Oriental Motors Online Catalog for Factory Automation Network

Oriental Motors has a new interactive online catalog for Factory Automation Networks that highlights the products they manufacture for industrial communication protocols, such as EtherNet/IP and EtherCAT. You can view new catalog here and see what Oriental Motor offers for smarter, connected factories. You can also see the products on Oriental Motor’s Industrial Network Products […]

Yaskawa & Oriental Motors AZ Series & Robot Demo Video

Robotic arm demo utilizes products from Oriental Motor’s AZ Series AlphaStep Hybrid Control System family of products, including the new AZ Series Compact Driver. They demonstrate and goes over Oriental Motor’s AZ Series stepper motors with Yaskawa’s compact drivers on a 7-axis articulated robot. AZ Series Stepper Motors with Mechanical Absolute Encoder The AlphaStep AZ […]

Everything you need to know about stepper motors

Stepper motors are popular for their ability to position easily and accurately.  The travel amount and the speed can be easily controlled by a digital pulse signal.  Unlike servo motors, stepper motors do not require encoders or complicated PID loops to operate. Easy to Use: 34% Inexpensive: 17% Simple Operation: 16% No Tuning: 12% Other: 21% Therefore, […]