Industrial Technology

Design Engineering

Lube-free chain for food production

Lube-free chain for food production

Food grade lubricants are highly expensive and often wasteful, so here Derek Mack of Tsubaki UK discusses a possible alternative.

25th January 2019
Play it safe with the SD6 drive controller

Play it safe with the SD6 drive controller

In cooperation with Pilz-Safe Automation, Stober has designed a new SE6 safety module for its SD6 drive controller. Easy to use, it allows for safe drive monitoring in safety-related applications up to SIL 3, PL e (category 4) in accordance with EN 61800-5-2 and EN ISO 13849-1. The low worst case response time of less than 10ms enables fast stopping, allowing the design engineer to keep safety distances to a minimum.

25th January 2019
Pneumatics assure smooth, safe lifting

Pneumatics assure smooth, safe lifting

Digital pneumatics bring a new level of sophistication to an innovative roll handling system from Dotec.

25th January 2019
Pneumatics assure smooth, safe lifting

Pneumatics assure smooth, safe lifting

Digital pneumatics bring a new level of sophistication to an innovative roll handling system from Dotec.

25th January 2019
Specify power transmission systems for heavy industries

Specify power transmission systems for heavy industries

Patrice Devoulon and Stefan Koesfeld from Altra Industrial Motion look at the aspects to consider when selecting couplings, clutches and brakes for challenging industrial tasks.

25th January 2019
Predictive maintenance with Industry 4.0 technologies

Predictive maintenance with Industry 4.0 technologies

Jan-Hendrik Bruns of Shell looks at how implementing Industry 4.0 technologies can be an enabler for predictive maintenance.

25th January 2019
Impact of imperfections on bearing performance

Impact of imperfections on bearing performance

Phil Burge of SKF discusses research into the measurement of microstructure and pre-existing imperfections of bearing materials and how these measurements are aiding the development of predictive modelling tools to study the effects of metallurgical imperfections on the long term performance of bearings.

25th January 2019
Ceramic versus hybrid bearings

Ceramic versus hybrid bearings

Chris Johnson of SMB Bearings explains the specifications, capabilities and differences of full ceramic and hybrid bearings.

25th January 2019
Sealing solutions eliminate contamination to boost MTBF

Sealing solutions eliminate contamination to boost MTBF

More than half of all bearing failures are caused by contamination of the bearing oil due to inefficient sealing. With the availability of cost-efficient sealing solutions which can eliminate contamination and increase MTBFs from months to years, bearings failure should be the exception, not the norm, says Chris Carmody of AESSEAL.

25th January 2019
Maximise performance and minimise downtime

Maximise performance and minimise downtime

Material handling is fundamental to a business’s success in manufacturing, processing and shipping products to market. Efficient systems maintain performance over time, keeping production moving and to ensure this, conveyor components need to be high quality.

25th January 2019
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