by Lucas Kehl, Lapp Group Accelerations of 5 g or more can shorten the life of servo cables. But new cable designs are coming with greater tolerance for these higher accelerations. In automated production machines, faster acceleration and deceleration of motion axes can lead to productivity gains. It’s no wonder that machine builders have started […]
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Altra Announces Acquisition of Guardian Industries
Altra Industrial Motion Corp. (Nasdaq:AIMC), a global manufacturer and marketer of electromechanical power transmission and motion control products, announced the acquisition of Guardian Industries, Inc. Founded in 1941 and based in Michigan City, Indiana, Guardian manufactures a wide range of products including shaft couplings, motion control couplings, flywheel couplings, hydraulic pump drives, compressor drives and […]
Tried-and-true chain lift and motor technology makes Cedar Point’s Gatekeeper roller coaster soar
Reliability. Longevity. Simplicity. Those are just a few of the key words that come to mind when you learn why Cedar Point, a world-famous amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio, went with tried-and-true chain lift technology on its winged roller coaster, the Gatekeeper. For the first installment in Design World’s Summer Tech Vacation video series, […]
BLDC motor EC 19 and planetary gearhead GP 19 M
With its modular construction, this new brushless DC motor is available in three performance classes: the cost-optimized EC 19 at 60 Watt, the strong and high-speed EC 19 at 120 Watt and the sterilizable high-end version EC 19 at 120 Watt. The internals of the drives are responsible for their individual characteristics: The EC 19 […]
DMC-40×0 and DMC-41×3 Have Twice The Program Memory
Galil is pleased to announce our latest firmware release, revision 1.2, for the DMC-40×0 and DMC-41×3. This release provides an increase in program memory from 2000 x 80 characters to 4000 x 80 characters, and an increase in the total array elements from 16,000 to 24,000. The DMC-40×0 comes in a box-level format and delivers […]
B&R introduces premium IP65-rated helical gearboxes
Smoother operation for absolute precision B&R introduces premium IP65-rated helical gearboxes B&R is adding two new helical members to its premium family of gearboxes: the 8GP70 series with a shaft output and the 8GF70 series with a drive flange. These new products series offer excellent synchronization characteristics and a very low noise level at high […]
Japanese R&D Firm Develops Energy-efficient Motors
i-Motor Co., Ltd. of Kyoto, Japan has developed a new variable flux brushless permanent magnet (PM) motor currently undergoing testing at the nationally recognized test laboratories Advanced Energy’s test facilities. i-Motor is a subsidiary of T.N.G. Technologies, a research and development company working on products that enhance energy efficiency. The new Type 5 variable flux […]
AutomationDirect Releases White Paper on Group Motor Protection
AutomationDirect announces the release of a new White Paper, “Group Motor Protection”, that explains how the usual way of preventing a small motor from drawing too much current is to install overcurrent protection in the form of a circuit breaker or some other kind of limiter. But installations that employ more than one motor might […]
Mosolver Technology Enables Harsh Environment Operation
The Mosolver, a combined motor and resolver, uses the existing motor magnetic structure and drive elements, in combination with a unique sensor within the motor to deliver 32,000 positions per revolution as well as commutation information even when the motor is stationary. As the sensor is based on a rugged, wide temperature range polyimide sensor […]
Integrated Software Provides Motor Designers with Complete Solution
CD-adapco has integrated SPEED with STAR-CCM+. SPEED is a leading electric machine design tool and STAR-CCM+ a powerful all-in-one tool that models heat transfer, fluid dynamics, structural stresses, electric and magnetic fields, and aero-acoustics that play important roles in many electric machine applications. CD-adapco purchased the SPEED electric machine suite of programs in June of […]