Stock Drive Products/Sterling Instrument (www.sdp-si.com) has unveiled the ultra-miniature inch and metric 3.117mm pitch molded chain drive series, dubbed as the A 6M 7M12. The series is designed for uses where weight factors and limited space are important, including pen carriages in recorders and X-Y plotters or servo drives to stylus, counter drives and chart […]
Servo Drives
ORMEC Systems Corp. Announces Major Boeing Contract Award
Rochester, NY – ORMEC Systems Corp. has announced that it has been awarded a major contract from The Boeing Company for hardware and software retrofits and upgrades of two Wing Join tools and one Major Join tool used in the manufacture of the Boeing C-17 military transport aircraft. This latest contract award, incorporating ORMEC’s SMLC […]
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 […]
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, […]
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; […]
Rockwell Automation introduces Modular Servo Drive for enhanced and simplified machine design
Rockwell Automation (www.rockwellautomation.com) is proud to announce its first powerful, modular servo drive, which leverages embedded EtherNet/IP technology for integrated motion control. Its embedded EtherNet/IP drive with Allen-Bradley Kinetix 6500 servo drive will eliminate the need for dedicated motion network, as well as allowing high-performance smart actuators, I/O, drives and other EtherNet/IP-connected devices to be […]
The Many Faces of Stepper Motor Drives
Drives for stepper motors continue to advance beyond the basic L/R type drives. A typical linear motion control system has several basic components, including motors, actuators, controllers and drives. The drive type plays an important role in the overall system. Here’s a look at the most basic drive configurations, including the latest advancements in chopper […]
Digital Servo Drives Feature PCB Mount Design
Greenville, Del. – Servo2Go.com has added new PCB mount additions to it’s broad range of digital servo drives from Advanced Motion Controls. The DZ drives are micro-sized servo drives requiring less space than a standard business card and weigh about 100g or less. Providing 10-80Vdc operation while delivering 12A continuous/20A peak current, DZ Series can […]
