Forest City Gear has expanded its turning and milling operations with a state-of-the-art facility designed to greatly improve lead times and quality for the production of precision gear blanks. This highly productive 8,500 sq. ft. facility is in close proximity to Forest City Gear’s main facility in Roscoe, IL, and now dedicated almost solely to […]
Integrated Motion Systems
Conveyor and material-handling trends (a Motion Trends report)
Conveyors are at the heart of an array of exciting changes in material handling — from the vast installations of automated warehousing to humbler stations only recently automated. Each conveyor installation has unique design requirements: Food and beverage conveyors might need to survive washdown settings; conveyors in airspace and defense operations may need to be […]
Low-profile XY stage features 1-micron resolution, 2-micron repeatability
The AU200-100×100-SC (Solid Core) stage is the newest addition to the expanding line of precision XY stages from OES (Optimal-Engineering Systems, Inc.) The linear travel of the X and Y axes is 100 mm x 100 mm (3.937 in. x 3.937 in.) and the resolution of the X and Y axes is 20 microns (non-micro-step) […]
Dorner Latin America Now Manufacturing at New Facility in Mexico
Dorner’s new manufacturing facility in Guadalajara, Mexico (Dorner Latin America) enables the company to build and deliver belt and flexible chain conveyor systems more quickly and efficiently for customers throughout Latin America. Dorner is an industry leader in the design, application, manufacturing and integration of precision industrial and sanitary conveyor systems. The new facility, staffed […]
What are pallet conveyors? (Not to be confused with pallet-moving conveyors)
Pallet conveyors transfer discrete products on carriers referred to as pallets typically transported by belt, roller chain, flat-top chain, or for extremely high loads, powered rollers. Pallet sizes are for the most part standardized among manufacturers in metric dimensions (240 x 240 mm, for example), although some manufacturers offer pallets in inch or non-standard metric […]
mk North America introduces CAD360! conveyor modeling tool
Leading conveyor system designer and manufacturer mk North America has announced the official release of a new online conveyor modeling tool — CAD360! — that makes it faster and easier than ever to design and share custom designed conveyor systems. The latest release (which replaces QuickDesigner) adds industry-leading speed to the modeling process. Users […]
Mach III Clutch Inc. supplies mechanical friction torque limiter for fish-barrier hoist
Reclamation District 108 is a 150-year-old water district located in the Sacramento Valley that provides irrigation, drainage, and flood protection to farms and rural communities in the area. But drainage and flood-control canals in this region pose a risk to adult salmon who return from the sea through the San Francisco Bay to make their […]
What is pitch in the context of conveyors?
Roller chains are one of the most common types of transport media for conveying systems. While they’re available in many designs and variations to meet different application requirements, they all have one thing in common. To specify a roller chain, you need three basic dimensions: The chain pitch … the roller diameter … and the width […]
New RH-N gearbox kits from Nabtesco Motion Control are pre-engineered offering
Nabtesco Motion Control now offers pre-engineered RH-N gearbox kits. RH-N kits use the manufacturer’s newest RV-N series of gearboxes … to 20% smaller and 30% lighter than the original RV-E series. RH-N gearbox kits make for turnkey motion solutions that trim lead, engineering, and installation times. The RH-N directly bolts onto servomotors without the need […]
Elmo’s miniature servo drive tested successfully under extreme underwater pressure
Elmo Motion Control (Elmo) now sells a unique solution for typical underwater applications such as remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), which don’t always allow for a fully controlled pressurized vessel for the servo drive. Elmo’s vast experience in designing innovative and reliable servo drives for harsh environments was a key element […]