Drives & Controls Magazine October 2024

36 n PRECISION ENGINEERING AND MOTION CONTROL October 2024 www.drivesncontrols.com turnkey systems, including multi-axis designs, manufacturers are likely to become more involved with controller programming. In addition, precise, compact, and highly reliable drive systems will be even more in demand as OEMs look to boost the performance and efficiency of their applications. While the DC motor has been around for a long time and won't change fundamentally, we will see improved manufacturing tolerances and stronger magnets, creating more powerful motors for their size. Commodity designs China and South-East Asia continue to make most of the world’s miniature motors, typically producing commodity designs for consumer electronics and high-volume automotive uses. Yet, brands developing premium motor and drive systems with characteristics such as precision, optimised torque densities and long service lives, are predominantly based in Europe and North America, and continue to have strong markets in these regions. The UK and Ireland will remain important for the precision drive market thanks to the requirements of the high-tech industrial base, such as the medical, automotive and aviation sectors. The UK continues to offer fertile ground for developing start-up projects that go on to thrive. Significant to this is the strength of UK universities, and government and industry support for STEM subjects. Future projects involving miniature motors and drive systems for precision applications will continue to rely on engineering expertise. The higher the demands on the drive system, the more important the initial design concept will become. As a result, the most successful projects will involve partnerships between design and drive system engineers that deliver optimum performance – on time. n Miniature drive systems can combine motors, gearheads, encoders and drives, resulting in compact devices MODULAR AN CONTROLLERS I/OS INTEGRA Service e Softwar Hardware STEPPER CLOSED LO STEPLESS™ TECHNO T-IN ALL BUIL BRUSHLESS OR STEP AC A 400VAC OR 230V PLC / SMART DRIVES OPCONTROL OLOGY WITH BRUSHLESS MOTORS LESS M COM NEW 2024 ODER XES Y GEARBOX PLANETARY PRECISION R MOTION CONTROL FOR INDUSTRIAL MPLETE SYSTEMS STEPPER WITH ENC DRIVE In automation, speed is ever systems with turnkey configurat Our solutions are flexible, open The result: high performing mult ything. CMZ e tions reducing the time to market for O to connectivity and customizable upon ti-axis control with unique and special f ftware complete EMs of automatic machines. customer's project. eatures. cmz.it IN ITALY

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