Danfoss has introduced the 210/250cm3 pump frame sizes that complete its H1 family of piston pumps and bent axis motors for high-power mobile machines. With these additions, the now comprehensive range comprises 14 pumps with displacements covering 45-250cm3, five bent axis motors spanning 60-250cm3 and five control options – a scope that leads the market […]
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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 […]
Cabled Step Motors
Applied Motion Products has announced a new range of step motors for DC powered drives which are now available with 10 foot cables. These motors are available in single or double shaft versions with additional encoder or encoder and cover options. The availability of cables and covered encoders make this range particularly suitable for rugged […]
Vacon enters the medium-voltage AC drives market
The global AC drives manufacturer Vacon will take its product offering to new heights with medium-voltage AC drives. In contrast to Vacon’s current low-voltage products, medium-voltage AC drives typically operate on voltages of several kilovolts and at power levels of several megawatts. Vacon is a full-scope AC drives company which focuses 100% on AC drives, […]
All-in-One Brushless Servo System from Teknic
ClearPath, from Teknic Inc., is an easy to use brushless servo motor, encoder, servo drive, and controller all rolled into one compact package. The state-of-the-art, closed-loop, AC vector servo provides smooth, quiet and repeatable motion and control of position, speed & torque in any direction. ClearPath can be used in place of steppers, AC induction […]
New Programmable Servo Drives from Moog
Moog’s family of programmable single- and multi-axis modular servo drives has been extended to include optional safety functions compliant with the EN 61800-5-2 safety standard. The new programmable servo drive also features Safety PLC capability that allows a complete safety solution to be implemented using the drive. This eliminates the need for external safety PLCs […]
Johnson Electric Launches Miniature Drive Platform for Insulin Pump
Johnson Electric announced a miniature drives platform for insulin pump. This platform is developed with coreless brushless DC motor technology with an integrated high precision position sensing system and a precise miniature planetary gear box. It is industry’s highest position sensing resolution that enables highest dosing precision for the insulin pumps. Precise and robust mechanical […]
New additions to B&R’s ACOPOSmicro lineup
B&R has made some new additions to its ACOPOSmicro line of compact dual-axis drives. In addition to the drives available with a resolver and EnDat 2.2 and LinMot encoder interfaces, the ACOPOSmicro Servo now also features a convenient option board. In addition to the two trigger inputs and the 24 VDC output, this option board […]
Ingenia releases expansion board for Pluto servo drive
Ingenia Motion Control is pleased to announce the release of a starter kit Input/output expansion board for his miniature servo drives Pluto series. It allows the rapid evaluation of the motion control capabilities with an easy and direct access the I/O signals available on the servo drive. The module replicates the I/Os connector, adding analog […]