Tag: gear
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RoboDK partners with Force Technology and Hexagon to make gears easier to repair
Force Technology, a Danish technology consultancy and service company, has completed in partnership with Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence and RoboDK . The companies describe it as “a revolutionary project” focused on making gear repair a more sustainable process for manufacturers. The purpose of the project was to improve laser welding procedures and determine if sustainable gear…
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Bison Gear ‘transforms’ blanking operation with robotic automation
Bison Gear & Engineering says its implementation of robotic automation has “transformed the company’s gear blanking operation”. Bison Gear, a specialist in power transmission industry and a high-mix, low-volume manufacturer, highlights production gains with robotic automation. Bison incrementally introduces automation solutions and targets specific steps in the production process where automation can have the greatest…
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Keep Yourself Safe While Cycling With These Useful Tips
A couple of decades ago, you could argue that bicycle accidents weren’t a thing. But fast-forwarding to 2022, an increasing number of people are biking to work. And while there are many reasons for this uptick in bicycle fatalities, one of the most common is dooring.
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How Robotnik’s RB-KAIROS+ mobile manipulator can helps improve productivity in SMEs
A recent Roland Berger study, which analyses the impact of robotics in logistics, provides some interesting data in this regard. It indicates a cost reduction of between 20 percent and 40 percent and an improvement in productivity of between 25 percent and 70 percent. Increased production and cost reduction is already a reality for many…
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Franz Morat unveils innovative system that comfortably rotates and turns bedridden patients
For bedridden individuals, everything revolves around the correct resting position in the bed. The position must be adjusted to match each individual patient and their physical condition. This means the patient’s position in the bed must be changed regularly to take pressure off of areas of the patient’s body and to prevent pressure sores. The…
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More flexible gear machining for industrial robots
Today’s industrial robots must fit into smaller spaces, so as much “manufacturing real estate” as possible is dedicated to production. This places pressure on manufacturers to machine smaller, tighter components for these machines. Here, Harish Maniyoor, global product manager for automotive at the machine tooling specialist Sandvik Coromant explains why power skiving is the answer.…
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Spinea launches new servo actuator for precision motion
Spinea has launched its new DS 095 DriveSpin servo actuator motor for precision control. Recently announced by Spinea and available in the UK from Heason Technology, the DriveSpin DS 095 series integrates the industry leading TwinSpin high-load capacity trochoidal gear unit and a powerful AC servomotor with servo feedback for a cutting-edge rotary actuator solution…
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Yaskawa introduces gear motor capabilities for its full Sigma-7 servo line
The Drives & Motion Division of Yaskawa America has released what it says is “a full line of gear motors” based on its Sigma-7 servo motors. The new line brings “precise Yaskawa servo motion to a wider variety of automation applications than ever before, especially to uses which require high torque at low output speeds”,…
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Nord Drivesystems shows modular industrial gear units in additional sizes
Nord Drivesystems has presented two new gearboxes for nominal torques of 15 and 20 kNm. The company says its new industrial gear units greatly increase the possibilities for configuring application-specific drives in the load range up to 20,000 Nm, for example with a dual gear setup and swing base. With these latest additions to the…
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Redesigning the gear: A closer look at Harmonic Drive’s new WavePlus technology
Graham Mackrell, managing director of precision gearing expert Harmonic Drive UK, explains WavePlus technology, an innovative development in strain wave gearing Sometimes, you only need one small innovation to make something revolutionary. Sliced bread, for example, simply took a stroke of inspiration for Otto Rohwedder to combine automatic bread wrapping equipment with cutting functionality. The…