Application Spotlight: Micro Machining Calls for Maximum Motion Control

Creating extremely small components calls for a special breed of machining equipment. We look at a Chicagoland company that designs and builds this specialized machinery, with a focus on a technology secret that maximizes the machine’s compactness, speed, and quality.

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00:00:17 [Music] Micro Lucien specializes in high-precision machines for small parts and in particular making very small features on small parts smaller we can make the moving parts of the machine the faster we can make machine move in general the smaller the machine the less floor space and less cost it has to the customer we needed a very small compact

00:00:49 solution but also something that we could make hold up to the rigors of the industrial environment that our machines go into one technology for rotary tables is to use a motor to drive some sort of gear and the problem with that for our use is that the motor is disconnected from the load of the of the stage and so any backlash in the gear leads to some level of inaccuracy on the table

00:01:20 the direct drive allows us to reduce the cycle time of the process if the part has multiple features and you have to move the amount of time that you're spending moving is time that they're not adding value to the part it's just part of the cycle time the direct drive rotary table enabled us to speed up the process by end of 20 percent more parts per hour more better return on

00:01:43 investment for the customer the scallop products are very nicely packaged motor to drive it's a very easy set up process in general we've been able to do everything pretty much on our own the control brand that we use communicates very well with with the Escala drive as well in general was set up is quite easy we've been very happy with the Escala products we proceeded continuing to use

00:02:08 them in our products into the future ultimately it leads to better return on investment for our customer in the machine you