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Motion Control Tips: The top 5 posts for 2020

December 24, 2020 By Miles Budimir Leave a Comment

An end-of-year tradition here at motioncontroltips.com is to look back at some of our most viewed articles we published on the site throughout the year. This represents what you, our readers, clicked on the most throughout the year. Curiously enough, some of the most-read content in 2020 revolved around electrical and networking topics. We’re not […]

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Filed Under: Editor Blogs, FAQs + basics, Featured

Why eLearning About VFDs (and other technical topics) just may fit the bill

December 16, 2019 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

With the current state of the internet and the interconnectivity of devices and equipment, it is in the best interest of any company that wants to optimize the productivity of their associates tasked with technical tasks to take a look at the eLearning available. eLearning offers a wonderful ROI due to its low cost, ease […]

Filed Under: Controls, Editor Blogs, Featured, Industry News, Software Tagged With: Yaskawa

Finalists announced for Motion Control category of LEAP Awards

November 9, 2019 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Finalists announced for Motion Control category of LEAP Awards 2019 Design World magazine of WTWH Media

Finalists were announced on November 5th for the second annual LEAP Awards Motion Control Category. The competition was scored by a panel of independent engineering judges. Below are descriptions of these worthy Motion Control finalists. The overall winner will be recognized at a ceremony in Santa Clara, Calif. in conjunction with the Healthcare Robotics Engineering […]

Filed Under: Editor Blogs, Featured, Industry News, Integrated Motion Systems, Linear Motion Tagged With: Aerotech, Beckhoff, CUI Inc., dovermotion, Etel Linear Motors

What ancient myths can teach us about today’s technology

September 6, 2019 By Miles Budimir Leave a Comment

Miles Budimir • Senior Editor  As our editorial team was preparing this year’s Motion Systems Handbook, covering the basics of motion technologies as well as their ongoing evolution, I began to wonder about the origins of the technology we cover. This got me thinking about the idea of control systems and automation more generally. This […]

Filed Under: Editor Blogs

An apocalypse that wasn’t – The rare earth mineral shortage

March 7, 2019 By Lee Teschler Leave a Comment

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Leland Teschler, Executive Editor lteschler@wtwhmedia.com On Twitter @ DW_LeeTeschler Scan the news pages from about eight years ago and you will likely notice a lot of hand-wringing about shortages of “critical materials” crucial for high-tech motors. The materials in question were rare-earth metals used for, among other things, making magnets with a super-high energy density. […]

Filed Under: Editor Blogs, Featured, Industry News Tagged With: commentary

Can mechatronics engineering help alleviate the shortage of skilled manufacturing workers?

December 18, 2018 By Danielle Collins Leave a Comment

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If you went to college in the 1990’s or earlier and were interested in engineering, you generally had eight or ten fields of study to choose from: — Mechanical Engineering — Aerospace Engineering — Electrical Engineering — Computer Science (often included in the Engineering department) — Civil Engineering — Industrial Engineering — Chemical Engineering — […]

Filed Under: Editor Blogs, FAQs + basics, Featured, Industrial Automation

12 Motion Trends articles offer engineering insight and technical 411

March 26, 2018 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Each year, Design World publishes a Motion Trends issue — a standalone issue that’s the second in its regular four-part Motion Series. Following are links to the expanded versions of some of that issue’s articles. Connectivity and IoT expand control design functionality (a Motion Trends report) Connectivity in manufacturing is not a new idea — […]

Filed Under: Editor Blogs, Featured

Engineered materials and upfront design work (are leading trends for mechanical components)

February 28, 2018 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Seals, chains, cable carriers, springs, retaining rings, and general power-transmission (PT) components continue to see new materials at critical surfaces; proliferation of application-specific versions (especially for compression and wave springs); and increasingly practical online purchasing for both off-the-shelf components and customized orders. Here we explore some of these trends. Online B2B ordering of very specific […]

Filed Under: Editor Blogs, Featured, Industry News, Linear Motion

Unboxing video: Nippon Pulse Motion Checker controllers for two-phase stepper motors

January 22, 2018 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

In a recent video, my colleague Miles Budimir and I got the chance to program and play with an MCH-5 motion checker controller from Nippon Pulse America. These come in versions for both unipolar and bipolar stepper motors, and we got a sample of one for bipolar. The controllers provide pulse-direction output signals — so the […]

Filed Under: Controls, Editor Blogs, Featured, Stand-Alone Controllers

Space-age engineering: How the Jetsons undermined the understanding of an entire (gear) industry

November 5, 2017 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

By Brian Dengel | General Manager • KHK USA Inc. For those of us of a certain age, the thoughts of flying cars and home robots originated with watching popular 1960s cartoon The Jetsons. The Jetsons’ world was that of a simple family living a typical 1960s life, but in a futuristic setting. Mr. George […]

Filed Under: Belt + chain, Editor Blogs, Featured, Gears + Gearing, Mechanical PT Tagged With: khkusa

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