The Fundamental Benefits of Smart Actuators

August 22, 2019

Thomson Industries Inc.

A new generation of software-programmable linear actuators is changing the landscape of automated industrial machine design. How can your business incorporate these advanced motion control components to begin realizing benefits such as safer operation, enhanced motion control, increased uptime and lower overall operating costs? This paper shows you, exploring smart features such as absolute position feedback, low-level power switching, synchronized load balancing and diagnostic monitoring.

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