Featured Products

Machine automation is a highly fragmented, dynamic field in which alternatives to the status quo emerge constantly. A key to our role as a solutions provider is maintaining a strategic portfolio of products, which enables us to offer our clients dependable, far sighted, and forward-compatible solutions. We send out a quarterly postcard that highlights several new products, if you wish to receive this please click here to sign up. Feel free to contact our Engineering Team to see how these exciting technologies can be utilized to push your next automation project to a higher level.

Machine & Motion Control

ETHERNET Powerlink

ETHERNET Powerlink expands the ACR9000 family by adding real-time motion control over standard Ethernet. The high-speed digital communications network enhances machine performance and configuration possibilities while reducing set-up time and installation complexity. The ACR9000-EPL can control up to 16 axis of motion at a cost of only $100/axis. Plus, it is fully Ehternet/IP compatible to provide easy plug-and-play communication with A/B PLCs. Click Here.

The Compax3M

The Compax3M is a common bus amplifier design that shares a common power supply (240/480 VAC) with multiple amplifiers. The amplifiers are available in three different power levels with continuous current output from 5, 10, and 15A. The 3CM is available as a simple “dumb” amplifier, it can be controlled over Ethernet Powerlink, DeviceNet, Profibus, or CANopen, or it is also available as an “intelligent” amplifier that can be programmed in any IEC61131-3 language. Click Here.

Mechatronics

Parker’s XFC rollerscrew

Parker’s new XFC rollerscrew cylinder provides machinery builders a high force electro-mechanical solution offering long life, minimal maintenance, and low operating costs while still maintaining structural rigidity. This rollerscrew cylinder is capable of speeds up to 40 in/sec and peak thrust forces up to 80,000 lbs. Click Here.

Apex AL Series Gearhead

The Apex AL Series Gearhead is a revolutionary new design that places the dual ball bearing assemblies directly under the pulley housing thus eliminating any moment loads on the gearhead shaft. Now you are not forced to design a complicated pillow block assembly to support your belt pulley, you can mount the pulley directly on the gearhead and achieve belt tensions up to 7000 lbs. The gearhead is available in both in-line and right-angle designs in 70, 95, 110, 150, 230, and 280mm sizes. Click Here.

Robotics & Conveyors

Nachi’s MR20 robot’s arm

Nachi’s new MR20 robot’s arm features a unique 7-axis design supporting up to a 30kg payload capacity. The MR20 was designed to provide a compact arm and powerful body with a wrist torque two times that of comparable-sized robots. The unique 7-axis design allows the arm to avoid singularities while providing multiple posture solutions for the same work Tool Center Point. Click Here.

The 7600 ULTIMATE

The 7600 ULTIMATE Series has been engineered for fast and effective sanitation in the most demanding environments. These include RTE foods, raw protein (meat - poultry - fish), dairy and other environments with high pressure sanitation requirements. Design features include: solid stainless steel cross members (no hollow tube), TIG welded stand-offs keep fasteners out of food zone, and machine-welds on all bearing housing assemblies. Click Here.

Machine Vision & Barcode

Cognex’s In-Sight Micro

Cognex’s In-Sight Micro packs a complete vision system into a remarkably small package that measures just 30mm x 30mm x 60mm. Eight new In-Sight Micro models cover a range of price, performance and resolution levels – including ID only versions and a two-megapixel model. In-Sight Micro includes the proven Cognex vision tool library to handle the broadest range of vision applications for the widest array of industries. With a simple point and click approach, EasyBuilder walks users through the process of setting up a vision application, step by step. Click Here.

CLV630 Laser Bar Code

Speed, power, flexibility and ease of use are the features that define the new CLV630 Laser Bar Code family. Connectivity options have also become a driving factor in bar code applications and that is why all of the scanners in the CLV6XX family have both onboard serial and EtherNet/IP communication versions. Other advanced features include code reconstruction with the new SMART algorithm, conveyor tracking via encoder input, and an IP 65 enclosure. Click Here.

Sensors & Safety

SICK DT20 Hi distance sensor

The new DT20 Hi distance sensor from SICK offers reliable, low cost measurement at ranges up to 1M. Thanks to CMOS technology, highly accurate, precise measurement tasks can be handled reliability regardless of target surface properties. The DT20 Hi delivers a resolution up to 0.1mm and a quick response time of 15ms. The DT20 Hi has a small, laser beam spot and can be flexibly configured and easily commissioned thanks to its display and intuitive menu guidance. Click Here.

UE410 Flexi

The UE410 Flexi multifunctional interface from SICK offers, low cost, space-saving modular safety control with or without programming software. The UE410 Flexi consists of several multifunctional modules that can grow to fit you needs, module-by-module, with your specific safety task in mind. Further extension modules allow the connection of more I/O as well as connection via common fieldbus for passing on diagnostic and status information to a higher-ranking controller. Click Here.

Archived New Product Releases

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