Elmo, a provider of motion control solutions that meets rugged requirements for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and other applications operating in extreme environmental conditions, will showcase Gold ExtrIQ intelligent servo drives at UAV 2014 Show (Booth 91), taking place in Bordeaux-Merignac Aeroparc, France, September 9-11, 2014. Elmo’s field proven Gold ExtrIQ Line is a standard […]
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Elmo Previews its Nano Ultra High Power Servo Drive
Elmo Motion Control, a provider of advanced and cost-effective motion control solutions will preview the Gold Twitter, the smallest, high-power servo drive soon to be released at Sindex 2014 in Bern Switzerland, September 2-4, 2014. Weighing at just 18 grams and less than 13 cm3 in volume, Gold Twitter delivers up to 4000W of qualitative […]
Altra Announces Acquisition of Guardian Industries
Altra Industrial Motion Corp. (Nasdaq:AIMC), a global manufacturer and marketer of electromechanical power transmission and motion control products, announced the acquisition of Guardian Industries, Inc. Founded in 1941 and based in Michigan City, Indiana, Guardian manufactures a wide range of products including shaft couplings, motion control couplings, flywheel couplings, hydraulic pump drives, compressor drives and […]
DMC-40×0 and DMC-41×3 Have Twice The Program Memory
Galil is pleased to announce our latest firmware release, revision 1.2, for the DMC-40×0 and DMC-41×3. This release provides an increase in program memory from 2000 x 80 characters to 4000 x 80 characters, and an increase in the total array elements from 16,000 to 24,000. The DMC-40×0 comes in a box-level format and delivers […]
FactoryMation expands its product offering from Teco Westinghouse
Teco Westinghouse’s CV7300 Series is a compact sensorless vector AC Drive with built-in PLC functionality. The CV7300 Series allows the use of one device for applications typically requiring an AC Drive and a programmable controller. CV7300 Series AC Drives offer up to 40HP at 230V and 75HP at 460V. Fully functioning CV7300 Link programming software […]
Parker Hannifin launches economical AC10 series drives
The new Parker AC10 Micro Drive is a simple, reliable and economical AC motor speed control for 0.25 HP to 30 HP applications. With compact size and features normally only associated with higher specification drives, including sensorless vector mode, output frequency up to 650Hz, and a full 150% overload at 0.5 Hz for 1 minute, […]
Parker Hannifin expands AC30 series drives’ power and functionality
Parker Hannifin’s AC30 series of variable frequency drives has been extended to cover the range from 1 HP to 100 HP and is now available with a pulse encoder feedback option. Engineered specifically for flexibility, simplicity and reliability, the AC30 VFD provides users with exceptional levels of control, from simple open-loop pumps and fans through […]
Shanghai Moons’ Electric Acquires Applied Motion Products
Shanghai Moons’ Electric Co., Ltd., announced that it has acquired Applied Motion Products, Inc. of Watsonville, CA. Applied Motion Products was founded in 1978 and specializes in providing advanced stepper, and servo motor drives to a broad range of industrial and OEM customers. “Our acquisition of Applied Motion Products complements our overall product offering of […]
High power DC Servo Drive for electric subsea thrusters
The i146-SCE is a modular, high-performance DC servo drive, developed to meet requirements of Marine & Subsea market. It’s a fully custom design that fits within the customer motor housing, who needed a high power servo drive in a small package. It has been specially designed for BLDC servo motor control on thrusters on board […]
Nanodrives – Tiny but Mighty
By Maksim Apanasenko, Boaz Kramer, and Ze’ev Kirshenboim, ACS Motion Control, Bloomington, Minn. A new line of switching PWM servo drives takes on existing drives in high-performance positioning applications. Many industrial applications, such as semiconductor wafer inspection systems and organic LED (OLED) flat panel display (FPD) processing and inspection, require extreme motion performance, with sub-nanometer […]