Please be aware we use cookies to make your experience better. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access and identify repeat visitors. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable non-public information. Learn more.
Page 5 - Technical Support
Posted: April 22, 2015DesignNews On Demand Webinar –Duration: 60-minutes
Click on the link below to view this webinar
https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=758901&sessionid=1&key=D0615F747207CCE3C168B9A27CB34ABF&sourcepage=register
About the webinar
What’s behind every great robot? A great motor or even multiple motors, for starters. It also involves the bearings, cables, drives, and controllers, and in some cases, linear actuators. Whether your robot is being deployed on a factory floor, in an operating room, or in one of the now-famous drones, it’s these technologies that serve as the differentiators. In fact, robotics can be in applications that range from the very coarse to the very fine. For that reason, the types of motors and other components must also vary widely.Attend this webinar and learn about:
- The different components that are available, specifically for robotics applications
- How the components differ
- How you can choose the most appropriate...
- Posted: April 08, 2015
Live Webinar Tuesday April 21, 2015 11:00am EST, presented by Advanced Motion Controls & Electromate
With automation expanding out of the factory, machine builders are faced with a varying set of new challenges. Mobile platforms, such as unmanned systems, are expected to operate in extreme environments and carry their own power source; all while being light weight and compact.
To meet the current and future needs of the market, enabling technologies need to be applied and discovered. At the forefront of the enabling technologies are servo drive controllers.
Servo controllers not only make a robot or mobile platform move, they can also be solutions to the other design requirements. A servo is an integral component to any mobile solution and can help with power efficiency, communication, agility and dexterity. This webinar will touch on the challenges presented to robot designers and how servo drives can make them successful.
Webinar Presenter: Shane Beilke, Advanced Motion... - Posted: April 06, 2015
Reprint of maxon motor USA October 14, 2014 white paper
To understand the concept of high efficiency motors, you must first know how to calculate efficiency and the losses associated with the motor components themselves.
The final measured efficiency of a motor is calculated based only on the elements of the particular application they’re used in. For the motors themselves, without a load, manufacturers provide ratings based on standard formulas. To understand high efficiency motors you only need to know what makes them different.Cutaway of a maxon brush servo motor
But first, let’s look at the basic concept used for explaining motor efficiency, which says that efficiency is the ratio between the shaft output power and the electrical input power. Shaft output can be measured in horsepower or watts. We’ll use watts for the purposes of this article. The formula most often used is the simple one mentioned above:
ηm = Pout / Pin
where
ηm = motor efficiency
Pout = shaft power...Categories: Technical Support - Posted: March 24, 2015
Reprint of blog p Ryan Klemetson of Tolomatic on Tue, Mar 24, 2015 @ 08:03 AM
Many process industry control engineers are looking to more sophisticated motion control solutions for valve automation. That’s because there’s an ever-growing need to improve productivity, increase efficiency and minimize downtime. It’s essential that engineers be able to control the valves that regulate the flow of materials throughout a facility
There are two basic ways to operate control valves: linear motion (rising stem) and rotary motion (half turn or quarter turn). Powered rising stem valves are often used in mission critical areas of a process. In these applications reliability, repeatability, accuracy, and responsiveness are crucially important. These factors impact the type of valve actuation specified.
Rising stem valves require linear actuation, and control engineers have a choice in actuation technologies. There are traditional methods: pneumatic or hydraulic actuated systems and electric...
Categories: Technical Support - Posted: March 09, 2015
YouTube 50minute Video by Galil Motion Control
Topics include an overview of the communication scheme, physical layout and applications where EtherCAT is the right solution.
There is an increasing demand in the automation and motion control industries for a localized motion control solution that can coordinate motion between multiple remote components. Previously, field bus protocols such as Modbus or Ethernet/IP have been implemented to address remote I/O connectivity. Although successful in moving data across automation networks, these protocols lacked the real time performance necessary for a distributed motion control system.
The EtherCAT communication protocol provides a high speed, low overhead communication scheme that allows efficient, deterministic communication between motion controller and remote components. Based on CANOpen and streamlined specifically for point to point transmission of real time data, the EtherCAT standard is quickly becoming the preferred choice for centralized...
- Posted: March 05, 2015
A new white paper by Galil Motion Control
Ethernet was developed in the 1970’s and was started being used commercially in the 1980’s. By the end of the 1980’s it was the dominant network technology. It was initially used to connect computer systems and peripherals in a Local Area Network (LAN) and quickly evolved to be the protocol used for Wide Area Networks (WAN). Then came the world-wide web and the incorporation of the internet into every aspect of communication.
In the mid to late 1990’s, Ethernet’s popularity spread to control systems. The engineering team here at Galil Motion Control determined Ethernet was a viable protocol in 1999 and introduced its first Ethernet Motion Controller. Even today, Ethernet is the most popular method of network communication in control systems….
Click on the link below to read this complete white paper article-
https://www.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?utm_source=MAN-eblast&i=228662&utm_campaign=141016G&utm_medium=email#{“issue_id”:228662,”page”:10}...Categories: Technical Support - Posted: February 23, 2015
9min YouTube Video
Learn about the different types of encoders and how to select the right one for your application in this short video from the maxon academy. Click on the image below to view the video.
- Posted: February 12, 2015
- Posted: January 25, 2015
A New White Paper by Advanced Motion Controls
Servo-based motion control systems have traditionally been categorized into two types: centralized or distributed. Centralized systems use dedicated motion control cards that account for all aspects of the system including servo commands, motor feedback and I/O to close all control loops while simultaneously running complex programs that plan motion profiles and maintain machine operations. Increasing the number of axes involved places an ever increasing burden on the processing power of the DSP quickly making the system unmanageable simply due to scalability.
In distributed systems, motion commands are less complicated since the drives close the velocity and/or position loops internally leaving the controller to focus on motion profiling, planning and associated I/O. However, limitations arise as communications speed may be the limiter of some specific motion and machine requirements. Even though systems...
- Posted: January 20, 2015
February 03, 2015 11:00am EST
This webinar gives you guidelines for selecting the perfect DC motor type for your application. For example, which motor type is used in the climate control system of the Boeing Dreamliner, and for what reasons?- Is a brushed or a brushless design more adapted?
- Does a flat pancake type motor fit better or should it be an elongated cylindrical one?
- Are motors with a slotted iron core winding design the right choice, or should it be a motor with a slotless winding?
For motor selection, it is important to know the particular requirements of each application.
- How large are torque and speed? Are there any gears involved?
- How is the motor operated and controlled? What is the required precision of control?
- What are the restrictions on size and weight?
- How about special ambient conditions such as temperature and pressure?
Before answering these questions, the webinar starts with having a look at the properties of all kind of small DC motors with permanent...
Recent Posts
