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Miniature gearing and planetary gearing in haptic feedback

October 24, 2020 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Planetary gearsets offer applications advantages over other gearsets, including multiple kinematic combinations, power density, big reductions from compact setups, and pure torsional reactions. Planetary gearboxes also boost overall design efficiency. Losses never exceed 3% per stage, so the sets transmit most energy for productive motion output. In applications driven by servo systems, gearboxes also reduce […]

Filed Under: Controls, Drives + Supplies, Featured, Gears + Gearing, Industrial Automation Tagged With: maxon

Trends in gears and gearmotors for eMobility • washdown • customization

April 3, 2020 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

The fundamental mode of operation for gearing and its transmission of mechanical power remains unchanged — as has that for the electric motors with which they pair. But innovative variations have become increasingly common and include more custom gearing, compact designs, and better gearboxes and servogear sets (including helical gearing) for efficiency. Gearing and gearmotors […]

Filed Under: Featured, Gearmotors, Gears + Gearing, Industrial Automation, Industry News, Integrated Motion Systems, Mechanical PT Tagged With: bodine, cgimotion, maxon

Trends 2020: Feature-rich controllers tackle new applications

March 31, 2020 By Miles Budimir Leave a Comment

Controllers are central to motion control systems. They’re often referred to as the brains of the system, evaluating feedback from the environment and responding in accordance with a control program to complete an assigned task. Today’s controllers have more built-in functions, are more powerful, and are being used in diverse applications. We asked some of […]

Filed Under: Controls, Featured Tagged With: ACS Motion Control, maxon, Omron, texas instruments

Robotics Summit in June: Attend for technology insights (and hero Tyler Shultz)

May 6, 2019 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

In a few short weeks, the 2019 Robotics Summit (focused on the design, development, manufacture, and delivery of commercial robotics) will take place in Boston. It will be co-located with the DeviceTalks event at the Seaport World Trade Center. Side note — and yes, we at Design World are quite excited about this one: DeviceTalks […]

Filed Under: Controls, Drives + Supplies, Featured, Industry News Tagged With: ifm, maxon, nidec, Renishaw

New 60-mm OD frameless brushless servo motor kits from Maxon

January 30, 2018 By Miles Budimir Leave a Comment

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The new EC 60 Flat Frameless Brushless Servo Motor Kit from Maxon consists of only a rotor and stator – with no bearings or motor shaft. With an outer diameter of only 60 mm, these pancake servo motor kits are extremely compact. Available in size ranges from 70 W to 100 W, these EC (electronically […]

Filed Under: Brushless Motors, Motors, Servo Motors Tagged With: maxon

What are integrated motor-drive combinations?

August 11, 2017 By Miles Budimir Leave a Comment

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Updated November 2019 ⚙️ Assembling a traditional servo system necessitates the wiring together of a separate motor, encoder, amplifier, and controller. In contrast, integrated motors are sometimes classified as plug-and-play motion components — as they can usually be setup out of the box with less engineering effort. The basic idea is easy to understand: Integrated […]

Filed Under: FAQs + basics, Motors Tagged With: maxon

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