Power Jacks supplies Omega Foundry Machinery with actuators that provide the clamping action in manipulators for handling flasks and flaskless moulds within foundries.
7th December 2009
Rockwell Automation has applied its mechatronics approach to a deep drawing machine, helping the customer to double the throughput and reduce the scrap rate.
6th December 2009
A manufacturer of bioreactors has chosen to use four Mitsubishi Alpha micro controllers rather than a traditional PLC, with the Alphas linked to a Mitsubishi GT15 user interface.
30th November 2009
I4Innovation uses four Mitsubishi Electric Alpha PLCs and a GT15 HMI in the bioreactors that it manufactures for growing cell cultures.
Brevini Posiplan BPH hybrid gearboxes have been selected for operating doors on the iron desulphurisation process at the BOS plant on the Scunthorpe Corus steelworks.
25th November 2009
Wichita Kopper Kooled brakes are being used to secure the mooring of semi-submersible oil drilling platforms, their excellent heat dissipation capability meaning that they remain cool and provide fine adjustment while withstanding the huge variable forces on the cable drums.
Matrix International has developed a custom bearing-less rotating cylinder clutch for Sun's multi-axis dynamometer.
NSK has helped a sewage plant operator to save EUR17,321 per annum and reduce maintenance requirements.
By implementing a programme of material substitution and longer-life lubrication technology, NSK has achieved cost savings of EUR337,600 for a manufacturer of micro wind turbines.
A Burkert Robolux valve system is being used on an asthma inhaler cartridge filling machine, offering technological advantages and cost savings compared with alternative valve designs.
