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MCA Surpasses the 100 Company Membership Mark!
The Motion Control Association (MCA), the global trade group representing the motion control industry, announced that it has reached a milestone of surpassing 100 member companies. This reflects a strong momentum of recent growth for the association that was founded in late 2006 with just a handful of leading motion control industry suppliers. Members now […]
Trio Motion launches new concept Motion Coordinator
Trio Motion’s MC4N-Mini EtherCAT master is a new concept for its high performance Motion Coordinator series motion and machine controllers. The EtherCAT dedicated controller can handle up to 32 axes of servo or stepper drives and 1024 machine I/O points. The MC4N-ECAT’s built-in expandable library of the market leading EtherCAT digital drives and I/O modules […]
XSlide® Stages for Scanning and Indexing
Constructed with hard coat anodized, aluminum dovetail ways and PTFE bearings, XSlides are suitable for either incrementing or scanning applications, XSlides have a load capacity of 35 lbs.(15.9 kg.) horizontally and 10 lbs. (4.5 kg.) vertically. Straight-line accuracy is 0.001″/10” (0.076 mm/25 cm). Repeatability is 0.0001 inch (0.00025 mm). With a cross-sectional profile of 1.88″(48 […]
Dielectric Fluid Helps Downsize Controllers for Naval Use
Electronics are getting smaller and lighter. This is especially true in defense applications, where achieving high power density in small packages is almost always a given. Moog’s Naval Business Unit was recently given such a challenge, as it needed to fit fifteen times the amount of power without increasing volume into a controller. By refining […]
Motor-CAD links with STAR-CCM+
Motor Design Limited (MDL) has teamed up with CD-adapco to create a link between MDL’s Motor-CAD and CD-adapco’s STAR-CCM+ software. The collaboration aims to improve the accuracy of a fast analytical approach while simplifying the modeling process of the CFD computation. This will result in a streamlined simulation process from Motor-CAD to STAR-CCM+. Users will benefit […]
Yokogawa Enhances the FA-M3V Range-free Multi-controller
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release of an enhanced version of the WideField3 programming tool for the FA-M3V range-free multi-controller. Development Background The FA-M3V is a high-performance controller that is embedded in electronic component/equipment assembly systems and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and the WideField3 programming tool is used to create, debug, and manage programs that run […]
Elmo Adds Advanced Features to its Gold Maestro Motion Controller
Elmo Motion Control, a provider of advanced and cost-effective motion control solutions, announced the firmware release for Gold Maestro Motion Controller Version 1.1.2.0, including a range of powerful new features that make complex motion tasks easier to program and faster to implement. Elmo’s Gold Maestro (G-MAS) is an advanced, fast, precise, user-friendly and cost-effective distributed […]
AMCI Adds Sales Reps to Illinois & Wisconsin
Hamilton Automation, LLC is now representing Advanced Micro Controls Inc (AMCI) in Illinois and Wisconsin. AMCI’s recent sales growth in Packaging, Mining, and other industrial markets has required the addition of sales reps in these states to better service the expanding market. AMCI’s local sales representatives have a deep knowledge base of AMCI solutions, and […]
Lenze’s Recent Release of Two PC-Based Controllers
Lenze Americas recently expanded its successful PC-based controller series with the recent release of the cabinet controller c300 and panel controller p300. Lenze will have the new c300 and p300 on display at PACK EXPO (booth S-6033), September 23-25, Las Vegas, NV. Delivering uniform engineering and superior system availability, our integrated controller portfolio makes motion […]