Applied Motion Products introduced three new automation platforms at Automate 2026: the MCA6 Motion PLC, the MET2 remote I/O system and the AK Series StepSERVO drives.
All three share a single programming environment, McEngine Pro, with EtherCAT running as the common backbone linking machine control, distributed I/O and multi-axis motion.
The pitch is fewer moving parts for machine builders — one toolchain and one network protocol spanning logic, I/O and motion, instead of stitching together separate platforms for each.
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