Motion Controls

G&L Controls sells Danaher digital motion controllers for up to 64 axes (16 for the drive-resident control card), and can be daisy chained up to 16 drives using cat5 ethernet cable as well as standalone 32 and 64 axis models.

Motion Control Products Ltd makes multi axis motion controllers including the Maestro model with 126 axes of motion per CANbus on a real time network, offering two to 16 axes of interpolated control with 36 digital / analog inputs and outputs featuring electronic gearing, master/slave cascading, and circular, linear, and spline interpolation.

ACS Motion Control offers off the shelf products such as pc based motion controllers, panel mounted controllers, rack-mount controllers, integrated control modules, and modular control modules as well as completely customized OEM products to fit whatever specifications you require.

Newport makes the SMC100 single-axis motor controller with advanced backlash and hysteresis compensation mode, internal RS-485 link for networking up to 31 controllers together, multi-axis programming, and enhanced safety system.

Galil makes single axis motion controllers for single or 1 1/2 axis applications with digital inputs of 3, 8, or 7, two analog inputs, 3/10 digital outputs, auxiliary encoder, and a 37-pinD connector.

Strategi makes PC based multi axis motion controllers with up to 8 axes per card for stepper and servo motors as well as hydraulics and pneumatics, features various bus options including ISA, compact PCI, PCI, VME, and PC/104 as well as interfaces including CAD, HPGL, G-codes, and more.

Click Automation offers motion controllers from Logosol, a high speed RS485 motion network with up to 32 intelligent drives and I/O nodes on a single multi-drop full duplex network as well as Galil motion controllers including their Optima series multi-axis controllers and their Econo single-axis controllers.