In today’s high performance driven world, power transmission parts that need to be incredibly strong and lightweight are not made of steel. They are made of premium grade carbon fibre.
An innovative adapter-mounted ball bearing system has transformed the economics of maintaining Sapphire Energy Recovery’s tyre shredding machines.
Designers of machinery have traditionally considered condition monitoring to be something undertaken by the user and have therefore not incorporated it from the outset. For a variety of reasons, this situation is changing, so designers need to have an appreciation of what condition monitoring is and the benefits it offers, as well as how it can be implemented.
John Normandin looks at the use of high nitrogen stainless steel for critical bearing applications in harsh environments.
Over the past few years the development of electric linear actuators has led to their increasing use in linear motion systems that would formerly have used hydraulics.
The new availability of a comprehensive range of motion control components compatible with the real-time Ethernet-compatible Powerlink protocol is presenting significant design opportunities for machinery OEMs.
Shaft couplings are an essential element of machine design, but the application requirements vary so widely that numerous different styles of coupling have been developed. However, this broad choice means that designers have to be well informed if they are to select the right one. Jon Severn offers the following advice.
NKE Austria has introduced a new range of single row deep groove ball bearings. The POP range offers advantages such as reduced running noise, longer lubricant service life, a low starting torque and outstanding cost effectiveness.
Rino Industries is to launch a new series of linear actuators, to be known as the LPLA3.
As production of solar cells ramps up, producers are looking at more efficient ways to produce these cells as cheaper prices and more efficiently in volume become prerequisites.
Power Jacks has launched a 3D CADalogue with built in product configurator. The configurator allows a user to view and configure a solid model of one of the company’s products online in real-time then download the required 3D solid model or 2D drawing.
Piezo technology is very simple in principle: apply an electric charge to a piezo crystal and it changes shape; remove the charge and the piezo crystal returns to its original shape. Making use of this technology takes a little more cunning, but the rewards are worth it.
Rolling element bearings are critical to the performance of virtually every type of machinery but, despite centuries of continuous development, bearings still account for countless premature failures.
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