Web Sites

Other Motor Control Web Pages

• Advanced Micro Systems Stepper Motor Basics
  an excellent tutorial from a maker of motors and controllers.
• motioncontrol.com
  a commercially operated gateway to motion control resources on the web
• Ian Harries on Stepping Motors
  with a nice set of information on reverse engineering salvaged motors and a number of example applications.
• Euclid Research MotionScope demo
  excellent illustrations of physical behavior of some real motors.

Motor Manufacturers

• Advanced Micro Systems (1.8 degree per step, large permanent magnet motors)
• Astrosyn. (UK)
• Donovan Micro-Tek Inc. (very small motors)
• Eastern Air Devices Inc. (midsize motors and linear actuators)
• MyMotors & Actuators The Faulhaber Group (very small pancake-format motors)
• Gunda Electronic GmbH (German) (Google's English translation)
• Haydon Switch and Instrument, Inc.
• IntelLiDrives (high-resolution linear and 2-d planar stepping motors)
• Lin Engineering (100 to 800 steps per revolution)
• MicroMo Electronics (very small motors)
• Mitsumi (Japan)
• Parker Hannifin Corporation (motors and controllers)
• Phytron, Inc. (motors and controllers)
• Portescap Inc.
• Shinano Kenshi Corp. (SKC)
• Micro Precision Systems (remarkably small motors and controllers)

Controllers

• Advanced Micro Systems
• Astrosyn. (UK)
• Advanced Micro Systems Inc.
• Alzanti Limited (UK)
• Arrick Robotics
• Control Technology Corporation
• E-Lab Digital Engineering, Inc.
• GreenSpring Computers
• Simple Step LLC
• Netmotion
• StepperControl.com

Distributors

• ACP&D Limited (UK) (UK version) (distributor for COLIBRI integrated motor/controllers and maker of COBRA linear and planar stepping motors)
• Alzanti Limited (UK)
• Electro Sales Inc. (northeast USA)
• Flexible Technologies, Inc. (Southwest USA)
• MESA Systems Co. (USA) (distributor for COLIBRI integrated motor/controllers)
• Motionex (southeast USA)
• Smart Motion Control Inc. dba ABC Motion Control (northeast USA)
• Technovation Systems Ltd. (UK)

Surplus and Hobbyist Suppliers

• ALL Electronics (new and surplus)
• DIY Electronics (kits, Hong Kong)
• EIO's Stepper Motor Page (surplus)
• PC Gadgets (the Gadgetmaster interface)
• Hi-Tech Surplus
• Surplus Center (mostly heavy industrial surplus, Nebraska)
• Vorlac (Surplus, australia)
• Wirz Electronics (Hobbyist oriented, controllers)

Motor Design, Selection and Prototype Fabricaton Services

• Yeadon Engineering Services, (Michigan)
  YES is the contact for the Small Motor Manufacturer's Association.

Other Web Pages

• The Art of Motion Control;
  Bruce Shapiro's stepper-controlled machine-shop and artist's studio.
• EIO's Stepper Motor Page;
  a surplus dealer, but listed here because of their extensive index of information about stepping motors.
• Fractional Horsepower Motor Manufacturers;
  an index maintained by Industrial Quick Search.
• Schmitz Engineering Liaison;
  a rotary shaft position encoder distributor offering consulting services on encoder use. Roger Schmitz wrote Encoder Output Choices for System Designers for MOTION Magazine.

Books

Handbook of Small Electric Motors

William H. Yeadon and Alan W, Yeadon, eds.
McGraw-Hill, c2001.
LC number: TK2537 .H34 2001

 

Stepping motors: a guide to modern theory and practice

Acarnley, P. P.
P. Peregrinus on behalf of the IEE, 1984, c1982.
LC number: TK2537 .A28 1984
A third edition has recently been released.

 

Stepping motors and their microprocessor controls

Kenjo, Takashi
Oxford University Press, c1984.
LC number: TK2785 .K4 1984