Cincinnati Incorporated (CI) demonstrates its vast and ever increasing line of metal fabrication and additive manufacturing equipment at Fabtech 2017 (November 6-9, Chicago). In addition to a full-size 3D printed Shelby Cobra automobile on display near the registration area, CI has two exhibit booths at the show. The first booth (A4014) features the company’s latest […]
New Mobile Clutch Animation Video Created by Ogura
Ogura Industrial has created a new animation showing how mobile clutches work. The animation shows an exploded view of the component parts and how they interact with each other. In mobile clutches, torque is generated by attracting the armature and rotor to each other via a series of magnetic flux paths. The animation shows how…
Image gallery: The engineering eye candy at NIWeek 2017
National Instruments Corp. held its NIWeek event in Austin, Tex. last week. The get-together of LabVIEW programmers and instrumentation users always includes interesting new products and clever applications for the LabVIEW system design software and instrumentation hardware. Here are a few of the developments highlighted there that had eye appeal. NEXT PAGE: Stacking cups with…
Spring-engaged tooth brakes for medical applications from SEPAC
SEPAC designed the SETB electromagnetic spring-engaged tooth brake to deliver reliable, consistent operation within medical applications. This power off brake offers large bore sizes, low backlash, high torque-to-size ratio, a high number of index positions, positive engagement and a reliable coil with custom voltages available. These features, many not commercially available elsewhere in the marketplace, […]
New catalog from Force Control details Posidyne clutch brakes
A new 16-page, full-color catalog from Force Control Industries details the Posidyne line of clutch brakes featuring Oil Shear Technology for long service life with no maintenance or adjustment. Ideal for high cycle count applications (up to 250+ CPM), from 240 to over 78, 500 lb/in. torque ratings, they are available with air or hydraulic […]
New Addition to Ogura Product Line – HO Series
Ogura Industrial is pleased to announce a new addition to our product line. Although this product is not new to Ogura, it is new to North America. The HO series is finding new opportunities for machinery manufacturers in North America because of some of its unique features. The wet type multiple disc hydraulic clutch can…
Ogura ACSB Series
Ogura Industrial is pleased to announce a new addition to our product line. Although this product is not new to Ogura, it is new to North America. The ACSB series is finding new opportunities for machinery manufacturers in North America because of some of its unique features. ACSBs are both a clutch and a brake…
Gallery: Cool vehicle tech on display at Detroit’s 2017 North American International Auto Show
The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) is known for hosting debuts of new-model vehicles. But some of the more interesting technical developments at the show don’t appear on the vehicles that get the lion’s share of the press coverage. What follows are some of the vehicles we noticed that seemed to host noteworthy powertrain…
Save fuel with hydromechanical variable transmission
Dana Rexroth Transmission Systems has announced that its engineers have completed final validation testing of the R3 hydromechanical variable transmission (HVT), with the start of production expected in the third quarter of this year. Both versions of the HVT technology feature a modular design that can be adapted for many applications, including wheel loaders, motor…
Eaton adds five displacement sizes to its Hydre-MAC LSHT motor
Eaton today announced five new displacement sizes for its Hydre-MAC low-speed, high-torque (LSHT) direct drive, radial piston motor. Now available in eight sizes, including 13, 16, 20, 25,…
PKP Series standard 2-phase 1.8° and 0.9° stepper motor with electromagnetic brake from Oriental Motor
Leading the stepper motor market, now with power-off activated electromagnetic brakes. Oriental Motor is pleased to introduce our new 1.8° and 0.9° PKP Series 2-Phase stepper motor, the leading stepper motor in the market, now preassembled with new Oriental Motor’s Original Electromagnetic Brake. The new PKP Series stepper motors are now available with built-in power-off…
Trends in construction machinery hydraulics
If you asked my twenty-year-old self to describe the typical day on a construction site, I’d probably have described the stereotypical scene; five guys standing around watching a…
Modern mobile hydraulics: Not your grandfather’s loader
By Carl Dyke, CD Industrial Group Today’s engineer needs to understand the complexity of modern systems, from fuel consumption to load sensing. Mobile hydraulic component and system designers have…
How using a programmable safety rated controller can increase the life of your machine
How do you stop your car as you approach a red light? Is it a gentle release of the gas pedal so it can coast, slamming on the brakes or somewhere in between? With both methods, each way of stopping has a practical purpose. Most people like to glide to a stop. It’s easier on…
Programmable and electronically controlled blowers and fans offer OEMS wide range of application benefits
AMETEK’s Precision Motion Control Division, an innovator of programmable and controllable air-movement solutions, offers a range of electronically commutated brushless motors, fans and blowers that provide original equipment manufacturers (OEM’s) with the greatest design flexibility during the product development and the highest level of product control, efficiency and long life in application. AMETEK Windjammer® and…
Eaton tests hydraulic hybrids on lift trucks
Eaton’s Hydraulics division has been fairly quiet about its hydraulic hybrid technology lately, considering that the company was one of the first to really pioneer its use in on-highway vehicles, like its partnership with UPS several years back to test its series system on medium-duty trucks. Eaton hasn’t been doing much with its parallel system…
Motors deliver higher power density for compact robots
Kuka’s compact robots in the KR Agilus series are precise, agile and fast. As agile systems, these five-axis and six-axis handling units feature short cycle times and high repeatability, particularly for pick-and-place tasks. Synchronous servomotors from Kollmorgen’s AKM series play a major role in achieving this precision. Using collaborative co-engineering, the two companies reduced the…
Miki Pulley Launches New Website
Miki Pulley is introducing their line of high performance shaft couplings, clutches, brakes and shaft locks to the U.S. market with the launch of their new website at: www.mikipulley-us.com Supporting this new website and ongoing US business is Miki Pulley’s centrally located US headquarters in Minneapolis (Plymouth) Minnesota. Miki Pulley is a leading Japanese designer…
Miki Pulley Introduces The BXR Spring Applied Brake To The US Market
Miki Pulley is introducing their BXR Spring Applied Brakes for direct sale to OEM’s in North America. The BXR safety brake may serve as an emergency brake, as well as a holding brake. Its unique, low profile design is 2/3 the thickness of other brakes in our lineup. In addition to saving space, weight is…
Johnson Electric Launches Motors for Automotive Electric Parking Brake
Johnson Electric announced a High torque motor platform for electric parking brake (EPB) systems. This new motor platform delivers the industrys highest braking torque and longest operation cycles within a compact package. The custom EPB motors employ advanced technologies that include patented bearings, magnetic and winding patterns. These innovations can deliver 15% higher torque, 60%…
New Wichita Clutch AirMaKKs SSB Brakes Introduced
Wichita Clutch has recently added the air cooled, spring-set, air released AirMaKKs SSB high torque brakes to its AquaMaKKs family of clutches and brakes. The AirMaKKs SSB is designed to provide low speed braking assistance in applications including conveyors, cranes and drawworks where they serve as a main brake that provides both parking and E-stop…
Marland Clutch Launches Updated Website
Marland Clutch has announced the launch of their updated corporate website which provides information about their full line of both sprag and ramp and roller type backstopping and overrunning clutch products including general and special purpose clutches, backstopping clutches, modular clutch components and clutch couplings. The updated website is easy to navigate and features links…
New Spring-Applied Brake Series Available from Ogura
A new line of spring-applied brakes is now available from Ogura Industrial Corporation. The new series model name is TNB. The brake is available in seven sizes ranging in torque from 35 to 445 in. lbs. The new brakes are approximately 60% thinner than the previous RNB brake series. This new thinner design was accomplished…
Stieber Clutch Introduces Backstops with Rotational Capability
Stieber Clutch recently launched its new RDBK load sharing, high-speed, releasable backstop at this year’s Hannover Messe. The product features a compact design with increased torque capacity compared to conventional designs, which helps avoid the over specification of gearboxes to meet large outside diameter requirements of some backstops. In the event of a blockage, belt…
Safety Brakes Beat the Heat
Here is an alternative to spring-engaged, electrically released brakes that must energize a coil to keep the brakes disengaged, which consumes energy and creates heat inside the brakes. This excess heat degrades a brake’s ability to stop and hold the load. With FMBS brakes, however, no power is consumed while they are disengaged, maximizing brake…