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For The Best Productivity Improvements Select a Servo
by John Mazurkiewicz

Selecting the right motor for a positioning application requires review of the application’s speed (and speed range), inertia (and inertia ratio), acceleration (as it relates to overload or peak capacity), and package size.
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Servos and Their Use
Servomechanisms or servo drives, more commonly called servos, are gaining in popularity due to their speed and accuracy control. A servo is a type of actuator that consists of several electro-mechanical devices connected together in a closed loop with an electric motor to provide motion to a load. This load can be controlled in any manner, i.e., position, direction and speed. A servo’s advantages are physical size, high torque to size ratio, infinite speed increments over a wide range, and a closed loop control. Servos are suitable for applications requiring rapid accel-eration of a load, with high position resolution and accuracy. This ability to control position as well as speed make them unique in drives, and highly suitable for automating processes.
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The MotorHead Game
ethernet protocols for real-time control
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Know a way to apply ethernet protocols for real-time control? Take this Month's Motorhead Challenge and Find Out
At CheeseHead factory, the project engineer wants to improve response, accuracy, and machine throughput. What decision factors will ensure the correct amount of blue is mixed into the blue cheese and that holes are punched accurately in the Swiss?

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Baldor Offers Energy Solutions Brochure

Announcing a new 14-page, four-color brochure describing proven methods of reducing electricity costs and describing paybacks when using Baldor premium-efficiency motors and adjustable speed drives.

The brochure outlines the advantages of premium-efficiency Baldor Super-E® motors, introduced in 1983, now exceeding NEMA standards, and well above efficiencies of typical motors in use today. An exploded view of a Super-E is provided and Baldor’s BE$T (Baldor Energy Savings Tool) software, version 2.0., is attached within the brochure.

The BE$T CD-ROM can compare the annual operating costs of motors with Baldor Super-E motors and Baldor Standard-E® motors, and based on ratings and operating cycles can provide a financial summary of annual savings and payback in months for each. BE$T can also perform a complete plant analysis and project summary.

In addition to electricity savings with electric motors, the brochure explains how additional energy savings can be accomplished with industrial drives and generators in peak saving applications.

For a free copy of Baldor’s new energy savings brochure call toll-free at 800-828-4920 or order from our web site at www.baldor.com.

PCI-bus motion controller provides fast, cost-effective control for up to 12 axis

Second-generation 12-axis PCI motion controller featuring:

* 120MHz DSP-based design runs multitasking Mint or embedded C

* accommodates open/closed loop control, high speed interpolation and master encoder synchronisation

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