Motion Control Resources
Technical Features
Cybersecurity: Smart Defenses for Smart Production
by Ray Chalmers, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 02/28/2018
Protecting your network means picking the right components, both hard and soft.
Smart Components For Smarter Production
by Ray Chalmers, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 01/23/2018
Manufacturing companies looking to burnish their competitive edge are challenging industrial automation suppliers like never before.
Understanding Coordinated Motion
by Kristin Lewotsky, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 12/21/2017
Coordinated motion control involves compensating for error along multiple axes simultaneously.
Software-Based Motion Delivers Performance, Flexibility
by Kristin Lewotsky, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 11/30/2017
Propelled by smart drives, industrial Ethernet, and blisteringly fast processors, software-based motion control can tackle tough problems...
by Kristin Lewotsky, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 10/31/2017
Key criteria include inertia, speed, acceleration, torque, and duty cycle.
Today’s Encoders Monitor Machine Health
by Kristin Lewotsky, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 09/27/2017
Onboard sensors, built-in functionality, and increased usability mark these essential feedback components.
by Ray Chalmers, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 08/23/2017
Assemblies and emerging applications continue to fascinate.
Integrated Motors: Define, Design, Apply
by Ray Chalmers, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 07/27/2017
Integrated and gear motors the infrastructure of the automation boom
Updating Drives in Automation Projects
by Ray Chalmers, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 06/23/2017
Vital components deserve more consideration.
Frameless Motors Give OEMs More Design Option
by Kristin Lewotsky, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 05/30/2017
Available as separate rotors and stators that can be integrated directly into a machine, frameless motors offer increased torque and
Integration Boosts Safety Performance
by Kristin Lewotsky, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 04/20/2017
Combining motion and safety at the communications level, the software level, and the hardware level improves performance and simplifies implementation.
The Gateway, The Conduit, The Control – Perspectives on the Human-Machine Interface
by Ray Chalmers, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 03/30/2017
Costs, technologies, and people all play a role.
How Motion Control Advances are Boosting Machine Productivity
by Ray Chalmers, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 02/24/2017
Consumer applications are helping move industrial productivity forward.
Mobile HMIs Bring New Choice and Functionality to Motion Control
by Kristin Lewotsky, Contributing Editor
POSTED: 02/01/2017
With streamlined functionality and role-based displays, today’s mobile HMIs provide useful tools inside the plant as well as outside.
Making the choice between Brushed and Brushless DC servo motors
by Kristin Lewotsky, Contributing Editor Motion Control Online
POSTED: 12/16/2016
Trade-offs include cost, complexity, frequency of maintenance, and torque characteristics.
