Category: Components

One of the most innovative German companies in the field of power transmission has its eyes firmly fixed on the sustained trend for automation and the high demands placed on robotic solutions. For this reason, the company has expanded its performance spectrum of clutches, couplings and brakes.

Enclosures specially manufactured by the Detmold-based electrical engineering company protect sensitive technology for new systems in what is currently the largest rail infrastructure project in the world for the modernisation of signalling equipment.

Well-filled order books call for intelligent solutions. In its efforts to realize capacity increases, the renowned small motor manufacturer set its sights on the robotized automation of a machine tool – and has come up with some impressive detail solutions.

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.