Industrial Technology

Emka hardware for machine building and production engineering

On highly dangerous machines, personal protection plays a particularly important role meaning that a professional locking system is needed to secure the highly sensitive electronics in control cabinets on the one hand, but also to protect individual persons in areas of a machine where safety is endangered.

7th February 2022

High-power electrical connectors for the future

To tackle climate change, Nationally Determined Contribution objectives have advised that the global demand for electricity will increase by 80 to 90 per cent by 2050. These objectives resulted from the Paris Agreement in 2015, an agreement made at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

25th January 2022

Wide input DC-DC converter series is in a space saving package

The high efficiency K78Uxx-500R3 series of switching regulators have been designed by Mornsun and are said to be ideal for use in space constrained and cost-conscious designs. The switching regulators are available from Relec Electronics, and are offered with a wide input range of 9.0–90V DC and with outputs ranging from 3.0–24V DC.

25th January 2022

IFM measures air gaps with micro-metre precision

When a workpiece must be positioned accurately to within a fraction of a millimetre, or when it’s necessary to measure the surface roughness of an item, the new SDP110 air-gap sensor from IFM Electronic provides an effective and easily implemented solution. This novel sensor, which uses air flowing through a nozzle to measure the distance between the nozzle and the workpiece, has a resolution of 5µm, which is just one-tenth of the thickness of a typical human hair. Maximum measuring range is 400 µm.

25th January 2022

NCTE expands 2300 series torque sensors with low measurement range variant

NCTE, the German sensor manufacturer has expanded its 2300 torque sensor series with the introduction of a new variant for lower torque-range measurement tasks down to 0.5 Nm. Available with full support from NCTE’s UK distribution partner, Ixthus Instrumentation, the series now covers a torque range from 100 Nm down to 0.5 Nm.

25th January 2022

Further expansion for the Variohm Group through CPI acquisition

Variohm Holdings has further advanced its strategic product offering and manufacturing competency through the acquisition of the USA based precision switching and linear position sensor producer CPI (Control Products, Inc.). CPI’s specialist range of standard and ATEX/IECEX/SIL2 rated draw-wire position sensors and its waterproof switch and thermal switching technologies perfectly suit harsh duty application areas.

25th January 2022

Registration opens for the Machine Vision Conference 2022

You can register now for the 2022 Machine Vision Conference and Exhibition, to be held on 28 April at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. Now in its 6th year, this one day event continues to provide the latest vision technology and services from world-leading companies in industrial vision and imaging.

25th January 2022

Parker powers up portfolio for expanding electric vehicle market

Parker Lord, a division of Parker Hannifin, has expanded its portfolio of products for electric vehicle manufacturers to include new thermally conductive (TC) adhesives and one-component (1K) low-density gap fillers to support their leading product offering of thermal management encapsulants, adhesives, and gap fillers.

24th January 2022

Read how to be smart with Contrinex"s smart inductive sensors

Contrinex’s range of high-performance inductive sensors with many benefits has been further enhanced by its smart sensors, which combine a microcontroller with the sensor’s ASIC to add on-board processing to “measure, monitor, configure and predict”. They offer machine builders the ability to program a customised sensor for their application, without the cost and time delay associated with ordering low-volume custom parts.

21st January 2022

Swivel pad indexing levers enable flexible and mark-free clamping

A new range of indexing levers designed to clamp in restricted spaces without marking the workpiece or equipment is now available. Leeds-based standard parts and components supplier, WDS Components, has released a range of T and L shaped levers with a choice of ball ends or soft pads, giving flexibility and ease of clamping. The indexing levers are a useful clamping mechanism when a complete 360° locking rotation cannot be achieved.

21st January 2022