The Axis That Couldn’t Accelerate Fast Enough A customer needed a pick-and-place axis: 500 mm travel, 15 kg payload, move in 0.8 seconds. We specified a ball screw with a servo motor. The simulation said it should work — the screw was sized for the load. On the floor, the axis took 1.4 seconds, not …

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