Adept Technology Intros FireBlox Motor Controller
Adept Technology Inc. (San Jose, CA), a manufacturer of flexible automation for the semiconductor, electronics, fiber optic, telecommunications and life sciences industries, announced the release of the Adept FireBlox™, a miniature, dual-axis, servo amplifier and controller. The Adept FireBlox is based upon the Adept SmartServo™ architecture and is designed to power and control multi-axis servo devices.
"Adept FireBlox is the latest example of how Adept Technology continues to lead the market for distributed motion control," said Charlie Duncheon, executive vice president of Adept Technology. "Customers are demanding smaller packaging and minitiarization in everything, including the motion control systems. Our goal is to make motion control physically transparent and easy to integrate into the machine to reduce size and cost. The high-density electronics used in Adept FireBlox yields a product roughly the size of a deck of playing cards, that can be placed at the point of use, right next to the servo motors."
