Saving costs with predictive maintenance
At the automatic baggage transportation system, inductive and optical sensors guarantee a smooth operation
crucial for upholding quality standards
Recording compressed air flows at a beverage production plant
in axial piston pumps and motors
With IWLAN toward increased flexibility and efficiency in the temperature testing of operator panels
Plastic multi-axis joints now including sensor systems
Ball bearing units are a time-tested solution for use in many industrial automation processes. Their construction, with a pre-assembled unit consisting of the bearing housing and the insert, grants a high degree of flexibility.
Achieving the optimum pump/motor interface would be easy if shafts were perfectly aligned, machines didn't vibrate, and if the shafts never actually moved. In the real world we need flexible couplings.
Checkweighers integrated into automated process lines ensure that the data given on any packaging states the actual content. In Mettler-Toledo Garvens' X-series checkweighers, motors with integrated electronics ensure the continuous movement of the convey
Helping to bring Star Wars a step closer, locking bushes are playing a key role in the Neuron Project to build a UCAV- demonstrator (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle)
The modular bearing system for planetary gears in wind turbine gearboxes offers a standardisation of the bearings, a reduced diversity of parts and simplified logistics.
Technical features and examples for application
Selecting the appropriate mechanical components
Wheel drives were selected for use on an agricultural tea harvesting vehicle; the units permit a neater design solution than axle drives and provide greater clearance for rough terrain vehicles
Liquid cooled dynamic brakes are being used to secure the mooring of semi-submersible oil drilling platforms, staying cool and providing fine adjustment while withstanding the variable forces on the cable drums.
A 2m travel vacuumcompatible precision ceramic motor system will be used in the cryo-cooled Laué monochromator for the I12 Joint Engineering, Environmental and Processing beamline,
MasterControls and Southern Technical Services have jointly retrofitted a Gleason 782 gear hobber, used by an aerospace components manufacturer in Chihuahua, Mexico, with a new CNC control system.
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