Controls & Machine Components

Clippard: Multi-check valves

Clippard’s manifold mounted multi-check valves – the R-614, the R-337, and the R-338 – are housed in a valve body designed to mount and link together with a simple piping system that eases assembly and plumbing, resulting in reduced labor costs, errors in installation, and the potential for plumbing leakage.

January 28, 2014

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Bodine: Gearmotors with AC models

Bodine Electric’s expanded FX line of parallel shaft gearmotors includes the all-new 42R6-FX, which combines a new, 3-wire reversible 42R frame AC induction motor with a completely redesigned and updated FX gearhead to provide up to 40% more torque than previous E/F models.

January 24, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

PHD: Economical cylinder product line

PHD's Optimax Series OCV Pneumatic ISO Cylinder line (first in the company’s Optimax actuator product line) is available in 32, 40, and 50 mm bore sizes and stroke lengths.

January 22, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech: High-power drive rack

The Npaq 6U from Aerotech is a high-power drive rack that uses plug-in amplifiers supporting both linear and PWM topologies to control brushless DC, brush, or stepper motors at up to 320 VDC operating voltage and 30 A peak current capability.

January 17, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

AutomationDirect: DC drives

AutomationDirect’s IronHorse line of motors and drives now includes the GSD1, GSD3, GSD4, and GSD5, GSD6, and GSD7 series of DC drives.

January 17, 2014

Robotics

Cancer diagnostics firm automates bottle filling, capping, labeling

Dako’s compact robotic bottling system frees up vital production floor space, increases speed, and reduces labor costs, filling different bottle shapes and sizes with no mechanical setup between production runs.

January 16, 2014

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B&R: Hollow shaft angular gearbox

Designed for flange sizes 60 to 142 mm, B&R’s 8GA75 premium-grade angular planetary gearbox features a hollow shaft, making it possible to feed cables, fluid lines, and material strands through the drive axis.

January 15, 2014

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Bodine: Low-voltage, right-angle gearmotors

Bodine’s line of INTEGRAmotor high-performance right-angle gearmotors now includes 34B4/FV-5N gearmotors which combine Bodine’s 34B brushless DC motor with a compact right-angle gearhead, a built-in PWM speed control, and an optical encoder.

January 15, 2014

Material handling

Schwabe North America banks on stock optimization

Stock optimization analysis helps pharmaceutical company customize its spare parts handling process after relocating from Utah to Wisconsin.

January 8, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Lenze: PackML library for ladder logic programming

Designed to give machine builders and operators the ability to focus on motion, diagnostics, data collection, video on HMI, and more, Lenze Americas’ library greatly simplifies implementation of PackML standards using ladder logic so customers can deliver safer and more predictable machines that collect data and can be operated and diagnosed without complex development software.

January 2, 2014

Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech integrated machine control: PLC, motion control, fieldbus, I/O and operator interface

Aerotech's A3200 MotionPAC is a software-based Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) that is completely integrated with Aerotech's A3200 motion controller to increase programming efficiency, decrease development time and to increase quality.

December 23, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Automation controllers that reduce deployment risk in machine design and improve performance

Aerotech, a specialist in motion-centric machine control, has developed an integrated automation solution that blends concepts from Information Technology with the world of open automation.

December 23, 2013

Controls & Machine Components

Aerotech: High-power modular drive chassis in 19-in. rack-mount design

Aerotech’s Npaq 6U high-power drive rack uses plug-in amplifiers supporting both linear and PWM topologies to control brushless, DC brush, or stepper motors.

December 20, 2013