Whether you're designing a packaging line for the beverage industry or a lithography machine for the semiconductor industry, you want flexibility in selecting your own platform for the control system.

• The new mantra of position encoding is low-current drain. • Capacitive encoding is a way to realize low-power consumption without giving up resolution or accuracy, even at relatively low speeds.

Rotary encoders convert rotary movement or angular position into analogue or digital signals for use in measurement or control systems. They can be classified in a number of ways, primarily by the ...