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Fast and flexible motion control software development: Elmo Motion Composer2, SIL (Software in the Loop) tool available for Platinum series intelligent servo drives
Elmo Motion Control’s Platinum series advanced servo drives feature EtherCAT™ networking for ultra-fast machine synchronised single and multi-axis motion, and industry leading levels of functional safety. With full support from Elmo’s UK distribution partner, Heason Technology, these impressive drives are now available with Elmo’s free-to-use Motion Composer2 tool allowing machine designers to easily develop, test and implement user-specific motion and machine control algorithms as drive level SIL (Software in the Loop) commands. Integrated as a module within MathWorks® Simulink® Real Time Workshop, Motion Composer2 features an assortment of servo performance, motion profiling, communications, and robot kinematics-based library blocks that are assembled, cross-compiled and downloaded to the Platinum drive. Enabling rapid…
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APPLICATION NOTE: Motion control for farm automation: Heason Technology motion system automates Pharmweigh’s new weigh crate
Pharmweigh, based near Bury St Edmunds -UK, is a leading designer and manufacturer of high-quality livestock and agricultural weighing equipment. Its load bars – portable weighing systems for all types of livestock, as well as feed mills and bagging etc. – are highly regarded for their exceptionally long life and high reliability. The same highly robust load-cell technology is widely adapted across many of Pharmweigh’s products which include drafting crates and platforms equipped with weighing scales, indicators, electronic ID and livestock auto markers. Pharmweigh’s latest innovation, the Draft Master Auto Drafter, is a sheep and pig weighing and drafting (sorting) crate that includes a 4-axis motion control system from Heason…
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Electric actuators for high duty-cycle positioning tasks: Thomson’s Electrak® LL series linear actuators available from Heason Technology
Recently announced by Thomson Industries Inc., and available in the UK from authorised distributor, Heason Technology, the new Electrak® LL actuator series builds upon the well-proven Thomson Electrak range with a high-performance and high-efficiency brushless motor and integral electronics that eliminates the need for standalone control. The IP66 harsh environment rated actuator perfectly suits mobile battery powered end-to-end positioning tasks especially where high duty-cycle use prevails. As a compelling and cost-effective alternative to fluid-power cylinders, the Electrak LL series impresses for positioning and lifting applications used on mobile machinery, door, gate and hatch controls, pick & place and materials handling equipment. The Electrak LL complies to the railway standards EN…
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Heason Technology welcomes Jon Howard as Elmo Motion UK’s new managing director
Heason Technology warmly welcomes the recent appointment of Jon Howard as the new managing director for the UK subsidiary of Elmo Motion Control. As a longstanding UK distribution partner, and fully equipped with its own design and applications engineering teams, Heason works closely with Elmo – combining servo drives and advanced network motion controllers from the global motion systems designer and manufacturer’s comprehensive range as part of its own motion systems integration service. In fact, Jon Howard is no stranger to Heason – or indeed to Elmo Motion – as many customers will remember his heading Heason Technology over several years up to late 2018. Jon’s extensive knowledge of the…
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Kollmorgen announce obsolescence of Servostar 400 Series servo drives
Kollmorgen, the global motion component and systems manufacturer, has announced the discontinuation of all variants of its S400 Series servo drive product line. Although this digital multi-axis motion control system has been successfully implemented in a wide variety of applications for many years, it has become more and more uneconomical to manufacture. Orders will be accepted up to June 30th 2020, with deliveries continuing until 30th June 2021 – beyond this time remaining stocks can be supplied on request but only for a limited time. As a longstanding UK distribution partner with Kollmorgen, and as a systems integrator and manufacturer of precision servo actuators, positioning systems and motion control solutions,…
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Heason Technology technical note: Motion control can improve performance and efficiency for waste recycling
As waste recycling industries increasingly look towards technology to improve efficiency and productivity, many are turning to motion control as part of automation systems that improve throughput and optimise processing quality. With the already ubiquitous use of sophisticated automated systems in large-scale industrial waste processing plants where significant improvements continue to be made possible, manufacturers of special purpose equipment are turning to problem solving for smaller food waste, general waste recycling and materials recovery requirements that are found, for instance, in industrial kitchens, restaurant groups, food outlet chains, supermarkets and logistics companies. These application areas, just like their large scale counterparts, are characterised by the need to efficiently process waste…
