Servo drives

Controls Product Brief
| April 25, 2013

Ethernet-enabled servo drive

Providing Ethernet IP, ProfiNet, EtherCat, Profibus, and DeviceNet networkability, Festo’s CMMP-AS-M3 servo drive delivers safe-off capabilities for faster machine restart and shorter machine downtime.
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Controls Product Brief
| February 5, 2013

Scalable servo drive-based motion solutions

Delivering up to 128 axes of complex, fully programmable and synchronized motion, the AKD PDMM and AKD BASIC servo drive family from Kollmorgen provide high-performance, scalable motion solutions that enable OEMs to simplify the design, reduce the size, and improve the performance of machines.
Each robotic end effector picks 30 empty tubes per cycle and places them in the pucks on the racetrack carrier.
OEM Application Note
| November 19, 2012

One controller governs 92 axes of motion

What do you get when you deploy 92 servo motors on a tube-filling machine? At Norden, a part of the Coesia Group, you get a machine that fills 850 toothpaste tubes/min.
Custom automation via Mechatronics at Work
 Video | October 30, 2012

Custom automation via Mechatronics at Work

Bosch Rexroth's demos its custom Mechatronics @ Work technology, focusing on IndraDrive Mi integrated motor-drive system and its new Omega Linear Module OBB.
Controls Product Brief
| September 5, 2012

Servo inverter drive system

See it at PACK EXPO Booth #4141! Lenze Americas’ Servo Inverter i700 drive system, designed for multi-axis applications, provides extremely short cycle times, 32-bit signal resolution, and an overload capacity of more than 200%.
Controls Product Brief
| July 26, 2012

Servo amplifier has EtherCAT connectivity

Mitsubishi’s MR-J3-xA-RJ158, offered as part of the MELSERVO MR-J3 family, is an AC servo drive designed to provide users with connectivity to Mitsubishi Electric high-performance servo amplifiers over EtherCAT communication.
Controls Product Brief
| March 23, 2012

Servomotor ships in 3 weeks

Using a configurable options menu to exactly build the motor required, customers can now place an order for any first-generation Siemens SIMOTICS 1FK7 servomotor and have it drop-shipped in three weeks.
Controls Product Brief
| March 13, 2012

EtherNet/IP-enabled servo

The Allen-Bradley Kinetix 350 single-axis EtherNet/IP servo drive from Rockwell Automation can lower the cost to deploy integrated motion on low-axis machines found in applications such as indexing tables, process skids, case packers, erectors, and packaging.
Controls Product Brief
| March 2, 2012

Compact worm gear

The compact VDH 040 worm gear from Wittenstein expands their alpha V-Drive family of servo worm gears.
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News
| February 28, 2012

Precision conveyors receive focus at Dorner Media Day

Servo motors, positive belt movement, cleated pocket sorters add efficiency to conveyors for use in packaging and assembly applications.

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