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What is a drone?
The term ‘drone’ relates to any unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or a remotely piloted aircraft system (RPA). The most commonly understood definition of a drone refers to a UAV that is directed by a...
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Geared motors on the high seas
The Hedinn Protein Plant (HPP) fish meal production system is one of the most modern of its type and is used on a factory trawler in the German deep-sea fishing fleet. Drive solutions from Nord...
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Compact precision ring drive system
Nexen Group recently introduced the Compact Ring Drive (CRD) system with precision-grade bearing and drive mechanism in a sealed housing. Freely programmable, the three-drive design configurations...
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High-resolution encoder
maxon motor presents a top-of-the-range high-resolution encoder. The ENX 16 RIO offers an impressive resolution of up to 65,536 counts per turn in a compact and rugged housing.Requirements on encoders...
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Drives for pallet conveyor technology
Pallet conveyor technology primarily requires economical drive solutions with high overload capacity. Nord Drivesystems supplies optimally matched, individually configurable and flexible drive...
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Using Roller Pinions In Robots
Engineers mesh Cartesian robot with roller pinion system for superior positional accuracy and repeatability.Manufacturers in many industries have relied on Mesh Automation’s machine engineering, design...
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The Trouble With Unplanned Downtime
In today’s competitive business environment, it’s essential that productivity, efficiency and customer service levels remain high if cost and profitability targets are to be achieved.Although there are...
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New bearing isolators for fully flooded applications
Garlock, a leading manufacturer of high-performance fluid sealing products, has launched its new range of Flood-Gard bearing isolators, which offer the industry-proven performance of Garlock bearing...
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Motors and drives for microplates
Microplates are rectangular blocks of plastic that contain an array of test tubes. Standard in the laboratory, these plates vary in size from 96 wells to 1,536 wells.Customers such as pharmaceutical,...
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Intelligent health care for industrial gear units
Industrial gear units are drive technology heavyweights which need to handle large torques. Due to the large forces involved, small defects which are not detected in time can quickly result in complete...
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New ISO15552-certified pneumatic cylinders
Parker Hannifin has introduced a new family of ISO15552-certified pneumatic cylinders. Available in bore sizes from 32 to 125mm, the P1F series is suitable for general industrial applications, such as...
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Decentralised frequency inverters
Nord Drivesystems offers decentralised drives, with which even demanding applications, such as synchronised movement and flying saw, can be implemented easily. An integrated PLC and position control...
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Surface treatment – an alternative to stainless steel
The nsd tupH surface treatment offered by Nord Drivesystems is an outstanding anti-corrosion treatment for gear units, smooth motors, frequency inverters and motor starters in washdown-optimised cast...
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Compact positioning controller
The devices from the successful EPOS4 Compact series can now also be incorporated into EtherCAT networks, thereby creating new opportunities for a huge range of applications.The space-saving design of...
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New cages for cylindrical rolling bearings
The new MPAX brass cage from Schaeffler is a rib-guided, single-piece solid brass cage. It has a higher load carrying capacity for radial centrifugal forces (higher radial rigidity) than its...
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New torque limiters to protect drivetrains
Reich Drive Systems UK has expanded its product portfolio with the addition of a new range of Torque Limiters. The new products complement Reich’s range of drive couplings, and could open up new...
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High voltage motors and generators with low partial discharge
Designing high-voltage motors and generators with low partial discharge (PD) can be costly and fail to deliver reliability. Jari Jäppinen explains why it is better to design equipment that fits its...
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Robots powered by brushed DC motors
It started as a project by two engineers who were close to retirement. Today, the modular inspection robots by Canadian company Inuktun are successfully in use all over the world – defying even the...
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Machine tool motor line expands
NUM has expanded its portfolio of motors for machine tool applications by launching a range of high performance brushless torque motors.Employing optimised magnetics, NUM’s new TMX series direct drive...
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New surface treatment for aluminium
The nsd tupH surface treatment from Nord Drivesystems provides anti-corrosion protection for gear units, smooth surface motors, frequency inverters and motor starters in washdown-optimised cast...
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