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Kaydon bearings shine in diamond tool grinding application

Kaydon bearings shine in diamond tool grinding application

Coborn Engineering, which designs and manufactures specialised CNC grinding, polishing and lapping machines for the diamond tooling and gemstone industries, is taking advantage of Kaydon bearings from RA Rodriguez to help boost the performance of its industry-leading Planetary Grinding (PG) series machines. In this extremely high-precision application, Kaydon bearings are an essential element of the machine, allowing users to process diamond cutting tools to radius form waviness levels of 50 nm.

20th September 2021
Sick

Sick"s Master Data Analyzer stops you storing and shipping fresh air

A simple-to-use track-and-trace system that collects measurements and images of incoming stock or packaged goods and turns them into valuable master data is being launched in the UK by sensor manufacturer Sick with a free trial offer.

17th September 2021
Sigmatek celebrates 60 service anniversaries

Sigmatek celebrates 60 service anniversaries

In these times, long-standing employees are a rarity. This is something of which the management team of Sigmatek, provider of complete automation systems for industrial machine manufacturing, is very aware. Through their many years of experience and extensive expertise, the company’s jubilarians make a substantial contribution to the success of the Salzburg-based automation expert which has around 550 employees worldwide.

17th September 2021
Real-world torque measurements enable electric car competition to go virtual

Real-world torque measurements enable electric car competition to go virtual

Young technologists from the University of Sheffield alleviated their disappointment at the Covid-cancellation of Shell Eco Challenge Rally by instead developing a computer simulation tool for predicting electric cars’ energy efficiency.

17th September 2021
Universal Robots

Universal Robots" productivity roadshows recommence

Universal Robots announces the return of its productivity roadshows, helping SME manufacturers to address labour shortages, improve output and make their operations more competitive. The first of these free to attend events will be taking place in Oxford on 22 September before visiting Carlisle on 12 October and Sheffield on 7 December.

17th September 2021
Accurate and stable actuator for an automatic screwdriving application

Accurate and stable actuator for an automatic screwdriving application

Accuracy, repeatability and stability were the key performance requirements specified for an actuator to be used in an automatic screwdriving application for AVK Plastics, a manufacturer of synthetic surface boxes and pallets based in the Netherlands. AVK Plastics turned to HepcoMotion after the previous actuator could not provide the high stability required, causing them to need a replacement. 

16th September 2021
Positioning and measuring railway fishplates in automated machine tool inspection

Positioning and measuring railway fishplates in automated machine tool inspection

Mills CNC, a machine tool supplier based in Leamington Spa, has chosen to use a laser triangulation sensor from Micro-Epsilon in one of its bespoke machine tool automation cells (SYNERGi) with a primary focus on inspecting large, hot rolled steel railway fishplates.

16th September 2021
Sulzer supplies pumps for ambitious PTA expansion project

Sulzer supplies pumps for ambitious PTA expansion project

Sulzer is providing 87 pumps for a variety of applications in Hengli Petrochemical (Huizhou)’s latest purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants. The equipment will be used in two new processing units at Daya Bay Petrochemical Park, Huizhou, China, to support a total production capacity of 2x2.5 million tons per year.

16th September 2021
Renishaw sponsors Greenpower electric car race

Renishaw sponsors Greenpower electric car race

Renishaw has renewed its longstanding sponsorship of Greenpower, an international charity that challenges young people aged nine to 25 to design, build and race electric cars. Renishaw first sponsored Greenpower’s UK Western Region Heat at the Castle Combe Circuit, Wiltshire in 2006 and continued the tradition with its sponsorship of this year's heat on September 5th, 2021.

16th September 2021
New research reveals four key actions to strengthen process resilience

New research reveals four key actions to strengthen process resilience

Independent research commissioned by RS Components has uncovered four key actions that senior engineers should consider taking to build process resilience across their organisations.

16th September 2021
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