Thanks for all the feedback! I did not find the nice NEMA17 motors with integrated brake myself as an assembled piece. The pneumatic option is the only option with an actuator that is feasible, I think, besides the on-motor brake.
Thanks for all the replies.
The reason I did not use NEMA17 motors with brakes is that I use a geared motor for the Z-drive (See picture below) A brake cannot be added. I was hoping on finding a simple solution that could be used on all drives.
The thing that I am exploring right now is to...
I have an engineering challenge.
I am in the process of designing a pick and place machine with a table moving in the X and Y direction.
For the Z-direction, a gripper is placed on a moving arm above the table.
For speed and cycle time purposes, the table is driven by a rack-and-pinion...
