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Moog Focal relocates slip-ring production for expansion into renewable energy

October 9, 2021 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Moog Focal, an international ocean technology company based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, is undertaking further expansion into the renewable energy sector. As a result, the company is hiring to fill different roles that will support their expected growth in renewable energy and other business areas. Moog is relocating the production of a specialized slip […]

Filed Under: Connections + Sliprings, Controls, Editor Blogs, Featured Tagged With: Moog

Digital servo drive with Combitronic system from Moog Animatics

February 26, 2021 By Miles Budimir Leave a Comment

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Moog Animatics’ new DS2020 digital servo drive with Combitronic capability is a single-axis drive that operates a Moog CD series motor, providing high torque capabilities for large axes of motion and other demanding applications. The DS2020 drive with Combitronic expands the standard drive’s capabilities by allowing it to act as a follower device on the […]

Filed Under: Drives + Supplies, Servo Drives Tagged With: Moog

Moog Animatics introduces the low-cost SL17 SmartMotor

December 13, 2016 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Moog Animatics, a division of Moog Inc., has announced the release of its new, low-cost NEMA 17 SmartMotor™ model SL17406D (the SL17). Even though this motor is described as low cost, its robust design includes many of the high performance and ease-of-use features found on the high-end SM SmartMotor. More after the jump. The SL17 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Motors Tagged With: Moog

Moog Animatics releases new product catalog

June 13, 2016 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Moog Animatics, a division of Moog Inc., has announced the release of its 2016 Product Catalog. This new catalog illustrates the increasing breadth and depth of the Moog Animatics product lines and their continued commitment to innovation, performance and being the industry leader in the development of integrated servo motors, controls and software for factory […]

Filed Under: Industry News Tagged With: Moog

Updated: Trends in electric motors Part IV — More on miniaturization and the special case of medical applications

April 11, 2016 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

There’s a general consensus that the medical industry currently looms largest for innovation in electric motors. That’s what many industry experts we recently interviewed told us. Here, the trend is towards designs that are smaller, lighter, more efficient and cheaper. “The need for portable medical devices is being driven by a more mobile aging population who need machines […]

Filed Under: Brushless Motors, DC Motors, Gearmotors, Motors, Piezo Motors, Sensors + Vision, Servo Motors Tagged With: Animatics, maxonprecisionmotors, Moog, NK Technologies, Portescap

Electric motor miniaturization, connectivity, and customization

March 16, 2016 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

Updated November 2019 ⚙️ Leading trends in electric motors for motion designs are migration to custom solutions; heightening emphasis on efficiency; and (where suitable) more use of motors that allow for miniaturization (with power-dense designs) and connectivity for IoT capabilities. “As reshoring picks up steam, we see more mass-customization,” said Scott Evans, director of product […]

Filed Under: AC Motors, Brushless Motors, DC Motors, Gearmotors, Industry News, Motors, Piezo Motors, Servo Motors, Stepper Motors Tagged With: Moog, Portescap

Tighter integration and programming take positioning stages into 21st century

March 4, 2015 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

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Few motion technologies show more recent innovation than positioning stages. Their hardware and software are increasingly custom to fit specific output requirements, thanks in large part to tighter integration and advanced programming. No wonder that today’s positioning stages can make moves with incredible accuracy; synchronize complicated axis commands; and optimize travel from coarse and fine […]

Filed Under: Gantries + Stages, Linear Motion Tagged With: Aerotech, Bell Everman, Moog, Newport Corp., physikinstrumente

New Moog slip rings: What they mean for packaging engineers

November 24, 2014 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

At the recent PackExpo in Chicago, I saw several dozen new motion-control products of note … including a new slip ring from Moog Components Group, a division of Moog Inc. Moog Inc. is a manufacturer of control systems for military and commercial aircraft, satellites and space vehicles, launch vehicles, missiles, automated industrial machinery, wind energy, […]

Filed Under: Connections + Sliprings Tagged With: Moog, Siemens Industry

New class 6 industrial ethernet SmartMotors

October 14, 2014 By Jennifer Calhoon Leave a Comment

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These new Class 6 SmartMotors have a new powerful processor that operates at nearly twice the processor speed of Class 5. The PID rate is fixed at 62.5u seconds with 64K User program memory (twice that of prior SmartMotors) and larger Cam point memory space for cam tables to >3K points. These SmartMotors are able […]

Filed Under: Motors Tagged With: Moog

“MT” Series Integrated Servo System from Moog

June 20, 2014 By Jennifer Calhoon Leave a Comment

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Moog Animatics is proud to announce the availability of the Multi Turn Absolute Encoder options for our “MT” series motors. This option is a hardware-specific internal change with a required external battery for back-up to allow tracking of shaft position when no power is being applied to the SmartMotor. The “MT” series products may be […]

Filed Under: Absolute Encoders, Encoders, Motors, Servo Motors Tagged With: Moog

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