Webcasts and Podcasts

In this podcast Lee Stephens, senior motion control engineer at Danaher Motion talks about how modeling fits into motion control design strategy.

An Ear For Motion Control is part of the Motion Control Series Podcast from Design News.

Honda's ASIMO project leader Stephen Keeney speaks about the technologies that made ASIMO run and the prospect of the robot as a humanoid helper.

In this podcast Dr. Eric Warren, Evernham Motorsports technical director and a PhD aerospace engineer, talks about how CNC machining, robotics and linear drive systems are giving NASCAR teams an edge on race day.

In this podcast, Bruce Kucera, vice president of Norland International, explains how his company created a blow-molding machine specifically for use with polylactic acid (PLA), one of the biopolymers.

In this podcast, Kathy Wettschurack, Warsaw's executive vice president and chief design engineer, talks about the design of their new CNC bandsaw from Warsaw Machinery.

In this podcast, Novint CEO Tom Anderson talks about the design of the Falcon, a new haptic computer game controller getting lots of attention for its ability to let users to "touch" objects within virtual game environments.

Stephen Kundel talks about a way to use a handful of powerful permanent magnets to create simple motors that have no conventional windings. The same technology can also be used in linear drive systems that have drastically reduced power requirements.

In this podcast David Platus, founder of Minus K Technology, describes talks about negative stiffness mechanisms as a way to fight low-frequency vibration.

Podcast from Fenner Precision, a recognized global leader for belts, tires and pulleys for use in paper propulsion, motion control and power transmission applications.

Information on solutions, new ideas for improving productivity, and ways to improve your manufacturing with GE Fanuc's new automation podcasting series.

Podcast from Fenner Precision on Multi-V Belts for motion control.

Design World Podcasts features a large resource of motion control podcast series including Matt's Minutes and Miles on Motion.

This regularly produced podcast focuses on Rockwell Automation products including Allen-Bradley brand controllers and PLC's, automation networks such as ControlNet, EtherNet/IP, and DeviceNet, RSLogix software and a wide-range of other control tem related topics.

Here is a webcast that shows more advanced motion control programming techniques, including blended moves, electronic gearing, camming, and 3D motion control functions. Add charts in LabVIEW to monitor torque and velocity. Calculate motor sizing requirements and analyze machine performance parameters such as cycle time and throughput.

In this webcast you will learn about five motion control technologies that are essential to lower cost and increase efficiency of your machines.

In this webcast precision motion control technology consultant Guy Bouvrée will describe some of the requirements, components, and design constraints of next-generation motion systems. Mr. Bouvrée has been designing, selling, installing and servicing precision motion systems around the world for more than 25 years.

This webcast will investigate sources of motion errors, including mechanical and control limitations with further discussion on design considerations to minimize these error contributions so that the highest degree of success can be achieved.

This webcast presents a market overview as well as Advantech's Machine Automation strategies, including five application-ready solutions.

This hour-long webcast will examine why industrial protocols are moving to Ethernet, and introduce specific Ethernet protocols, such as PROFINET, EtherCAT and EtherNET/IP. Expert speakers will provide an Ethernet overview, define terminology and cite specific application examples.