{"id":1031717,"date":"2021-09-27T17:39:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/uncategorized\/festo-bridges-pneumatics-and-servo-motion-automation-world\/"},"modified":"2021-09-27T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T21:39:05","slug":"festo-bridges-pneumatics-and-servo-motion-automation-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/automation\/festo-bridges-pneumatics-and-servo-motion-automation-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Festo Bridges Pneumatics and Servo Motion &#8211; Automation World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Festo is showcasing its new Simplified  Motion Series (SMS) all-in-one integrated-drive axes. The  company says SMS represents an engineering breakthrough in that it combines  pneumatics with electric automation. This breakthrough is based on how Festos  SMS integrates ball screw axes, toothed belt axes, mini slides, electric  cylinders, piston rod, and rotary actuators with an onboard servo drive. <\/p>\n<p>SMS actuators are designed for use in positioning, indexing, clamping,  feeding, and cut-to-length tasks. Because all SMS components are integrated  into a single unit with a unique part number, this simplifies the ordering,  inventory, and replacement of SMS units, which is especially important for  OEMs. Units in the series include: ELGS-BS  ball screw, ELGS-TB toothed belt axis, EGSS mini slide, EPCS electric cylinder,  EPCE compact electric cylinder, ERMS rotary drive, and ELGE toothed belt axis.<\/p>\n<p>Simple electrical connection is accomplished via a M12 plug design with  4-pin power and 8-pin logic.<\/p>\n<p>Festo points out that no additional  software is required to operate SMS, as commissioning is accomplished via  onboard push buttons for two-position functionality. Key commissioning parameters  include: <\/p>\n<p>Digital I\/O (DIO) and IO-Link  control come standard with each SMS unit. With DIO control, two positions are availablehome and a configurable  end point. Festo says that, when  controlling SMS with IO-Link, positioning along the axis length is infinitely  variable, which enables SMS axes to be used as a cost-effective alternative to  traditionally higher cost servo motion. Using  IO-Link, technicians can remotely adjust movement parameters as well as copy  and backup functions for parameter transfer and read functions of essential  process parameters.<\/p>\n<p>This level of capability opens up more applications to electric  motion, including conveyor material handling and mobile applications, according  to Festo.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Original post: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.automationworld.com\/factory\/motion\/article\/21723034\/festo-bridges-pneumatics-and-servo-motion\" title=\"Festo Bridges Pneumatics and Servo Motion - Automation World\">Festo Bridges Pneumatics and Servo Motion - Automation World<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, Festo is showcasing its new Simplified Motion Series (SMS) all-in-one integrated-drive axes. The company says SMS represents an engineering breakthrough in that it combines pneumatics with electric automation. This breakthrough is based on how Festos SMS integrates ball screw axes, toothed belt axes, mini slides, electric cylinders, piston rod, and rotary actuators with an onboard servo drive.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/automation\/festo-bridges-pneumatics-and-servo-motion-automation-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187732],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}