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Motion Control

By Frank Posted on August 19, 2012 Posted in Motion Control Tagged with motion control, servo

Following is a subchapter on motion control from my forthcoming book. My philosophy on writing these articles is to cover the topic very generally since the book is intended to cover the entire field of industrial automation including business systems, …

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Tray Handling

By Frank Posted on October 23, 2011 Posted in Applications, Motion Control Tagged with motion control, servo

A few weeks ago I covered robots and robotics a bit and it was recently brought to my attention that I hadn’t covered much in the general motion control field. Maybe that’s because most of the applications I have worked …

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Binder Processing

By Frank Posted on April 24, 2011 Posted in Assembly, Extrusion, Packaging Tagged with aluminum extrusion, servo

This is another machine built with NAS in about the 1998-1999 time frame. As you can tell, NAS was a huge user of aluminum extrusion; for about 5 years or so the were the biggest 80-20 customer in East Tennessee. …

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Contact Lens Inspection

By Frank Posted on February 27, 2011 Posted in Pharmaceutical, Servos, vision Tagged with Animatics, Machine Vision, servo

This was a contact lens inspection station built in 2005 for Vistakon, a Florida company. It has 2 cameras mounted to X-Y-Z axes with similarly mounted backlighting below the moving pallet. Samples would be taken from the production lines and …

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