Robotics in Manufacturing: Precision Zone’s visit to the 2019 Automate Show

            This April we attended the 2019 Automate Show at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. At this show, we saw many different applications for robotic arms and other external devices, such as conveyors, rotaries, and vision systems, in a CNC application and other applications as well. There were many companies that we were able to talk to like Yaskawa America, Fanuc America Corporation, Cognex Corporation, and Universal Robot to name a few.

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Why would you want to retrofit?

Be it an old machine that has outstanding tolerance and repeatability or a side project being started in the garage, a Centroid control retrofit can be a cost-effective and user-friendly method of getting a potentially scrap machine back to life. Read More

One of the problems that can affect BL AC Servo Motors is demagnetization. There are a couple of checks you can do in your shop to see if the magnetization is good or not. Read More

In Okuma’s Motion Control System there two parts that run the system. They are the DC power supply unit and the MIV inverter unit.Read More