Better by Design
Tip-top tap-ready conveyor
Conveyors are no strangers to dust: It's generated by rubbing corrugated boxes during packaging, the conveying of pet food or bakery confectionary, and...
Perfect connect
Industrial cable connectors can be bulky, typically offer only a few contact arrangements, and can be be difficult to fasten by hand tightening which...
Tidy rollers
Bearings face two challenges in dirty or washdown environments: keeping out contamination, and keeping lubricant safe inside. Single and multi-lip designs...
Rugged encoder stands up to shock, vibration
One of the most trusted feedback devices is the tried and true rotary encoder. However, shock loads can easily break these delicate devices: The glass...
Better by design: Think matter
When it comes to putting sensors in a fluid-power cylinder, the most common approach is to gun-bore the piston rod and mechanically fasten positioning...
Copasetic couplings: Flexible couplings
Flexible shaft couplings transmit torque from one shaft to another, and redress misalignment between them. The trick is that flexible couplings must act...
Letting go: Angle sensors
Most rotary position sensors have some effect on the motion they aim to measure. They also tend to complicate design, requiring shaft-to-shaft connections...
Smart seals: Radial shaft seals
Conventional shaft seals are designed to last a certain length of time perhaps 5,000 to 20,000 service hours before the effects of wear begin to emerge....
Sound check: Low-noise gear module
A new low-noise gear module replaces standard stages to turn loud gear whines into low, quiet hums. Increasingly required in medical devices, commercial...
Thin sensor gets the skinny on angles
For countless industrial products that have evolved over time, smaller, better, and less expensive is the name of the game. After designing and manufacturing...
Pulling their weight: Timing pulley
A modular gearbox design integrates gearing into a timing pulley for dynamic linear motion systems, including gantry robots, high-speed packaging machinery,...
Limiters without limits: Torque limiters
Q: Torque limiters and proximity sensors: What's the connection? ...
