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Essentials of Motion Control
Elevate Your Motion Knowledge
Looking to get continuous education credits by the end of the year? Take the Essentials of Motion Control online course to learn more about motors, drives and techniques for optimizing motion. It’s free, self-paced, and offers the instruction and tests you need to succeed in your continuing education goals.
Duration: 6 h
Language: English
Instructors: Emily Blanchard & Gordon Ritchie
This new Essentials of Motion Control class, you’ll follow the path from electrical energy to physical motion, focusing on every opportunity to optimize motor efficiency and performance. Ready to get moving?
This course is for engineers and industry professionals seeking to learn about motion.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the relationship between electricity and magnetism
- Define and differentiate step, brushed, and brushless servo motors
- Balance the affects of inertia with system requirements
- Describe how resolution and inertia effect performance
- Identify and leverage motion types for move efficiency
Instructors:
Emily Blanchard & Gordon Ritchie
On Demand Webinars
Interactive Webinar
Machine Safety: Welcome to a New Era of Protection and Productivity
Learn about the evolution of machine safety—from cages and disrupted production to light curtains and continuous production in the age of industry 4.0. Understand the value of functional safety and how safety+productivity practically eliminates traditional machine shutdowns without putting operators at risk.
Topics include:
- An overview of the safety assessment process
- SIL, PL and Category: what do they mean?
- Examples of risk reduction and functional safety
Presenter:
Chris Radley, Senior Manager
Chris Radley has over 40 years of experience in the motion control and automation industry as an application engineer, design engineer, field service technician and product line manager. For the last 22 years, Chris has been part of the Kollmorgen technical marketing team, focused on products, markets and applications. He provides expertise for solving application challenges using the products and solutions best suited to each individual customer’s needs.
Interactive Webinar
How to Optimize Motion Sizing
You've sized a motion system, but now what? You find yourself in competition with other machine builders for the contract to supply the machine. Do you need to compromise on price? Or can you win the sale with superior engineering?
In this webinar you will learn:
- What to consider when provided with a solution list
- The new and better standard for fine-tuning inertia ratios
- Selecting systems that “break the rules”
About the Presenter:
Gordon Ritchie, Technical Training Manager
Gordon Ritchie has over 31 years of experience partnering with machine builders to design motion solutions across the broadest array of applications. He teaches more than 60 technical motion classes each year as well as mentoring application and technical support teams. Gordon Ritchie has over 31 years of experience partnering with machine builders to design motion solutions across the broadest array of applications. He teaches more than 60 technical motion classes each year as well as mentoring application and technical support teams.
Interactive Webinar
Closed! Resolving Servo Feedback Choices
A feedback device’s job is to constantly communicate speed and position to the servo drive. This communication is the very definition of what makes a servomechanism a closed loop system. Choosing the correct feedback device is an important consideration. Kollmorgen motion expert, Kenny Hampton, will review various feedback devices, sharing advice on pros and cons, and offer practical guidance about making the right choice for your specific application.
In this session you will learn:
- The difference between absolute and incremental devices
- The difference between analog and digital devices
- Typical applications for various devices
- How to choose the best feedback device for your specific application
- How the devices affect system performance
Presenter:
Kenny Hampton, Application Engineer
Kenny Hampton is an experienced Level 2 Applications Engineer with over 26 years of experience supporting Kollmorgen motion customers. Kenny is also an instructor for the Kollmorgen S700, AKD and AKD BASIC Training Courses, and Advanced AKD Tuning.
Interactive Webinar
Tips and Tricks for the Workbench Scope Tool
The AKD and AKD2G Scope Tool can be used to capture data in many different ways. These tricks can be used to help you understand the finer points of the tool. You will develop a better understanding of the tool and discover some techniques that can enhance your troubleshooting skills.The AKD and AKD2G Scope Tool can be used to capture data in many different ways. These tricks can be used to help you understand the finer points of the tool. You will develop a better understanding of the tool and discover some techniques that can enhance your troubleshooting skills.
You will learn:
- What is the Position window?
- How does the Scope affect the trigger?
- What part does the Level play in the trigger?
- How to use DRV.ACTIVE to trigger the scope
- How to use one axis to trigger the scope and capture the other axis
Instructor:
Latonya Scott, Application Engineer
Latonya is a seasoned Kollmorgen Application Engineer, with extensive experience assisting customers with the sizing, selection, and implementation of motion solutions across a breadth of applications. She is a regular instructor for popular Kollmorgen technical courses including AKD BASIC and Motion 101.
Interactive Webinar
Hygenic Design: How Cable& Connection Decisions Address Critical Control Points
You’ve chosen a hygienic motor. Now, how do you connect it while ensuring your hygienic design. In fact, cables and connections can ensure the reliability of the hygienic motor. Learn how to establish a reliable hygienic design in this webinar session.
In this session you will learn:
- How to identify a hygienic motor
- How to select connectors and their placement
- What cable types ensure reliability and hygiene
Presenter:
Andy Sitzberger, Senior Field Sales Engineer
As a Field Sales Engineer, Andy has over 13 years of experience assisting customers as technical advisor and solution strategist. His dedication to motion control and service have made him an integral asset to help solve demanding motion challenges.
Interactive Webinar
AKD2G Setup: I/O, Motion Tasks and the Scope Tool
If you have some experience with the AKD or AKD2G, but want a little more in the form of a guided setup, then join us for this webinar. Learn best practices across all key steps of set-up, with the opportunity to ask your specific questions to our motion experts.
You will learn:
- How to set up the I/O
- Create motion tasks
- Trigger both axes from one input
- Tune the axes
- Setup the scope tool to capture both axes – before and after tuning
Instructor:
Gordon Ritchie, Technical Training Manager
Gordon Ritchie will be your expert training specialist with over 30 years experience in providing detailed application support to machine builders.
Interactive Webinar
Taking Control: How to Create High Performance Motion in Your Machine
How does a machine builder create high performance motion without sacrificing time and money? Learn how to take control of your machine motion performance in this webinar session presented by Ron Van Bruwaene.
In this session you'll learn:
- How high performance motion creates ready to use parts and products
- Which controllers the machine requires: machine, motion, or both
- Why and how the performance of both individual components and systems matters
- How to select controllers and components
Presenter:
Ron Van Bruwaene, Senior Field Sales Engineer
Ron has helped innovators make better machines since 2001. With his extensive knowledge of controls and machine performance, he consistently helps solve demanding motion challenges.
Interactive Webinar
AKD2G Workbench Guided Tour: No Passport Required
Need to master the new AKD2G Workbench? Whether you’re brand new to the AKD family, or familiar with the first generation, this guided tour of AKD2G Workbench will give you the fundamentals you need to build confidence and accelerate your productivity.
You will learn:
- Essential configuration settings
- Quick diagnosis of faults and warnings
- How to use built-in tools for greater performance
- Answers to your questions
Instructor:
Gordon Ritchie, Technical Training Manager
Gordon Ritchie will be your expert training specialist with over 30 years experience in providing detailed application support to machine builders.
Access the on demand Webinar! - Motioneering How-To
Know your application requirements but not the necessary torque and speed? Learn how to use Kollmorgen’s Motioneering tool to size your mechanism project, and find motor and drive pairings that fit your needs.
Learn how to navigate the latest version of Motioneering: A Faster, Feature-Rich Online Servo Sizing Tool for Machine Builders.
Painless Frameless: Implementing and Installing Frameless Motors
Are you interested in frameless motors but daunted by the challenge of integrating one into your design? This concern has kept many machine design engineers from embedding these power and torque dense motors into their applications. See how you can do this.
You'll learn:
- What level of performance improvement you can expect from frameless motors
- Design and installation “how to’s”
- How to evaluate drive amplifier and feedback, and machine system thermal concerns
- Basic tools to help you optimize frameless performance in your application
Presenter:
Tom S. Wood, Frameless Motor Specialist
Tom S. Wood, will lead this interactive webinar and answer your application-specific questions.
