DRS61 CoreTech® Incremental Encoders from SICK STEGMANN, INC. named 2007 Design News “Golden Mousetrap” Award Finalist

Award program recognizes best products of the year in four different categories as judged by Design News readers

DAYTON, OH – DRS61 CoreTech® Incremental Encoders from SICK STEGMANN, INC. have been named a finalist in the 2007 Design News magazine “Golden Mousetrap” awards in the motion control/automation category. The awards recognize the best products of the year in four separate categories – electronics, motion control/automation, hardware and software, as well as materials/fastening, joining and assembly. The design engineering readers of Design News magazine judge the entries.

DRS61 CoreTech® Incremental Encoders are 60mm diameter incremental encoders that allow customers to freely program the number of lines from 1 to 8,192, as well as the width of the zero pulse, using a simple USB connection and programming software. This flexible programmability allows users to use a single type of encoder that can be programmed at any time, in any location, for any application.

SICK STEGMANN’s DRS family are the only freely programmable incremental encoders available on the market today that allow users to program the encoder to any number of lines from 1 to 8,192 in less than 60 seconds. This allows OEMs to reduce inventory requirements, determine optimum PPR during research and development, program a specific PPR as required by a customer, and easily replace encoders while at customer sites.

“Customer programmability is a particularly attractive new feature for OEMs, end users, consulting engineers, system integrators, and distributors. OEMs benefit by being able to use the encoder to determine the optimum PPR for their machine. They are also able to provide immediate reprogramming of the encoder to suit specific customer needs, while being able to significantly reduce encoder inventory requirements. End users benefit from reduced inventory requirements, immediate availability and reduced downtime. Integrators and consulting engineers no longer need to inventory multiple encoders with various PPR’s, and distributors can program the encoder at their location prior to shipping it to the customer,” says Scott Hewitt, President, SICK STEGMANN, INC.

SICK STEGMANN, INC. is a wholly owned subsidiary of SICK AG in Waldkirch, Germany. SICK|STEGMANN is a world leader in the design and manufacture of incremental, absolute and linear encoders, as well as motor feedback systems.

For more information, or to request a hard copy of the guide, contact: SICK STEGMANN, INC., 7496 Webster Street, Dayton, OH 45414; (800) 811-9110; (937) 454-1956; fax: (937) 454-1955; email: sales@stegmann.com.