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Tsubaki Titan Chain offers significant improvements in wear life for ultra demanding applications

Tsubaki Titan Chain offers significant improvements in wear life for ultra demanding applications

Tsubaki’s latest innovation, Tsubaki Titan Chain, is designed to offer previously unobtainable wear life in harsh applications, like in abrasive and dusty conditions, such as those found in timber mills, stone sawyers or brickworks.

2nd September 2020
RS Components stocks Würth Elektronik SMT LIF connectors

RS Components stocks Würth Elektronik SMT LIF connectors

RS Components is now stocking a new range of Surface Mounted Technology (SMT), Low Insertion Force (LIF) connectors from Würth Elektronik. Leveraging low profile, lightweight, and secure and removable connection, they are made to measure applications requiring connection to small displays such as wearables.

2nd September 2020
Avalanche photodiodes claimed to have market leading performance

Avalanche photodiodes claimed to have market leading performance

Laser Components offers a wide range of avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with what it claims is market leading performance, optimised for different application requirements. The extremely sensitive detectors can detect light levels down to single photons.

2nd September 2020
World-leading pharmaceutical developer turns to TorqSense

World-leading pharmaceutical developer turns to TorqSense

TorqSense transducers are used to ensure caps are being properly fitted to pharmaceutical bottles in a high speed packaging line run by the Almac Group at its global headquarters in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, UK.

2nd September 2020
Harting celebrates its 75th anniversary

Harting celebrates its 75th anniversary

For 75 years, the Harting Technology Group has been driving technological change and providing decisive innovations for the future. The vision formulated in 1996 by the family owners, ‘We want to shape the future with technologies for people’, remains the guiding star of our entrepreneurial activities. September 1st marks the 75th anniversary of the founding day of the family company. The manufacturer of everyday products such as waffle irons and irons has evolved into a worldwide leading supplier of industrial connection technology for the three lifelines of data, signal and power, a global player fielding innovative products and solutions focusing on Industry 4.0 and digitalisation.    

2nd September 2020
Rittal

Rittal"s AX plastic enclosures now approved for outdoor use

Rittal has extended its AX compact enclosure portfolio with a new AX plastic enclosure range. This plastic AX enclosure will not only protect sensitive electrical components in the very harshest of environments; its new mounting functions will also make internal installations effortless.

2nd September 2020
Matching actual performance to the performance guarantee

Matching actual performance to the performance guarantee

By using the Yokogawa WT5000 Precision Power Analyzer, Società Elettromeccanica Arzignanese (SEA), an Italian manufacturer of power transformer and reactors with a worldwide reputation for engineering excellence and high production quality, is able to closely match the efficiency performance guarantee that it makes to a customer, with the actual performance of the transformer.

2nd September 2020
Implementing a winning digital transformation strategy

Implementing a winning digital transformation strategy

The latest digital manufacturing trends are aimed at connecting physical and virtual factory environments to boost productivity, efficiency and profitability. To successfully bridge these two worlds, businesses need to combine a number of cutting-edge technologies on the road to digital transformation. Jeremy Shinton of Mitsubishi Electric looks at implementing a winning digital strategy using the right technologies.

1st September 2020
The drive to minimise power losses in machine tools

The drive to minimise power losses in machine tools

New drive controllers and motor filters for high frequency (HF) applications from KEB Automation are helping customers develop highly efficient machine concepts for turbo blowers and CNC machine tool spindles. The objective is to increase performance and protect the motor windings at output frequencies up to 2,000 Hz.

1st September 2020
Controlling brushed DC motors with pulsed width modulation

Controlling brushed DC motors with pulsed width modulation

With speed proportional to applied voltage, the coreless brushed DC motor can be simply driven using a continuous linear regulation power supply. But is this always the best solution? Dr Sunil Kedia, Core Market NPD Manager at Portescap, looks at the benefits of using a PWM drive as an alternative and examines the optimal frequency, current ripple and lifespan considerations.

1st September 2020
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