Atlanta, Ga. – Siemens Industry, Inc. announces Speed Connect, a new quick release mechanism that protects against vibration shakeout on its Motion-Connect® line of power and signal cables. Motion-Connect cables are offered as standard on all Siemens motion control systems. The Speed Connect release simplifies installation and changeover, even in very restricted space applications. No […]
Archives for February 2011
Balluff Introduces Analog I/O for IO-Link
Florence, Ky. – Balluff’s line of IO-Link Analog Plugs lets users easily integrate analog I/O at an overall cost savings. By placing the IP67 Analog Plug between the standard analog field device and the Balluff IO-Link Master/Proxy, the plug converts the analog signal to a 14-bit resolution IO-Link signal, eliminating the need for an expensive […]
Enhanced Harmonic Linear Belt Drive Actuators from OEMDynamics
Santa Clara, Cal. – OEMDynamics, a division of Animatics Corporation, announces enhanced features on the HLD60-H3 actuator. Enhanced features include no gearheads required, which saves money and reduces maintenance, and no brake required in many vertical applications. Due to its unique harmonic principle, the H3 belt achieves a gear reduction equivalent of up to 40:1 […]
Cerobear celebrates 20 years of advanced bearing production
Cerobear GmbH (www.cerobear.com), the leading manufacturer of high quality hybrid bearings and ceramic used in motorsports, extreme industrial applications and aerospace – has recently reached 20 fruitful years of advanced bearing production in the chemical industry. Christian Klatt, Cerobear’s Vice President of Sales, announced the 20 years milestone of the company in hybrid bearing and […]
ABB Drives unveils FECA-01 EtherCAT Adapter
ABB Low Voltage Drives (www.abb.com), the world’s leading producer of electric drives and motors, has proudly announced the launch of the FECA-01 EtherCAT Adapter, which supports CANopen protocol over EtherCAT (CoE) protocol. “Combining this feature-rich industrial fieldbus adapter with the ACS355 and ACS850 drives will make available a great drive solution for OEM’s or system […]
New Bearing Material for Food Industry from igus
East Providence, RI –igus now offers an FDA-compliant bearing material that is blue in color for easier detection. igus’ new iglide A350 polymer plain bearing material is highly wear-resistant and can handle long-term temperatures up to 356°F, making it ideal for applications in the food, packaging and bottle-filling industries. The iglide A350 delivers low coefficients […]
ACR’s multi-axis conformal coating machine
Advanced Coating Robotics (ACR) (www.advancedcoatingrobotics.com) has created a conformal coating machine that blends high throughput with exceptional three-dimensional spraying accuracy – thanks to a real-time Ethernet motion control system. Based on Baldor Electric motion control products, the multi-axis system has three axes that use ACR’s Ethernet-compatible PowerLink servo drives. ACR’s reasons behind the choice of […]
This Week in Motion – February 7, 2011
Senior Editor Miles Budimir highlights some of the week’s new motion control products with a focus this week on encoders. Specifically, a 27-bit encoder from Renishaw, an inductive rotary encoder from Heidenhain, and magnetostrictive sensors from MTS Systems.
MotorSolve v2.5 Electric Machine Design Software from Infolytica
Montreal, QC – Infolytica Corporation announces the latest release of MotorSolve, the company’s electric machine design software. MotorSolve v2.5 features a host of improvements to the template modeling engine, results charts, and the user interface as well as a new online documentation resource. The improvements to the template library include a new interior/exterior wound rotor […]
HS35 Programmable Encoders from Baumer Offer 60 Arcsecond Accuracy
Southington, Conn. – Baumer announces its new HS35 family of incremental hollow shaft encoders, including a fully programmable version, for heavy-duty positioning and speed-control applications. Available in an IP67 version, these rugged encoders withstand shocks up to 200g, high-pressure cleaning, and ambient temperatures from -40°F to +212°F. The encoders’ ultra-precise optical scanning system delivers unrivaled […]