Category: Controls

The trend on truck-mounted concrete pumps is for greater reach with less weight. Technical advances at Schwing are currently making it one of the market leaders in this field. In order to raise operator comfort levels on truck-mounted concrete pumps with large booms, the company has launched an innovative vibration damping system. Schwing, in partnership with Baumer Electric, has developed a new strain sensor.

Turck has added the IMX12-FI frequency transducer to its range of IMX interface devices. Users can not only use the devices as rotational speed monitors but also as pulse counters. In both modes, the single-channel and two-channel variants can transfer input frequencies of up to 20,000 Hz.

At the IAMD/IMTS Fair from September 10th until September 15th, Michael Koch GmbH, manufacturer of dynamic energy management solutions and safe brake resistors, is presenting the beneficial Dynamic Storage-Manager DSM 4.0 for the first time.

HES Erkert Präzisionsteile GmbH is among Germany’s biggest suppliers of precision components. In the conveying systems used between its networked machine tools, the company has recently opted to use the new compact Simatic ET 200SP motor starters from Siemens which brings a number of added benefits.