Webinars
Enabling Modular Design with Servo and Automation Technologies
Control engineers and machine designers are traditionally tasked with optimizing their own designs — through servo sizing, electrical outlining, and component selection and programming. Optimization tools are widely available for all of these ventures. However, if modularity is a prime design objective, a different viewpoint is helpful. This webinar will discuss recent developments in automation and servo technology that make modular machine design easier....
Design for Manufacturing – Benefits of Modern Cabling Practices
Hardwiring equipment makes sense in certain applications, while the modularity and quick hookups offered by adding connectors makes sense in others. Maybe it's time for a change, but how? HARTING, a global provider of cabled solutions and industrial connectivity, can provide important insights into making the right choice....
Using Current Sensors in Motor Drives, Power Inverters
Learn about Avago’s solution for sensing motor current and transmit signals from high voltage motor phases/rails to the control circuit for your next design. ...
Efficiency Loss & Capture in Mechanical Gearboxes and Motor Systems
Make a large impact on system efficiencies through gearbox and motor – whether in new designs or existing machines. The heart of any motion system is the motor and delving into the mechanical components around it play an integral part in optimizing overall system efficiencies, providing designers with energy and cost savings. Having introduced the world’s first low-backlash planetary gearbox, Wittenstein has spent 25 years on developing and identifying mechanical and electrical specifications....
Selection and Application of Lubricants for Linear Motion
What IS the number one lubrication mistake? What is the difference between weight and viscosity? Which lubricants best extend product life? Which are best for food grade or submerged applications? What is the best way to remove grease? This webinar will answer those questions and more. Proper lubricant selection can significantly improve performance and extend product life. This webinar will cover lubrication for Plain Bearings, Ball Screws, Ball Splines, Linear Bearings and Profile Rail....
Improving Cable Reliability in Harsh Environments
Cables are often the last component considered when designing an electronic system. However, cables are really the system’s lifeline, because if a cable goes down, the entire system can stop...
Concurrent Engineering: How to Excel at Top Down Design
How will you improve your organization’s product development process in 2010? With concurrent product development techniques, you can engage people from all areas of the design process earlier and more efficiently. ...
Optimizing Mechatronic Systems Using Simulation
Are you encountering integration errors in mechatronic systems late in development during hardware prototyping? Simulating mechatronic systems in one environment that combines mechanical, electrical, and control system modeling makes it easier to find performance errors early in your development process. In addition, current simulation technology allows integration of engineering data from different CAE tools, such as CAD and EDA, reducing translation errors. ...
Understanding Key Power Transmission Technologies
OEM design teams are under pressure to juggle technologies with specifications with the outcome always being a great new or improved product. Many of these projects have Power Transmission components at their core and the wrong technology can really hurt the end product....
Improving Collaboration with Customers and Suppliers
The need to respond and capitalize on new customer requirements is more important than ever during the current economic downturn. However, the pressures of globally distributed design teams and more stringent time, cost, regulatory and quality requirements continue to complicate the product development process. In order to succeed, Small and Medium Organizations need to collaborate across project teams more efficiently to bring the right products to the marketplace at the right time. ...
Efficiency in Fractional HP Motors & Gearmotors
Join Groschopp engineers Ron Didier and Jared Birk for an overview of efficiency as it relates to other design considerations such as power source, operating cost, temperature, purchase cost and size. Explore these topics and learn…when does a more efficient, and sometimes more costly, motor or gearmotor actually provide an ROI over the life of an application?...
The Fundamentals of CANopen for Industrial Machine Control
Thursday, March 12, 2009, 2pm est CANopen is an industrial networking system used in millions of applications worldwide. It is based on Controller Area Network (CAN) technology, a proven serial bus that links multiple devices, allowing them to work together. ...
6 Ways to Make Money with Product Development
December 3, 2008, 2pm EST
Small and medium size manufacturers are facing more challenges that ever before. Great products are becoming more difficult to create due to increasing complexity. ...
Introduction to Linear Actuators
November 13, 2008, 2pm EST
What is a stepper motor based linear actuator? How does it work? How is it sized?
These are questions that will be answered in HaydonKerk Motion Solutions first technical webinar. Engineering managers Frank Morton and Ray LaChance explain linear actuators and how they are used to achieve precision linear motion.
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Architecture Options in Motion Control Design: Chips, Boards, or Drives Webinar
This presentation investigates and compares the differences between motion control systems based on chips, boards, or drives; evaluates how each fits into desired design parameters; and provides a quick understanding of the factors used to select a level of motion system integration. ...
Understanding Electro-Hydraulic Application Development
Learn how the IEC 61131-3 international standard for control programming is critical for effective implementation of electro-hydraulic systems and very efficient for the end users. ...
Introduction to direct gear design
This webcast presents the Direct Gear Design method – an alternative approach to traditional analysis and design of involute gears, which separates gear geometry definition from the generating rack and tool selection to maximize gear transmission performance for a particular product and application....
Power transmission technologies, with special focus on belts
Brent Oman, who has over 20 years of drive design experience with Gates Corporation, will share his knowledge about selecting power transmission solutions....
