August Steinmeyer GmbH announces the appointment of Bruce Gretz to lead its North American sales and marketing operations. Mr. Gretz is now Executive Vice President of Steinmeyer, Inc., the company’s sole international subsidiary. Mr. Gretz joined the company in mid-2015 as the National Key Account Manager, where he was instrumental in growing awareness of Steinmeyer’s […]
Bonfiglioli now offers TQF precision planetary flanged gearboxes
Bonfiglioli, a global designer and manufacturer of precision planetary gearboxes, now offers the TQF series of precision planetary flanged gearboxes. Highest torsional stiffness, tilting moment and compactness are the main characteristics of the TQF series. The compact servo solution TQF + BMD is a remarkably compact solution in which the overall length dimensions offer revolutionary, space-saving […]
MICROMO Launches New IER3 AND IERS3 Optical Encoders from FAULHABER
MICROMO is pleased to announce the new high precision IER3 and IERS3 optical encoders from FAULHABER. Both encoders deliver 2 channel quadrature signals and an additional index signal. The encoders are highly precise, thanks to the optical measuring principle. This measuring principle gives these encoders a strong edge in terms of accuracy and signal quality […]
Limit Lost Motion with Gam’s SPH Flange Planetary Gearbox
Backlash and Torsional Rigidity are both important values to consider when selecting a high precision gearbox as they both affect lost motion (arcmin). GAM’s SPH Flange Gearbox has a single piece steel housing and ring gear machined directly inside for maximum stiffness. The helical gears are precision cut and ground for extremely quiet and smooth […]
Success of Sercos PlugFest continues in 2016
Sercos International, supplier of the Sercos automation bus, held its 17th PlugFest mid May at Festo AG in Esslingen Berkheim, Germany. During the two-day event, master slave combinations were tested according to pre-defined test lists. Interoperability tests with extensive multi-device test set-ups were also performed. The PlugFest was attended by 10 companies with 10 master […]
Series of new bearings FAQs and interviews on bearingtips.com
If you’re looking for information on bearings, then check out the latest from motioncontroltips.com Design World sister site bearingtips.com. This site covers rotary bearings that take the form of ball and roller bearings as well as thrust bearings — in addition to the issues of bearing lubrication and integration. The following is a sampling of bearing features we’ve posted there recently. […]
Festo introduces productivity tools for the semiconductor industry
At Semicon West 2016 — July 12-14 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco at the Festo Semicon Booth #1029 — Festo unveils for the semiconductor electronics and assembly industry both tools and products that lower engineering overhead and bring machines to market faster. Servo kit for electric press-fitting applications The new servo press solution is the latest […]
ISA and ISACA to host July webinar on IT/OT industrial cybersecurity
The International Society of Automation (ISA) and ISACA will co-host a July 20th webinar on the importance of integrating information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) in protecting industrial automation and control systems (IACS) from cyberattack. This no-cost webinar — IT/OT Convergence and Industrial Cybersecurity — will be held Wednesday, 20 July 2016 at 12 p.m. (EDT), 11 a.m. (CDT), […]
FAQ: Are PACs just for process control or do they work for discrete plant functions?
By Steve Meyer || Programmable automation controllers (PACs) are (by design) a superset of PLCs. Everything that a PLC can do, a PAC can do. Some control tasks done by PACs are possible to do with a PLC but require expensive add-on modules. Conversely, the reliability and ruggedness so common in the physical builds of PLCs is […]
Direct-drive motor technology reduces energy costs
Electric Torque Machines (ETM) M-Series direct-drive motors can reduce energy costs by 60 to 80% compared to conventional NEMA motor and gearbox combinations. Using patented electromagnetic motor technology, ETM motors provide 80 to 90% operating efficiency for similar motor and gearbox applications. ETM’s integrated motor and drive systems are commonly used for conveyors, fans, pumps, […]