Automate 2022 Lenze i950 Servo Drive
At Automate 2022, Lenze demonstrated the motion capabilities of its high-precision i950 servo drive with onboard control. The growth of advanced computing capabilities embedded in more and more devices has changed the face of automation, and variable frequency drives (also…
Choosing the Right Press
Press technology — whether mechanical, hydraulic, or servo — plays many roles Greenerd designed and manufactured this custom, complex double-moving platen deep draw hydraulic press. It’s fully integrated with two six-axis FANUC robots that load/unload, plus prompt the press to…
Renesas Electronics releases the highest performance RZ/T2M motor control MPU to achieve fast, high-precision control of servo motors
Tokyo, Japan – Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a leading supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the launch of Renesas’ highest performance RZ/T2M motor control microprocessor unit (MPU) for applications such as AC servo drives and industrial robots. The RZ/T2M…
Pimoroni Servo 2040 Review: Use RP2040 to control up to 18 servos
The latest development board from Pimoroni Studio is our brainchild. The £24 ($25) Servo 2040 is a product of Pimoroni, but it’s actually the work of Pimoroni roboticist and product engineer Dr. Chris Parrott. Powered by the RP2040 chip, which…
Servo Surgery Teaches Us DIY Encoder Implantation
Today we will talk about how [Adam Bäckström] Taking a DS3225 servo and modifying it to increase its accuracy, he then built a high-precision robot arm using these modified servos to show how much of an improvement he achieved –…
New Products – Technical Brief
Test servo drive FE100-50-RM FlexPro® Servo Drive advanced Motion Controls® (Camarillo, Calif.) introduces the FE100-50-RM FlexPro® RS485/RS232 servo drive, which delivers 50 amps continuous rms and 100 amps peak to drive motors in large mobile robots. This servo drive has…
This servo-controlled Larson scanner requires no LEDs
All things considered, it’s easy to have an LED strip light up in sequence and have it bounce back and forth. It’s another thing entirely to turn a simple animation into a real Larson scanner, with smooth transitions and controlled…
STXI Expands Integrated Closed-Loop Servo Stepper Motor Series
listen to this article STXI Motion has launched the stepIM NEMA 17 EtherCAT model, the latest addition to its family of integrated closed-loop servo stepper motors. The IP65-rated stepIM NEMA 17 provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for applications requiring…
Using servo motors to operate switches
Turnout motors always seemed a bit expensive to me until I learned about servos from a radio control (RC) enthusiast friend. He used servos in his airplanes, which he sold for less than $10 each. The name “servo” is an…
One-step ultrasonic cutting and sealing with servo control
Dukane Ultrasonics launches servo-controlled ultrasonic welding machine with patented Melt-Match® technology. Dukane Ultrasonics http://www.dukane.com/us/ In this video demonstration, a servo-controlled ultrasonic welding machine with patented Melt-Match® technology is demonstrated to cut and seal woven and nonwoven textiles….