AC drives for glass manufacturer July 2003, Rockwell Automation, Products & Solutions Shatterprufe, the leading manufacturer of automotive safety glass in South Africa, imported a glass-toughening furnace for its plant in GaRankuwa, north of Rosslyn from the USA in 1991.
The glass toughening ...
Compact and reliable motion control July 2003 Omron's W-series of servo systems is designed to provide superior motion control for both the speed and position a machine's moving parts. Based around of a 32-bit RISC processor, each servo ...
An easy solution for crane control July 2003, SEW-EURODRIVE, Other technologies A typical crane control application is the gantry crane. In this case, crane control can be used not only for the travel axes but also for the hoist axis.
The travel distance in the travel axis must ...
Filling bottles on the move July 2003 Towards the end of July, at the Wine Farmers & Fruit Growers Exhibition in Cape Town's Convention Centre, SEW-Eurodrive will be demonstrating how to fill multiple wine bottles while they are moving along ...
Advancements in AC drives June 2003, Rockwell Automation In addition to regulating speed and, in some cases, torque control in diverse applications, some of today's drives contain many features that used to be purchased as add-on options, giving these motor enhancing devices more up time for greater productivity
Drives supplier reports record sales June 2003, SEW-EURODRIVE SEW-Eurodrive SA reports that its 2002/3 invoiced-output is 25% in excess of target. Celebrating this significant achievement, MD, Urs Roos comments:
"Over the past year or so we have gradually fine-honed ...
Miniature precision encoders June 2003, Turck Banner Southern Africa Kubler now supplies a new low-priced high performance miniature encoder. The outside housing diameter is only 24 mm. The use of highly integrated opto Asics makes it possible to manufacture the device ...
Tracking down the stars June 2003, SEW-EURODRIVE The Special Astrophysical Observatory is a research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is located in the northern part of the Caucasus and uses SEW-Eurodrive drives. This giant ...
Decentralised drives cut commissioning time April 2003 Danfoss Drives has developed a new range of individual and integrated drive solutions (incorporating distributed control) that feature rugged construction to withstand challenging application environments, ...
Revolution of the fluidic muscle April 2003, Festo South Africa Fluidic muscle technology from Festo is changing the nature of numerous process applications worldwide.
A tensile actuator that mimics natural muscle movement, the fluidic muscle can develop very high ...
New production line for Consol Glass April 2003, SEW-EURODRIVE Consol Glass has just commissioned a new production line in order to increase its output of glass bottles. The line, manufactured by Active Enterprises in Centurion, is unusual in that it is the first ...
Controlling drive movement for a winding application April 2003, SEW-EURODRIVE, Products & Solutions In many branches of industry such as the paper, plastics, textile and sheet metal industries, material in continuous, flexible strip form (web) is unwound or rewound before and after processing. A primary ...
CANopen multiturn encoder April 2003, Turck Banner Southern Africa Kübler is offering its CANopen multiturn encoders, which may be flange-mounted on shafts with diameters from 10-28 mm.
The encoders are equipped with a standard or hollow shaft and the resolution of ...
Close loop vector frequency inverter April 2003, Surveillance LG Industrial Systems recently launched the closed loop version of its successful iS5 range of frequency inverters. The new version offers servo-like performance, with motor torque down to zero RPM, ultra ...
Low-cost servo motion control April 2003, Products & Solutions, Smart Home Automation Motion control developers now have a low-cost option for servo motor control with the National Instruments PCI-7342 motion control board. This new board features dual-axis control, easy integration with ...
Servo technology for yoghurt April 2003, SEW-EURODRIVE The Dosomat filling machine fills yoghurt with and without fruit additives into 1 kg tubs. For this purpose, high requirements are specified in terms of cleanliness, packaging material sterilisation, ...
Launch of upgraded advanced positioning module April 2003 In launching its new Advanced Positioning Module (APM), LG has taken a significant step in bringing realtime control to the standard factory PLC. The APM mounts on to a conventional LG GM6 or GM4 PLC ...
Power for the Cape Town brick industry April 2003, SEW-EURODRIVE In Cape Town, the Apollo Brick Co will be taking delivery of a new clay-blending machine from Baxters Engineering. One vital element of the machine is the gearbox required to relay the power to a screw-type ...
Drives for the pulp and paper industry April 2003, SEW-EURODRIVE SEW Eurodrive has a solid reputation as a supplier of power transmission systems for the wood processing industry all over the world. Over 60 000 heavy industrial gear units, mainly to the wood processing ...
