SCHAUMBURG, IL--(Marketwired - November 09, 2016) - For the SPS IPC Drives 2016 trade show, HEIDENHAIN is supplementing its existing program of inductive position encoders with its new rotary encoder ...

Rotary encoders sense changes in the position of a rotating shaft, then generate signals that send speed, direction, and position information to a receiving device such as a counter, drive, or ...

Rotary encoders connect to a shaft and, as the shaft rotates, the encoder outputs pulses. These are used to determine the speed of the object. By counting the amount of pulses per one full turn of the ...