Motion Control Engineering
A typical Motion Control and Servo System involves one or more motors providing feedback (typically through an encoder) to a programmable motion controller. The servo controls one or more command parameters (position, velocity, or torque) through PID control loops. Modern Motion Control Systems are capable of sophisticated control such as several axes electronically geared (cam), high speed and precision motion, and sub-micro precision. Many employ high-speed synchronous communication buses, such as Ethernet POWERLINK, PROFINET, or Drive-Cliq, allowing advanced feedback devices like multi-turn absolute encoders.
Properly tuned systems and optimized motion control programs can help reduce cycle time, product waste, and improve throughput and productivity.
AMTech’s Motion Control Engineering and Servo System Programming Services and Applications include:
- Electronic camming
- Electronic gearing
- Precision pick & place
- Printing and registration
- Web handling
- High-speed printing
- Hydraulic servos
- PID tuning
- Data collection
- Vision integration
- Flying cutoff
- Packaging
AMTech’s motion controller platform experience includes:
- Siemens SIMOTION
- Allen-Bradley
- Yaskawa
- Beckhoff
- Danaher Motion
- Elau (now Schneider Electric)
- Emerson Industrial Automation
- Delta Tau Data Systems
- Galil Motion Control
- Bosch Rexroth
- Kollmorgen
- Trio Motion Technology
- DSP Control Group
- ACS Motion Control
- Rockwell Automation Anorad
- Parker Hannifin
- Elmo Motion Control
- IAI – Intelligent Actuator
- Advanced Motion Controls
- and Servo Systems