Renee Robbins
Articles
Motion control: Packaging machine builder saves with servo system, controls upgrade
Siemens Simotion Shaftless Drive Standard software helps machine builder gain 50% savings on components and 30% savings on control cabinet footprint with comparable performance.
Embedded control: Zero-drift, programmable instrumentation amplifier with diagnostics
National Semiconductor's LMP8358 simplifies pressure and thermocouple bridge measurements with easy detection of shorts, open circuits and degraded source connections.
Motors: Stainless steel helical and helical bevel gear reducers
SEW-Eurodrive gives food processors an alternative to single worm gears.
Design, test custom servo motion algorithms to improve robot, gantry performance
MechaWare 4.0 software from Kollmorgen leverages Matlab and Simulink; control algorithms minimize system weight and power consumption, and eliminate vibration for optimized mechanical system performance.
Sensors: World’s fastest laser displacement sensor?
Keyence RS-CMOS sensor is 8x faster than previous models. ‘Multi-Able Control' for transparent targets optimizes the laser intensity by sensing and adjusting to the reflected light for each layer of a transparent object.
NEC Electronics America expands 8-bit microcontroller line
Peripheral set delivers precision analog sensing for battery-powered portable devices, and industrial building automation sensors and monitoring devices.
PMMI-certified training for machine vision
Mettler-Toledo CI-Vision Institute offers hands on machine vision training certified by the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute.
Instrumentation: Extech clamp meter transmits readings to Flir IR cameras
Separately, Flir Motion Control Systems delivers new pan-tilt solutions.
High-torque gearhead provides longer life, higher performance
Bodine Electric gearhead offered with new 3-wire-reversible 34R frame ac induction motor.
TAG, Carlson partnership expands machine control integration options
Solutions encompass machine guidance and monitoring software, rugged ultra-mobile PCs, and NEMA rated enclosures.