News - Drives and Controls

Increase process reliability while reducing your costs and CO2 footprint

Posted 1 day ago

Sustainability and system costs, also referred to as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), are trending topics for machinists and machine manufacturers in the machining world.

Solutions from Ruland: Jaw couplings for start-stop applications

Posted 1 day ago

Ruland zero-backlash jaw couplings are a three-piece assembly designed to accommodate high acceleration and deceleration curves that result in peak torque. Jaw couplings are ideal for systems that experience hard starts, hard stops, or reversals, including in medical, semiconductor, test and measurement, and robotics applications.

HEIDENHAIN MULTI – Dimensional Measurement Technology

Posted 1 month ago

Linear encoders are used in many motion control systems as direct positional feedback for the control loop. Conventional linear encoders can measure only one degree of freedom, rendering them blind to unavoidable errors in other directions. In multi-axis systems, an error in one axis carries over into the other axes, thereby affecting the entire motion system. Error in the first axis changes the actual position of the second encoder, and so on, yet these errors are not normally measured.

HEIDENHAIN – Safe and Accurate Robot Positioning

Posted 2 months ago

Robots are called upon to perform increasingly demanding tasks, including high-accuracy machining operations on aircraft fuselages and other large components, or positioning tasks as cobots in direct collaboration with humans. In these applications, exact motion control of the robot arm is the critical factor. Designed specifically for use in robotics, new encoders from HEIDENHAIN, AMO and RENCO enable the motion control needed to expand your range of applications.

Solutions from Ruland: Beam couplings for robotics applications

Posted 4 months ago

Ruland beam couplings are ideal for surgical, warehouse, and industrial robotics due to their increased torque and torsional stiffness and ability to accommodate all forms of misalignment. Ruland manufactures four-beam couplings for encoders and six-beam couplings for light-duty power transmission, such as connecting a stepper or servo motor to a lead screw. This allows robotic designers to design a standard beam coupling into most systems.

ETEL Torque Motors

Posted 4 months ago

Torque motors are a special class of brushless permanent-magnet synchronous motors. Since the payload is directly connected to the rotor without the use of transmission elements, torque motors are classified as direct drives.

When EMC is of vital importance

Posted 1 year ago

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is not only mandatory in medical technology. If wireless communication between medical applications gets disrupted, it can have serious consequences for the patient. SCHURTER works together with developers in the medical industry to develop applications that comply with the strictest EMC standards.

Standard & Bespoke Starters Available From EMO

Posted 2 years ago

Standard & Bespoke Starters

EMO OPEN SOUTHERN OFFICE

Posted 2 years ago

EMO are very pleased to announce that we have just opened our southern office.

PerMix Engineering Team Presents: The Advantages Of Hybrid Mixers

Posted 2 years ago

Do you remember years ago when you were forced to choose between mixer types? Do you remember when you had to heat in one vessel, then cool in another? Have you ever been forced to change a production line to fit your new product? If so, imagine putting all these issues to bed.

The use of Robotics in the UK Food and Beverage Industry is increasing rapidly.

Posted 2 years ago

The use of robotics in the UK Food and Beverage Industry is growing remarkably; a market traditionally slow to adopt such technologies. Companies within the industry are becoming empowered to overcome the longstanding barriers to automation and are poised on the brink of a robotics revolution.

Robotics play an integral role along production lines in medical device, biologi

Posted 2 years ago

From parts sorting, product assembly and light machine-tending, to quality inspection and packaging. Environmental and product sampling, to seed laboratory automation, kitting logistics, UV-C disinfection and cleaning processes.

Efficient automation in the plastics industry

Posted 2 years ago

Greater efficiency, greater cost-effectiveness and greater flexibility: there are a number of benefits attributed to robotic process automation within the plastics industry, all which ultimately support process optimisation. Medium-sized companies in the plastics processing industry are retaining competitive advantage through automating the manufacturing process – whether it's handling, loading and unloading of injection moulding machines or machining components.

Focus on competitiveness and resilience will make 2021 a big year for robots, KU

Posted 2 years ago

While 2020 has been the toughest year in decades for manufacturing and the British and Irish economies KUKA posted record robot sales last year, with demand coming from across manufacturing, education and training, the medical device sector in Ireland, and a substantial contract with electric vehicle manufacturer Arrival.

Meeting the Skills Challenge

Posted 2 years ago

Advanced manufacturing training centre of excellence, Dundalk, Ireland

Crompton Controls Starters Available From Electric Motors Online

Posted 2 years ago

Get off to the right start with the best known electric motor starter manufacturer in the UK!

Precizika Metrology Encoders

Posted 2 years ago

Precizika Metrology are a Lithuanian company, they have been in the encoder business for 60 years

PerMix Mixers and Electric Motors Online Become Partners

Posted 2 years ago

Electric Motors Online are very pleased to announce our new partnership with PerMix.

Accelerating engineering projects

Posted 2 years ago

The Hannover Messe Digital Edition marked the kick-off, where solutions provider Eplan presented a first glimpse of the upcoming version of the Eplan Platform 2022. Those expecting a simple update were in for a surprise. There’s a new and thoroughly reworked version behind the Eplan Platform 2022 – it’s a complete package that is surprisingly easy to use with its new user interface while at the same time allowing workflow-based project planning, all at unprecedented levels of efficiency.

How thin do you need to be? (RNB-T and MCNB-T)

Posted 2 years ago

Ogura electromagnetic thin style holding brakes: Ultra-thin style of holding brakes are designed to reduce the overall footprint of a motor brake package. Through internal flux improvements, brakes are thinner and lighter but can produce similar torques of previous designs.

Holding brakes smaller than a penny

Posted 2 years ago

Requirements for fine controls and robotics and medical equipment are becoming smaller all the time. Small motors and gearing are required to drive various holding, lifting, and positioning mechanisms.

Would you like to do more than just hold it?

Posted 2 years ago

The SNB series of spring applied brakes from Ogura allows machine designers to not just use a brake for holding but also for stopping a load.

What does it mean to be torque dense?

Posted 2 years ago

Ogura offers two types of high torque clutches for industrial applications. Sometimes the priority is to provide as much torque in the smallest package possible. Both provide high torque in an extremely small diameter.

Low Power Braking Solutions

Posted 3 years ago

The measure of a man is what he does with power. —Plato I am sure that when the ancient Greek philosopher expressed that, he wasn’t thinking about motion control, electrification and batteries in our modern world. The quote holds true today, but this time it’s P=VI and I²R.

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