Original article date: July 2000
The last few months have been an exciting time at Pepperl+Fuchs. With the acquisition of Visolux the Pepperl+Fuchs group goes from strength to strength and can now offer an even larger product portfolio. Reinforcing their reputation for meeting today’s industry needs and offering the back up that comes from many years’ [...]
Original article date: November 1997
NSK’s K1 Seal for ball screws and linear guides will enable machine builders to make real cost savings by replacing existing, and often costly, methods of lubricating precision machine parts.
Ballscrews and linear guides are essential components in any precision machine. Both have undergone remarkable developments over the last decade and these [...]
Original article date: February 1999
How do you achieve an enclosure with an injection moulded finish in volumes which preclude the use of the process? Bafbox has an answer as Alan Quinn discovers.
When it come to deciding how to house the product for many designers and professionals involved in the medium-volume capital goods market there is [...]
Original article date: June 1999
A new design of seal lip has been developed by SKF for bearings used in automotive alternators. Alan Quinn investigates.
A car’s alternator may have 20 or 30 electric motors to support from windscreen washers electric windows and CD players to seat adjusters fuel injectors power-assisted steering and engine management systems. In [...]
This article was originally written in the period 1995-2000
Brian Webb, Managing Director of Infranor, explains how CAN was adapted to servo drives.
Fieldbus control potentially offers reduced wiring, improved reliability and better accuracy. Fieldbuses can be likened to a network between PCs, but complicated by the industrial environment and the large range of devices which have [...]
Original article date: March 2000
So, what’s been happening in the field of bowls and feeding systems? Tommy Miller has been asking some of the leading suppliers
Machine builders have to respond to the demands of their customers, and bowl feeder suppliers are no different. So while machine builders are having to design and build machines that [...]
Original article date: October 1999
There’s much more to torque control than turning up with an impact wrench, as Alan Quinn found out from MHH Engineering
When a bolt is tensioned correctly, it is working at optimum efficiency and will resist coming undone. However, if the tension is too low, the nut could vibrate or work loose. [...]
This article was originally written in the period 1995-2000
Many metals exhibit a phenomenon called magnetoresistance (MR). This means that they show slight changes in electrical resistance when placed in a magnetic field. By designing materials made up of very thin layers of metals, it has been found possible to amplify this effect. This is called [...]
Original article date: June 1998
A Whole Weekend!
That’s what I’ve just spent working on one document. I’d say a third of the time spent was because the document was started in one version of a ‘leading word processing program’ and then I attempted to work on it in another.
And this set me thinking. More and more [...]
Original article date: September 1999
Transparent containers, such as PET bottles, have great attractions for the packaging industry but, unfortunately, such containers are difficult to detect reliably with conventional transparent object detectors. Tony Malin, of Telemecanique has details of an innovative new sensor which pruvides a complete solution to this problem.
Most packaging equipment relies heavily on [...]