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Applied Motion Products marked another important milestone in the construction of our new headquarters. On August 6, after delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic, a groundbreaking ceremony took place on the site of the new building in the Madrone Business Park in Morgan Hill, CA. Board members and staff from Applied Motion Products and parent company Shanghai Moons Electric were on hand, along with developers Toeniskoetter, architects Eaton Hall, representatives from the City of Morgan Hill, and local press.

Applied Motion Products increases the acceptance of MDX Integrated Servo Motors into industrial motion control applications with UL Recognition on all models. This certification assures users in the United States and Canada that these motors meet high quality standards for electrical safety.

Applied Motion Products is excited to welcome Joel Thomas to our sales team. Joel has spent the last six years as a Senior Account Manager for iAutomation, increasing market share for the automation components distributor in the Carolinas and selling a portfolio of industrial automation products. Focused on OEM sales, Joel has experience selling into a variety of industries including pharmaceutical equipment, food and beverage manufacturing, aerospace, material handling, and automotive.

Applied Motion Products provides a series of integrated motors featuring multi-turn, absolute encoders that do not require batteries or external power to track position when the motor is powered off. The new encoders, called TruCount™ Encoders, make use of a special energy harvesting technique to enable battery-less functionality.

SCHAUMBURG, IL (May 2020) – In a collaborative effort to support the healthcare industry during this COVID-19 crisis, HEIDENHAIN is working with Applied Motion Products, Inc. to expedite critical components to a large manufacturer of ventilators. Now in various stages of delivery, the Applied Motion Products’ StepSERVO™ Integrated Motors equipped with HEIDENHAIN’s RENCO encoders are making their way into the production of 5,000 new life-saving medical devices.

Applied Motion Products solved heat problems associated with a peristaltic pump system that supplies materials to a bioreactor by replacing open-loop step motors with closed-loop step motors. A peristaltic pump, with internal tubing that separates media from pump components, offers a sanitary method to supply the bioreactor with various fluids to grow cell cultures in the development of new medicines. Step motors are used to drive the pump head, compressing and releasing the pump tubing to move media into the bioreactor chamber.

Applied Motion Products is excited to announce that we have purchased land to build new corporate headquarters in Morgan Hill, CA, located in Santa Clara County at the southern tip of Silicon Valley. The new headquarters will consolidate all U.S. operations (now conducted in two separate buildings in Watsonville, CA) including production, warehouse, operations, engineering, customer service and executive management in one location for greater efficiencies and synergy among the different departments.

A range of servo drives, stepper drives and integrated motors from Applied Motion Products conform to the ODVA specification for EtherNet/IP communications. The ODVA Conformance program mandates that vendors use a common network interface to ensure interoperability with products from other vendors. Products must pass rigorous testing by an authorized Test Service Provider before being declared ODVA conformant.

Applied Motion Products is excited to announce that Lane Andrews has joined our Application Engineering team. Lane recently graduated with a B.S. in Mechatronic Engineering from California State University, Chico, where he developed his interest in motion control programming and the optimization of automated systems. The addition of Lane into our Application Engineering department is a sign of the recent growth at Applied Motion as we continually strive to strengthen support services for our customers and sales channel partners.

We are pleased to announce the release of a new application note (APPN0048) specifically created for programmers using Python, the popular computer programming language. The application note can be used with our stepper and servo motors to quickly and efficiently integrate motion control into Python scripts and applications. The application note and its accompanying sample code guide Python programmers in sending SCL commands to one or more axes of stepper and/or servo motors.