 to 280 Vdc, up to 5 A/1.5 HP, using either 115 Vac or 230 Vac line sources. On-board trim pots allow operators to quickly set […]
Beckhoff intros EtherCAT G for next-level gigabit performance
Beckhoff Automation’s new EtherCAT G gigabit communication technology takes EtherCAT performance to the next level by delivering the Gbit Ethernet speeds needed to support highly data-intensive applications. The latest industrial Ethernet technology expansion is not only compatible with the globally established 100 Mbit/sec EtherCAT standard, but also provides the same familiar ease of use. In […]
New dual-axis AKD2G servo drive from Kollmorgen
Kollmorgen’s new dual-axis AKD2G Servo Drive is one of the most power-dense industrial servo drives on the market. It substantially reduces mains wiring, fuses, and filtering to save significant panel space and cost. The AKD2G features expandable I/O (without increasing the size), removable memory, dual-channel STO, and the first drive-resident graphic display in the industry. […]
Aerotech debuts scanner controller with 192 kHz servo rate, position-based laser control
Aerotech’s GL4 scanner controller is optimized for Aerotech’s family of AGV scanners to provide industry leading settling times, long-term thermal stability, and micron-level tracking accuracy due to advanced features such as full state feed-forward, 192 kHz servo rates, and look-ahead-based velocity control. The GL4 uses advanced interpolation electronics to provide up to 26-bits of effective […]
How to select the best type of gear reducer
This is the second of a multi-part series on gear reducers. In this second part we look at how to select the best type of gear reducer from the available options. (Click here for Part 1.) The information here is supplied by Bodine Electric Company. Gear reducers come in two basic classes or configurations with […]
Galil launches latest programmable motion controller for servo, stepper motors
The DMC-40×0 motion controller is Galil’s highest performance, stand-alone motion controller. It belongs to Galil’s latest generation motion controller family, which accepts encoder inputs up to 22 MHz, provides servo update rates as high as 32 kHz, and processes commands as fast as 40 microseconds – 10 times the speed of prior generation controllers. The […]
How to select gear ratio for a gear reducer?
This is the first of a multi-part series on gear reducers. In this first part we look at selecting the proper gear ratio for a gear reducer. The information here is supplied by Bodine Electric Company. Gear reducers are an essential part of mechanical power transmission systems, being used for speed and torque conversion. Selecting […]