The Significance of Load to Motor Inertia Mismatch >
August 13, 2010- A servo system’s inertia ratio is a commonly misunderstood parameter. When dealing with stepper motors, articles and tutorials often instruct the control engineer to select a motor that will match the ratio as close to 1:1 as…
Direct Drive Technology Improves Flexo Printing Quality and Throughput >
July 15, 2010 - Flexographic printing technology has become increasingly popular because it more easily maintains printing quality and reduces startup time and waste. But flexo printing quality is dependent upon maintaining extremely accurate…
Integrated Model-Based Machine Design with Motion >
March 19, 2010 - Motion control applications are becoming increasingly challenging with higher performance, lower weight requirements, and increased functionality. Meeting these challenges often requires complex control algorithms, which call for…
How Today's Flexible Digital Servo Drives Help OEMs Build a Better Machine, Faster >
February 17, 2010 - Advances in digital hardware technology and software innovations now allow for a single digital servo drive to be configured to work in a variety of machine control architectures. So what, you say? The advantage to the machine…
