With recent trends focusing on improving engineering efficiency, many products have been developed to specifically help shorten design cycles for machine automation. Part of improving efficiency is making products easier to use, so additional time and resources can be spent elsewhere. This post describes an example of a product feature that can make index table applications less complex to manage.
Topics: Linear & Rotary Actuators, DG2 Series, Position Control, Indexing Operation, Stepper Motors, MEXE02 Software, Alphastep Hybrid Control, AZ Series, Absolute Positioning, VIDEOS
There are many stepper motor manufacturers in the market place, but there are even more driver manufacturers. The crowded market place provides many standard product options for customers to build their motion control system just the way they like it.
However, if the best possible performance is desired, it would be difficult to beat a tested combination of a specific motor and driver from the same manufacturer. By combining R&D knowledge from both motors and drivers, unique product features can be developed to improve the performance further.
In this post, we will discuss 3 main advantages of using a CVD driver with a PKP Series stepper motor. There's also a video at the bottom of this post that summarizes the features.
Topics: Stepper Motors, Stepper Motor Drivers, Position Control, PKP Series, CVD Series, Microstepping, Vibration Control, Smooth Drive, CVK Series, VIDEOS
Stepper motors are popular for their ability to position accurately as well as their ease of use. Both the amount of rotation and the speed are controlled easily with the same digital square wave pulse signal. Unlike servo motors, stepper motors do not need an encoder to operate. Example applications of stepper motors are CNC machines, index tables, robotics, scanners, and more recently, 3D printers.
Topics: Stepper Motors, Motor Selection, Position Control, High Resolution, Indexing Operation, Reciprocating Motion, PKP Series, 2-Phase, 5-Phase, Closed-Loop Feedback Control, Electromagnetic Brake, Gear motor, VIDEOS