Vending

Basil Street teams with motion control provider on pizza machines

Photo courtesy of Basil Street.

October 1, 2021

Basil Street, a provider of automated pizza machines, has teamed with motion control company Arcus Servo Motion, a provider of motion control systems, as it expands its brick-oven style pizza kitchens nationwide, according to a press release.

"Motor controllers are a central component of any complex motion control project, especially one that involves coordinating the movements between multiple motors, such as the ones in Basil Street's APKs," Basil Street COO Jeff Klemp said in the press release.

Further factoring into the decision to partner with Arcus includes the Titan product line's ability to accept both standard quadrature encoder feedback, in addition to hall sensor feedback for full closed-loop control. This allows for multiple Titan controllers to be networked together and thus enables Basil Street to scale through a common communication interface and protocol. Additional key offerings that solidified Arcus' integration into the Basil Street partner team includes the ability of the Arcus controllers to be commanded by a central PC running the APK, as well executing microcode directly on the controller processors themselves, offering a balance between autonomy and centralization.