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Starting early: The advantage of involving miniature motion design at the outset of OEM projects

08/01/2024

Miniature electric motors, their transmissions, feedback and control devices are crucial to equipment that depends on motion control. This means that OEMs starting a new product development project should involve a motion specialist at the earliest opportunity. The motor and its output have a broad impact on the overall design, so early-stage inclusion will not only optimise the performance of the host equipment, but it will also streamline project development.

Brushless DC motors: The easy and effective answer

08/01/2024

For some time, induction motors were ubiquitous in industry, used across multiple markets for conveyors, mixers, and packaging systems. When Panasonic withdrew from the induction market, engineers lost access to a supply of tried and tested motor technology. There is, however, an upside to this gap: developers now have the opportunity to upgrade to brushless DC (BLDC) motors with minimal disruption and financial outlay.

A step up for medical innovation

08/01/2024

A stepper motor enables the accurate, precise and repetitive positioning that contributes so much to stable and efficient machinery operation, but no more so than in medical equipment applications.

The drive to design the public transport of the future

04/12/2023

Ordering a taxi or an Uber via your smartphone is a relatively simple task, but calling a train to you whenever you need it is surely impossible? A project being undertaken by the OWL University of Applied Sciences and the Landeseisenbahn Lippe e.V. Association aims to demonstrate that this is, in fact, not as unlikely as it seems...

Solar pump sustainability: Don’t ‘wine’ about it!

04/12/2023

In arid countries, such as Spain and Turkey, Control Techniques’ solar pump solutions have enabled areas with either no or limited grid power supplies to benefit from flow control applications.

Drives Motors Features

Starting early: The advantage of involving miniature motion design at the outset of OEM projects

Brushless DC motors: The easy and effective answer

A step up for medical innovation

The drive to design the public transport of the future

Solar pump sustainability: Don’t ‘wine’ about it!