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ISO 13485:2016 and Its Strategic Importance forNovanta Precision Medicine
In an era of rapid innovation in precision medicine, regulatory compliance and quality assurance have become inseparable from patient safety and business success.
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Motion Control — A Critical Backbone of Life Sciences
In the life sciences industry — whether advancing a probe across a DNA well plate or counting cancer cells following a candidate drug exposure — motion control is prevalent.
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The Power of Integration: How Custom Motion Assemblies Reduce Time-to-Market
Executive Summary In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, product development timelines are shorter, and performance expectations are higher than ever. OEMs and system integrators are under pressure to deliver faster, smarter, and more reliable equipment without compromising precision or quality.Custom motion assemblies—engineered, tested, and delivered as integrated subsystems—offer a powerful way...
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Rapid development for launch of a complex positioning system
Introduction Positioning stages capable of micron-scale accuracy, repeatability, straightness, and flatness play essential roles in applications ranging from life sciences to semiconductor fabrication. Unfortunately, developing stages with this level of performance can be difficult and time-consuming. Translating design will volume production can be even harder. This is a problem, because...
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Hybrid Piezo Gripper Combines High Force with Wide Opening Distance
In the macro world, a variety of options exist for precision positioning, such as rotary motors with screw-type actuators or linear motors. At the sub-micron scale, things become more difficult. Conventional approaches present significant performance and environmental barriers.
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Clearing Up Some of the Misconceptions Around Accuracy, Repeatability, and Resolution
Garbage in, garbage out doesn’t just hold for computer programming. Building a motion system that will effectively serve the application starts with properly defining performance requirements like accuracy, repeatability, and resolution. Unfortunately, a fair amount of confusion exists around these metrics (and other non-metrics) used to characterize positioning capabilities. Let’s take a closer look.