Motion & Motors & Drivers

The new Berghof stepper motor controller, MC1010 STEP1-SC6-CAN, can now control a stepper motor at max. 4 A permanent load with a step resolution of 25,600 steps (0.014° angle resolution). …

CADFusion bridges the gap between part drawings and motion control. Users need only import a vector-based DXF drawing into this easy-to-use environment to see the resulting tool path graphically on …

The servo terminals from the EL7201 series for the Beckhoff EtherCAT I/O system integrate a complete servo amplifier for motors up to 200 W in a standard HD terminal housing. …

Shipments of precision geared products (gearboxes and geared motors with backlash ratings of less than 20 arcminutes) were nearly 80 percent higher in 2012 compared to 2009 levels. However, uncertainty …

B&R hosts OMAC committee workshops to develop universal packaging standards Members of the OMAC Packaging Working Group’s PackML and PackSpec committees met December 4-5 at B&R Industrial Automation’s facility in …

STÖBER is surprising the industry with its presentation of the new EZS and EZM servo ball screw motors. Their ultra compact construction is based on the technology of the EZ …

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation is launching the new communication-enabled DS7-SWD soft starters. Eaton’s DS7 soft starter series covers the rating range from 1.5 to 100kW/400V. The series now includes …

Sales of motion control products have decreased in 2012 in China as a result of overcapacity, and the global motion control market is forecast to decline by 1.9 percent compared …

Kollmorgen offers a new Ethernet-based high-performance servo drive with integrated motion control for programming drive and PLC functions. In many cases the BASIC AKD servo drives allow machine builders to …

aumüller, a Nuremberg specialist in drive and automation solutions, has extended the speed range of motors of the DST2 series with integrated pressure bearings from 300 min-1 to 600 min-1. …

Not only do today’s users expect technological products that are safe to use, available quickly and safe. Design engineers and machine and system builders, too, expect comprehensive support from their …

The automation trade fair in Nuremberg beating the previous exhibitors (1458) and visitor (56874) numbers offered a lot of recently developed solutions for drives, frequency inverters, motion control and positioning …

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation will be presenting the new PowerXL variable frequency drives for a rating range of up to 250 kW at this year’s SPS/IPC/Drives fair in Nuremberg. …

Kollmorgen has expanded its Kollmorgen Automation Suite (KAS) motion control platform with the addition of a PROFINET interface option. The new fieldbus interface increases the communications flexibility of the automation …