The recent trend in has been to reduce cost, size and complexity of servo systems while increasing performance. High-end machining has always used the best the industry had to offer, but increasingly ...

The new ServoNOW™ integrated servo system incorporates a closed loop brushless servo motor with built-in driver, controller, encoder and 110/220VAC universal power supply in a single compact package ...

In industrial automation, harmonic drive actuators are gradually replacing the traditional configuration of harmonic drive ...

Design engineers have long struggled with manual calculations and spreadsheets to properly size servo motors and drives for new machines. A recently launched update of Mitsubishi Electric’s Motorizer ...

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) defines a servo device as “an adjustable-speed AC power drive system that includes an AC motor integrated by feedback, a converter, and control, ...

Motion-control architecture appears to be compact and simple. But in reality, the individual servo loops-current, velocity and position-have been traditionally shared between a drive and a separate ...

This article was updated April 11, 2023. It was originally published March 1, 2000. To help engineers and design teams get all the performance possible from servo systems, here are some of the more ...

This paper presents a new type of crawler guide rail dual drive micro feed servo system based on "crawler type" guide rail. Through the innovative design of the crawler guide rail and the change of ...

This article originally appeared on Heidenhain.us and has been published here with permission. Servo motors are electric motors that let engineers and designers precisely control position, velocity ...

A new pre-assembled interlock lamination system has facilitated the development of a new compact brushless servo motor for the Segway Human Transporter design. The lamination system was developed ...