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Build vs Buy Of A Three Axis Motion Controller On-demand

Watch a 15-minute webinar that looks at building versus buying a three axis PCB-based (Printed Circuit Board) positioning motion controller.

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We put performance in motion.

Get a quick overview of Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD)

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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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Product Highlights

Single Axis Motion Control IC Provides Profile Generation, Servo Control, and Advanced Current Control

MC58113 single-axis motion control ICs provide trajectory profile generation, programmable breakpoints, advanced performance trace, and many other motion control functions. ...

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Articles

Digital Current Loop Significantly Quiets Step Motor Noise

This paper details how a digital current loop will result in a significantly quieter, faster running, and lower temperature motor operation which is beneficial in many applications.

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N Serisi ION®/CME Dijital Sürücü Tanıtımı

Canlı etkinliği kaçırdıysanız, sizi N-Serisi ION'un temel özellikleri ve avantajlarıyla tanıştıracak 30 dakikalık web seminerimizin isteğe bağlı sürümünü oynayın.

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Tiny and Mighty Motors

This webinar will explore how the limits of size and weight are getting pushed. It looks at what that means to those who seek smaller, lighter devices.

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Announcements

PMD Announced As Winner In The Actuators, Motors, Drives Category

Spotlight on Innovation: 2022 Engineers’ Choice Awards Control Engineering announces the best automation, control and instrumentation products in the 19 categories of the ...

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Einführung der ION®/CME N-Serie Digitale Laufwerke

Falls Sie das Live-Event verpasst haben, spielen Sie die On-Demand-Version unseres 30-minütigen Webinars, das Ihnen die wichtigsten Funktionen und Vorteile der N-Series ION vorstellt.

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Motors and Motion for Medical Devices

Hear how to effectively specify the key motion control components to optimize performance for medical devices, and why ISO-1345 matters.

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Articles

Feedforward in Motion Control - Vital for Improving Positioning Accuracy

Even if your PID settings are carefully optimized, the motion at the end effector is never perfect. This paper looks at feedforward and how it delivers accuracy and smoothness.

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Articles

New Control Technique Combines Servo Performance With Step Motor Cost

Read about the benefits and limitations of the new stepper servo control drive technique, and understand why it gets attention from machine designers.

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Webinars

Presentazione degli azionamenti digitali ION®/CME N-Series

Nel caso in cui ti fossi perso l'evento dal vivo, riproduci la versione on demand del nostro popolare webinar di 30 minuti che ti introduce alle principali funzionalità e vantaggi di ...

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Insider Interview with Bob Vavra of Machine Design & Electronic Design

Machine Design editor Bob Vavra talks with PMD's VP of Engineering & Strategy, Prabh Gowrisankaran, about our new revolutionary ultra-compact, PCB-mountable motion control drive.

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The Role of Miniaturization in Space and Defense Applications

Discover the latest techniques for miniaturization, key use cases, and how to apply them to your own designs.

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Motion Control for Healthcare Robotics Applications: Requirements and Capabilities

Hear about the functional requirements and critical capabilities of motion control for healthcare robotics applications.

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Advanced Motion Control for Robotics Systems

This on-demand webinar features a panel of experts who discuss the challenges and opportunities in advanced motion control solutions for robotics systems.

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Articles

Is There Life without the PLC? How to Build a Better Embedded Controller

In this interview by Rob Spiegel, PMD's CEO, Chuck Lewin, describes the process of migrating machine and mechanism controllers from a PLC-based approach to an alternate embedded ...

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Webinars

Introducing ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives On-Demand

In case you missed the live event, replay the on-demand version of our popular 30-minute webinar that introduces you to the major capabilities and benefits of the N-Series ION.

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Motor Drive Design Trends that Power Automation and Robotics Equipment

Listen in to hear about the latest advancements in motor drive design trends for automation and robotics equipment design.

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Application Examples

Two Approaches To Building A 3-Axis Gantry Controller Board

This design project looks at creating a PCB for a 3-axis gantry controller. One approach uses motion control ICs and the other uses the N-Series ION.

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Product Highlights

New Ultra-compact PCB-Mountable High-performance Motion Control Drives

Look here for available configurations, a complete feature list, typical applications for the N-Series ION, as well as major capabilities, parameters, and performance specifications.

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Articles

Motion Kinematics

In this white paper, we look at machines with non-Cartesian movement systems. These include nearly all 'armed' robots such as SCARA robots, PUMA-style arms, as well as others.

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Webinars

Motion Control Solutions to Solve Your Engineering Demands and Challenges

Replay this on-demand webinar to learn how key safety functions can be used to benefit operations and how to use data from smart motion control components.

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Next-Gen Motor Drives for Portable Medical Applications

Listen in to hear about the latest advancements in motion control drives, algorithms, and techniques as motion control goes portable and small!

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Datasheets

ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives Datasheet

Our ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives are small, PCB-mountable amplifiers that provide high-performance motion control, network connectivity and amplification.

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Announcements

PMD Launches Revolutionary New Ultra-Compact Motion Controller

ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives are compact, PCB-mountable intelligent motion control amplifiers that provide high-performance motion control, network connectivity, and power ...

Articles

Motion Control Goes Small

Machine designers are often asked to build systems that take up less space and operate on less power. Read about new developments in motors, sensors, and architectures.

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Articles

Servo Motor Tuning – Rocket Science or Walk In the Park?

This paper provides an overview of PID (proportional, integral, derivative) based servo motor tuning, and introduces two manual tuning methods.

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Articles

Field Oriented Control (FOC) - A Deep Dive

Read about the most popular motion control techniques, including FOC, for multi-phase motor control, and what control techniques work best for positioning applications.

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Articles

Mechanical Resonant Frequency and How to Analyze It

This article will explore why a machine is exhibiting mechanical resonant frequency and what tools can be used to analyze and fix it.

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Announcements

PMD Motion Control Products Now Available Through Mouser

PMD announced the availability of products through Mouser Electronics. Through this agreement, Mouser will now distribute PMD's Magellan, Juno, ION, Atlas, and Prodigy families.

Webinars

Integrating Motion Control and Robot Safety

Hear about emerging technologies, best practices for motion control and robot safety, and get a technology review of advanced sensing.

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Connected Health: The Miniaturization of Medical - Part 2

Machine design experts examined the phenomenon of medical miniaturization and looked at the components and methodologies that enable a new breed of products.

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Announcements

PMD Announces ISO 13485 Certification

PMD becomes one of the first companies in the motion control industry to achieve medical device ISO 13485:2016 certification.

Product Highlights

New Motion Board Integrates Amplifiers and Synchronized Contouring

New Prodigy motion control boards with pre-installed UDPM provide amplifier and synchronized contouring for DC Brush, Brushless DC, and step motor applications.

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Articles

Mobile and Portable Automation Demands Light, Efficient, and Cool Operation

This deep dive will show you how to lower the heat, weight, and power consumption of your mobile motion controls and it discusses advances in the motors themselves.

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Articles

Precision Fluid Handling: Optimizing Lab Automation Mechanics

Pumping liquid is at the core of many lab automation systems. This paper details motion control techniques used to pump fluids precisely and accurately.

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Announcements

Closed Loop Operation a New Big Idea

A new drive technique called closed loop stepper, or stepper servo, is gaining attention because it can address many classic step motor problems, and at the same time extract more ...

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Advanced Motion Control of Servo and Step Motors

Replay our popular webinar as two motion control experts discuss how you can use two design techniques — current, and closed-loop — to achieve advanced servo and step motor control.

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Announcements

Outer Loop Control IC Released For Brushless DC and DC Brush Motors

New Juno Velocity Control ICs deliver breakthrough velocity motion control of 3-phase Brushless DC and DC Brush motors.

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PMD Customers Respond to Covid-19 Crisis

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has put many of the products built by PMD's customers on the front line of the response. See what solutions our customers are building to identify, ...

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Step Motor Noise and How To Fix It

Step motors are known to be noisy and tend to vibrate when moving. This deep dive explains how you can reduce, and in some cases eliminate, step motor noise & vibration problems.

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Precision Fluid Handling: It's All In The Pump

Pumps that move liquid precisely are at the heart of a broad array of medical devices and lab automation. Get an understanding of what types of fluid pumps will work ...

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Product Highlights

New Motor Control IC Integrates Outer Loop And Velocity Loop Functions

Juno MC71113, MC73113, and MC78113 ICs integrate a high-speed outer loop control function with a velocity control function for 3-phase Brushless DC and DC Brush motors.

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Announcements

New PMD Distributor For Turkey

PMD announces the signing of a new partnership agreement with IMCA (Electronics and Mechanics) for distribution of PMD's motion control products in Turkey.

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New Affordable ICs Deliver Advanced Velocity Control of Servo Motors

New Juno Velocity Control ICs deliver breakthrough velocity motion control of 3-phase Brushless DC and DC Brush motors.

Product Highlights

Low Cost ICs Provide Advanced Velocity Control of Servo Motors

Juno MC71113, MC73113, and MC78113 breakthrough motion control ICs provide advanced velocity control of 3-phase Brushless DC and DC Brush servo motors.

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Articles

Servo Motor Noise and How To Fix It

A noisy or chattering servo axis is one of the most common motion problem that engineers encounter. This deep dive focuses on servo motor noise problems and how to solve them.

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Articles

Mathematics of Motion Control Profiles

Learn about which motion profiles work best for which applications, and how modest changes in the profile parameter settings can create big improvements in throughput.

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Articles

Motion Techniques For Improved Liquid Handling

Today's lab equipment requires fast and precise pumping to aspirate, dispense or continuously pump liquids. This paper illustrates key motion control techniques for improved accuracy.

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Product Highlights

New Low Cost Torque Control ICs Provide Field Oriented Control

The MC73112, MC73112N, MC71112, and MC71112N from PMD are ICs that provide torque control with advanced features for FOC.

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Announcements

New Distributor for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Customers

PMD announces the signing of a new partnership agreement with GT International Co., Ltd. for distribution of PMD's motion control products in China, Hong Kong and ...

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S-Curve Motion Profiles - Vital For Optimizing Machine Performance

In this deep dive, we explain how to achieve smoother motion using S-curve motion profiles which a vital tool for improving point to point transfer speeds.

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Announcements

4 Steps to Precisely Control Motor Velocity at Low Speed

Low-speed precision velocity control is all in the filtering. In this blog post, Chuck Lewin provides a sequence of steps you can take to control low-speed motion.

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Robots in Motion: Innovations Move Forward

Here are some highlights of the latest information around robotic motion, controls, motors, precision, as well as how innovations in robot designs are driving the market for servo drives ...

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The Next Frontier for Medical Device Motion Controllers

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Motion Control Technology Trends for Medical and Laboratory Applications

In this article we will look at four important trends in motion control technology for applications involving medical and laboratory equipment.

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Articles

How to select an encoder

Big or small, the right encoder/sensor for your motion control application is crucial to meeting your system requirements. Before determining whether or not you need an encoder, or to ...

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Articles

Optimize A Control Architecture for High Accuracy Syringe Dispensing

Automated Liquid Handling systems are the preferred method when accurate dispensing of liquids is required. Two common architectures for dispensing are contact and jet ...

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Articles

Techniques That Improve Automated Packaging Equipment Performance

What are 3 core motion control techniques that can improve performance? Web Tension Control Proportional Material Spacing CAM-based profiling ...

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Articles

Get 2X Faster Development with Performance Motion Devices

For many OEMs, there’s no business case for do-it-yourself motion systems For OEMs like you, hitting your product introduction date is crucial. In fact, ...

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Announcements

AI in packaging: Defining terms, assessing impact—Part 2

Smart machines are built on smart components. As Performance Motion Devices CEO Chuck Lewin puts it, software-based ...

Articles

Improve Liquid Handling Robot Throughput with Direct Path Planning

Liquid Handling Robot systems are typically based on a gantry mechanism utilizing X, Y, and Z axis. While fast moves along a single axis can be obtained without undue ...

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Motion Controller Design Architectures - A Deep Dive

Get a detailed look at design choices for building a machine controller that provides precision motion control.

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Announcements

AI in packaging: Defining terms, assessing impact—Part 1

How data science intersects with machine engineering for smarter and more valuable packaging operations.

Case Studies

Pan and Tilt Camera Control

Pan and tilt systems used in today's robotics applications must move fast, smooth, and accurately. Read how an off-the-shelf motion solution maintains path to a lower cost custom ...

Case Studies

Peristaltic Pump Controller Solution Note

Understand what type of fluid pump works best, and what motor controllers deliver precision pumping. Understand how to achieve precision fluid handling.

Case Studies

Add a 5th Axis to 4-axis Medical Sample Delivery System

Struggling with adding an end effector to your multi-axis motion control application? Read how you can add a 5th axis to a medical sample delivery machine.

Case Studies

Microscope X-Y Stage Positioning Application

Looking to maximize accuracy, smoothness, and speed of microscope X-Y stage positioning? Try positioning with dual-loop control and S-curve motion.

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Precision Fluid Handling

Get a deep dive into the world of precision fluid handling and the motion control techniques that are used in this fast-growing field.

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Keep Your Step Motor Position with A Closed Loop Motion Control System

Step motors are a common solution for controlling the position of moving components. Learn about the benefits of using a closed-loop motion control system.

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Articles

Common Motion Problems and How to Fix Them - Part II

We continue with our deep dive series that gives you tools to diagnose common motion control problems and get your machine back on track!

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Common Motion Problems And How To Fix Them - Part III

We wrap up our common motion problems deep dive series on how to diagnose problems and get your machine back on track!

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Articles

Use Torque FeedForward to Get More From Your Motion Controller

In this article, we will look at torque control and the related subject of torque FeedFoward, which will make your equipment ...

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Articles

Packaging Automation - A Deep Dive

Get a closer look at packaging automation machines that dispense, seal, and label.

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Articles

Selecting The Right Motion Control Amplifier

Get a detailed look at motion control amplifiers. The choice when selecting an amplifier can have a big impact on your machine's cost and performance.

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Case Studies

Pick and Place Machine

Create motion control architecture that simplifies programming, provides fast pick & place transfers and supports multiple motor types.

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Design FAQs: Motion Control Amplifiers

What’s A Motion Control Amplifier? A motion control ...

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Commutation and Motor Control Techniques

Whether you build your own controller or buy off-the-shelf, knowing how to implement these new approaches is important for maximizing cost-effectiveness, and minimizing project ...

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Mathematics of Electronic Motor Control

In the last ten years several trends have been at work to drive the use of sophisticated, complex motor control algorithms. The most important trend is the desire for lower energy ...

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Articles

Motion Software - Part II

Part II of a two-part deep dive into the world of motion software - both the kind that lets you tune your system, and the kind used to write your machine's application code.

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Motion Control Software Setup - The Basics

Overview of the basics of setup and using motion control software. It includes a deep dive into our Pro-Motion development software.

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Motion Control ICs Make Their Move

Learn about choices in motion control electronics and focuses on cost savings that result in integrating functions that were previously separated.

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Motion Control Architectures

While advances in motion control are important, equally important are changes that have come in the area of the architecture of the motion controller.

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Case Studies

Multi-Chamber PID Pressure Control

Learn how to control the pressure of a single or multi-chamber PID pressure control using off-the-shelf motion control chips.

Case Studies

Regenerative Braking - A Use Case

Recapture the energy from a vehicle's braking & downhill operation to recharge the vehicle's battery.

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Low Cost End Effector Controller Solution Note

ow weight and precise torque control are the key to controlling very high-performance, general purpose end effectors.

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Motion Control Networks

Engineers face choices regarding motion control network buses, protocols, and a host of technical issues and this article lays out costs and features.

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Articles

Position Encoder Deep Dive: New Measurement Techniques Drive Data Formats

With positioning motion control applications, one position feedback device has been king of the hill for a long time - the incremental optical encoder with quadrature output. This ...

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Announcements

New Motion Control IC Designed for Velocity and Torque Motor Control

Ultra-efficient and Powerful Define New Family of Juno® Velocity and Torque Control ICs for Lab Automation and Healthcare Applications

Articles

Haptic Feedback in Motion Control

Motion control applications involving direct control by an operator, anyone from a pilot to a surgeon, remotely controlling a robot or mechanism are known as “telerobotic” systems. The ...

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Case Studies

High-Speed Centrifuge Motion Control Application

Create a centrifuge using a stand-alone machine controller that delivers high-speed BLDC rotation while maintaining perfect position registration.

Articles

Common Motion Problems and How to Fix Them - Part I

Everyone working in motion control has a war story; be it the machine that stopped working mysteriously or the motor that wouldn't stop vibrating. A deep dive provides some ammunition ...

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Case Studies

Eight-axis Automated Lighting Motion Controller

Automated lighting has become very complex. Read how to build an eight-axis motion controller that supports centralized synchronization and a mix of power.

Case Studies

Configuration Dependent Indexing Solutions

This use case presents how an external motion controller may be used as indexer in assembly systems with static or dynamic indexing configurations.

Case Studies

Improving Performance Of An Automatic Door Controller

Improve performance and lower maintenance costs of sliding doors that detect impediments with an electronic motion control system.

Case Studies

Blood Analyzer Motion Control Application

Using a blood analyzer as an example, get some insight on how to efficiently create a multi-motor, multi-axis motion control architecture that is compact.

Case Studies

How to Build An Automatic Product Labeler Solution

Here are some ways to build a product labeler application that precisely aligns to the moving product, but can be used with a variety of conveyor systems.

Articles

Regenerative Braking, Part II

The second part of our regenerative braking and battery regeneration deep-dive uses a theoretical model to prove the existence of steady state regeneration and provides insight ...

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Regenerative Braking - Part I: Steady State Analysis

In this two-part piece, we investigate the conditions at which battery regeneration can occur. The emphasis of this article is on regenerative braking and the analysis of a battery ...

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Articles

Top 10 Tips - Things to Know About Motion Controllers

Here are a few tips from the experts about the proper specification, location, and how to avoid mishaps.

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Case Studies

Spin Coating Application for Semiconductor Wafers

Accurate velocity contouring for controlled coating thickness is critical and this use case explains how to maximize uniformity of thin film thickness.

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Tuning Servo Motors

Get an overview of proportional, integral, derivative (PID) based servo loops, and learn about two new standard manual tuning methods that work well too.

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Case Studies

Web Tensioning Solution Note

High performance motion trace is the key to optimizing the design of a general purpose web tensioning motion controller.

Articles

Advanced Step Motor Control

A broad look at controlling step motors, including basic operating theory, and then introduce a range of new motion control techniques.

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Announcements

Integrated Circuits for Precise Step Motor Control and Safety

Juno Integrated Circuits (ICs) ideal for machine designs with limited space that require controlled noise, vibration and power consumption.

Datasheets

Juno Family of Velocity & Torque Control ICs Datasheet

Learn more about the Juno Family of ICs that provide advanced velocity and torque control for Brushless DC, DC Brush, and step motors.

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Announcements

Juno Gets Advanced Performance and Safety Features for Step Motor Control Systems

Latest Addition to Juno IC Family Provides Ultra-Smooth, Quiet Motor Operation with Advanced Current Control and Safety Features Specifically for Step Motors ...

Announcements

ATLAS Digital Amplifiers Expand Flexibility with New Communication Capabilities

Performance Motion Devices Delivers on Customer Requests for Additional Motion Control Options AACC 2018 and Westford, MA – July 31, ...

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Motoring to Success

Before selecting the best motor, or motors, for your design project, take time to understand what kind of positioning controls and functionality you need. In this article, ...

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User Guides

MC58000 Electrical Specifications

This manual describes the operational characteristics of the MC58000 Series Motion Processors from PMD. These devices are ...

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User Guides

MC58113 Electrical Specifications

This manual describes the electrical characteristics of the MC58113, MC53113, MC51113, and MC54113 motion control IC from PMD. These devices are members of PMD’s

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User Guides

MC55000 Electrical Specifications

This manual describes the operational characteristics of the MC55000 Series Motion Processors from PMD. These devices are members of PMD’s third-generation motion processor family.

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User Guides

Magellan Motion Control IC User Guide

The Magellan Motion Control IC User’s Guide supports the Magellan Family of ICs from PMD, including the MC58000 Series (DC brush, brushless DC, ...

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User Guides

Magellan Developer Kit User Manual

The PMD Magellan Motion Processor Developer’s Kit is an integrated board/software package that serves as an electrical and software design tool ...

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Magellan Motion Control IC Programmer's Command Reference

The Magellan Motion Control IC Programmer’s Command Reference supports the

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User Guides

DK58113 Developer Kit User Manual

The PMD Magellan DK58113 Developer Kit is an integrated board/software package that serves as an electrical and software design tool for ...

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User Guides

C-Motion Engine Development Tools Manual

Several products in the Prodigy family of Motion Control Cards and the ION family of digital drives provide a programmable C-Motion Engine (CME), which allows user application code to be ...

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User Guides

DK74113N Developer Kit User Manual

The PMD DK74113N Developer Kit is an integrated board/software package that serves as an electrical and software design tool for building systems that use the Juno 56-pin VQFN step motor ...

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User Guides

DK73112N Developer Kit User Manual

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User Guides

Juno Velocity & Torque Control IC Programming Reference

This guide describes the programming interfaces to the MC78113, MC71113, MC73113, MC74113, MC74113N, MC75113, MC75113N, MC71112, MC71112N, MC73112, and MC73112N ICs from Performance ...

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User Guides

Juno Step Motor Control IC User Guide

This manual describes the MC74113, MC74113N, MC75113 and MC75113N ICs from Performance Motion Devices, Inc. These devices comprise the step motor control ICs of PMD’s

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User Guides

Juno Torque Control IC User Guide

This manual describes the operational and control features of the Juno MC71112, MC71112N, MC73112, and MC73112N family of ICs.

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User Guides

MC78113 Electrical Specifications

This manual provides Electrical Specifications for the complete Juno family of Velocity & Torque Control ICs

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User Guides

DK78113 Developer Kit User Manual

The Juno Family of ICs provides advanced velocity and torque control for brushless DC, DC brush, and step motors. Available as a single, one-axis ...

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User Guides

Juno Velocity & Torque Control IC User Guide

This manual describes the Juno family of velocity & torque control ICs from Performance Motion Devices, Inc., consisting of the MC71113, MC73113, and MC78113 ICs for velocity control ...

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User Guides

Atlas Digital Amplifier User Guide

Atlas Digital Amplifiers are single-axis amplifiers that provide high performance torque control of brushless DC, step motor, and DC Brush motors. ...

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User Guides

Atlas Digital Amplifier Complete Technical Reference

This manual provides a description of the electrical and mechanical specifications for the Atlas Digital Amplifiers, along with a summary of its ...

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Announcements

Top 20 Medical Devices Design & Solution Provider

Performance Motion Devices is recognized in Embedded Advisor's special medical device issue as a Top 20 Medical Devices Design & Solutions provider.

Articles

Motion Performance Trace

Machine designers have a difficult task. More often than not they are asked to squeeze the maximum possible performance out of a machine design for the lowest possible cost. To ...

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Techniques to Precisely Synchronize Motion Axes - A Deep Dive

Many motion applications require precise synchronization of one or more axes. Understand some of the important approaches toward motion synchronization and have some fun with a ...

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User Guides

ION/CME Digital Drive User Manual

This manual provides a complete user guide for the ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives. For documentation on other members of the ION Digital Drive ...

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User Guides

ION Digital Drive User Manual

The ION Digital Drives are a family of single-axis motion controllers with integrated power electronics and network communications. Various models ...

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Articles

Phase Initialization Step By Step Guide

Here's your step by step guide to phase initialization on the Navigator and Pilot motion control processors.

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Announcements

Meet the Juno IC family.

You've never met this much power, control, and safety in an IC this compact.

Articles

WPI’s CARP Robotic System

The goal of this project was to bridge the gap between robotic and human capabilities through the development of a custom autonomous robotic painter.

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Datasheets

Atlas Digital Amplifier Datasheet

Learn more about ATLAS® Digital Amplifiers, our compact single-axis amplifiers that provide high-performance torque control for DC brush, Brushless DC, and step motors.

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Datasheets

ION Digital Drives Datasheet

Learn more about ION® Digital Drives, our compact, fully enclosed modules that provide high-performance motion control, network connectivity and power ...

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Datasheets

Magellan Family of Motion Control ICs Datasheet

Learn more about our Magellan® Family of Motion Control ICs that provide breakthrough motion control for medical, scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic ...

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Datasheets

Magellan MC58113 Series Motion Control ICs Datasheet

Learn more about our Magellan® MC58113 Series Motion Control ICs provide high-performance motion control with an integrated digital current loop.

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User Guides

Prodigy/CME Machine-Controller Motion Control Board User Guide

Prodigy®/CME Machine-Controller boards provide high-performance motion control for medical, scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications. ...

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User Guides

Prodigy/CME PC/104 User Guide

Prodigy ®/CME PC/104 boards provide all the features of the regular Prodigy PC/104 boards but add the capability to download and run C-language programs directly. These ...

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User Guides

Prodigy/CME Stand-Alone Motion Control Board User Guide

Prodigy ®/CME Stand-Alone boards provide high-performance board-level motion control for scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications in a ...

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User Guides

Prodigy PC/104 Motion Card User Guide

Prodigy®-PC/104 boards provide high-performance board-level motion control for scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications in a PC/104 compatible board ...

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Datasheets

Prodigy/CME Machine Controller Board Datasheet

Learn more about our Prodigy®/CME Machine Controller Boards that provide high-performance motion control for medical, scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications.

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User Guides

PMD Resource Access Protocol Programmer's Reference

The PMD Resource access Protocol (PRP) is used to communicate with PMD products incorporating a

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Datasheets

Prodigy Motion Boards Datasheet

Our Prodigy® Motion Boards provide high-performance board-level motion control for scientific, automation, industrial, and robotic applications.

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User Guides

Prodigy PCI Motion Control Board User Guide

The Prodigy-PCI Motion Cards are high-performance PCI-bus boards which provide motion control for DC ...

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User Guides

Prodigy/CME PCI Motion Control Board User's Guide

The Prodigy-PCI Motion Cards are high-performance PCI-bus boards which ...

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Build vs Buy Of A Three Axis Motion Controller On-demand

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We put performance in motion.

Motion Control News

Build vs Buy, Single-axis Motion Control ICs, Digital Current Loops, and more

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Build vs Buy Of A Three Axis Motion Controller

Product Highlights

Single Axis Motion Control IC Provides Profile Generation, Servo Control, and Advanced Current Control

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Digital Current Loop Significantly Quiets Step Motor Noise

Webinars

N Serisi ION®/CME Dijital Sürücü Tanıtımı

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Tiny and Mighty Motors

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PMD Announced As Winner In The Actuators, Motors, Drives Category

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Einführung der ION®/CME N-Serie Digitale Laufwerke

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Using FeedForward to Get More From Your Motion Controller, Machine Design Interview, plus more

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Motors and Motion for Medical Devices

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Feedforward in Motion Control - Vital for Improving Positioning Accuracy

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New Control Technique Combines Servo Performance With Step Motor Cost

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Presentazione degli azionamenti digitali ION®/CME N-Series

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Insider Interview with Bob Vavra of Machine Design & Electronic Design

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The Role of Miniaturization in Space and Defense Applications

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Motion Control for Healthcare Robotics Applications: Requirements and Capabilities

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Advanced Motion Control for Robotics Systems

Articles

Is There Life without the PLC? How to Build a Better Embedded Controller

Webinars

Introducing ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives On-Demand

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Motor Drive Design Trends that Power Automation and Robotics Equipment

Motion Control News

Compact PCB-mountable Drive, Building a 3-axis Gantry, and Motion Kinematics

Application Examples

Two Approaches To Building A 3-Axis Gantry Controller Board

Product Highlights

New Ultra-compact PCB-Mountable High-performance Motion Control Drives

Articles

Motion Kinematics

Webinars

Motion Control Solutions to Solve Your Engineering Demands and Challenges

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Next-Gen Motor Drives for Portable Medical Applications

Datasheets

ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives Datasheet

Announcements

PMD Launches Revolutionary New Ultra-Compact Motion Controller

Motion Control News

Miniaturization Challenges, Servo Motor Tuning, FOC, Mouser and More

Articles

Motion Control Goes Small

Articles

Servo Motor Tuning – Rocket Science or Walk In the Park?

Articles

Field Oriented Control (FOC) - A Deep Dive

Articles

Mechanical Resonant Frequency and How to Analyze It

Announcements

PMD Motion Control Products Now Available Through Mouser

Webinars

Integrating Motion Control and Robot Safety

Motion Control News

Solving Mobile Robotics Problems, New Motion Board with UDPM, ISO 13485

Webinars

Connected Health: The Miniaturization of Medical - Part 2