Electric motors consume a vast amount of electricity, but small changes in motion-control design can yield big reductions in power consumption, bringing associated cost savings and environmental ...

In 2012, Automation World published an article looking at the decision factors faced when choosing electric or pneumatic actuators. More than a decade later, manufacturing engineers and OEMs still ...

Precision motion actuation is a key technology for miniature medical robotics in a variety of applications, such as optical fibre-based diagnosis and intervention tools. Conventional inductive ...

Bipolar stepper motors provide precise position control while operating in an open loop. Industrial automation applications—such as robots and processing and packaging machinery—and consumer ...