Matt Prellwitz

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Energy Efficiency

How energy-efficient motion control supports profitable machines and plants

System-integrated motion design software promotes proactive machine design by making it easier to match motor and drive equipment to all mechanical machine components. Courtesy: Beckhoff Automation

Mechatronics and Motion Control

CNC technology developments help engineers cut corners in all the right ways

One-cable technology (OCT) can support servomotors of all sizes, from low-wattage options connected to compact drives in an I/O terminal form factor up to large F7-flange motors that require large drives. Courtesy: Beckhoff Automation

Motors and Drives

Efficient motion system engineering reduces servomotor costs

Figure 1: Engineers can successfully match motors and drives from different vendors if they carefully consider both devices’ specifications and the environmental factors of the application. Images courtesy: Beckhoff Automation

Motors and Drives

How to manage multi-vendor motion control architectures

Figure 1: Even if the user doesn’t know all the application details, there are built-in tools to help calculate numbers for some variables that may be harder to track down such as inertia. Courtesy: Beckhoff Automation

Discrete Manufacturing

Software helps size, select motors