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Motion and Controls
Broad category of devices for guiding, sensing, measuring, and controlling single or multi-axis linear and rotary motion.
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Bearings and Bushings(1343 companies) Mechanical components used to reduce friction and carry loads for rotary or linear motion; include ball and roller bearings, plain bearings, sleeve bushings, and other configurations.
Clutches and Brakes(569 companies) Driveline components used to transmit and control power and relative motion between two rotating shafts.
Drive Components(2425 companies) Driveline components, including gears, sprockets, belts and pulleys, for transmitting and controlling power and motion.
Encoders and Resolvers(463 companies) Motion feedback devices providing position and velocity information to closed-loop control systems.
Limit Switches(330 companies) An electromechanical device that requires physical contact of an actuator to make the contacts change state.
Linear Actuators(1285 companies) Linear actuators provide linear motion via a motor driven ball screw, lead screw, acme screw, or belt drive assembly.
Linear and Rotary Motion Components(1943 companies) Components used in the assembly of linear or rotary motion systems, such as ball screws, lead screws, slides, stages, and actuators.
Linear Position Sensing(827 companies) Devices used to measure the linear displacement of an object.
Machine and Motion Controllers(2684 companies) Devices combining multiple elements of motion control, such as a motor, controller, and drive, into unified single-axis or multi-axis packages.
Magnets(348 companies) A magnet is simply any material capable of attracting iron and producing a magnetic field outside itself, either naturally or induced.
Motor Controls and Drives(1801 companies) Includes devices for the analog and digital control of motor motion for many types of motors.
Motors(2576 companies) All types of rotary and linear motors, including AC, DC, servo, stepper, induction, hydraulic, pneumatic motors.
Operator Interfaces(992 companies) Display screens, pushbuttons, keyboards, lights, and other control devices used to interact with computers, sensors and other equipments.
Orientation Position Sensing(650 companies) Sensors and instruments used to detect rotary position, angular position, tilt, or inclination relative to the horizon or a linear position.
Piezoelectric Devices(95 companies) Piezoelectric devices encompass a group of actuators, motors and amplifiers/drivers that use piezoelectric materials to move or microposition components.
Pneumatics and Pneumatic Components(4714 companies) Pneumatic power sources, actuators and accessories, such as compressors, cylinders, motors, control valves, manifolds, filters, dryers, and regulators.
Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides(1251 companies) Linear and rotary positioning tables, carriages, and slides, both powered and unpowered, including integral bearings and guides.
Power Transmission(2431 companies) Belts and pulleys, sprockets and chains, gears, and other drive components used to transmit power.
Seals(2936 companies) Mechanical devices used in static or dynamic applications to separate two liquids or gasses or prevent the ingress of contamination.
Shock and Vibration Control Products(367 companies) Mechanical products used to isolate or control the shock or vibration exerted on a component or assembly.
Solenoids(115 companies) Solenoids convert electrical energy into linear or rotary mechanical work via a plunger with an axial stroke in either a push or pull action.
Springs(575 companies) Mechanical elements that extend or retract and return to an unloaded position; includes extension, compression, torsion, air and gas springs.
