Customers often ask us: What's better... "Servos or Steppers" in a CNC Plasma Cutter The question is always asked because of information found on the web sites of many low-end non-industrial rated machines.  This question is not even considered worthy of discussion in the high quality industrial machines, because ONLY servos are employed in these systems.   However, when you are a low-end plasma table assembler with no in-house technical engineering resources, you are forced to buy your control system from a third party vendor.  And when you begin pricing a complete servo system, you soon realize that the servo system costs more than your sell price for a complete machine.  So, you purchase the low cost stepper system ,and then embellish your web site with bogus half truths about steppers and how much better they are than closed loop servos.  Some bogus claims are: Steppers don't miss steps. Speed is not an issue, there is no need to move at 1000 ipm  Steppers are more accurate than servos Servo require tuning that is difficult to perform... We don't want to bore you with a big discussion here, rather we decided to Google "Servo verses Stepper" (And we highly encourage you to do the same) and see what the rest of the world thinks.     Here is what we found (click here to see exerts)    At Dynatorch, our market is NOT low-end non-industrial machines.  We use servo motors, for the same reasons the high-end industrial machines do; accuracy, dependability and performance.   We develop our controls and software IN-HOUSE.  By doing so we eliminated the necessity of purchasing servo controls from a third party vendor.  Instead, we became that third party vendor. (we sell our software to other machine manufacturers and motor control suppliers (JenCNC for example)   Having control of every aspect of the machine, enables us to control the cost and constantly improve and make instant updates.  For instance, make a request from any other plasma cutter supplier for a custom G-Code, an see what you get.  For us it never was a question of Stepper versus Servo, rather it was Servo CNC system for $20k versus $50K, what are you getting for the extra $30K? And why does it have to be that high?