Mark Holcomb

Applications Engineering Manager | Novanta

Mark Holcomb began his career at CSA Engineering in Palo Alto, California where he worked on active systems product development, including active isolation platforms and reaction mass cancellation devices. Later he joined AeroJet Corporation where he modeled thrust actuation devices for kinetic warheads, and afterward Celera Motion (a subsidiary of Novanta), working on software for motors and mechatronics products, before transitioning to a commercial role as Applications Engineering Manager. Holcomb holds a MS from the University of Buffalo.

All Sessions by Mark Holcomb

  • May 10, 2022


  • 11:45 AM  - 12:30 PM
    Designing a robot arm for a medical application presents many challenges, one being the correct design of the joint. To balance performance, cost, and mass inside a specified a volume, choices (and compromises) must be made. Making the correct decisions about the primary components in robotic joints - motors, encoders, gears and drives - results in joint designs that correctly balance performance, cost, mass and volume. In this session, Novanta’s Mark Holcomb will review the critical joint components, highlighting the unique properties of each that allow for a successful joint design. He will highlight the key motor, encoder and drive features to look for when designing a joint for a medical application.
    Enabling Technologies Track




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