Machine Building

Selecting cabinets for 19" mounted electronic equipment

Alan Cook, a Director of Foremost Electronics, recommends that machine designers and systems integrators take into account seven key considerations when addressing the selection of a suitable cabinet

10th September 2020

White paper: Corrosion protection for high loads

Of note to machine builders who are designing for potentially hostile environments is that Nord Drivesystems now offers corrosion protection levels normally associated with stainless steel.

1st September 2020

How to avoid shortening the lifespan of steel bearings

Bearing wearing? Chris Johnson, managing director of SMB Bearings, provides pointers on how to avoid shortening the lifespan of steel bearings.

25th August 2020

Considerations when choosing a dispensing robot

Dispensing robots enable automation to apply adhesives, potting compounds, encapsulants, sealants, form-in-place gaskets, temporary masking, lubricants and other liquids, fluids and pastes repeatably with absolute precision. Careful consideration of the requirements of an application is vital, says Peter Swanson, Managing Director of adhesives specialist Intertronics. Here he explains key considerations when choosing a dispensing robot.

11th August 2020

Is your servo motor up to the job?

When a servo motor that's big enough isn't big enough. Andrew Fallows of Motor Technology issues a few words of wisdom for machine builders"¦

10th August 2020

Machine vision systems - a view from the top

Machine Vision has become a key element in so many industries, and usage of the technology is widening. Here, Stephen Hayes, managing director of Beckhoff Automation UK, explains how engineers and machine designers can simplify vision processing to improve efficiency and scalability.

6th August 2020

Running an energy-efficient and economical IT platform

Energy consumption has become a vital consideration for the IT element of manufacturing operations. Here, Rittal offers its ideas to run a more energy-efficient and economical IT platform.

5th August 2020

Intelligent monitoring of brakes for vertical axes

Bernd Keys of Mayr Transmissions offers MachineBuilding.net a view on how machine builders can put a stop to things when they really need to.

31st July 2020

The role of drives and condition monitoring in digital twins

What will the digital twin look like in the automation of the future and what role will drive technologies play in this? MachineBuilding.net asked Dominik Follmann, head of the "˜Technical Infrastructure for Digital Twins' (TeDZ) project at KEB Automation, to provide a view.

30th July 2020

Getting the Edge on Smarter Machines

MachineBuilding.net asked Aric Prost, Sr. Director, OEM, Stratus Technologies, to explain a little about Edge Computing and what it brings to the machine builders' party.

28th July 2020