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Design World user community has chosen their preferred suppliers for the latest Leadership in Engineering program, now in its 13th year.
 

Automation World’s Leadership in Automation program reflects reader recognition of outstanding suppliers of industrial automation technologies.

With the current state of the internet and the interconnectivity of devices and equipment, it is in the best interest of any company that wants to optimize the productivity of their associates tasked with technical tasks to take a look at the eLearning available. eLearning offers a wonderful ROI due to its low cost, ease of access, skill-based objectives, and ability to customize to each viewer.
 

In a previous motion-sizing article, we reviewed how to properly specify a ballscrew-driven motion axis. Here we review how engineering teams can use a similar approach for sizing rack-and-pinion-based servomotor-driven axes on the same five-axis gantry. We’ll use manufacturer software to work through the application.

Yaskawa received the Highest Risk Control Award for the manufacturing sector of Columbus Insurance Ltd.

Sigma Trac II linear motor stages provide high performance turnkey linear motor solution

Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) store a plethora of information that can be easily accessed. Regardless of the connection method, traditional fieldbus or Industrial Ethernet, the main objective can be to retrieve that production data and use it to create information that helps transform and drive business strategies.

Additional answers provide more details about smartphone programming for variable frequency drives (VFDs).

Yaskawa is pleased to announce that Drives Technical Communications was awarded a 2019 APEX Award in the How-To Writing category for their design work on new quick setup procedures for Yaskawa's latest generation of AC drives . (Example: TOEPC71061748).
 

This Design World video features Yaskawa’s new GA800 AC drive that is designed to control traditional and emerging motor technologies through 600 HP.