TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH provides integrated circuits and modules for motor and motion control to customers all over the world, most of them leaders in their industry. TRINAMIC products are used in leading-edge industries such as biotechnology, lab automation, semiconductor handling equipment, CCTV, factory automation, and control all kinds of embedded motion control systems.
Instead of semiconductor makers that just want to sell more chips, TRINAMIC Motion Control consists of engineers who want to design better drives. It all began when Michael Randt, Founder and CEO of TRINAMIC Motion Control, started developing a motion control chip together with his colleagues Lars Larsson and Bernhard Dwersteg.
Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany with subsidiaries in Tallinn, Estonia, and Chicago, IL, USA, the fabless semiconductor company’s own motion control architecture divides power electronics into three building blocks: a microcontroller for digital processing, a driver that translates digital signals into electrical power, and a gate driver plus power switches. This simplifies development and makes it easier to design components best suited for each block. In 2015, TMC became the first supplier worldwide with an EtherCAT-compliant slave-controller IC for integrating complex, real-time, latency-free I/O peripherals.
TMC now has over 20 years of application experience in embedded motion control. It develops and sells ICs, modules, and integrated mechatronics to market-leading manufacturers worldwide. Examples include Agfa, BQ, Dremel, Ecovent, GE, Honeywell, KUKA, Markforged, Ossur, Xerox, and Zeiss. The company’s products have been integrated into a wide range of applications in digital manufacturing, biotechnology, lab automation, materials handling, and factory automation.
