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.
Sophisticated closedloop control system using electric and pneumatic automation technology ensures precision hot insertion process for the production of automotive throttle assemblies
Tough and reliable inverters help NOV Brandt to invrease the versatility and efficiency of its shale shakers, which are used to separate solids from the liquid component of drilling mud
The main pipe reel on an ocean-going vessel is a critical piece of equipment. The replacement of the two, six-tonne main pipe reel bearings on one of Technip's longest-serving pipelay vessels, the Apache has been completed successfully
Air spring systems ensure that the football fans on the Gautrain in South Afric have a safe and comfortable journey to the World Cup matches
One of the world’s largest automotive component manufacturers Johnson Controls is using water resistant SMVector drive range to power conveyors on a new car seat production line.
A filter plant at the BOS plant on the Scunthorpe Corus steelworks is using hybrid design gearboxes combining planetary and helical gear technology to open and close the doors on the iron desulphurisation process
the role of cables in reliable automation
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