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Don’t overlook these factors when choosing a linear system
Movement Life Means a Lot. When sizing a linear system, the first application parameters that come to mind are probably travel, load, and speed. In addition, details about the load’s placement, the move profile, and the duty cycle are needed in order to accurately calculate the bearing’s useful ...Read more -
Three Easy Ways to Reduce Maintenance Costs for Linear Systems
【Look and Listen】 Once the system is installed, tuned, and run-in, pay attention to any changes in running smoothness or noise. Rough running can indicate excess contamination or damage to bearing surfaces, while an increase in running torque often signals extreme wear. Noise has several poten...Read more -
Where Linear Motors Improve Designs: Application Example in Multi-axis Stage
A Robotic Control XYZ Gantry Machine-tool applications and the manufacture and assembly of semiconductor components account for more than half of all linear-motor use. That’s because linear motors are precise (albeit costly compared to other linear-motion options). Other applications for these r...Read more -
How Many Axes Should My Robot Have?
If you have already shopped for a robot you have probably already been confronted with the number of axes that are included in the robot. Perhaps, if you are new to the robotic world you may wonder: What this all means? and Why is it important how many axes my robot has? Robots will have 3 to 7...Read more -
Capture Moving Timelapse Video with this Motion Control Camera Slider
single-axis linear motion system I’ve enjoyed capturing timelapse videos ever since I found myself in possession of a camera that could do them. I love the way they transform the mundane into the surreal, whether it’s the ability to see a transformation taking place that’s too slow to observe wi...Read more -
Cartesian Handling System: 2D Motion & 3D Motion
Customization and Versatility Cartesian handling systems as serial kinematics have main axes for straight-line motion and auxiliary axes for rotation. The system acts simultaneously as guide, support and drive and must be integrated into the application’s complete system regardless of the handli...Read more -
What Questions Should You Ask During the Product Lifecycle?
There are four phases of a product’s lifecycle. When you’re in the business of manufacturing, it’s important to know exactly why you’re doing what you’re doing and to leave nothing to chance. There are too many resources invested across the entire manufacturing process to be flippant about it. T...Read more -
What Makes a Robot a Cartesian Robot?
As opposed to another type of robot or multi-axis system. First, a Cartesian system is one that moves in three, orthogonal axes — X, Y, and Z — according to the Cartesian coordinates. (Although it should be noted that a rotary axis — in the form of an end effector or end of arm tooling — is somet...Read more -
What the World Would be Like if Palletizer Machines Didn’t Exist?
Palletizer machines have become an essential part of automation, replacing human error and injury in manufacturing with efficiency and speed. In addition to such benefits, palletizers can handle environments that would otherwise be injurious to workers. Instead of requiring the hire of more labo...Read more -
Designing with Motion Control in Mind
What OEMs and design engineers need to know about motors, drives, and controllers. Whether designers are improving a motion-centric machine or building a new one, it is essential they begin with motion control in mind. Then they can develop the design around the best way to get effective and eff...Read more -
Ballscrews Provide Fast, Accurate Linear Motion
What, Why and How Because of their ability to provide high thrust and accurate positioning, ballscrews can be found in many automated assembly applications that require linear motion. Ballscrews drive positioning stages for assembling small parts. Ballscrews control the Z axis in robots and the r...Read more -
How To Use Tools/bits Of Wood CNC Router Machines?
The selection and use of tools/bits and fixtures are very important in the process of engraving and cutting works with CNC router machines. Incorrect use can easily cause damage to the tools, even the engraving effect will be greatly reduced. How to select and use tools for wood cnc router machi...Read more
