Machines & Motors
Common causes of electric motor failure
Motor failure can cause downtime, an inconvenience for all manufacturers. Martin McGuffie explains three common causes of electric motor failure: weakened insulation, contamination and lack of maintenance
Smart drive resolves blockages on its own
Nord inverters with an on-board PLC can resolve blockages through programmed procedures – service alerts will be the rare exception
Compact encoders for OEM designs
The E21C and E21D encoders are 5V, 2 and 3 channel optical encoders available in many different configurations
Servo motor with integral Ethernet interface can connect directly with CNCs
DRIVE-CLiQ is a special Ethernet-based interface for the Sinumerik control produced by Siemens
Food industry IP69K electric cylinder
Integrates a stepper motor or servomotor/encoder complete with drive, motion controller plus fieldbus communication
Beyond the inverter: making motors run efficiently
Tony Young presents his top five tips for ensuring that the motors on your application run as efficiently as possible
Ultra-fast brushless DC motor
The new ECX motors are fast, sterilisable and configurable; for use in hand-held surgical tools and industrial spindles
Hydraulic orbital motors
Orbital motors, also known as Gerotor/Geroler motors, are used in a wide variety of mobile applications
Robot with scalable, open-architecture robot control
Operating ranges from 500mm to 1300mm; up to 15g linear acceleration and 200 pick and place operations per minute
Reducing spiral vibration on turbo-generators
Richard Livermore-Hardy discusses the capabilities of a bearing for large turbo machinery
Man or machine?
As we enter the golden age of robotics, the fear that robots will take human jobs has slowly spread. Darren Halford considers if our jobs are really at risk
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