Servos broaden their appeal to general purpose motion control

摘要

Silverteam managing director Stuart Harvey looks at the reasons behind the fast growth of servo systems, and examines the benefits users can expect to reap by embracing servo technology in a broad spread of motion control applications. The latest findings from IMS research paint an astonishing picture for servo motion technology. First there was the news that the global market for general purpose motion control has reached a value of around USD6,208 million. And secondly there was the truly surprising aspect was that the rapidly increasing market for servo products currently accounts for 80% of that total motion control market.