Motion System Design

Understanding the electrical code to be compliant

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:28:00 EDT

GEARMOTORS: ACHIEVING THE PERFECT MOTOR & GEARBOX MATCH

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:16:00 EDT

Vibrating motors in suit train Olympiads

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:52:00 EDT

Servo, inverter drives boost industrial networking market

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00 EDT

The market for industrial networking is alive and well, according to a new report from IMS Research, Austin, that says an estimated 31 million new fieldbus and Ethernet nodes were installed worldwide in 2011. This number will grow by an average of 10% a year, to just over 45 million new connected nodes in 2015, say analysts. The World Market for Industrial Networking - 2011 Edition forecasts that

Aligning with hollow dowels

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00 EDT

On motion designs, there are many ways to align components. One useful approach is to drill twin holes into mating parts, and then use a pin or dowel to fill and align the holes. Here, the most common (and often most expensive) alignment dowels are solid, precision-ground pins manufactured per ISO 8734. These deliver high positional tolerance, though require extremely tight hole tolerances to do so.

IN RESPONSE

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00 EDT

Proactive versus reactive I've worked as a control systems engineer for 34 years, servicing manufacturing installations in the U.S. I've also been over in Europe a few times and they have a different attitude towards their machinery. Here in the U.S., many companies do not want to upgrade or improve plant floor equipment, and instead try to get by with what they have, fixing what breaks. In other