As manufacturing industry continues to replace manual processes with automated versions, servo motors are replacing pneumatic and hydraulic systems. It’s resulted in a rapid increase in, and greater demand for, precision motion-control designs.
Motor-control and servo-drive advances enabled by servo-drive and servo-motor hardware enhancements, such as the transition of inverter switches away from insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) toward higher-speed gallium-nitride (GaN) and higher-power silicon-carbide (SiC) technology, remain essential for competing in the global economy.