Applications and sizing guides
How the Engineering Decision Engine sizes real tasks — the equations, the catalog limits, and the honest answer when a request is out of range. Each guide ends where the engine begins.
Sizing a pick-and-place gantry
How to size an XY or XYZ pick-and-place gantry: the cycle-time math, what 120 picks/min really requires, stepper vs.
Long-travel belt actuators: 1,000 to 3,000 mm
Need 1,500, 1,880, 2,100, or 3,000 mm of linear travel? What a single belt actuator can do, where tandem rails and engineered stages take over, and how to size the drive.
Sizing a vertical Z-axis lift
Sizing a vertical Z axis: why lead screws beat belts for lifting, the 7 kg and 15 kg catalog limits, gravity torque, and what to do above 15 kg.
Designing a liquid-handling robot
Design a 96-well liquid-handling robot: deck layout, pipetting protocol, gantry sizing, and a motion program that runs in simulation and on the controller.
Dual-drive synchronized gantries
Two motors on one axis: how a synchronized dual-drive gantry is sized (each motor for half the moving mass), what the controller must do, and which belt actuators fit..
Stepper vs. servo for linear actuators
Stepper or servo for a belt or screw actuator? A side-by-side on real torque-curve data: margins, inertia mismatch, speed caps, and the price delta per axis.
Custom and engineered motion systems
Custom motion systems from ModuSystems: long-travel stages, heavy Z axes, incubator and wash-down variants, multi-axis gantries.
Linear actuators with absolute encoders
What an absolute encoder adds to a linear actuator: no homing at power-up, verified position, stall detection.
Have a task instead of a spec?
Describe it in a sentence. The engine returns a sized, priced, 3D system with the math shown.