Clean transportation
Powder handling. With Piab's vacuum conveyors, the production powder can be easily transported to the 3D printing systems in the required quantity - without any fine dust pollution for the employees.
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You can only use what you know. At BoKa Automatisierung from Dorfprozelten in Franconia, these were grippers from Röhm. Thanks to its many years of good experience with the clamping device specialist's products, BoKa has opted for two-jaw grippers for its latest development.
read more...Three questions for... Achim Gauss
Achim Gauß, Managing Director Sales & Technology, explains what new products and developments the Zimmer Group will be presenting at Motek and which sectors are currently undergoing radical change.
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Safe and clean in the cleanroom
When processing hormones in the pharmaceutical industry, no components of the product may escape into the environment. This is why, for example, the mixing process takes place in a vacuum clean room.
read more...Trelleborg manufactures the world's largest O-ring
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has achieved a Guinness World Record: at 364 meters, the sealing specialist has produced the largest O-ring in the world. It was produced using the Fleximold process in Tewkesbury, England.
read more...Pfeiffer Vacuum presents new high-performance vacuum pumps: Roots pumps of the HiLobe® series set new standards
Pfeiffer Vacuum, a leading global supplier of vacuum technology, presents the innovative new Roots pumps of the HiLobe series, which can be used for numerous industrial vacuum applications such as electron beam welding, vacuum furnaces or freeze-drying.
read more...For more power in the machine tool
SKF will be showcasing performance-enhancing bearing solutions for machine tools at EMO Hannover. These include axial angular contact ball bearings for screw drives from the Beam and Beas series.
read more...Medical robots from the printer
Five international research teams are developing a robot for the tumor therapy of the future. Although it consists of dozens of components, joints and actuators with different material properties, it can be produced in a single process step using a 3D printer.
read more...Electric gripper for bottle handling
Individualized grippers
Industry 4.0 opens up a wide range of possibilities for manufacturing customized mass products flexibly and economically. The Zimmer Group participated in a project for an automation concept for customized beverage bottles by developing a gripper.
read more...Thermal imaging cameras prevent transformer failures
Transformer bushings can be efficiently maintained using thermal imaging technology. The T1020-HD thermal imaging camera from Flir, for example, can localize temperature anomalies, while thermal imaging sensors provide temperature trends of critical components around the clock.
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