With more and more labor-intensive operations moving offshore, the ability to automate the manufacturing process is critical for keeping operating costs in check, allowing North American companies to remain competitive in worldwide markets. This has drastically escalated the importance and influence of the entire motion control industry. In that vein, a customer of ours was designing a transfer system to automatically feed castings into a machining center and needed a motion control solution. The basic system included a large rotary table and two opposing robots to load and unload the table. The need was [...]