Printing presses are understandably very demanding machines with regards to motion control. The presses run at high speeds, many passes are required for full color printing, and image and print ...

Here's how manufacturers and distribution centers can build automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) with carefully orchestrated motion control.

Explore how intelligent motion control is helping to advance off-highway vehicles (OHV) and industrial vehicles.

This article discusses three of the trends that are driving the evolution of existing embedded motion control products and acting as a catalyst for new ones Embedded motion control systems use ...

Automating the factory floor is a growing trend across the industrial space. It’s not hard to understand why, since such applications help improve efficiency and production rates. To create the ...

Self-awareness describes a system with knowledge of itself based on an understanding of its capabilities and the system’s performance goals. In fact, self-aware motion control systems require the ...

Monitoring takes the form of sensors and intelligent devices connected to a digital processor. These monitored values are used for computing and then controlling some sort of real-world action. Many ...

Using a highly integrated, mixed-signal, system-on-a-chip architecture, the M3000 motion-control IC provides a complete system for motion control, handling time-critical motion and motor tasks in ...

1. Design for system. It is important to understand the accuracy requirements of the entire electromechanical system when specifying servo drives. The control system, position feedback sensing, the ...

In the next few years motion control interfaces will be put to the test. Here are the options for designers and developers. Why Did Apple Just Pay $360 Million For Microsoft’s Sloppy Seconds? Over the ...

Controlling motors is a crucial element of automated manufacturing. One control method uses traditional “clang-bang” motor starters, which are essentially on-off switches for high currents. For ...