HEIDENHAIN’s High Accuracy Absolute Ring Encoder Now Released For Angular Motion Feedback
(February 2016) – For over a decade, HEIDENHAIN has offered the ERA 4000 incremental ring encoder that has proven very successful in many industries and applications such as machine tool rotary tables, semiconductor wafer motion stages, and robotics to name a few. Now with new design features that enable it for use in angular motion feedback, the next generation of this encoder is introduced, the ECA 4000 which includes absolute technology. With the ability to provide a direct upgrade path for existing ERA 4000 applications as well as new applications, HEIDENHAIN’s new ECA 4000 absolute