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News Release from: Parker Bayside | Subject: Integrated servo gearmotors
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 April 2003
Integrated servo gearmotors squeeze
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Integrated servo gearmotors help to overcome space constraints for 'pick and place' devices used in storage systems in purpose-built buildings.
For systems designed to fit purpose-built buildings, space limitations are always dictating factors Helping to overcome such constraints for RTS Life Science International on high-volume, specialized storage systems for chemical compounds are integrated servo gearmotors from Bayside Motion Group
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Jan 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Employed on two axes of automated 'pick and place' configurations (32 axes for initial installation), the Bayside units provide servo performance for the X and Z axes whilst saving around 20% on length, compared to equivalent separate motor/gearhead packages.
Performance requirements are travel speeds of 1m/sec, acceleration of 5m/sec2 and multi-position location accuracies of 0.15mm with loads of up to 14kg.
Both axis units have integral encoders and the Z axis also has a brake, yet there is no increase in the standard unit dimensions.
According to Tony Ashworth, senior mechanical engineer for RTS, the Bayside route was taken because the torque/speed performance requirements could be met by a standard product with proven track record and assured back-up.
Plus, being an off-the-shelf product, supply lead times are minimised.
All important factors for a system that will operate 24/7.
In addition, there is the simplified installation through the elimination of mounting components and avoidance of potential alignment problems.
There was also the added bonus of cost advantage over the conventional motor/gearhead option.
The pick-and-place duties involve the transferring of bar coded sample trays between eight holding locations, batching stations for localised sorting, and a conveyor line.
Each pick-and-place station has a handling capacity of 360 sample trays per hour contributing to the high throughput of the RTS system.
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