New Permanent Magnet DC Gearmotors from Bison Gear

St. Charles, IL – Bison Gear & Engineering introduces six standard models of new parallel shaft permanent magnet DC gearmotors with continuous torque ratings from 30 to 500 in-lbs. (3.4 to 56.5 N-m). The new VWDIR134 DC gearmotors are available with 1/10 or 1/11 horsepower (74.6 or 67.8 watts) 90 volt brushed DC electric motors. The compact,... [Read more]

XTRUE™ True Planetary Gearheads

WOOD DALE, IL – Thomson introduces XTRUE™ True Planetary Gearheads. Available in 40mm, 60mm, 80mm, 120mm and 160mm frame sizes, XTRUE True Planetary Gearheads are specifically engineered to move large loads more easily and quietly with True Planetary™ gearing through improved load capacity and lower backlash. They deliver precise 13 arc-mins operation,... [Read more]

2009 BK Series Catalog from R+W

For highly dynamic and accurate servo driven systems, stainless steel bellows couplings have been a mainstay for some years. Their increasing prevalence has driven the development of a very wide variety of mounting configurations, wall thicknesses, lengths, torque ratings, etc.The 2009 BK series catalog from R+W represents the latest collection of... [Read more]

Bodine Adds Gearmotors and Motors to Pacesetter™ Product Line

CHICAGO, IL — Bodine Electric Company added over twenty new 230/460 VAC, variable speed, three-phase gearmotors and motors to their Pacesetter™ product line. These new models are ideal for factories where various power supply options are present. They provide a wide range of torque, speed, and horsepower to fit a wide variety of applications such... [Read more]

Parker Releases Industrial Profile Systems Catalog

Rohnert Park, CA – Parker’s Electromechanical Automation Division announces the release of a new catalog featuring its IPS brand of structural framing products and systems. The 232-page guide covers extrusion profiles, fasteners, brackets, handles, doors, panels, hinges, linear applications and more.The revised catalog features new products, technical... [Read more]

H Series Rod Ends and Spherical Bearings from Aurora Bearings

Montgomery, IL – Aurora Bearing Company answers difficult and demanding misalignment applications with H Series rod ends and spherical bearings. H Series products have been specifically designed and engineered to solve misalignment issues with their narrow raceways and oversized balls with extensions to increase ball width.These features allow... [Read more]

IronHorse™ Hollow Shaft Gearboxes

AutomationDirect’s IronHorse worm gearbox line now includes hollow shaft models in four frame sizes, and six gear ratios from 5:1 to 60:1. Constructed of cast iron one-piece housings, hollow shaft worm gearboxes feature a C-flange input. Designed to change drive direction by 90 degrees, hollow shaft gearboxes are used when space is at a premium,... [Read more]

Bison Gear Launches New ISIS Program

St. Charles, IL — In order to keep customers productive in uncertain times, Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. unveils its new “in-stock, instant-ship” (ISIS) program covering over 500 standard models of AC and DC fractional horsepower gearmotors, electric motors and gear reducers. The objective of Bison’s ISIS program is same-day... [Read more]

D Series Cast Iron Gear Motor

AMES, Iowa – Sauer-Danfoss’ (NYSE:SHS) new D Series cast iron gear motor provides a 276 bar [4000 psi] solution in a ductile, three piece housing, complete with an electrohydraulic proportional relief valve. Suited for heavy duty fan drives and powering work functions, from mining conveyors, road pavers and crushers to flail and side angle mowers,... [Read more]

ProServe 5.2 Application Development Software from WAGO

Germantown, WI – Version 5.2 of WAGO’s free ProServe product development software suite features a new range of products and enhanced tools.Among the additions to the more than 16,000 products of ProServe 5.2’s ‘productLOCATOR’ which include DIN-rail, PCB and chassis mount terminal blocks, signal conditioners, and the WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM are... [Read more]

22 Series Planetary Gear Line

IMS Gear has enhanced its product offering with an all New PK/PM 22 planetary gear series to bring it in line with state-of-the-art engineering. The essential features include a revised gear design with optimized noise behavior, improved efficiency and a new rigid flange design. An all-plastic planetary gear unit has also been included in the line-up.All-plastic... [Read more]

Gearmotor Withstands Aggressive Cleaning

ASEPTICplus gearmotor features an IP 69K-rated DAS motor with a smooth-bodied, hygienic design to perform reliably in high pressure, high temperature washdown conditions found in the food processing industry. The motor has a smooth surface without recesses.Since there is no place for bacteria or contaminants to hide, this allows thorough and efficient... [Read more]

Stafford Large Bore Shaft Collars and Rigid Couplings

Large bore shaft collars and couplings that can be custom engineered for drive train applications in wind power generation systems are available from Stafford Manufacturing Corp. of Wilmington, Massachusetts.Stafford Large Bore Shaft Collars and Rigid Couplings are custom engineered for applications up to 16” and 8” I.D., respectively, and come... [Read more]

Shimpo Drives Releases its New VRAS Product Line

Shimpo Drives has released its new VRAS product line, the last of five new servo gear reducer products for servo motors.VRAS is Shimpo’s highest performing reducer, designed to handle the most extreme applications. Standard backlash, an important spec in servo applications, is 3 arc-min. Standard environment protection is IP65, with IP67 available.... [Read more]

Capabilities Brochure from Matrix International

A new full-color brochure from Matrix International details the company’s product capabilities and a wide range of industrial applications using Matrix brakes, clutches, torque limiters and couplings.Product categories detailed in the new literature include off-highway vehicle brakes, forklift truck brakes, winch, crane and marine products,... [Read more]

Metals Industry White Paper Published by Altra Industrial Motion

BRAINTREE, MA – Altra Industrial Motion has published a white paper entitled “Making the Grade in Metals” which outlines the firm’s technology solutions in worldwide metal producing, forming and fabricating operations.“The multiple companies of Altra operate as the premier manufacturers of gear drives, clutches, brakes, couplings... [Read more]

Lubrication-free Polymer Ball Bearings

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. – igus® now offers lubrication-free polymer ball bearings due to increasing customer demand for maintenance-free solutions in this area. The company’s Xiros ball bearings are technically optimized, available from stock and have a predictable service life.They are designed to fill the gap where conventional ball bearing performance... [Read more]

NKE Supplies Bearings for Marine Current Turbines

Steyr, Austria – SeaGen, the world’s first commercial tidal current turbine in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough, runs with bearings from NKE Austria.The gearbox of SeaGen is equipped with nine types of NKE bearings. Tidal current turbines are among the latest developments in renewable energy. Installed undersea, the turbines are driven... [Read more]

Marked Increase in Sales at Bosch Rexroth for 2008

Hoffman Estates, IL — Bosch Rexroth AG, parent company of Bosch Rexroth Corporation in North America, announces $8.3 billion (5.9 billion Euros) in sales for 2008 – up 9.8 percent from the previous year. Sales in the Americas were up nearly eight percent in U.S. dollars. The company, a subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH, anticipates a significantly... [Read more]

Aurora Bearing Co’s LCOM Spherical Bearings

Like all Aurora Bearing spherical bearings, the LCOM series features a one piece steel raceway, swaged around the ball for a smooth, precise, close tolerance fit, along with the benefit of the strength and vibration resistance of steel. In addition, this series is optionally available with Aurora’s proprietary AT series PTFE liner, for a zero clearance,... [Read more]

Modular Bearing System for Planetary Wind Turbine Gearboxes

Most wind turbines use gearboxes to transform the relatively low rotational speed of the main shaft into the higher speeds required for power generation. Single or two stage planetary gears are often used to keep the overall size small. The bearings of the planetary gears tend to be highly loaded in this application.  Austrian bearing specialist NKE... [Read more]

New Software Targets Motion Control Industry

VisualSizer-Professional is a generic servo motor sizing and selection software. The internal motor database includes the data of 6000+ motor/drive/amplifier combinations provided by manufacturers such as Allen-Bradley, AMK Drives, AutomationDirect, Automation Intelligence, Baldor, Bayside Motion Group, Dynetic Systems, Festo, GE Fanuc, and others.... [Read more]

Coaxial-Drive Planetary Gearhead

The low noise coaxial-drive (Koaxdrive) KD 32 planetary gearhead from maxon motor is setting new standards in operating noise and torque levels. Measuring 32 mm in diameter and with a torque of 6.5 Nm, it is ideal for use in noise-sensitive, highly demanding applications. The new Koaxdrive KD 32 combines the best of two proven gearing technologies,... [Read more]

Synchronous Plus Drives Provide High-Torque, Flexibility with Dual Sprocket Design

TB Wood’s Synchronous Plus™ synchronous drives offer the flexibility of a dual sprocket design that features both metric and standard-tapped holes coupled with a high-capacity Synchronous Plus belt. As a result, the Synchronous Plus drive delivers 50% more horsepower capacity than standard-construction, high-torque drives, according to the company.... [Read more]

Kerk Mini Series Lead Screw Assemblies from HaydonKerk

Kerk® Mini Series Lead Screw Assemblies, from HaydonKerk Motion Solutions, are ideal for demanding miniature applications, such as data storage drives, miniature pumps and dispensing systems, micro-actuators and laser/optical focusing mechanisms. Comprised of small diameter, precision rolled, lead screws and patented nuts, the Mini Series provides... [Read more]

CD Couplings® from Zero-Max

Plymouth, MN — New CD Couplings® from Zero-Max are an ideal choice for use with fixed displacement hydraulic pumps driven by servo motors. CD Couplings provide the ideal combination of high dynamic load capacity and high torsional stiffness to ensure reliable system operation.“This new pump drive technology has become increasingly popular... [Read more]

Planetary Gearbox for Pittman DC Motors

The new G30A planetary gearbox introduced for Pittman® brand DC motors offers superior torque capacity, performance life, shaft loading capability, and low audible noise characteristics in a small, lightweight, and economical package. This gearbox is uniquely engineered to equip at least five different series of Pittman motors in various models to... [Read more]

Bison Gear’s TightDrive™ Motor-Mounted Speed Control

St. Charles, IL — Bison Gear’s new TightDrive™ speed control for permanent magnet DC (PMDC) motors was designed for applications that require a convenient location for the control … on the motor. The majority of PMDC gearmotors and motors used in industry today require speed controls in order to operate. Typically, the control is... [Read more]

12 Volt Permanent Magnet DC Products

Bodine introduces a new selection of 12 volt permanent magnet DC (PMDC) gearmotors, motors and a new 12 VDC speed control for continuous duty OEM applications. These compact and cost-efficient products provide the predictable performance required for battery powered, remote-location, medical device, or solar applications. When these gearmotors and controls... [Read more]

Ingenia’s Motion Control Library

Ingenia motion controllers can be configured and operated through their registers. To do this, it is necessary to establish a communication channel with the controller and to activate the desired registers. Such configuration and operations can be tedious due to the need to use low level syntax and to know communication protocols, etc. To free developers... [Read more]

Engineers Ensure Slamdunk

Up until the 2008 collegiate basketball championships, portable basketball backstops common to large sporting arenas were manually operated. Spalding, one of the world’s oldest and best-known sporting good brands, saw the opportunity. Under the pressure of the fast approaching Final Four, they stepped up to develop a motorized backstop that could... [Read more]

GGB Bearing Materials Meet Specs for Hydropower Applications

Thorofare, N.J. – GGB Bearing Technology’s HPM™ and HPF™ fiber-reinforced, plastic composite bearings meet the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ specifications for self-lubricating bearings for wicket gate applications in hydropower turbines, according to tests performed by Powertech Labs, Inc., Surrey, B.C., Canada. “In general... [Read more]

CGI Inc. – Quality at Every Turn

ADVANCING SERVO GEAR TECHNOLOGY CGI has been building to custom gear requirements for over 36 years and we’re still going strong. Time and time again customers continue to bring us application requirements that no other manufacturer can do quickly and inexpensively. CGI’s has engineered precision gear solutions for a wide variety of markets including... [Read more]

Helical Products

The demands put upon today’s design engineers seem to increase yearly. It is little wonder engineers are reaching for the Rolaids with one hand and the assistance of industry specialists with the other. Clearly the pressure is on engineers to produce designs that create competitive edge.Designs that provide a competitive edge combine simplicity... [Read more]

R + W Couplings

Protection of an electromechanical system from torque overload is often assumed to be guaranteed by the current limits set in the drive parameters.But in the case of hard stops, impacts and other situations where overload occurs rapidly, sufficient energy to do damage often exists in the rotating inertia driving the load. R+W servo-rated torque limiters... [Read more]

Cut Costs by 40% with Plastic Bearings

Saving time and money is vital in today’s uncertain economy. To cut costs, design engineers should consider the merits of self-lubricating plastic bearings. They are lightweight and require virtually no maintenance. Self-lubricating plastic bearings withstand demanding application conditions, including extreme temperatures, high loads and continuous... [Read more]

Taking the Guesswork out of Pneumatic Control

Do you need help in designing a pneumatic system that is functional, cost-effective and will work right at start-up?Get the help you need now by utilizing Clippard’s new white paper, “Taking the Guesswork out of Pneumatic Control”. This easy-to understand white paper takes you through air logic design with basic design instruction, and at the... [Read more]

How Green is Your Gearmotor?

Three phase electric motors are more efficient than single phase, but three-phase power isn’t available everywhere. Variable Frequency Drives are today’s answer. When compared to DC speed controls, they offer more features to increase equipment life.To maximize efficiency of your gearmotor, avoid inefficient gearing. Right angle worm gear reducers... [Read more]

DualVee® Washdown Wheels Protect Against Ingress of Liquid

Applications in washdown environments typically require frequent bearing replacement due to the ingress of highly corrosive fluids and loss of lubrication. Bishop-Wisecarver’s new DualVee washdown wheels can increase replacement intervals nearly three-fold, and are interchangeable with standard vee wheels for ease of replacement.The patent pending... [Read more]

Multi-Axis Motor Control with CANopen Support

Hamburg, Germany – Standardized networks let designers combine motor controls and other system components from various vendors easily and flexibly. The CANopen firmware of TRINAMIC’s 3-axis motion control modules now makes it easy to implement multi-axis controls in decentralized architectures. The new TMCM-351 controls three compact two-phase stepper... [Read more]

Shimpo Introduces New Servo Speed Reducer

Itasca, IL – Shimpo Drives introduces its VRG product line in North America. VRG is a heavy duty high precision reducer designed to fit well on rotary tables, tool changers, pick and place robots, and many other applications requiring high precision speed reduction.VRG offers low backlash – 1 arc-min is available – and a hub-style bolt-on output.... [Read more]

HEIDENHAIN Increases CNC Accuracy with KinematicsOpt

SCHAUMBURG, IL – HEIDENHAIN Corporation now offers a new option to its iTNC 530 contouring control, now making possible the automatic measurement of a machine rotary axis. Called KinematicsOpt, this new software option, coupled with a mounted HEIDENHAIN touch probe into the CNC machine spindle, increases the accuracy of this already high functioning... [Read more]

Electric Forklift Motor Brakes

Altra Industrial Motion offers a comprehensive series of electric forklift motor brakes, wheel brakes and permanent magnet brakes for OEM forklift manufacturers through its industry-leading brands, Warner Electric and Matrix International.Warner Electric and Matrix International  provide a full range of  electric forklift brakes for a variety of... [Read more]

New Pillow Blocks from QBC

Garden City Park, NY — Quality Bearings & Components announces new pillow blocks featuring both locking collar and set screw types.These pillow blocks, identified as the BBXBLK-HCP… and BBXBLK-UCP… Series, are made of cast iron housings, solid base dual seal type pillow blocks. They are designed to fit shafts ranging from1/2″... [Read more]

Bison Gear Releases Whitepaper on “Improving Gearmotor Efficiency”

St. Charles, IL – A new white paper on “Improving Gearmotor Efficiency” posted on the Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. web site addresses the relatively untapped energy savings to be had with the proper application of the billions of fractional horsepower electric motors and gearmotors in use today. Most electric motor efficiency... [Read more]

Quick Clamping Shaft Collars from Ruland

Marlborough, Massachusetts — Ruland Manufacturing Company introduces its new quick clamping shaft collars. The new collars do not mar the shaft, do not require tools and are designed for quick adjustments. They are ideal for light duty applications with frequent setup changes or adjustments or where the need for tools is not practical. The quick... [Read more]

FlexTorq(TM) 762 Hollow Shaft Offset DC Gearmotors

St. Charles, IL – Designed to fit into high torque, tight space applications, and featuring either a 1.25″ (31.75 mm) I.D. hollow shaft or a 1.25″ diameter solid shaft in the u-shaped or s-shaped configuration, Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. introduces its new FlexTorq™ 762 series hollow shaft offset DC gearmotors. Driven by... [Read more]

Beam Couplings Have Improved Clamp Design

A new clamp design for zero-backlash flexible beam couplings is now available. The couplings clamp with a single screw on each end, which eases installation. The beam couplings feature both a radial and cross-cut to enhance surface contact with the shaft. This increases holding power while eliminating the need for the additional screw used in the original... [Read more]

Industry applications based on FactoryTalk

Rockwell Automation has expanded the platform capabilities of its FactoryTalk Integrated Production and Performance Suite to support a new generation of industry-specific applications for the automotive, CPG, and pharmaceutical industries. The platform now includes configuration tools and capabilities to help manufacturers reduce deployment costs and... [Read more]

MISUMI to Hold Contest at ATX West Show

Schaumburg, IL — Misumi USA announced that it will be holding a contest titled, “Go Configure” at the upcoming ATX West show in Anaheim, CA on February 10-12, 2009 in Booth Number 4601. The contest is Co-Sponsored by Design World Magazine and contest ballots will be available in the show issue of Design World magazine as well as the Misumi... [Read more]