‘Rotary Stages’

An Engineeringtalk guide

Start with the news release Designing joints and structural adhesives from ITW Plexus, which we summarised at the time by saying "Sally Sinai, technical manager of ITW Plexus, considers the issues that should be considered before designing joints to be bonded together with structural adhesives.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release CNC router reduces time to market from Micromech: "A manufacturer of personal care products has saved money by switching to a low-cost computerised numerical control (CNC) router that can produce point of purchase displays internally.".

In November 2009, we covered the news from EMS - take a look at Viscotec devises drive solution for dosage units which says: "Viscotec Pumpen and Faulhaber have devised a drive solution for dosage units on a system that comprises a fast DC drive and high-precision piezo rotary drive, mounted on a common spindle. ".

Take a look also at the news release from Somepic Technologie, Somepic shows tailored parts at aerospace exhibit, as well as NIST installs 3D scanning system from Laser Design from Laser Design, and Renishaw system checks rotary-axis alignment from Renishaw.

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SDI torque pickup has internal digital data link (November 2009)

SDI's model 01424 can be utilised with a variety of instrumentation systems to measure rotating torque, including the 90386 USB Sensor Link.

Leuze develops data tracking for production line (November 2009)

Luxottica has worked with Leuze to develop a complete system for the collection of production tracking data on specific sunglasses production lines.

Preventing failures in centrifugal pumps (November 2009)

This guide has been developed to assist maintenance personnel who service industrial centrifugal pumps.

Kistler offers sensitive and robust torque sensors (November 2009)

Kistler's piezoelectric torque sensors have a wide measuring range and are adaptable to match most configurations, making them suited to manufacturing-process monitoring.

Pitch gears with intelligent shaft sealing (November 2009)

Simrit has developed a radial-shaft seal system featuring a leakage sensor that allows for telediagnosis of the shaft seal and automatically sends a signal when the seal's wear limit is reached.

Ceram tests resilience of YSZ used in implants (November 2009)

Ceram is offering a full suite of testing for Yttria-Stabilised Zirconia (YSZ) destined for surgical implants, as defined in ISO 13356 standards.

Rotary encoders provide 1nm and 2nm resolutions (November 2009)

Renishaw has introduced 1nm and 2nm resolution versions of its Tonic incremental encoder range.

Variohm unveils membrane potentiometer range (November 2009)

Variohm Eurosensor has introduced the Spectra Symbol Membrane potentiometer range.

Worm-drive rotary stages launched by Aerotech

Aerotech has launched a range of precision worm-drive rotary stages featuring large through-apertures and a preload system that provides a high level of accuracy with minimal wear.
LG unveils manual and motorised rotary stages

LG Motion has launched a range of manual and motorised rotary stages for precision positioning applications with standard accuracy to 0.1deg and loads up to 500kg.