Using Electronic Gearing to Increase Machine ThroughputLeroy Stanford, Sales Engineer, Yaskawa America, Inc. Concept Automation, located in Carson City, NV is a design and manufacturing company specializing in a full line of labeling ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components
The Motoman Robotics Division of Yaskawa America has announced that it has acquired all outstanding shares of Agile Planet, Inc. Agile Planet is a developer of intelligent robotics software and hardware products engineered to dramatically ...
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We may live and do a lot business in a virtual world today, but there's nothing like a little face time. EastPack, to be held June 18-20 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, will provide plenty of opportunities for ...
Tags: Smorgasbord, Packaging&Printing
The paper cup is one of the most common containers we encounter every day. Yet, as with many of the seemingly simple packages we routinely use, the best forming machines to make paper cups and paperboard canisters use advanced ...
Global shipments for motion control products fell by 7.7% in first quarter 2013, according to new statistics released by the Motion Control Assoc. (MCA), the industry's trade group. "Despite the low numbers in first quarter 2013, we still ...
The next generation of video-game consoles is almost upon us. Since some details on the upcoming Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One have been revealed, we wanted to speculate how the two stack up against each other so far. ...
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Global shipments for motion control products fell by 7.7% in first quarter 2013, according to new statistics released by the Motion Control Association (MCA), the industry’s trade group. “Despite the low numbers in first ...
In the industrial world, when the question is about the performance of certain applications and equipment, it is important to have a solution like critical motion control devices dispensed in every sector. Precision motion control systems ...
Canton, Ohio-based The Timken Company reported Wednesday sales of $1.1 billion for Q1 2013, down 23 percent year-on-year. The decline reflects lower demand across most of the company's end markets led by oil and gas, industrial distribution ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
SRAM took the wraps off its latest road product just days before Sea Otter began, but the component maker had plenty of new offerings to show on the off-road side of its business. Three new wheelsets are added alongside the SRAM Rise line ...
Defense equipment like bofors, missile systems, heavy artillery machinery, and mine retrieval system widely uses actuators for functioning. A linear actuator provides motion for functioning of this equipment. The designing of every actuator ...
A linear actuator creates motion in a straight line, and is useful when the application requires objects to be moved in a linear direction. Actuators are mostly classified based on the power source that drives them. Thus, there are ...
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Matrix Packaging Machinery, a division of Pro Mach, is all set to introduce its Elete, Mercury HS and Matrix X form-fill-seal machines for the coffee industry. The rugged vertical form-fill-seal machine Elete has a Matrix Smart Jaw ST ...
Tags: Matrix Packaging, Coffee Packaging Machines, Packaging
XMOS has designed a multicore microcontroller which will cost under $3 in 100 unit quanities. The xCORE XS1-L4-64 integrates four 32-bit logical processor cores producing 400MIPS performance. “This is the price point of other ...
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The Motion Control Association (MCA), the global trade group representing the motion control industry, announced its 2013 Board of Directors on February 21st during the annual MCA Business Conference in Orlando, Florida. John Hegel, ...