Motion control technology is the backbone of modern industrial equipment design, enhancing productivity, reducing human error, and opening the door to advanced automation and innovation. In industrial settings, precise motion control systems ensure consistent and accurate automation of production processes, accelerating throughput while reducing defects and waste. Precision motion control is vital for the packaging, food and beverage, plastics, machine tools, metal cutting, textile industries, and others. In fact, motion control is at the core of industrial robotics, where precise motion is essential for various positioning, cutting, and movement activities. PMD’s wide range of products, including ICs, modules, and boards, excel at high-precision position, velocity, and torque control. Our motion control portfolio is uniquely designed to help you create the high-performance, reliable, and scalable industrial machines that drive your business forward.

Motion Applications Used In Industrial Design Systems

Spindle Control

Controlling high speed motors (usually Brushless DC motors) in applications such as machine tool cutting, drilling, centrifuges, cryo-pumps, bar code readers, rotating marking and scanning systems, spin coating, and more.

High Speed Pick & Place

The control of mechanisms used for electronics, motor, and textile production where an actuator head rapidly moves back and forth.

CAM Profiling

A general purpose motion technique utilizing a pre-stored look-up table of desired positions driven by an incoming command encoder datastream.

Pan & Tilt Pointing

Motion control of a mechanical system that can ‘pan’ (rotate around a vertical axis) and tilt (rotate around a horizontal axis).

Robotic Wheel Drive

Controlling wheels used to propel robotic devices such as warehouse robotics, rovers, agricultural robots, robotic lawn mowers and a wide array of mobile devices.

Precision XY Stage Control

Motion control of XY or XYZ positioning stages that use linear motors for their motion.

Peristaltic Pump Control

Controlling the special mechanical characteristics of this type of pump as it rotates.

Robotic Gripper Control

Control methods associated with getting a robotic 'hand' to grip an object safely - applying neither too much or too little force.

Indexer Control

General purpose devices that operate in the vertical dimension and form the basis of storage and retrieval systems as well devices such as Semiconductor SMIF-pod access systems.

Gantry Control

Mechanical devices that move orthogonally in three dimensions.

Centrifuge Control

Controlling a high-speed rotating motor (usually a Brushless DC motor) such that it accelerates, coasts, and decelerates thereby separating via centrifugal force the payload - typically liquids, gels, or gasses.

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ISO Certified and Designed for FDA-Approved Equipment

PMD is ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 certified. We deliver the quality, safety and long-term availability demanded by healthcare and life sciences applications.

Suggested Resources

Closed Loop Steppers Drive New Motion Control Applications

This paper discusses an advanced control technique called closed loop stepper. This motion control technique is finding wide adoption in a range of cost-sensitive industrial applications.

Techniques That Improve Automated Packaging System Performance

Read about the 3 core motion control techniques that can improve performance: Web Tension Control, Proportional Material Spacing, and CAM-based profiling.

Build vs Buy of a Three Axis Motion Controller

This paper looks at building vs buying a three axis PCB-based positioning motion controller. It examines the motion control design effort and cost.

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