Know your Duty CyclesEstablishing the duty cycle of a motor and drive for a given application will help you to save costs.
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Bespoke servo solution delivers precision cuttingA brief look back on an exciting project from 2006 where we provided a bespoke servo solution to provide the power, speed and pinpoint accuracy for the manufacture of a high-tech product for the paper making industry
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We’re agents for LTi DrivesThis is great news for both ourselves and our customers as LTi Drives manufactures one of the widest and most innovative ranges of servo drives in the business.
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Great New Brochure from Lenord + BauerLenord + Bauer, who we have represented since the early 1990's, has just published a new 40 page brochure covering its full range of automation, control and measurement technology.
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New Gearbox Catalogue and Online Design ServiceTramec’s new 52-page gearbox catalogue and on-line configurator provide comprehensive technical details on their range of planetary gearboxes.
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Our new web site: controlinmotion.comAs from September we're officially moving to a new home on the web, controlinmotion.com, to better reflect the nature of our business and the wide range of modern, high-tech products available from our many suppliers.
We've been building the site for quite some time, and many of you may already have paid us a visit, but until now it has never been our main home on the web. We've done it for customers looking for the very latest products and technology and to separate these modern solutions from older products that we still support.
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Puzzle Corner: The Cunning SpyThe King's guards have captured a cunning spy who has managed to operate with impunity for years. He is brought before the Court and the King demands that the spy make one statement that will seal his fate.
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Beefed up servos test jet combustionWe’re looking back to 2006 when we were asked to design a servo system to drive a rotating drum in, of all things, the exhaust of a jet engine combustor!
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Famous false 'facts' – who invented the light bulb?Everyone knows who invented the lightbulb, it was Thomas Edison, right?
It's one of those facts that just rolls off the tongue or has people muttering, 'easy,' and shaking their heads in pub quizzes while they scribble down the answer.
But it's completely wrong, and it's perhaps one of the most famous incorrect 'facts' of modern times.
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Puzzle Corner: Mix up at the apple farmThere has been a mix up with the apples at the apple farm.
There are 10 baskets of apples waiting to be loaded onto a lorry and taken to market.
Can you help?
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A new definition of the kilogramThe UK's National Standard Kilogram, a copy of the international prototype and the standard for all mass measurements in the UK is to be made obsolete. But why?
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