Drive technology for Industry 4.0
Mechanical, electrical and mechatronic drive technology for modern mechanical and plant engineering in the smart factory
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Industry News: Innovations for construction and development
New innovations from all subject areas from A as in drive technology to W as in materials for designers and development engineers in mechanical engineering and anyone interested in technology
Industry News Drive Technology
Drive Technology
Short-term power supply for electric drives in polluted air
Michael Koch presents the scalable active energy management device Pxt TX as a short-term uninterruptible power supply for electric drives.
Linear motor
Electric lifting cylinder with smart control
With its extensive range of electric lifting cylinders, Rodriguez covers almost all performance classes, including for construction machinery.
Engines
High-performance, extremely compact frameless motors
Koco Motion now offers frameless motors in various performance classes. These are highly efficient, durable, very reliable and quiet.
Engines
BLDC motor spindle for brushing and deburring
With the BLDC motor spindle, MD Drucklufttechnik is introducing for the first time an electric drive for use in a domain of compressed air technology.
Industry News Automation
Automation
Artificial intelligence – your friend and helper
In a podcast, Mitsubishi Electric shows why intelligent technologies are the decisive factor for competitive manufacturing.
Robotic
Boston Dynamics: Spot, Atlas and Stretch robots
Boston Dynamics is revolutionizing robotics with its advanced robots like Spot, Atlas and Stretch – now with AI.
Image Processing
3D camera delivers information from as little as 20 cm
The new stereo vision 3D camera from IDS combines a short working distance, high depth of field and a large field of view in a compact design.
communication technology
CC-Link enters Ethernet multi-protocol
Turck is expanding the multi-protocol Ethernet capabilities of its TBEN-S and TBEN-L block I/O module series to include CC-Link IE Field Basic.
Industry News Electrical Engineering
Connectors
Wire-to-wire, board-to-board and wire-to-board
With the Micro-Fit 3.0 connector system from Molex, Rutronik is expanding its product range to include a versatile solution for numerous industrial applications.
Electronic Components
Signal processing for Ex areas and SIL applications
Pepperl+Fuchs has the largest selection of isolated barriers and signal isolators for potentially explosive areas available on the market.
Control Cabinets
First control cabinets made of green steel
Siemens, through its subsidiary Alpha Verteilertechnik, is introducing the first industrial control cabinets made entirely of green steel.
Power Supply
Productive in lithium-ion battery production
Mitsubishi Electric shows you how you can effectively scale and improve your battery production processes using digital technologies.
Industry News Fluid Power
Hydraulic System
Lifting cylinder unit for synchronous pallet changers
With the decentralized Liftax solution, Hawe Hydraulik offers a highly precise and compact plug-and-play unit that ensures synchronization of the pallet changers.
hydrogen technology
Using beverage cans to produce green hydrogen at sea
Researchers at MIT came up with an ingenious solution for producing green hydrogen by reacting aluminum in water.
Hydraulic System
Plug-in check valve better than screwed
Weber-Hydraulik addresses quality risks associated with screwed check valves and relies on plug-in alternatives to avoid these.
Compressors
Compressors and compressors for the process gas industry
Aerzen implements tailor-made concepts with the highest level of efficiency, safety and cost-effectiveness, e.g. B. for hydrogen compression or green gas.
Industry News Machine Elements
Sliding and rolling bearings
Plain bearing catalogue, webshop and calculation program in one
With the Igus online shop for plain bearings, users can enter dimensions, determine application parameters and immediately find suitable plain bearings.
Tools
Patented bayonet connection for interchangeable head milling cutters
At AMB 2024, Mapal will present an innovative, patented bayonet connection point for replaceable head milling cutters with improved cooling.
tool technology
Jaw chuck + quick changer reduce set-up time
For the Centrotex quick-change system, Hainbuch is presenting the new “B-Tex” jaw chuck for multi-turn machines at AMB 2024.
Sliding and rolling bearings
High-precision RTB bearings for machine tools
At the AMB, Rodriguez will present the RTB-ABS rotary table bearing with integrated absolute encoder, which has been further optimized.
Industry news metrology
Measurement Technology
Infrared cameras for industrial VGA thermography
With the new Xi 640 infrared camera from Optris, temperatures can be measured safely, non-contact and cost-effectively in VGA resolution.
level measurement
IoT wireless sensor nodes for seamless network connectivity
Pepperl+Fuchs is improving the IoT landscape with the autonomous radio nodes Wilsen.valve and Wilsen.node for level measurement.
Temperature Measurement
High-precision temperature sensors and thermocouples
With its PT100 temperature sensors and Kapton thermocouples, Disynet offers high-precision solutions for temperature measurement.
Temperature, pressure, conductivity
Measurement technology ensures quality in hydrogen production
With its measurement technology, Jumo positions itself as a system and solution provider for hydrogen production.
