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Smart pneumatics: Gateway to higher efficiency, productivity

February 22, 2021 By Ken Korane Leave a Comment

The Industrial Internet of Things is bringing a digital transformation to individual machines and plant-wide operations. | All images courtesy of Emerson

Open and flexible IIoT systems can pinpoint leaks and faults, reduce downtime, increase throughput and, ultimately, improve the bottom line. Contributed by Nils Beckmann, Product Marketing Manager IIoT Integration • Emerson From food and beverage processing to packaged goods and factory automation, manufacturing facilities are turning to smart pneumatics for improved energy efficiency. In compressed air […]

Filed Under: Blog, Equipment, Featured, Industry News Tagged With: emerson

Productivity Master embodies digital manufacturing

February 18, 2021 By Ken Korane Leave a Comment

Last year when it became clear that in-person trade shows were not possible, Festo built its own stand for organizing virtual exhibitions and virtual customer meetings. “One of the most valuable exhibits is the Productivity Master, which helps customers deal with the global challenges of today,” said company spokesman Christopher Haug. It will be at […]

Filed Under: Equipment, Featured, Industry News Tagged With: festo

How to turn data into useful information

February 11, 2021 By Ken Korane Leave a Comment

In a preview of their offerings at this year’s digital Hannover Fair, scheduled for April 12 to 16, Emerson takes a pragmatic look at today’s IoT landscape and discusses a number of new edge computing and analytics products that help manufacturers turn data into actionable insights. “We are 30 years into the concept of ‘big […]

Filed Under: Engineering Basics, Featured, Industry News, Valves Tagged With: emerson

Rectangular gripping technology ensures safe six-pack handling

February 10, 2021 By Mary Gannon Leave a Comment

Piab-Sixpack-Gripper-Front-Detail

After various discussions with customers from plant engineering and the beverage industry, it was clear to Piab’s  experts that a gripper for the simple automatic handling of six-packs with cardboard packaging was needed. This is how beer and beer-based mixed drinks are offered and must be packaged and palletized accordingly by the beverage industry. The […]

Filed Under: Blog, Equipment, Featured, Grippers Tagged With: piab

Pneumatic valves sort diamonds quickly and gently

January 4, 2021 By Mary Gannon Leave a Comment

Image courtesy of shotshop.com

Diamond cutting is a task for human beings. The cutting must be carried out by a perfectly trained specialist, because — no matter how flawless the gemstones may be — an incorrectly placed cut will ruin everything. Even with perfect color and purity, the wrong cut can significantly reduce the value, which is why good […]

Filed Under: Blog, Equipment, Featured, Industry News, Valves Tagged With: festo

Rodless cylinder solutions for compact pneumatic linear motion

December 18, 2020 By Mary Gannon 1 Comment

Figure 2: This glue station application depicts how a traditional rodded cylinder (at left) creates a large overhang and requires a mechanical slide, while a rodless cylinder (at right) accomplishes the motion in a small footprint with no additional mechanism.

Designers requiring linear motion should consider rodless cylinders to realize compact packaging and other benefits for pneumatic actuation, without the cost of electrically-driven options. Contributed by Kevin Kakascik, Technical Marketing Engineer, AutomationDirect Machine and equipment automation projects — whether performed by an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), a systems integrator (SI), or the capital projects group at […]

Filed Under: Cylinders, Equipment, Featured Tagged With: AutomationDirect

Energy savings modules provide soft start capabilities, non-fieldbus economy

December 9, 2020 By Mary Gannon Leave a Comment

Festo compressed air energy saving modules

Festo has expanded its intelligent pneumatic energy savings platform beyond the MSE6-E2M (E2M) with two new modules — the MSE6-C2M (C2M) and the MSE6-D2M (D2M). These modules can pay for themselves in less than a year with the energy savings accrued. The platform provides actionable information that supports quality production. The modules in this platform […]

Filed Under: Air Preparation, Equipment, Featured, Regulators Tagged With: festo

Dry rough vacuum pump for continuous operation at varying pressures

October 22, 2020 By Mary Gannon Leave a Comment

pic-1-Leybold-Clawvac dry rough vacuum pump

Especially for rough industrial processes, Leybold introduces the uncomplicated, dry rough vacuum ClawVac pump. Besides food processing, packaging and environmental technology applications, it is suitable for drying and sterilization processes. The pump, which is offered in three pumping speed classes, is specially designed for continuous operation at every working pressure. Additionally the special pump design […]

Filed Under: Equipment, Featured, pumps Tagged With: leybold

Regenerative dryer reduces costs, increases performance of dust collector system

October 8, 2020 By Mary Gannon 1 Comment

A tank-mounted regenerative dryer at a tire plant helped dry air down to at least a -40°F dew point. This helped the pulse valves clean the bags more effectively, and cycled 50% less often than before the dryer was installed.

Dust collector systems play a critical role in maintaining compressed air cleanliness for manufacturers. Plant operators are always looking for any incremental advantage to improve pulse jet cleaning in bag (sock) or reverse flow cartridge systems. This is because even the slightest improvement in dust cake contaminate removal can create a cost-improving ripple effect throughout […]

Filed Under: Air Preparation, Blog, Featured Tagged With: suburbanmanufacturing

Dry multi-stage vacuum pumps for lab, R&D and analytical applications

October 8, 2020 By Mary Gannon Leave a Comment

Leybold EcoDry dry multi-stage vacuum pump

Leybold expands its EcoDry plus product family of dry multi-stage Roots vacuum pumps for laboratory, research and development and analytical applications. The current EcoDry 40 and 65 plus models are now joined by the new, smaller pump sizes 25 and 35 plus, completing the range of quiet, low-maintenance and economical fore-vacuum pumps and fills the […]

Filed Under: Equipment, Featured, pumps Tagged With: leybold

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