The Rock-Tenn paperboard mill in Aurora, Ill., automated the positioning and tensioning of belts on its conveyor system with low-cost motors and drives paired with absolute encoders. When the Rock ...

“The DUS60’s anti-dither feature is particularly beneficial for conveyor belt installations where signal evaluation of just one encoder channel is commonly used. In these installations the rotational ...

In many applications, move profiles are created by defining and piecing together several move segments. For applications in which the total number of motor and encoder steps covered is critical ...

Analyzing a Rotary Encoder that has been Operating Erratically A rotary encoder converts the position of a rotating shaft into a series of digital pulses. In this example, the pulses are monitored by ...