Category: Components

Pick & place applications, printers and handling systems have one thing in common: high cycle rates and very high dynamics. For the sake of economy, self-supporting corrugated tubes are often used for the energy supply. However, the fast movements often leading to damage of the corru-gated hose. A Swedish robot manufacturer has minimized the risk with a tube reinforcement from the motion plastics specialist igus.

Data is the new gold in Industry 4.0. Machines, tools and workpieces will become cyber-physical systems which collect and exchange data. The result is a whole new quality of production data which enables decentralised production control in real-time. But the digital transformation poses new challenges for the safety technology. Schmersal Group now presents an innovative safety solution which is suitable for worldwide applications.

How retrieving and using plant legacy data becomes child’s play despite big data.

B&R unveiled its new transport system: AcopoStrak – the first system in the world to extend the economies of mass production down to batches of one.

Aucotec and Endress+Hauser cooperate on Industry 4.0-compatible networking.

At an automotive manufacturer based in southern Germany, a Kuka robot of the KR Quantec Foundry family is deployed in a washing cell. With millimeter precision, it guides components into position for cleaning at the cleaning nozzles.

With the new cULus approval for its brass and polyamide cable glands, the system provider is now making it easier for system suppliers to meet the high demands placed on enclosures.

Electrical components in control enclosures generate heat. This heat needs to be efficiently dissipated from the enclosures so as to protect them against excessive temperatures. An active climate control solution such as a cooling unit is not always needed, though. Depending on the heat loss and the size of the enclosure, passive heat dissipation may be adequate.

Pilz is expanding its range of services for international compliance: the automation company can now also support its customers en route to NR-12-compliant machinery, thus opening up access to the Brazilian market to machine builders and users all over the world.

Igus presents its new CF29 servo cable series – one of several new high-end cable families for continuous motion in e-chains with an outer jacket made of halogen-free TPE.