OPKON is an automation company based in Türkiye, offering incremental, absolute, and magnetic encoders. Encoders are simply sensors that use varying mechanisms (and thus differing degrees of precision) to determine motor position, speed, and acceleration. Sensors onboard encoders translate the rotation of the shaft into pulses which can then determine the RPM of a motor. OPKON offers absolute, incremental, and magnetic encoders, of which each has different specifications and applications.

Alongside encoders, motors used in the automation industry also need to be controlled and monitored precisely, which is were motor controllers from DOLD come into play. DOLD offer motor brake relays – which ontrol and monitor the braking systems of motors, ensuring safe and reliable stopping. Alongside these are motor soft starters – which allow for smooth starting/stopping of motors by slowing increasing voltage until operating speed, thus reducing mechanical and electrical strain. The final piece of the motor control puzzle lies in reversing contactors – which allow electric motors to change rotational direction by switching the phases of the power supply, enabling forward and reverse operation in industrial machinery.

Further information on safety encoders can be found here.