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Three motion control trends for 2023

Control Engineering

Supply chain issues: The trend that just won’t quit. It’s impossible to look at any aspect of manufacturing without addressing the elephant in the room: Pandemic-induced supply chain issues continue to impact almost every industry.

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Making machine control open, secure

Control Engineering

Understand some of the challenges manufacturers and end users face with these control systems, which are vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks. Traditional challenges facing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) machine builders, and the end users they serve, often involve maximizing production rates, quality and uptime.

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Low voltage ac drive unit sales grow thanks to strong Asia market

Control Engineering

Supply chain problems, semiconductor shortages and the war in Ukraine continue to affect global markets. Research from Interact Analysis reveals order backlogs resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic fueled the sector over the year, while most drive manufacturers also reported price increases in 2022.

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Integrated stepper motors trim accurate metal forming costs

Control Engineering

With the previous system, we sourced the encoder separately and built it on the back of the motor,” Molleran said. “To However, cost constraints and COVID-related supply chain issues have delayed the design upgrade. . Now, all of that is integrated within the motor itself. .

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Automotive lidar’s role growing because of increased use of autonomous vehicles

Control Engineering

Lidar systems emit their own light, making them less susceptible to interference from external sources such as sunlight, fog, or rain. However, lidar is still relatively immature compared to cameras and radars due to its unestablished supply chain, unclear market landscape, and high price point.

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Hannover Messe 2023 Day One: Manufacturers emphasizing industrial transformation, flexibility

Control Engineering

Automation remains a major priority for manufacturers looking to keep up with demand as labor woes continue to persist. So do supply chain challenges, though they aren’t as a big a problem as they were in 2022. We’re about saving resources and having the customer use our products to gather the data they need.”

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Six industrial robotics trends for 2023

Control Engineering

Sustainability is a growing trend throughout manufacturing and industrial robots are no exception. External factors, from the pandemic to geopolitical insecurities and supply chain issues, have had an outsize impact on the industrial robotics sector in recent years.

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