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Several markets are spurring new innovation in motion systems

February 26, 2025 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Over the last year, Design World has tracked several persistent and emerging trends that build on the last decade’s innovations. With some notable exceptions, many of the core technologies employed in motion systems and automation are familiar. Yet, propelled by the radically increased capabilities of electronics and software, these core technologies have catapulted the design-engineering […]

Filed Under: Controls, Editor Blogs, Featured, Industrial Automation, Industry News

Precision and miniature technologies at MD&M ATX West

February 6, 2025 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

The annual MD&M ATX West show in Anaheim, Calif. is a great place to see how far the industry has advanced precision and miniature technologies over the previous year. Micro-springs, 2-mm linear guides, and slotless motors thinner than chopsticks were just some of the miniature components on display. Our esteemed colleague Rachael Pasini has posted […]

Filed Under: Controls, Drives + Supplies, Editor Blogs, Featured, Industrial Automation Tagged With: dings, SDP-SI (Stock Drive Products), thomson

Partnership between ECM PCB Stator Tech and East West Manufacturing for motor production

June 25, 2024 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Design and software company ECM PCB Stator Tech and global engineering and manufacturing services firm East West Manufacturing have announced a strategic partnership to advance adoption of next-generation products incorporating PCB Stator electric motors. The arrangement enables ECM to leverage East West’s extensive production capabilities while allowing East West to extend the benefits of ECM’s […]

Filed Under: Editor Blogs, Featured, Industry News, Motors Tagged With: ECM

2023 Design World LEAP Awards winners in Motion Control

October 19, 2023 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

The sixth annual LEAP Awards — celebrating leading engineering achievements in product design — was the largest yet. 2023 LEAP categories were divided across four the WTWH Media brands of Design World, Fluid Power World, Fastener Engineering, and EE World. These 12 categories include Additive Manufacturing • Connectivity • Embedded Computing • Hydraulics • Industrial […]

Filed Under: Controls, Drives + Supplies, Editor Blogs, Featured, Industry News, Stand-Alone Controllers Tagged With: advancedmotioncontrols, harmonicdrive, onsemi

Packaging automation in perspective

October 16, 2023 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

To satisfy today’s market design objectives, packaging machinery over the last decade has become increasingly adaptive. That’s been evident in a range of motion components and fully integrated designs at recent Pack Expo events. More specifically, the newest adaptive machines are: Modular (so they can be reprogrammed if not physically reconfigured on the fly) Fitted […]

Filed Under: Controls, Editor Blogs, Featured, HMIs, Industrial Automation, Integrated Motion Systems, Networking + IoT

Tour: One fast way to design and buy low-cost automation

October 1, 2023 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Performance-plastics component and system manufacturer igus Inc. recently brought their mobile-exhibition roadshow to Cleveland where we Design World editors got the chance to rendezvous with some of their engineers and sales team.  igus has used mobile exbits for several years but temporarily halted them during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently igus resurrected its roadshow program to […]

Filed Under: Controls, Editor Blogs, Featured, Industry News, Robotics Tagged With: igus

Gearmotors driving the timber industry

March 23, 2023 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Rugged innovative gears and gearmotors along with other drive technologies rise to the challenge in demanding wood-processing applications. By Oscar Lopez • Service manager — industrial gearing | SEW Eurodrive Applications in the timber industry are varied and demanding — consisting of debarking, sawing, drilling, milling, and grinding operations. The machines used in these processes […]

Filed Under: Editor Blogs, Featured, Gears + Gearing Tagged With: seweurodrive

Wiegand energy harvester enables new IoT technologies

January 24, 2023 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

UBITO, a member of the FRABA family of technology companies, has announced a development of Wiegand technology as an energy source for smart sensors.  After more than two years of effort at FRABA’s R&D center in Aachen (Germany), a research team has demonstrated a prototype of a wireless sensor powered by Wiegand technology that could […]

Filed Under: Editor Blogs, Featured, Industry News, Networking + IoT, Sensors + Vision Tagged With: fraba, ubito

Most-read motion-control articles of 2022

December 27, 2022 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

As we close out the year of 2022, the staff of Motion Control Tips would like to present our most-read articles of this year. (5th) most read: Electric actuators — an alternative to hydraulic cylinders This article details how as electric rod-style actuators have become capable of outputting forces comparable to those of high-end hydraulics, […]

Filed Under: Controls, Editor Blogs, FAQs + basics, Featured

New single-axis motion controller from Galil

December 27, 2022 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

The DMC-3x01x Motion Controller Series is Galil’s latest generation single-axis motion controller. It uses a 32-bit RISC processor to provide higher speed than older models.  Like all Galil controllers, programming the DMC-3x01x is simplified with two-letter, intuitive commands and a full set of software tools for servo tuning and analysis. The DMC-3x01x Motion Controller Series feature: Available as a compact card-level or box-level unit […]

Filed Under: Controls, Editor Blogs, Featured Tagged With: Electromate, galil

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