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 […]
FECA-01 EtherCAT Adapter for ABB Drives
New Berlin, Wis. – ABB Low Voltage Drives announces the release of the FECA-01 EtherCAT® Adapter for the ACS355 and ACS850 drives. The FECA-01 supports CANopen over EtherCAT (CoE) protocol. The flexible plug-in adapter provides fast and simple connectivity to the ABB AC500 PLC (programmable logic controller), and all other major programmable automation controllers / […]
Multi-axis Conformal Coating Machine Handles High-volume Throughput
Fort Smith, Ark. – An advanced real-time Ethernet motion control system has helped Advanced Coating Robotics (ACR) create a new conformal coating machine that combines exceptional three-dimensional spraying accuracy with high throughput. The multi-axis system is based on Baldor Electric motion control products, with three axes making use of the company’s Ethernet-compatible PowerLink servo drives. […]
Global.CProx Capacitive Proximity Sensors from Balluff
Florence, Ky. – Balluff’s new Global.CProx line of capacitive sensors offers a broad range of products to reliably solve object and level detection applications. The Global.CProx family includes a wide array of tubular M12, M18 and M30 sensors available with either M12 connectors or pre-wired cables. Built to Balluff’s high standards, all of the Global.CProx […]
New Linear Motor Line from Siemens
Elk Grove Village, Ill. – With the recent introduction of its 1FN6 Linear Motors, Siemens now offers three models of Linear Motors for seamless integration with all Sinumerik or Simotion control systems using Sinamics drives. The three new motors are the 1FN3 Peak Load Motor, 1FN3 Continuous Load Motor, and the1FN6 Magnet Free Secondary. The […]
Demystifying Permanent-Magnet Machines
The book Design of Brushless Permanent-Magnet Machines by J.R. Hendershot and T.J.E. Miller is fully revised and expanded from the first edition that the authors published back in 1994. “Engineering is a practical art with just enough theory,” the authors say. In what a lot of designers consider the dark art that is electric machine design, […]
New Line of 27-bit Resolution Absolute Optical Encoders from Renishaw
Renishaw’s RESOLUTE optical encoder system is the world’s first true absolute encoder capable of 27-bit resolution at 36,000 rpm. The fine-pitch system offers excellent dirt immunity, while delivering market-leading resolution of just 1nm at up to 100 m/s, for both linear and angle encoding applications. RESOLUTE’s high performance is the result of a unique method […]
New Absolute Encoder from Heidenhain
Schaumburg, Ill. –Heidenhain announces a new absolute, inductive rotary encoder. The ECI 119 features a low profile (height of 19 mm, outside diameter 92 mm) and large through shaft (50, 38, or 30 mm), making it well suited for electric motors in many applications, including general automation, electronics and packaging industry, robotics, plastic injection molding […]
Electric Motors for Oil and Gas Exploration from Ducommun
Los Angeles, Calif. – Ducommun Technologies, Inc. (DTI) announces an expansion to its product line of high-pressure and high-temperature AC induction motors for downhole oil exploration tools. The two new designs with outside dimensions of 3.5 and 3.625 in. offer improved motor efficiency and reduced temperature rise and represent a significant step in performance and […]
New Linear Position Transducer with VARAN Bus Interface from Balluff
Florence, Ky. – Balluff announces the Micropulse AT Linear Position Transducer with the VARAN Bus interface. It is able to track the location of up to four position-marker magnets. The transducer outputs a start/stop signal, which is used to calculate the position of each magnet using the transducer length and resolution. It’s available in a non-contact, floating magnet […]