The SPCS Version 2 (SPCS-2) is a high-flow servopneumatic control valve that provides electriclike closed-loop motion control when used with direct feedback pneumatic actuators. The system eliminates ...

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 ...

Transaction further scales Tavoron’s Automation Distribution segment and is the third add-on acquisition since being ...

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 ...

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 ...

For mostpeople, the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular is all about the leggy dancers.Daniel Sandoval has a much different take on the show. A senior systems design engineer with Festo's Customer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As with nearly any actuation technology in industrial automation applications, there is no shortage of opinions around the use of electric or pneumatic motion control. These predilections tend to get ...

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 ...

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 ...