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Motors and bearings at Baldor

Assembling Motors and Bearings at Baldor

Baldor benefits from investing in U.S. assembly operations.
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John Sprovieri
April 1, 2013

It has become fashionable lately for some U.S. companies to tout how they’ve reshored production from overseas. Baldor Electric Co. isn’t one of them—it never left. The company has been manufacturing electric motors, drives, bearings and other motion control products in the United States for decades.


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AC Motors vs. DC Motors

XYZ: AC Motors vs. DC Motors for Power Presses

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John Sprovieri
November 1, 2012

Depending on the drive style, a high-tonnage mechanical press can stamp out metal parts at up to 1,000 strokes per minute. 


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Synchronization Is Critical to High-Speed Assembly

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Austin Weber
September 4, 2012
Synchronization is an essential element of both symphony orchestras and football teams. It’s also important to the success of high-speed assembly lines.


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The Benefits of a Modular Machine

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John Sprovieri
July 2, 2012
Traditionally, a complex manufacturing machine has one large, powerful controller that governs sequencing, motion and I/O. Multiple drives and motors are connected to the controller via a motion network.


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XYZ - Software Simplifies Programming of Kinematics

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John Sprovieri
May 1, 2012
With a kinematic mechanism, the position of the end-effector is not determined by straight-line motion.


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XYZ: Electronic Camming Improves Pick-and-Place

March 1, 2012
Cam-driven pick-and-place devices have long been a staple of high-speed, multistation automated assembly systems.


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High-Performance Servos Boost Throughput

January 6, 2012
Fifty milliseconds may not seem like a lot of time. Indeed, the human eye takes between 300 and 400 milliseconds to complete a single blink. And yet in the context of a high-speed automated assembly system, in which a single linear actuator might make more than a dozen moves per minute, 50 milliseconds here and there can really add up.
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