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‘Stepper Motor Drives’

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Start with the news release Micro stepper motors bring pictures into focus from EMS, which we summarised at the time by saying "Electro Mechanical Systems has supplied Precistep micro-stepper motors to Life Optics to allow it to develop a compact, reliable and light-weight head-mounted microscope.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Q-Sys provides custom-designed motion systems from Q-Sys: "Q-Sys offers a complete design-and-build service for all types of precision motion and positioning systems. ".
 
In November 2009, we covered the news from ABB Automation Tech (Drives and Motors) - take a look at ABB drives reduce swimming pool energy bills which says: "ABB drives have helped a UK holiday park operator save GBP77,000 a year on energy bills for its swimming pools. ".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Heason Technology, Actuator system for sampling applications, as well as Fluke offers trial promotion of Ti9 thermal imager from Fluke (UK), and DC motors engineered for transportation purposes from Ametek Technical and Industrial Products.
 

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GE controller firmware has online programming (November 2009)

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released its Versamax Micro Plus controller firmware revision 4.0.

Igus energy-supply system comprises 200 products (November 2009)

Igus has introduced six product lines to its Triflex R system of third-generation six-axis robot energy chains.

Centa offers bespoke transmission designs (November 2009)

Centa Transmissions can create bespoke powertrain designs for wind, wave, tidal and solar power systems.

Viscotec devises drive solution for dosage units (November 2009)

Viscotec Pumpen and Faulhaber have devised a drive solution for dosage units on a system that comprises a fast DC drive and high-precision piezo rotary drive, mounted on a common spindle.

ABB drives reduce chilled-water energy bill (November 2009)

Eight ABB standard drives are saving Ginsters bakery a potential 17 per cent annually on its chilled-water energy bill, following installation on chiller pumps at its Callington bakery in Cornwall.

Instron unveils SI Series impact testing machine (November 2009)

Instron has introduced the SI Series motorised pendulum impact testing machine (Model SI-1M) with Fracta software for the data acquisition and calculation of energy.

Haydonkerk unveils programmable actuator with GUI (November 2009)

Haydonkerk Motion Solutions has introduced the Haydon Idea Drive stepper-motor linear actuator.

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