Physik Instrumente (www.physikinstrumente.com) has unveiled its new piezo stepping drives, which can be combined with a linear encoder for nanometer accuracy over the complete scanning range. The new drives are available for PIFOC focusing systems for microscope objectives. The N-725 PIFOC scanner for microscope objectives with NEXACT piezo stepping drives offers travel ranges of up […]
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New Baldor Servo Drives Compatible with Multiple Ethernet Standards
Fort Smith, Ark. – Baldor Electric Company’s e100 drive family is compatible with a number of industrial Ethernet standards such as EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP and Powerlink, as well as standard TCP/IP networks and Baldor’s Mint system building environment. The drives offer system builders a choice of servomotor, closed-loop vector or V/Hz motor control modes, combined […]
Pharmaceutical equipment wire and cable product offering from Alpha Wire
Alpha Wire (www.alphawire.com) is proud to unveil the new wire and cable product offering for pharmaceutical equipment. Multi-functional cable components are very essential with pharmaceutical processing equipment becoming more precise and automated. The new pharmaceutical processing wire and cable from Alpha Wire increase the equipment’s reliability and capability in conditions from cleanrooms to factory floor. […]
Elmo Motion Control brings the SimplIQ Trombone – A DC Offline Servo Drive
SimplIQ continues to be innovated and updated with its line of compact, high power-density digital servo drives. One of the important new features Trombone brings to the SimplIQ line of servo drives for industrial applications is the ability to operate from a high voltage power source without a transformer, using a “direct to mains” connection […]
IndraDrive Cs Economy Version Compact Servo Drive from Rexroth
Hoffman Estates, Ill. –The Rexroth IndraDrive Cs Economy low-power servo drive features a compact space-saving design, and open support of SERCOS III communication bus. Designed to provide flexibility and just the right amount of power at a lower cost, the drive also has a multi-encoder interface supporting Hiperface®, EnDat 2.1 and 2.2, 1Vss, 5V TTL, […]
Allegro introduces new DMOS Microstepping Motor Drivers offering overcurrent protection
Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. (www.allegromicro.com) unveiled the expanded microstepping motor driver line, including four new devices which utilize a simple Direction and STEP interface and require fewer external components. The company’s A4988/A4985/A4984 and A4982 devices are complete microstepping motor drivers with an embedded translator for overcurrent protection and easy operation to reduce rework cost in both […]
Peak and Hold PWM Driver for solenoid power save applications from Applied Processor and Measurement, Inc.
Applied Processor and Measurement, Inc. (www.appliedprocessor.com) introduces the Model 500 Peak and Hold PWM Driver. It is made to drive solenoid based devices along with a full-on pull-in pulse, then give a reduced power hold-in voltage by pulse width modulating the output. This Model 500 has the ability to reduce overall voltage in existing on/off […]
Lenze announces new generation of 930K fluxxtorque
Lenze (www.lenze.com) is proud to announce the latest expanded second-generation of 930K fluxxtorque servo drives. The expansions include a greater number of options, more flexible communication, higher level of functionality and increased efficiency. Users are allowed to mount this compact servo drive solution outside the control cabinet – directly at the process – to create […]
Omron introduces servo drives and replacement inverters
Omron (www.omron.com) is proud to announce three ranges of drives to succeed Yaskawa-produced products that the company released under a European joint venture that ended last year. The first range is a family of machine control inverters, which offer features such as: 200 percent starting torque at 0.5Hz; position control; drive sequence programming; one-parameter auto-tuning; […]
EtherCAT® Motion Box for Stepper Motor Control from Beckhoff
Minneapolis, Minn. – Beckhoff Automation has introduced the EP7041 EtherCAT® Motion Box, allowing for stepper motor control in a compact, machine-mountable device. Using the EP7041 stepper motor box, small EtherCAT motion applications can now be implemented directly in the field without a protective control cabinet. Ideal for harsh environments, the compact EtherCAT module in protection […]