Stafford’s Accu-Mount™ Collar

Wilmington, MA – Stafford Manufacturing Corp. offers a line of collars that provide an effective method for mounting sprockets, gears, pulleys and other components on a shaft, without marring the shaft.Stafford’s Accu-Mount™ Collar has a smooth bore that won’t mar shafts and a centering hub with a square and flat side that features four... [Read more]

ULT Direct Drive Frameless Motors with Larger Through-holes

Loomis, CA – Applimotion’s ULT Series get even larger through holes. Driven by customer demand and new applications in camera vision systems, Applimotion now offers some fo the thinnest radial cross-section motor available. Whether is is an optics application with line of sight through the motor’s center, or a need to maximize the wiring payload... [Read more]

Bluetooth® RF-Transceiver Module from WAGO

Germantown, WI – WAGO Corporation’s 750-644 Bluetooth® RF-Transceiver module provides fast, bidirectional, wireless communication between I/O nodes. Within 10ms, the 750-644 exchanges data up to 1000m (line-of-sight) or 100m (within buildings). This makes the 750-644 ideal for a wide range of applications from robot controls and high bay warehouses... [Read more]

Innovation Highlighted in Bison Gear Video

St. Charles, IL – Innovation and education are key elements in today’s advanced manufacturing environment, where companies like Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. function as an extension of their customers’ engineering and product development departments. A new online video highlights how the gearmotor manufacturer’s innovation... [Read more]

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Capacitive Motor Feedback Systems from SICK STEGMANN

DAYTON, OH – SICK STEGMANN, INC. introduces SEK/SEL52 Capacitive Motor Feedback Systems. These high resolution motor feedback systems with HIPERFACE® interface come in a 52mm housing, and are available in singleturn and multiturn versions with servo clamp, hollow shaft or tapered shaft configurations. A unique bearing-less design delivers more robust... [Read more]

Timken Launches High-Resolution Magnetic Encoder

CANTON, OH — The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) has launched a new packaged, industrial magnetic encoder designed to provide increased reliability and performance over conventional optical encoders, especially in high-shock and vibration conditions.“This technology lets the plant engineer sleep at night, knowing his or her operation won’t go down... [Read more]

Plastic Ball Bearings from QBC Feature Glass or 316 Stainless Steel Balls

Garden City Park, NY – New plastic plain ball bearings from Quality Bearings & Components (QBC) feature glass or stainless steel balls arranged in single and double row construction and incorporating acetal raceways. Identified as the BBPRIX-… and BBPRIXM… Series, the bearings are stocked in both inch and metric sizes and are designed... [Read more]

Aerotech ANT130-L Series Stages

Aerotech ANT130-L series stages offer best-in-class performance in speed, accuracy, resolution, repeatability, reliability, and travel range, and are offered in two accuracy grades. With its low profile and outstanding performance, the ANT130-L is the ultimate solution for high-accuracy alignment, inspection, positioning, and measurement stations.The... [Read more]

2009 Single Axis Actuators Catalog from Misumi

Schaumburg, IL - Misumi USA, Inc. announces the imminent publication of its 2009 Single Axis Actuators Catalog, featuring new single axis products and components suitable for a wide range of motion control and assembly machinery and other automation devices.Featured prominently in the catalog are: •The new Single Axis Robot RS Series Actuators,... [Read more]

Linear Drive Selection Software Simplifies Calculation of Thrust and Speed Requirements

Aston, PA – The UH5 software program from Uhing Company enables rapid analysis of linear motion application requirements to assure correct size selection of Uhing rolling ring linear drives.OEM designers and production personnel can submit linear motion application data by telephone or using forms on the Amacoil web site. Based on application criteria... [Read more]

igubal® Spherical Bearings

igubal® spherical bearings are self-aligning components (rod ends, clevis joints, flange bearings, pivot bearings and pillow blocks) made entirely of high-performance plastics. They are self-lubricating and easy to install. Bench tests indicate that the rod ends will operate for more than 95-million cycles without maintenance.These bearings are 80%... [Read more]

Portescap Guide to High Performance Miniature Motion Solutions

WEST CHESTER, PA – Portescap has available a new full product catalog featuring its complete family of high performance miniature motion solutions. This 290+ page resource details Portescap brushless and brush DC motors, TurboDisc, CanStack, CanStack vector and hybrid stepper motors, gearheads and encoders, as well as drives and electronics.In... [Read more]

10 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Custom Gearmotors

St. Charles, IL – With heightened focus on budgets and time to market, engineers continue to face a quandary when designing new electromechanical machines and equipment: whether to design “around” a standard off-the-shelf gearmotor or to specify a custom gearmotor meeting their exact requirements. In response to growing concerns on... [Read more]

Motion System Drives Realistic Racing Experience

After many years of evaluating and working with motion systems for various clients, UK-based Ball Racing Developments Ltd (BRD) concluded that nothing on the market could accurately simulate a racing car’s motion. So, the management and the engineers developed a new type of system dedicated to the motions experienced in a racing car, particularly... [Read more]

CANopen Option for the Applied Motion’s STAC6 Step Motor Drive

WATSONVILLE, CA – Applied Motion Products announces the CANopen option for the STAC6 Step Motor Drive, building on its increasing range of fieldbus compatible drives. The STAC6 Step Motor Drive has proven itself in demanding applications, such as packaging and labeling machines, delivering up to up to 1400 oz-in with AMPs compatible range of low-loss,... [Read more]

Selection Guide for Encoders from SICK STEGMANN

DAYTON, OH – SICK STEGMANN, INC. has created a new Selection Guide for Encoders designed to help users quickly select the appropriate incremental, absolute, wire draw or linear encoder for their application. All SICK STEGMANN encoder options are narrowed down for diameter, shaft size, resolution, programmability, as well as electrical and mechanic... [Read more]

Linear Stepper Motors from H2W Technologies

Santa Clarita, CA — Choose an easily integrated, low cost, high performance, 2-phase or 4-phase, linear stepper motor from H2W Technologies to improve the performance of an existing motion control system or create a new high speed, high accuracy system. These, compact, industry standard, 12 lb. Linear Steppers (53 N continuous Force, 16 lbs, 71 N... [Read more]

IP69K Linear Position Transducer for Harsh Applications from Balluff

Florence, KY – Balluff’s new Micropulse® ProCompact linear position transducer for demanding linear feedback applications is rugged, accurate, and protected against environmental hazards such as high humidity, ambient temperature variations, high-pressure wash down, and exposure to caustic chemicals.The Micropulse ProCompact rod-style transducer... [Read more]

maxon Brushless High Speed DC Motor

Maxon motor introduces the brushless EC 25. Designed for high speed applications of up to 70,000 rpm and has an extremely low vibration characteristic and minimized scale. The motor is equipped with preloaded ball bearings and a two pole Neodymium permanent magnet.The motor measures at Ø25 x 84 mm and is rated for nominal voltage of 36 VDC and reaches... [Read more]

Rotary Table from Techno

New Hyde Park, NY – The Rotary Table RF from Techno, Inc. Linear Motion Systems is a variable speed, infinite positioning rotary table that can be used in various industrial applications, replacing cam-driven tables with more versatility at half the cost. The RF is offered with optional accessories, magnetic brake, 3-Jaw Chuck and 490mm diameter flat... [Read more]

High-Density, 16-Point I/O Modules from WAGO

Germantown, WI – Sixteen I/O points in one 12mm-wide module make WAGO’s 16-point I/O ribbon cable modules one of the most compact solutions for streamlining control-to-machine wiring. The DIN-rail mount modules feature 16 inputs (750-1400), 16 outputs (750-1500) or 8 inputs/8 outputs (750-1502) and an HE10 ribbon cable interface. With the flat ribbon... [Read more]

Miles on Motion Episode No. 4

In this episode Miles looks at the two most common motors used in motion control operations.  Read More →

SKF’s New LLT Profile Rail Guides

New SKF® “LLT” profile rail guides integrate a unique “all-around” sealing system and unprecedented design features to protect against contaminants, increase repeatability, provide smooth-running performance, and promote longer service life requiring minimal maintenance. These guides ideally suit linear motion applications in the material handling,... [Read more]

Portescap Website Translated in German and Chinese

WEST CHESTER, PA – Portescap introduces fully translated German-language and Chinese-language websites. The German site is available at www.portescap.de, the Chinese site is available at http://cn.portescap.com, and the English site is available at www.portescap.com. Visitors to any of the sites can easily change from that site to the language of... [Read more]

Bimba Introduces New Movable Housing Linear Slide

Monee, IL—Bimba Manufacturing introduces the newest addition to their linear slide product offering, the Movable Housing Linear Thruster. The Movable Housing Linear Slide is available in bore sizes 9/16” through 3”, spanning 7 different bore sizes and five guide shaft diameters. In addition, the Movable Housing Linear Slide is available with ball... [Read more]

Del-Tron Crossed Roller Tables

Del-Tron’s aluminum and steel crossed roller tables are the perfect choice for applications requiring high accuracy and exceptional load carrying capabilities. Accuracies range from 0.0001” per inch of travel straight line accuracy on our aluminum tables to 0.00008” of parallelism on our steel crossed roller tables and are capable of carrying... [Read more]