Brands A–Z

ABB (Motion)

The servo business of Zurich-based ABB's Motion area, offering the MicroFlex e190 and MotiFlex e180 servo drives programmed in Mint and the eSM, DSM and HDS servo motor ranges.

ACS Motion Control

Israeli maker of SPiiPlus EtherCAT motion controllers and precision servo drive modules for semiconductor and other high-precision OEM equipment, part of the PI Group since 2017.

ADVANCED Motion Controls

Servo drive manufacturer covering panel-mount, PCB-mount and custom drives for brushed and brushless motors.

Aerotech

Privately held Pittsburgh manufacturer of precision positioning stages, Automation1 motion controllers and servo drives, founded in 1970.

17 series

Akribis Systems

Direct-drive specialist producing linear motors, torque motors and precision positioning stages.

23 series

Allen-Bradley

Rockwell's motion brand covering Kinetix VP, MPL/MPM and TL/TLY servo motors and Kinetix 5100 to 5700 drives, with several legacy Kinetix drives now discontinued.

Allient

Buffalo, New York, motion group (formerly Allied Motion Technologies) making frameless torque motors, HeiMotion servo motors and Pyxmos servo drives.

Alpha Slip Rings

Slip ring brand, acquired by UEA in 2018, known for stainless, sealed slip rings for subsea, marine winch, wireline and other harsh or space-limited applications.

APEX Dynamics

Taiwanese maker of helical planetary gearboxes, from economy to high-precision and stainless washdown versions, inline and right-angle.

B&R Industrial Automation

Austrian machine automation company in Eggelsberg, part of ABB since 2017, making ACOPOS servo drives, 8LS and 8KS synchronous motors, ACOPOSmotor integrated drives and X20 controllers.

Baumer

Swiss sensor group whose encoder range includes the MAGRES magnetic absolute encoders, optical industrial encoders and HeavyDuty encoders for harsh duty.

Baumüller

Family-run Nuremberg drive maker, founded in 1930, producing b maXX servo drives, DS-series servo motors, DST2 high-torque direct drives and b maXX motion controllers.

Beckhoff Automation

German PC-based automation company whose EtherCAT ecosystem includes AM8000 servo motors, AX5000/AX8000 drives, servo I/O terminals and CX embedded PCs running TwinCAT.

BGB

Grantham-based UK manufacturer of slip rings, slip ring assemblies, fibre optic rotary joints and rotary unions, best known for wind turbine pitch and power slip rings.

15 series

Bogen

German specialist in magnetic measurement scales and sensors for linear and rotary encoders.

Bonfiglioli

Italian gearbox and drive manufacturer from Calderara di Reno, Bologna, offering TQ and LC precision planetary gearboxes, BMD servomotors and inverters.

8 series

Bosch Rexroth

Bosch Group drive and control company from Lohr am Main whose ctrlX AUTOMATION platform combines ctrlX DRIVE servo drives, MS2N servo motors and ctrlX CORE controllers, alongside linear motion technology such as EMC electromechanical cylinders.

Conductix-Wampfler

Delachaux Group maker of energy and data transmission systems for mobile industrial equipment, including modular, Ethernet, heavy-duty and explosion-proof slip rings.

Control Techniques

Drive maker founded in Newtown, Wales, in 1973 and now part of Nidec (trading as Nidec Drives), known for Unidrive M700 and Digitax HD servo drives, Unimotor hd servo motors and MCi/MCz machine controllers.

Copley Controls

Canton, Massachusetts, servo drive maker founded in 1984 and part of Analogic since 2008, known for Xenus, Accelnet and Argus drives in panel, PCB-module and ruggedised formats.

CubeMars

Chinese maker of AK and AKE quasi-direct-drive robot joint actuators with built-in drivers and encoders, plus RI and RO frameless torque motors.

DaMiao

Shenzhen company founded in 2019 that makes DM-J series joint motors with integrated drivers and dual encoders on CAN / CAN FD, plus DM-series motor drivers.

Delta Electronics

Taipei-based power and automation group, founded in 1971, whose industrial automation business makes the ASDA AC servo drives, ECM servo motors and AX-series CODESYS motion controllers.

Deublin

Waukegan, Illinois maker of rotary unions for coolant, air, steam, oil and multi-media, plus through-bore slip rings, owned by the HOERBIGER Group since 2019.

DINGS'

Chinese maker of hybrid stepper motors, captive and non-captive linear stepper actuators, slotless brushless and small brushed DC motors.

ElectroCraft

New Hampshire-based supplier of fractional-horsepower motion products, including RapidPower brushless motors, TorquePower stepper motors, step linear actuators and low-voltage DC servo drives.

Elmo Motion Control

Israeli maker of very compact servo drives (Gold, Platinum and Titanium families) and EtherCAT multi-axis motion controllers, owned by Bosch Rexroth since November 2022.

ETEL

Swiss maker of frameless torque motors, linear motors, position controllers and precision motion systems, part of the HEIDENHAIN group since 1999.

Ewellix

Former SKF linear technology business, now part of the Schaeffler Group, making industrial electric actuators, roller screw actuators and lifting columns.

Exlar

Roller-screw actuator brand covering the GTX, GTW, GSX, GTF, FTX, FTP and KX families and the Tritex II integrated drive actuators.

Fabricast

California slip ring maker founded in 1960, now a UEA subsidiary, known for through-bore slip rings with coin-silver rings for instrumentation, high-speed and power duty.

9 series

FAULHABER

German specialist in ironless DC micromotors, small brushless and linear servomotors, precision gearheads and compact motion controllers.

Feetech

Shenzhen servo maker founded in 2011 whose STS, SCS, HLS, SMS and CAN-bus smart servos combine motor, gearbox, position sensor and controller in one unit for robots and automation.

Festo

Family-owned German automation company from Esslingen that pairs its pneumatic range with electric axes, cylinders, servo motors and servo drives.

Galil

Rocklin, California, motion controller maker founded in 1983, offering Ethernet and EtherCAT DMC multi-axis controllers with optional built-in amplifiers and RIO programmable I/O controllers.

15 series

Harmonic Drive

Originator of the strain-wave gear, with CSF, CSG, CSD and SHG/SHF gear units and FHA and SHA hollow-shaft actuators.

HEBI Robotics

Pittsburgh company founded in 2014 out of Carnegie Mellon University that designs and assembles modular smart actuators (T, R and H series) and robot kits.

14 series

HEIDENHAIN

German precision metrology manufacturer producing rotary, angle and sealed and exposed linear encoders used widely in machine tools and semiconductor equipment.

Hengstler

German maker of ACURO absolute and ICURO incremental rotary encoders, including servo motor feedback and ATEX-certified versions, based in Aldingen since 1846 and now a Ralliant company.

HighTorque

Chinese developer of compact servo joint modules with dual absolute encoders and of desktop humanoid robot platforms such as Mini Pi.

HIWIN

Taichung-based maker of ballscrews and linear guideways that also builds single-axis stages, linear motors, AC servo systems, torque motors and strain-wave gears.

IAI

Shizuoka maker of the ROBO Cylinder and ELECYLINDER electric actuators, Cartesian and SCARA robots and their controllers, founded in 1976.

igus

Cologne polymer motion specialist whose drylin E range covers lubrication-free linear axes, stepper motors and dryve controllers, alongside robolink robot joints.

Inovance

Shenzhen automation manufacturer founded in 2003 that makes the SV600-series servo drives, MS1 servo motors and CODESYS motion controllers, with a European company in Germany and a UK office in Cheadle.

KappaSense

Israeli maker of capacitive absolute linear encoders with passive, lightweight read heads for dirty, hot or vibrating machines.

30 series

Kinco

Automation brand supplying servo systems, steppers, integrated servo wheels, PLCs and HMIs, configured with its DTools software.

Kollmorgen

US motion-control manufacturer, now a Regal Rexnord brand, making AKM servo motors, KBM/TBM frameless and direct-drive motors, AKD servo drives and PCMM controllers.

Kübler

Family-owned German maker of Sendix incremental and absolute encoders, motor feedback and linear measuring systems, and modular slip rings, based in Villingen-Schwenningen since 1960.

Laifual Drive

Shengzhou, Zhejiang maker of FS, FH and FB strain-wave gears and harmonic robot joint modules, incorporated in 2013 and listed in Hong Kong in 2026.

LeaderDrive

Chinese maker of strain-wave (harmonic) gear component sets and hollow-shaft units used in robot joints and precision rotary axes.

38 series

Leadshine

High-volume producer of stepper and servo motors and drives, including closed-loop integrated steppers.

Lenze

German drive and automation maker based in Aerzen, near Hameln, offering i700 and i950 servo inverters, m850 and MCS synchronous servo motors, g7x0 planetary gearboxes and c-series controllers.

Lika Electronic

Italian maker of incremental and absolute rotary and linear encoders, rotary actuators and position displays, founded in 1982 and owner of BOGEN Magnetics.

Lin Engineering

Morgan Hill, California maker of hybrid and integrated stepper motors, stepper linear actuators, brushless and frameless BLDC motors and planetary gearboxes, with production in the US and Asia.

LINAK

Family-owned Danish maker of DC electric linear actuators, whose TECHLINE range serves industrial, agricultural and off-highway machines.

LinMot

Tubular linear motor specialist offering the P01, P02 and P10 motor families, linear-rotary PR motors and MagSpring passive compensators.

LTN Servotechnik

Former Otterfing, Bavaria maker of slip rings and resolvers; its slip rings are discontinued and HEIDENHAIN now produces and sells LTN resolvers.

MAB Robotics

Poznań company making MD-series brushless motor controllers and MA-series integrated actuators (direct-drive, planetary and harmonic) with CAN FD for legged robots and research.

12 series

maxon

Swiss maker of precision brushed and brushless DC motors, GPX gearheads, ENX encoders, EPOS4 and ESCON controllers and IDX integrated drives.

Mercotac

Carlsbad, California maker of brushless liquid-metal (mercury-wetted) rotating electrical connectors from one to 22 conductors.

Meridian Laboratory

Wisconsin manufacturer since 1963 of ROTOCON brushless slip rings, high-current rotary grounds, high-speed rotary transmitters and rotary union combinations.

Mitsubishi Electric

Japanese electrical group whose factory automation business makes MELSERVO-J5 servo amplifiers and HK servo motors with 26-bit encoders, plus MELSEC iQ-R motion modules and motion CPUs.

mjbots

Supplier since 2019 of open-source moteus brushless motor controllers with integrated encoders and CAN-FD, used to build torque-controlled robot joints.

8 series

MOFLON

Shenzhen-based maker of capsule, through-bore, power, Ethernet and large-bore slip rings, fibre optic and RF rotary joints and rotary unions, with factories in China and Vietnam.

95 series

Moog

Major slip ring and fibre optic rotary joint manufacturer serving industrial, medical, marine, wind and defence markets.

Morgan Advanced Materials

Windsor-registered materials group whose Performance Carbon business makes carbon brushes, brush holders and wind turbine slip ring assemblies.

59 series

Motion Control Products

Bournemouth-based motion systems supplier with its own ranges of capsule, through-bore, high-current, pancake and fibre optic slip rings.

MYACTUATOR

Chinese maker, founded in 2020, of integrated robot joint actuators: RMD-X planetary and RH harmonic actuators with EtherCAT and CAN, plus direct-drive and frameless motors.

Nabtesco

Japanese motion control group whose precision reducer business makes RV cycloidal gears used widely in industrial robot joints, plus strain-wave gears.

Nanotec

Feldkirchen, Germany maker of stepper and BLDC motors, integrated Plug & Drive motors, motor controllers and stepper linear actuators, developing products since 1991.

9 series

Netzer Precision

Manufacturer of thin, hollow-shaft absolute rotary encoders using capacitive sensing, popular in robot joints and defence gimbals.

Neugart

Family-owned planetary gearbox manufacturer in Kippenheim, Germany, making economy and precision servo gearboxes such as the PLE, PLN and PSNpro.

Nidec

Kyoto-based motor group founded in 1973 whose Nidec Drive Technology unit makes FLEXWAVE strain wave gears and ABLE servo planetary reducers; its servo drives are sold under the Control Techniques brand.

Novanta

Precision motion and sensing group whose ranges include encoders and frameless and slotless motors.

NSK

Tokyo bearing and ball screw maker that introduced the Megatorque direct-drive motor in 1984 and builds Monocarrier single-axis actuators.

ODrive Robotics

Maker of the ODrive Pro, S1 and Micro board-level BLDC servo drives with CAN, USB and UART control, plus matched motors and encoders, sold through its own online shops.

Omron

Kyoto-based automation and components group whose industrial automation business offers 1S EtherCAT servo drives and motors and the Sysmac NJ/NX machine controllers and CK3M/CK5M multi-axis controllers.

Oriental Motor

Japanese maker of small stepper, AlphaStep closed-loop and brushless motors, drivers and compact electric actuators for OEM positioning.

Panasonic

Panasonic Industry makes the MINAS family of AC servo motors and drivers, including the MINAS A7 with a 27-bit encoder and the MINAS A6 range from 50 W to 22 kW.

Parker Hannifin

Cleveland-based motion and control group whose electromechanical division makes electric cylinders, rodless axes, servo motors and servo drives.

Pepperl+Fuchs

Mannheim sensor and hazardous-area specialist, founded in 1945, whose rotary encoder range, built on its 1996 Hohner acquisition, spans magnetic absolute, incremental, cable-pull and flameproof encoders.

PI (Physik Instrumente)

Karlsruhe maker of piezo actuators and motors, nanopositioning stages and hexapods, founded in 1970 and part of the HOERBIGER Group since 2026.

Piezo Motion

US developer of compact rotary and linear piezo motors that hold position without power, for very fine, low-voltage positioning.

Portescap

Miniature motion specialist of Swiss origin making coreless brush DC, slotless and slotted brushless DC, can-stack and disc-magnet stepper motors and planetary gearheads, now part of Regal Rexnord.

POSITAL

Brand of the FRABA Group making IXARC absolute and incremental encoders, kit encoders and inclinometers, with battery-free Wiegand multi-turn counting on its magnetic encoders.

Princetel

Hamilton, New Jersey maker of fibre optic rotary joints from 1 to 36 channels, matching electrical slip rings and cable reels.

Pro-face

Osaka-based HMI brand, founded as Digital Electronics Corporation in 1972 and part of Schneider Electric since 2002, making the GP4000, ST6000 and SP5000 touch panels and GP-Pro EX software.

Red Lion

York, Pennsylvania maker of industrial HMIs, edge controllers, panel meters and Ethernet switches, programmed in Crimson and part of HMS Networks since 2024.

15 series

Renishaw

UK metrology group producing open optical encoders including RESOLUTE, EVOLUTE, TONiC, VIONiC, QUANTiC and ATOM.

14 series

RIFT Actuators

Electric and pneumatic valve-actuation ranges for water, process, building-services and remote-asset applications. Request the exact configuration and current documentation.

RIFT Motor Solutions

Motor and controller packages for vehicle retrofit and marine electrification enquiries. The published conversion listings are starting points for an application review.

RLS

Slovenian maker of magnetic rotary and linear encoders, including AksIM off-axis and Orbis through-hole absolute encoders, and an associate company of Renishaw.

ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL

Korean company ROBOTIS makes DYNAMIXEL smart servo actuators that combine motor, gearhead, controller, driver and absolute encoder on a daisy-chained serial bus.

RobStride

Beijing maker of integrated robot joint actuators (motor, driver and reducer in one unit) such as the RobStride 02 and 03, with CAN control, aimed at legged and humanoid robots.

Rollon

Italian linear motion company founded in 1975, owned by Timken since 2018, making belt, ball screw and rack-driven linear axes and telescopic rails.

Rotary Systems

Minnesota maker of rotary unions, slip rings (capsule, sealed, industrial, separates and Ethernet) and combined slip ring unions, ISO 9001:2015 certified.

Sanyo Denki

Japanese manufacturer of SANMOTION servo and stepping systems and San Ace cooling fans.

Schaeffler

Herzogenaurach bearing and automotive group whose IDAM unit in Suhl makes frameless torque motors and linear motors, alongside INA linear modules.

SCHLEIFRING

German slip ring developer supplying contacting and contactless rotary transmission for CT scanners, defence, wind turbines and industry, plus fibre optic and media rotary joints.

Schneider Electric (Lexium)

Lexium is Schneider Electric's motion range: Lexium 32, 28, 52 and 62 servo drives with matching motors, integrated servo drives and PacDrive 3 LMC motion controllers.

SCHUNK

Family-run automation company in Lauffen am Neckar making grippers, clamping technology and electric linear axes and rotary modules.

Senring

Shenzhen manufacturer of through-hole, capsule, industrial bus and fibre optic slip rings and electrical-pneumatic rotary unions.

10 series

Servotecnica

Italian slip ring manufacturer whose SVTS series spans capsule, Faston, through-bore, ruggedised, open and flat designs.

SEW-EURODRIVE

Family-run German drive maker from Bruchsal known for gearmotors, PxG servo gear units, CMP and CM3C servomotors, MOVIDRIVE inverters and the MOVI-C automation system.

SICK

German sensor manufacturer, founded in 1946, whose motion control sensors include rotary absolute and incremental encoders and HIPERFACE DSL motor feedback systems.

Siemens

Industrial automation giant whose SIMOTICS S servo motors pair with SINAMICS S200, S210, V90 and S120 drives.

SMC

Tokyo-headquartered pneumatics specialist whose LE electric actuator range adds rod, slider and slide-table axes with step and AC servo motors.

Spinea

Slovak maker of TwinSpin zero-backlash cycloidal bearing reducers and DriveSpin actuators, acquired by Timken in 2022.

SteadyWin

Nanchang maker of small servo systems and robot joint motors, including the GIM, TT and WGG exoskeleton series, plus frameless, gimbal and drone motors.

Stemmann-Technik

Schüttorf-based Wabtec company making heavy-duty slip ring assemblies alongside cable reels, festoons, conductor lines, pantographs and charging systems.

8 series

STOBER

Family-owned Pforzheim drive maker offering SC6, SI6 and SD6 servo drive controllers, EZ synchronous servo motors, encoderless LM Lean motors and P, PH and PHQ planetary servo gearboxes.

Sumitomo Drive Technologies

Power transmission brand of Sumitomo Heavy Industries, known for the Cyclo cycloidal speed reducer and Fine Cyclo zero-backlash precision gearboxes.

Synapticon

German company founded in 2012 that makes SOMANET compact EtherCAT servo drives with certified safety functions and ACTILINK integrated servo motors and robot joint actuators.

Tecnotion

Almelo-based maker of ironless and iron-core linear motors and frameless torque motors, independent of Philips since 1998.

THK

Tokyo company that introduced the LM Guide and builds ball-screw LM Guide actuators and economy electric sliders and cylinders.

Thomson

Linear motion manufacturer whose Electrak range (HD, XD, MD, 1, 10, 050), Max Jac and Whispertrak actuators are common on mobile and industrial machinery.

16 series

Tolomatic

US maker of electric rod and rodless actuators, including roller-screw and stainless hygienic designs used to replace hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders.

TQ-RoboDrive

TQ-Group's RoboDrive business makes ILM and ILM-E frameless torque motor kits based on technology with roots in DLR robotics research.

TR-Electronic

Trossingen, Germany maker of absolute and incremental rotary encoders, safety encoders and magnetostrictive, laser and barcode linear measuring systems, founded in 1983.

Trinamic (Analog Devices)

Hamburg-based motion control brand, now sold by Analog Devices as ADI Trinamic, known for stepper and FOC driver ICs, TMCM controller/driver modules and PANdrive integrated steppers.

UIRobot

Maker of miniature motor-mounted stepper drives and controllers with pulse/direction, RS232 and CAN interfaces.

United Equipment Accessories

Family-owned Iowa company founded in 1952 that makes custom slip rings, rotary unions and hydraulic swivels, and owns the Alpha Slip Rings, Fabricast and American Reels brands.

Unitree

Hangzhou robotics company that sells the joint motors developed for its legged robots, such as the GO-M8010-6 and B1-16, as stand-alone actuators with RS-485 control.

WAGO

Family-owned Minden connection and automation company, founded in 1951, whose I/O System 750 and PFC and CC100 controllers are widely used for machine and process control.

Wanshsin

Chinese maker, based in Hunan Province, of precision planetary and spiral bevel gearboxes and gear motors, with high-rigidity and high-radial-load options for robotics, machine tools and AGVs.

Weintek

Taiwanese HMI manufacturer, founded in 1995, making cMT X and iP series touch panels, headless HMIs, iR remote I/O and the EasyBuilder Pro software.