‘Rotary Tables’
An Engineeringtalk guide
Start with the news release
CNC router reduces time to market from
Micromech, which we summarised at the time by saying "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.".
Several months prior to that,
we featured the news release Viscotec devises drive solution for dosage units from
EMS: "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. ".
In November 2009, we covered the news from Laser Design
- take a look at NIST installs 3D scanning system from Laser Design
which says: "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has installed a Laser Design Surveyor WS Series 3D laser scanning system in its Materials Reliability Division in Boulder, Colorado.".
Take a look also at the news release from Renishaw, Renishaw system checks rotary-axis alignment,
as well as SDI torque pickup has internal digital data link from Sensor Developments,
and Dawn Mini Logger enables in-vehicle diagnostics from HEM Data Corp.
Latest stories...
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.
Rotary encoders provide 1nm and 2nm resolutions (November 2009)
Renishaw has introduced 1nm and 2nm resolution versions of its Tonic incremental encoder range.
Newport launches stabiliser cleanroom isolator (November 2009)
Newport Corporation has introduced the S-2000AC stabiliser cleanroom isolator.
Variohm unveils membrane potentiometer range (November 2009)
Variohm Eurosensor has introduced the Spectra Symbol Membrane potentiometer range.
Micromech offers complete linear motion solution (October 2009)
Micromech's Promech linear actuators from Parker are for OEM instrument manufacturers looking to speed time to market and reduce the overall installed cost for linear motion axes.
Inductive sensors meet safety standards (October 2009)
IFM Electronic has developed a range of fail-safe inductive sensors that are fully compliant with the latest standards for safety-related parts of the control system.
Fanuc robot handles special brick variants (October 2009)
Wienerberger UK has engineered an automated system for handling special brick variants in partnership with Fanuc Robotics UK.
Further reading
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New rotary tables from Kitagawa at Mach 2000
Products to be displayed for the first time at MACH 2000 will include the latest additions to Kitagawa's rotary table and chucking package ranges
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