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Mini factories in containers help reduce mask shortages

June 16, 2020 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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Decentralized systems from Mikron ensure supply in times of a pandemic. Festo is a key development partner. Disposable protective nasal-and-mouth masks are in short supply, but a manufacturing system from Swiss company Mikron could put masks within everyone’s reach. This scalable system produces 50-100 face masks per minute, depending on the version. With engineering support […]

Filed Under: Equipment, Industry News Tagged With: festo

Bag grippers help keep roads ice-free

January 10, 2020 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

Piab grippers can move saxks up to 50kg

At the company Sapho GmbH, a company of the Bilgram Chemie Group, the old bag gripper no longer provided the necessary performance. The regions of southern Germany, Austria, and parts of France are supplied by Sapho with de-icing salt from its up to 50,000 tons of salt warehouse, which is partly filled from May to […]

Filed Under: Grippers Tagged With: piab

Piab Kenos KCS gripper

November 7, 2019 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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Piab’s Kenos KCS gripper enables a collaborative robot (cobot) that can handle just about anything, anywhere, at any time. This makes it a suitable ”co-working” tool, especially for small businesses, where flexibility is essential. Originally developed together with a leading cobot manufacturer as a tailor-made automation tool for one customer, the resulting vacuum gripper cobot […]

Filed Under: Grippers Tagged With: piab

Novotechnik U.S. introduces new compact hydraulic/pneumatic position sensors

October 8, 2019 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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Novotechnik U.S. introduces the TM1 Series of magnetostrictive linear hydraulic and pneumatic position sensors with compact housing. A magnetic ring-shaped marker is affixed to your application’s moving cylinder and moves up and down the TM1 rod without contact. TM1 Series stroke lengths are from 50 to 2,000 mm in 25 mm steps. Operating pressure is […]

Filed Under: Positioning sensors Tagged With: novotechnik

Piab Kenos KCS gripper

August 29, 2019 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

Piab-KCS-egg

Piab’s Kenos KCS gripper enables a collaborative robot (cobot) that can handle just about anything, anywhere, at any time. This makes it a suitable ”co-working” tool, especially for small businesses, where flexibility is essential. Originally developed together with a leading cobot manufacturer as a tailor-made automation tool for one customer, the resulting vacuum gripper cobot […]

Filed Under: Grippers Tagged With: piab

Magnetic coupling means more cylinder options

April 26, 2019 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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Longer stroke, smaller footprint and high-load and side-load capabilities are all special advantages of rodless pneumatic cylinders. Now IMI Norgren MC Series magnetically coupled rodless cylinders deliver the extra benefits of greater design flexibility and easier application-specific customization. The cylinder’s stainless steel tube and machined components are independent of each other, with the carriage and piston […]

Filed Under: Cylinders Tagged With: iminorgren

VMAC’S new DTM70 PTO driven air compressor

March 8, 2019 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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VMAC has released its newest Direct-Transmission Mounted PTO Driven Air Compressor, designed specifically for RAM trucks. The DTM70 is the world’s first direct-transmission mounted PTO driven air compressor, currently available for Ford F-250 to F-750 Power Stroke Diesel trucks, and now RAM 3500 to 5500 chassis cab Cummins Diesel trucks. The DTM70 Air Compressor produces […]

Filed Under: Air Compressors Tagged With: vmac

Air Engineering and Supply receives two awards

May 31, 2018 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

#8116 Air Engineering Receives Two Clippard Awards

Air Engineering and Supply, a major Midwest distributor of Fluid Power and Pneumatic components and value-added assemblies, recently received two awards for outstanding sales and growth from Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Inc., of Cincinnati, Ohio. Clippard is a global leading designer and manufacturer of miniature fluid and pneumatic products used in automation machinery, hydraulic equipment, packaging […]

Filed Under: Industry News Tagged With: airengineering

Pneumatic grippers for cobots

January 31, 2018 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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By Walt Hessler Edited by Mike Santora The simple definition of the word collaboration is: “The action of working with someone to produce or create something.” This is the exact purpose of a Collaborative Robot, or cobot. Cobots are typically power and force limiting. The robot can feel abnormal forces in its path and may […]

Filed Under: Grippers Tagged With: PHD

Pack Expo returns to Vegas

August 16, 2017 By Mike Santora Leave a Comment

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Pack Expo will be held Monday, September 25th through Wednesday, the 27th at the Las Vegas Convention Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The event brings together more than 2,000 suppliers of advanced packaging equipment, materials, containers, and automation technologies including several pneumatics and hydraulics manufacturers. Attendees run the gamut, from plant […]

Filed Under: Industry News

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