We have smartphones, smart watches, smart houses, and smart factories. It only makes sense that we have smart motors, right? Traditionally, a motor drive had one job: drive a motor. Now that’s not ...

As manufacturing industry continues to replace manual processes with automated versions, servo motors are replacing pneumatic and hydraulic systems (Fig. 1). It’s resulted in a rapid increase in, and ...

Figure 2: By using smaller servo drives, robots have less dead weight to deal with, reducing their wear-and-tear. The ongoing trend of micro-sized servo drive technology is driven by Moore’s Law and ...

The S200 Servo, consisting of a Sinamics S200 drive and Simotics S-1FL2 motor with standard or flexible cable options can be used with stand-alone and networked machines. The expanded Sinamics drive ...

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) defines a servo device as “an adjustable-speed AC power drive system that includes an AC motor integrated by feedback, a converter, and control, ...