Festo design engineers reimagined pneumatic actuator control valve design to create multi-functional units that are less expensive to purchase than comparable solutions, more than 50 percent smaller in terms of height, save energy, and are easier and faster to install, troubleshoot, and maintain. Festo now offers the new space saving VFOF, VBNF, and VBQF multi-functional […]
Actuators
ContiTech Offers Air Actuators with ATEX Certification
ContiTech North America is pleased to announce that air actuators with ATEX certification have been added to its product portfolio in the NAFTA region. The new product offering is suitable for use in many branches of industry with explosion-prone areas. They can be used particularly in potentially explosive atmospheres containing gases or dust. The products […]
New Airpot website features “Accurate Force Pneumatics” components and systems
Airpot introduces its updated website at www.airpot.com with all the latest Airpot low- and zero – friction actuators, air cylinders, dashpots, piston – cylinder sets, snubbers, air treatment components, and optimized systems. The new site includes detailed specifications and information on Airpot’s Accurate Force Pneumatics (AFP) packages. These optimized systems aid design engineers in selecting […]
PHD Unveils New Industries Section on phdinc.com
PHD, Inc., a manufacturer of actuators for industrial automation, introduces a new section on its website. To better serve website visitors, phdinc.com now offers the ability to learn how PHD’s automation products are typically used in specific manufacturing and industrial industries. The new “Industries” section assists visitors in finding both standard and unique products that […]
ContiTech Offers New XXL Actuators for Industrial Applications
ContiTech North America is pleased to announce that a new air spring product offering is available for its industrial customers in the NAFTA region. ContiTech’s existing C-series now includes the XXL type air actuators that provide high output forces and extremely low minimum design heights. We are pleased to bring this product line expansion to […]
Rotomation Selects CADENAS PARTsolutions for Digital 3D Part Content
Rotomation has selected CADENAS PARTsolutions to create and support their all-new catalog of online digital 3D part content. A Florida-based manufacturer of pneumatic and low-pressure hydraulic actuators, Rotomation will be introducing their new configurator, capable of generating more than 30 billion unique products, along with a newly designed website in early 2014. Rotomation manufactures extremely […]
Air motors give extra power to bicycles
For several years, I had the pleasure of being able to attend Parker Hannifin’s Chainless Challenge competition, a research and design contest that the company sponsored for several different engineering universities. In it, students were charged to create a bicycle that would use fluid power to increase the speed and power of bicycles traveling on […]
Air motors help milling robot devour sewer obstacles
Traditionally, work in sewers is conducted both above and below ground, with crews opening manholes and descending into the sewers, thus causing road closures and traffic jams. But thanks to modern robotic technologies— powered by small but mighty air motors—clearing out sewer networks and rehabilitating them can be done safely and without impacting the world […]
Pneumatics — ole reliable
Every few years, Cedar Point — which is renowned for its roller coasters being the tallest, fastest, etc. — launches a new ground-breaking ride. As an editor on different engineering magazines, I’ve had several opportunities to visit the park, which is less than an hour from my home, to learn more about the technology that […]
Hayward GF-PP Pneumatic Actuators For Corrosive Installations
Hayward Flow Control announced the launch of their GF-PP (Glass Filled Polypropylene) PMD4/PMS4 Series Pneumatic Actuator line. The PMD4/PMS4 features a GF-PP housing that provides the actuator superior corrosion resistance and performance in environments and atmospheres where most metal actuators cannot. With the GF-PP material, the PMD4/PMS4 actuators are also very robust, lightweight and compact, […]