Scalable and Adaptable Linear Synchronous Motor Technology

MagneMotion’s engineering services ensure flexible and efficient electro-magnetic solutions for the many industries we serve. MagneMotion's core technology is scalable and adaptable to a wide range of applications, from small material handling systems to large people movers. The key elements of linear synchronous motor propulsion, position sensing, guidance, and control can be applied together as a turnkey system or independently as separate products. MagneMotion provides design-consulting services in the following areas:

• LSM Propulsion Systems
• Position Sensing
• Precise Vehicle Control
• Motor Control
• Magnetic Levitation
• Electro-magnetic Suspension
• Electro-magnetic Guidance and Switching
• Damping
• Stability
• Inductive Power Transfer
• Vehicle and Track Reference Designs

Experience in transportation, elevators, material handling, assembly automation, instrumentation and process control, and other applications gives MagneMotion advanced development insights and technological capabilities unmatched in the industry.

MagneMotion's engineering and analysis expertise includes electro-magnetics and control electronics design, including thermal and structural aspects in real world applications. From PC board and munitions handling to maglev train systems and people movers, MagneMotion has the expertise to address challenges in the following areas.

Automated Material Handling

• Ability to scale the systems to large and small payloads with a wide range of transport speeds.
• Analysis and design of transport system support options including overhead, suspended, vertical, or in-floor mounted configurations for installation and application flexibility.
• Expertise incorporating instrumentation and process control requirements.
• Expertise with highly accurate positioning for payload load/unload stations and machine buffer stations.
• Inductive power transfer to eliminate power rails, tethers, or cables.
• Clean and efficient designs, generating little to no particle contamination for cleanroom environments.

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Process, Assembly, and Packaging Automation

• Servo control expertise for constant, accurate control of acceleration and deceleration, speed, and position.
• Real-time payload position tracking.
• High-speed product throughput for applications where conventional conveyor technology is too slow.
• Engineering for dramatic improvements in life-cycle costs and reduced maintenance.
• Non-contacting technology for operation in clean environments.
• Advanced automation consulting solutions for the manufacturing and material handling industries.

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People Movers/Transportation Systems

• Expert structural analysis and design capabilities.
• Expertise in rapid magnetic switching at merge and diverge points to facilitate very short vehicle spacing (headway) and greater throughput using proprietary proximity sensor technology.
• Control theory and application expertise including constant control of all vehicles in the transportation network for improved system optimization.
• Non-contact, non-RF communication experience to eliminate costly alternatives.

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Elevators and other Transport Systems

• Expert structural analysis and design capabilities.
• Replacement of massive and unreliable mechanical and hydraulic motion control systems with smaller, more reliable electro-magnetic systems based on linear synchronous motor technology.
• Advanced LSM consulting for automated manufacturing applications leading to significant improvements in control capability and system efficiency.

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