Take a random walk through Costco with Moog Animatics to see the many types of applications that the SmartMotor has been on and what products can be manufactured with equipment that uses the SmartMotor.

1. A Random Walk Through Costco with
Moog Animatics

2. Electronics
LCD and Plasma Displays:
 SmartMotor™ products are used
in coating process for Backlight
film
 SmartMotors are used in
metalizing and coating process
of glass layers.

3. Electronics
 Heat shrink wrapping on
CD/DVD packages
 Tubes are fed down over
packaging, plastic is dispensed
and air is blown through before
being shrunk to form fit the
container

4. Clothing
 Fabric Sewing : Inseams on
pants & Sleeves on shirts
 SmartMotors are used in various
textile industries. One example
is the high speed stitching of
inseams on pants.
 Through the use of feedback,
thread tension can be controlled.
 Looper motors and material feed
motors utilize electronic gearing
off of main sewing head motor

5. Appliances (Filters)
 Traverse & Take-up Winding
 Also used for making swimming pool
filters
 Cotton based water filtration systems

6. Guitars
 Guitar String Manufacturing
 Same process / SmartMotor application
as catheter manufacturing (Traverse &
Take-up Winding)
 Allowed foot pedal controls without need
for any PC or PLC
 Precise electronic gearing with phase
offsets increased throughput and quality

7. Kitchen Products
 2 Rotary index tables working in unison.
 Main table, table in cam mode to spot
weld clamps on sink
 With I/O and control capabilities, dwell
can be defined by end of process state
(welding completion) to improve overall
production cycle times

8. Automotive
 Batteries- battery cell plates inserted,
UV weld placed around top, butane
deburring machine (plastic reflow)

9. 5 Gallon Buckets
 5 gallon bucket label application
 Bucket spins as barcode and label is
applied
 Motors feed label material and rotate
bucket.
 Motion added to PLC without cost of
motion control card

10. Bicycles
 Front and rear fork destructive testing
via vibration
 Motor cycles through constant force
over extended position swings to point
of failure.
 Data logged via load cell directly into
motor for strength testing
 Bypassed need for PLC or data
acquisition cards.

11. Outdoor Products
 Automated assembly machines for
manufacturing of gas regulator valves
and fittings and hot water heater
overpressure valves
 Large axis count mounted on rotating
assembly table allowed power and
communications via slip rings.
 No drive and control cables to run back
to control panels.
 Each motor handled local tasks and I/O

12. Outdoor Products
 Fiberglass rods cut to length from
continuous-feed extrusion. (Cutting
process)
 Additionally, With the ability to program
up to 1000 subroutines and 32K of
extra data storage, the system can be
programmed for hundreds of back stop
positions and sequences.
 No external PLC or PC would be
required. A simple HMI can be utilized
for interfacing

13. Outdoor Products
 Surfboards!

14. Outdoor Products
 Kayaks / Canoes
 Cutout of plug for top of kayak with a
router
 Butane deburring process (ABS plastic)

15. Beverages
 Kuka robot, with 4 axis SmartMotor
end-effector, both clamps onto and
shifts cases for proper orientation on
conveyor
 Integrated controls allowed for light
weight simple design at end effecter
with only power and communications
connections.
 Full error checking and diagnostics all
within SmartMotor subroutine control

16. Grocery
 Ziploc-style bags (for numerous
products), thin film laminate feed,
folded over, heat sealed with
alignment check
 Labels applied to registration marks
 Automatic Closed loop edge guide of
film to insure alignment of zip lock
mating surfaces controlled entirely by
SmartMotor program

17. Grocery
 Pre-stacking of crackers and heat
sealing of plastic in box.
 Utilizing subroutines and variable
counter, both Absolute and Relative
Position Mode moves allow for start of
stack and incremental stack shifts while
maintaining parts counts.
 Having localized I/O within
the Integrated Controls, the
entire handling of parts can
be dealt with by the stacker
motor itself.
 True distributed control at
a fraction of the cost and
footprint.

18. Grocery
 Cut to length and fill of film for trash
bags, palletizing of product array
 Take-up winding application
 SmartMotor driven toggle press for
closing jaws in cut & seal process

19. Grocery
 “Mystery eggs” - inseminating, pre-
process
 Gantry moves over egg array(?)
 Customer required remote serial control
in simplistic language for both manual
over ride and automatic control

20. Grocery
 Combination of Stack lifter and rotary
carousel rotates multiple stackers to
tube of plastic for packaging.
 Stacker Motors rotated with table
 Only power needed to be fed to
carousel.
x5

21. Eyeglasses & Contacts
 Lens cutting and grinding
 Mold & packaging process for contact
lenses
 Several motors deployed for in-line
assembly, transfer, inspection, and
packaging of product
 Allowed multi axis control over simple
RS232 communications back to PLC
 No large control cabinet required due to
integrated controls

22. Cotton Industry
 Testing of softness of cotton in
compression
 Done for Federal agricultural agency
testing on an extremely large scale
 30+ motors used through various
stages of product transfer,
compression, tension and density
testing
 Simplistic approach saving hundreds on
cabling and panel space

23. Bedding
 Quilting operations – Custom patterns
and edge quilting
 Full CNC At-home quilting machines
now available for end users allowing
custom record and playback quilt
patterns

24. Bedding
 Quilted stitching of edges and main
seams
 Glue application of rows of pocketed
inner springs.
 Automated feed of each additional rows
of mattress inner springs
 Motor traveled with glue dispense head
controlling both motion and glue pump
and valves
 Relieved main PLC of motion tasks
allowing faster throughput

25. Bathroom Articles
 Toothbrush handles (robotic
extraction out of the mold)
 SmartMotor used in robotic arms
for extraction of handles
 Also various other mold injection
formed plastic pieces

26. Bathroom Articles
 Diapers and other hygiene products
 On-the-fly insertion of absorbent
material
 Application of adhesive strips
 Motors on rotary Ferris wheel type
mechanical setup run in CAM mode
 Only integrated solution with CAM
mode available!

27. Detergent
 Numerous capping and filling
operations
 Automated rail adjustment for rapid
change over
 Using size 34 frame motors to lift entire
bed of machine for height of dry powder
detergent.
 Cable runs from control cabinet
exceeded 80 feet. Conventional drives
would have used too many sub panels
and cable ways

28. Breathmints
 Tic-Tacs® and Listermint® Breathmints
 Plastic case inserting and labeling
 Take-up of film, cutting, stacking, and
placement in cases.
 Entire process run by SmartMotors
alone

29. Vitamins/ Pharmaceutical
 Bottle cappers and bottle filling for
various small plastic bottles including:
 Vitamins
 Over-the-counter drugs
 Automated prescription fillers

30. Tires & Wheel Rims
 Tires spun and tread surface is finished if
out-of-round
 Replaced Delta Tau 6-axis System at a
cost savings of over $8K on next
generation machines.
 CNC cutting of metal wheel rims deployed
later to create dedicated CNC rim
machine for one-off custom designs

31. Door and Cabinet Manufacturing
 Horizontal boring drill units are positioned
in matched patterns to part numbers via
HMI and SmartMotor array data look-up.
 Set rotating Motor as master and have the
linear axis electronically gear off of it to
provide high speed drill and taps and
screw feed control with limited torque.
 Adding proper torque detection, the unit
can detect when a drill or tap has worn or
become dull. As a nut/screw runner, it can
pick up on cross thread, broken or
stripped thread, missing part or jammed
part

32. MOOG ANIMATICS
Everywhere!