Direct drives have secured a lasting market share in many areas of the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industries, and market share is growing in the machine tool industry. The benefits of direct drive technology are low wear, low maintenance, and higher productivity.

However, the benefits are realized only if the control, motor, the mechanical elements of the feed axes, and the position encoder are optimally adjusted to one another. . .read the article in .pdf format (230 kb).

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