How Compliant Robotic Tooling Delivers Safety and Precision in Finishing Operations >
Force-controlled blending or finishing operations typically rely upon human operators who can provide subtle compliance in grinding, deburring or polishing. Unfortunately, these operations create inherent risks for these workers—from injuries to…
Advanced Surgical Robots: Designing Compact, Powerful Motion for the Next Generation >
Learn the key criteria for designing axially compact arm joints that minimize space, maximize torque, and deliver precision performance in surgical robots.
Monitoring and controlling brakes through on-drive functional safety technology >
How can you ensure the safety of vertical loads while complying with ISO 13849-1? On-drive safety functions offer a no-compromise way to simplify brake testing.
Selecting the Proper Cables for Your Stepper or Servo System >
Engineers devote a lot of time and effort designing highly efficient, reliable, and economical stepper or servo motor positioning systems. They select a motor, a controller, appropriate feedback circuits, and an amplifier to satisfy the specific…
Grounding and Shielding Existing Equipment >
Grounding and Shielding is an often misunderstood process. It is common to hear quotes ranging from “it's magic!” to “the rules change all the time!” and “there’s no way to understand it!” These emotional statements are repeated but not true. There…
Direct Drive Motors Improve Flexographic Printing Performance >
Recent work done by Kollmorgen—a global leader in manufacturing motor and motion solutions—has shown that it is possible to synchronize components within the flexo printing process without mechanical transmission by using closed loop control…
Optimize Frameless Motor Performance and Cost in 5 Steps or Less >
Reliability in extreme environments. Optimized motor windings. A larger through-bore aspect ratio. How do you achieve these and other specialized motor attributes on a rapid development schedule, with assurance of meeting cost and supply requirements…
Diagnostic Imaging: Motion for Every Modality >
An aging population, a growing burden of disease, continuous development of new clinical applications, and global advancements in the standards of disease prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment. For all these reasons and more,…
Stepper Motor or Servo Motor: Which Should it be? >
This article presents an overview comparison of stepper motor and servo motor capabilities to serve as selection criteria between the two technologies.
Build a Better Patient Experience Into Your Imaging Device >
Every radiology department wants to deliver the highest-quality diagnoses to support the highest-quality patient care. The key to improving the patient experience is precise motion under perfect control. That’s Kollmorgen’s specialty.
Connecting Motion Control in the Factory >
This paper reviews options that are available for Ethernet and non-Ethernet connections within the motion controller. It begins with a summary of what information can be transferred in and out of the motion controller followed by network and…
