NYQUIST AND MAXON MOTOR AG OFFER AN OPEN PC-BASED MOTION CONTROL SOLUTION

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NYQUIST AND MAXON MOTOR AG OFFER AN OPEN PC-BASED MOTION CONTROL SOLUTION
27 November 2001 - Nyquist Industrial Control

Maxon motor ag (Sachseln OW, Switzerland) and Nyquist Industrial Control (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) announce a product development agreement. Nyquist's open PC-based Motion Control technology will be integrated with the advanced and fully digital servo drives of maxon motor.

The need for high precision intelligent drive components is increasing on a worldwide basis. 'Nyquist was looking for an experienced low-power digital servo amplifier partner, manufacturing ever smaller, integrated and maintenance-free products that are also competitively priced', says Twan Smetsers, Marketing Director of Nyquist. 'With maxon motor as a competent system provider we can offer our semiconductor and electronics OEM-customers the design-in solution they need.'

Maxon was looking for a high-end synchronized Motion Control solution based on open PC standards. 'We were looking for a partner who can make digital high-end motion control work', says Gerwin Geukes, Product Manager of maxon motor. 'With Nyquist we found a partner with know how on high-end Motion Control technology. With us they now can deliver tailor made solutions in the drive range up to 400Watt'

Both companies have many years of experience in providing solutions for OEM applications. The combined maxon technology and Nyquist's NYCe product families provide an OEM solution using an industry-standard high-speed IEEE-1394 FireWire network to connect the open PC-based platform to the 'smart drives'. On the top level, the Windows NT-based platform performs I/O processing, machine sequencing, GUI display, path planning and kinematics solutions. This architecture optimizes the use of PC technology while significantly reducing machine cabling. All software is component based giving exposed interfaces at all levels to the OEM for easy customization and robust end solutions.

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About: Nyquist Industrial Control
Nyquist has a long and rich history. A history that goes back to the beginning of the early seventies, when the company was still part of Philips. Since then, the organisation has played a pioneering role in the field of high-quality Motion Control systems, VME and PLC machine control platforms.

The foundations for the present-day company Nyquist Industrial Control were paved in the seventies. This happened when the first standardised servo system was developed, initially created for Philips' internal machine building. This led to a large international installed base, both within and outside of our own organisation. For instance, the doors of the Dutch Railways' trains are still fitted with VME-based control systems from Nyquist. And then just think of all the automatically opening bridges, traction systems, trams, machines for making glass moulds, embroidering machinery, pastry-making machines, ships' terminals, incinerators and water purification plants.

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