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EtherCAT Hexapod Travels to Europe

Why is the EtherCAT Hexapod heading to Europe?   Originally designed and built for the Manufacturing and Engineering Show back in July 2015, our EtherCAT Hexapod has proved to be extremely popular with Heason customers.  It features a series of VLPSC sensors supplied by Variohm...

Sensor Analysis in Action: Heason Technology Linearity Test Rig

Designed and manufactured on-site by our team of Engineering specialists, for our sister company Variohm EuroSensor, the Linearity Test Rig is a cutting edge piece of Automated Test Equipment (ATE) used to assess the performance of sensors as they complete their manufacturing process What is the...

How Does a Stepper Motor Work?

How a Stepper Motor Works A stepper motor works when the electromagnets in the stator are switched off and on, then the parts of the rotor will be either drawn toward or repelled away from the magnet. This will cause the rotor to rotate in steps, hence the name 'Stepper...

Adopting Direct Drive Technology into Modern Automation Equipment

What is Direct Drive Technology? Direct Drive Technology involves the use of a Direct Drive Mechanism. A Direct Drive Mechanism is one that takes the power coming from a servo motor without any reductions, directly coupling to the customer’s payload. What are the advantages of Direct...

Optimally Sizing a Servo Motor for your Application

Adopting Kollmorgen’s Motioneering Tool, Jon will be providing a series of Master Classes with detailed worked examples for a variety of mechanical configurations. What will the class include? Jon’s latest master class looks at sizing servo motors and drives for ballscrew driven...