The automation of transportation applications such as exterior doors and people barriers can pose very challenging design requirements. New designs must meet rigid testing and environmental requirements and all moving components must reach or exceed long service life without the need for extensive and costly maintenance. Technically innovative linear guide technology that is successful in…

WHO: Bishop-Wisecarver Group (BWG) is a woman-owned family of WBENC-certified companies that works with manufacturers to engineer, manufacture and build linear and rotary motion solutions, custom complex assemblies…

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Bishop-Wisecarver Group (BWG), a WBENC-certified, woman-owned family of companies that offer guidance solutions, contract specialty manufacturing and mechatronic-based engineering services, today announced it has signed an agreement with T RACE, an established European leader of innovative linear guides and telescopic slides. Through this strategic partnership, BWG will be able to service a wider range of…

Live webinar was recorded on October 29, 2015. Fill out the form below to watch on demand. The design and development of automated processing equipment can be a daunting and time consuming task. At the outset of every automation project there is an understanding of the work to be performed. The designer will identify the…

This webinar was recorded on September 24, 2015. Fill out the form below to watch on demand.  Guided motion is an important feature found in automated machinery and equipment. Motion system components can enable the movement of heavy loads, or allow for equipment to be designed for adjustability and allow for a variety of machine…

Bishop-Wisecarver Group, a WBENC-certified, woman-owned family of companies that offer guidance solutions, contract specialty manufacturing and mechatronic-based engineering services, announced it has acquired Specialty Motions, Inc.’s (SMI) linear actuator product line. Complementing BWG’s existing line of high-end linear actuators, the addition of the SMI4Motion product offering will enable BWG to expand the markets it serves…

Bishop-Wisecarver Group (BWG) has expanded its product offering to include DMV Series AC Servo Motors in a variety of frame sizes. The motors are sourced from a high-quality…

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Bishop-Wisecarver is pleased to announce that Drew Leppert has taken on the role of Director of Sales, Distribution. Drew served as Regional Sales Manager for the South Region with BWG prior to taking on this role. Prior to BWG, Drew served in numerous sales management roles with Honeywell, Intl for a decade. His main focus…

Bishop-Wisecarver Group, a WBENC-certified, woman-owned family of companies that offer guidance solutions, contract specialty manufacturing and mechatronic-based engineering services, announced it is providing two $1000 scholarships for Eagle…

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The design and development of automated processing equipment can be a daunting and time consuming task.  At the outset of every automation project there is an understanding of the work to be performed. The designer will identify the items which can be purchased, and the items which must be designed and fabricated.  Even a simple guided motion…

Bishop-Wisecarver Group (BWG) recently announced the hiring of a new Vice President of Marketing. Scott McClintock, who started work in his new role last month, will create and…

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Release provided by Bishop-Wisecarver Bishop-Wisecarver Group, a WBENC certified woman-owned family of companies who work with manufacturers to engineers, produce, and build custom complex assemblies, linear motion solutions…

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Design World Magazine and online network www.designworldonline.com announce the winners of their 2012 Leadership in Engineering Program. Leadership in Engineering is an industry recognition program to acknowledge engineering leadership across several disciplines. Winners for the Sixth Annual Program were chosen by Design World online users via a registration based online voting system. The following companies…

By Jennifer Wadsworth, Bishop-Wisecarver Corporation America’s ever-burgeoning obesity rate creates new challenges for the nation’s entire healthcare system, especially for emergency responders. Paramedics at the front lines have to physically lift overweight patients from ground to gurney then into a vehicle, risking physical injury and delaying emergency response time often up to several hours. To…

Contributed by Bishop-Wisecarver Bishop-Wisecarver Corporation® celebrates its recertification from the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council as a woman-owned business. The guided motion technology manufacturer earned its original WBENC certification in 2011 after an arduous months-long process of proving its qualifications, including BWC President Pamela Kan’s majority ownership. Kan is the second-generation family member at the…

President Pamela Kan was appointed Chair of theCalifornia Manufacturers and Technology Association Board of Directors at the trade organization’s annual meeting. The CMTA is a nonprofit that works to improve the business climate for California’s 3,000-plus manufacturing, processing and tech companies – like Bishop-Wisecarver, which manufactures linear and rotary guided motion technologies. Kan first enrolled…

Bishop-Wisecarver Corporation (www.bwc.com) has expanded its MadeWell product range with the addition of the Radial Wheel, a deep-groove single-row ball bearing ideally suited for applications with specified radial loading conditions. “Customers familiar with our products were asking for a linear guide wheel like this, a product that met the need for applications with specified radial […]

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By Posted by Design World Staff Bishop-Wisecarver Corporation® announced the launch of its latest addition to the MadeWell product line: The Radial Wheel, a single-row deep-groove ball bearing designed for applications with specified radial loading conditions. The new wheel makes it less costly to achieve effortless, reliable motion in environments exposed to debris — like…

By Bishop-Wisecarver contribution Bishop-Wisecarver Corporation, manufacturer of the original DualVee® guide wheel and industry leader in guided motion technology, announced today its hire of Vice President of Manufacturing Aldo DeAmicis who comes to the company with more than 20 years of manufacturing and leadership experience. DeAmicis joined Bishop-Wisecarver from his recent post at Tyco Electronics,…

Bishop-Wisecarver Corporation has teamed up with FIRST® as a Diamond Supplier of the FRC® Robotics Competition and is supporting three high school robotics teams in the San Francisco Bay Area for both FRC and FTC challenges. FIRST – For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology – is a nonprofit founded by inventor Dean Kamen…

Bishop-Wisecarver Corporation announces that Suad Bajric of Mississauga, Canada has won their 2010 Creative DualVee Application Video Contest. In celebration of the company’s 60th anniversary, Bishop-Wisecarver was looking to discover and award the most creative mechanical application designed using DualVee linear guide wheels. The online video contest was launched April 5, 2010 on YouTube as…

After more than 40 years of use in thousands of applications ranging from the saw mill to the clean room, and from light to heavy loads, guide wheels have proven features that meet performance, durability, and cost requirements in a variety of demanding conditions. Linear guide systems are chosen for an application based partly on…

Bishop-Wisecarver Corporation founder Bud Wisecarver often says that the uses for DualVee bearings can only be limited by one’s imagination. Enter Jamie Hyneman, founder of San Francisco visual effects shop M5 Industries and host of the Discovery Channel’s MythBusters, who discovered DualVee bearings at a surplus store years before his television debut. “I ran across…

HepcoMotion HDS2, now available from Bishop-Wisecarver, adds larger capacity bearings, assembled carriages, two new sizes of construction beam, and a host of improved features to the proven HDS product line. The advanced HDS2 system offers system capacities up to 68kN, and provides flexibility for many sizes and types of heavy duty components to be interchanged.…

The heavy-duty SRX-150 compact, aluminum-profile linear actuators come in 400, 600, 1000, 1500, and 1900 mm stroke lengths in both belt and ball screw-driven versions.  The standard lengths shorten lead-time up to three weeks. Bishop-Wisecarver Corporation www.bwc.com