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Mondello told me that in addition to gaining knowledge around technology, design or various engineering platforms, engineers also need to take time to complement some of their innate strengths with understanding a little bit about how business works—and to develop good written or verbal communication skills.

“I see engineers with just fabulous ideas, and yet sometimes they just can’t quite articulate what they’re trying to say in a real efficient way,” he said.

He also thinks that it’s important for them to realize that there are no more geographic limits in the world when it comes to business or life.

“I think geographic bounds are there for politics and religion and all the things that geographic boundaries provide. But in terms of design, in terms of technology, in terms of business, in terms of life, we’re noticing more and more that the geographic boundaries are disappearing,” he said. “I think to be successful, to be fulfilled, the engineering community needs to be open to traveling, to getting out and about and seeing what’s out there, to being comfortable around lots of different cultures and lots of different people, and be open-minded about those cultures and those people.”

Mondello also noted that he sees a lot of engineers who have very strong opinions, and a lot of those opinions are certainly well grounded in scientific fact. Yet, constantly holding on to those strong opinions can have a negative impact on how open individuals can be to change.

“Change is exponential, so you’ve got to be open-minded to it,” he said.

“You’ve got to be open-minded to new ideas because there’s a high probability that whatever products you’re working on today, tomorrow they’re going to be obsolete. And this will happen at a rate much faster than it was historically. Be open-minded to the rate at which everything is changing around you—that would be a good start.” DW

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The Truth About Compressed Air! If you think compressed air is too expensive and noisy - read this. The facts will surprise you!

Compare these Blowoffs

There are a variety of ways to blow the water from the bottles shown in the photo below, but which method is best? To decide, we ran a comparison test on the same application using four different blowoff methods: drilled pipe, flat air nozzles, Super Air Knife (each using compressed air as a power source), and a blower supplied air knife (using an electric motor as a power source). Each system consisted of two twelve inch long air knives.

The following comparison proves that the EXAIR Super Air Knife is the best choice for your blowoff, cooling or drying application.

The goal for each of the blowoff choices was to use the least amount of air possible to get the job done (lowest energy and noise level). The compressed air pressure required was 60 PSIG which provided adequate velocity to blow the water off. The blower used had a ten horsepower motor and was a centrifugal type blower at 18,000 RPM. The table at the bottom of the page summarizes the overall performance.

Since your actual part may have an odd configuration, holes or sharp edges, we took sound level measurements in free air (no impinging surface).

Drilled Pipe

Blower Air Knife

This common blowoff is very inexpensive and easy to make. For this test, we used (2) drilled pipes, each with (25) 1/16" diameter holes on 1/2" centers. As shown in the test results below, the drilled pipe performed poorly. The initial cost of the drilled pipe is overshadowed by its high energy use. The holes are easily blocked and the noise level is excessive - both of which violate OSHA requirements. Velocity across the entire length was very inconsistent with spikes of air and numerous dead spots.

The blower proved to be an expensive, noisy option. As noted below, the purchase price is high. Operating cost was considerably lower than the drilled pipe and fl at air nozzle, but was comparable to EXAIR’s Super Air Knife. The large blower with its two 3" (8cm) diameter hoses requires significant mounting space compared to the others. Noise level was high at 90 dBA. There was no option for cycling it on and off to conserve energy like the other blowoffs.

Costly bearing and filter maintenance along with downtime were also negative factors.

Flat Air Nozzles

EXAIR Super Air Knife

As shown below, this inexpensive air nozzle was the worst performer. It is available in plastic, aluminum and stainless steel from several manufacturers. The flat air nozzle provides some entrainment, but suff ers from many of the same problems as the drilled pipe. Operating cost and noise level are both high. Some manufacturers off er fl at air nozzles where the holes can be blocked - an OSHA violation.

Velocity was inconsistent with spikes of air.

The Super Air Knife did an exceptional job of removing the moisture on one pass due to the uniformity of the laminar airflow. The sound level was extremely low. For this application, energy use was slightly higher than the blower but can be less than the blower if cycling on and off is possible. Safe operation is not an issue since the Super Air Knife can not be dead-ended. Maintenance costs are low since there are no moving parts to wear out.

Facts about Blowers

Energy conscious plants might think a blower to be a better choice due to its slightly lower electrical consumption compared to a compressor. In reality, a blower is an expensive capital expenditure that requires frequent downtime and costly maintenance of filters, belts and bearings.

Here are some important facts: Filters must be replaced every one to three months.

Belts must be replaced every three to six months.

Typical bearing replacement is at least once a year at a cost near $1000.

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Blower bearings wear out quickly due to the high speeds (17-20,000 RPM) required to generate effective airflows.

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Poorly designed seals that allow dirt and moisture infi ltration and environments above 125°F decrease the one year bearing life.

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Many bearings can not be replaced in the field, resulting in downtime to send the assembly back to the manufacturer.

Blowers take up a lot of space and often produce sound levels that exceed OSHA noise level exposure requirements. Air volume and velocity are often difficult to control since mechanical adjustments are required.

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recycling containers Ready for a few laughs? Peek into a recycling bin sometime. The experience can be entertaining if you are amused by widespread misperceptions of what constitutes recyclable material.

Take one glance inside a recycling container and you’ll probably conclude that the public is clueless about materials that can’t be recycled. For example, your average receptacle for recyclables in an airport or shopping mall is likely to contain a lot of polystyrene cups.

Though strictly speaking PS can be recycled, the process is so fraught with difficulties that it almost never happens.

Among the reasons: PS can’t be reground and remolded without degrading. Additives and fillers prevent its direct recycling, and contamination with food greatly complicates any efforts aimed at reuse. Obviously, PS foam is also light and bulky, so a little bit of it takes up a lot of space. An eighteen-wheelerload of the stuff doesn’t contain all that much real material, resulting in transportation costs that are through the roof. Consequently, little of the PS thrown away escapes landfills.

But for real hilarity, try walking into a Starbucks and looking at what coffee drinkers think can be recycled. Note to caffeine addicts: Pitching coffee cups in the recyclable bin doesn’t mean they will be recycled.

The problem is that the paper cups used by Starbucks (and by many fastfood establishments) are lined with a thin layer of polyethylene plastic.

At paper mills that recycle paper, the plastic coating breaks up into large flakes that pass through coarse pulping screens but clog fine screens. The filter clogs are problematic, so most paper mills send the cups to landfills automatically. Published reports say that only three of the 450 paper recycling mills in the U.S. can handle plastic-coated paper.

Starbucks management is well aware that its cups generally can’t be recycled – it has conducted programs at least back to 2008 aimed at making them recyclable. For a variety of reasons none of these efforts, or similar efforts undertaken by materials producers, have panned out. Consequently, most paper cups are just trashed.

Unfortunately, the fun of ridiculing people who put goofy stuff in recycling bins is coming to an end. That’s because nearly all the debris in recycling bins – even the polyethylene terephthalate

(PET) and polyethylenes which are quite recyclable – is now likely to wind up in landfills. The reason is a change in policy by China. That country has been the largest global importer of recyclable materials. Much of the recyclable material generated in the U.S. has wound up being shipped there. Now, China has banned imports of 24 categories of recyclables and solid waste. And there isn’t much of a domestic market for all the recyclable plastic we generate.

That situation may eventually change. Researchers writing in a recent issue of Science Magazine point to recycling-friendly developments in the works ranging from plant-based plastics, to better ways of depolymerizing plastics, to polymer designs that more readily degrade in the environment. But the authors make it clear none of these improvements will happen anytime soon.

So until we reach that golden age of recycling, the most pragmatic strategy seems to be this: Just throw your debris in whatever waste receptacle is the least full, regardless of whether it has a recycling label affixed. DW

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The case for How fast could additive technology be to deliver parts?

The research is just getting started.

The promise of different ways to make designs is spurring innovative development.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for example, is experimenting with laser holograms and special liquid materials to build parts faster in what is being called volumetric 3D printing. A special photosensitive resin solidifies when exposed to three laser light beams, enabling the build of a 3D structure in seconds. The researchers have printed planes, struts at arbitrary angles, lattices, complex, and uniquely curved objects.

The three laser beams define the object’s geometry from three different directions. The laser beams activate simultaneously and where they intersect is where the resin solidifies, forming the desired shape.

Benefits of this technique: it eliminates the layer-by-layer process common to 3D printing, and the mechanical and directional weaknesses inherent in layer-bylayer.

Drawbacks: right now, laser hologram parts lack smoothness.

There are restrictions to part resolution, and some geometries are not suitable for this method due to the intersecting laser beams.

speed

Bonus: Volumetric 3D printing should work very well in zero gravity.

Of course, this research is new and will likely require improvements in resin properties to enable wider use.

Researchers at MIT are working on an opportunity they call Rapid liquid printing (RLP). This method was developed to address the needs of large-scale builds.

A robotic aperture draws a 3-dimensional object in a tank filled with a gel. The gel suspends the extruded material, which eliminates the need for a base plate for the build. Support structures are also not needed.

Two materials are mixed in the nozzle and chemically cure upon extrusion. Initially, this method was used to build pieces of furniture.

BASF and Xaar, a world leader in industrial inkjet technology, are collaborating on a Photopolymer Jetting (PPJ) process.

Here, special photopolymers are deposited by jetting droplets onto a build platform and cured using a UV light source. This process is repeated layer-by-layer, using part and support photopolymers to create the intended 3D object. Special printheads deposit up to 20 l/hr with addressability of 720 dpi.

Are similar speed improvements possible for extrusion based 3D printers? It turns out that researchers are looking into this. As electromechanical systems, the speeds possible with extrusion 3D printers are limited to the amount of vibration the unit experiences during operation. The faster the machine moves, the more vibrations the machine creates, forcing a slow down in print speeds to have a reasonably smooth finish.

But researchers at the University of Michigan report on a way to potentially enable higher print speeds. They have developed a software algorithm that uses knowledge of the printer’s dynamic behavior to anticipate when it may experience excessive vibration.

The software then compensates for the motions, enabling faster speeds.

Through the use of this algorithm, 3D printers deliver “high-quality results at speeds up to two times faster than those in common use, with no added hardware costs.”

Developments in ways to make parts faster will be a theme throughout 2018. Stay tuned. DW

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For surfaces that need corrosion protection, 80% of the time that’s accomplished through a paint or varnish coating. Unfortunately, the proportion of bio-based, environmentally friendly solutions in this space is quite small.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP, in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, are looking to close this gap and are developing a cost-effective coating based on renewable raw materials.

And the surprising focus of their research?

Potato starch.

In Germany alone, 100,000 tons of coating materials for protection against corrosion are produced every year. However, paints and varnishes with bio-based binders or film formers have usually been too expensive or could not meet green requirements. But through the use of modified starch, scientists at Fraunhofer IAP have found a sustainable and cost-effective solution.

“Until now, traditional industrial fields of application of starch have been the paper/corrugated cardboard and 12

adhesives industries,” said Christina Gabriel, a scientist at the Fraunhofer IAP in Potsdam-Golm. “In the field of paints and varnishes on the other hand, starch was usually only used as an additive.

With starch as the main component of a water-based dispersion, we now have very promising adhesion results.”

“Film formers must fulfill several tasks.

They must form a continuous film, which adheres well to the substrate material, is compatible with additional layers and additives and can embed pigments and fillers as well,” said Gabriel. “In its natural form, however, starch exhibits several properties, which stand in the way of its use as a film former. For example, it is not soluble in cold water and neither does it form continuous, non-brittle films. We therefore had to modify the starch to adapt it to the requirements.”

The solution, which involves esterification, results in starch esters that are dispersible in water, form continuous films and have very good adhesive properties on glass and aluminum surfaces. In cooperation with the Fraunhofer IPA, the esterified starch

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is then “cross­linked,” through which the sensitivity of the coating to water is reduced further.

Tests check the long-term stability of coated materials by exposing them to rapidly changing temperature cycles in a time-compressed form—this simulates the day/night cycle and the seasons. Test objects are also exposed to electrolyteenriched water to see how the coating reacts to water—and how resistant it is under extreme conditions.

New “recipes” are also being tested, so as to optimize the properties of the coating even further.

“Apart from the already tested aluminum, two other important metals, steel and galvanized steel, are to be tested,” said Gabriel. “Our investigations show that with its good film forming and very good adhesion properties on various substrates, starch esters have the potential to be future alternatives to petroleum-based film formers in the coatings industry.” DW

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88 _MOTION CONTROL

124 _PNEUMATICS

148 _MECHANICAL

How to design quiet gearmotors

How to choose pneumatics in food and beverage processing

Counterfeit bearings: what to expect in 2018

What applications need quiet gearmotors? The answer might surprise you.

102 _MOTION CONTROL Customizing conveying systems

As more companies look to automate processing lines, they’re relying on conveyor manufacturers for an assist.

110 _LINEAR MOTION PID design using frequencydomain methods

With motion control applications, a PID controller is often implemented using tuning or by trial-and-error.

116 _INTERNET OF THINGS 3 trends in development for the IIoT

Despite the buzz about the IoT and the IIoT, the development of tools and programs for IoT systems and equipment are still embryonic. But there are signs of progress.

With issues such as temperature extremes, washdown capabilities and cleanliness considerations, components for this industry must be thoughtfully selected.

Year over year, the threat of counterfeit bearings remains persistent. But for the last two years bearing manufacturers are getting better at targeting counterfeiters.

132 _INTERNET OF THINGS

156 _INTERCONNECT

How the Industrial IoT is transforming industry

Making connections in harsh places

IoT may be the “latest” big thing, but that doesn’t mean it’s accepted by customers.

Here are tips on building a business case for IoT projects.

138 _ELECTRONICS Will your next circuit board come out of a mold?

Several manufacturers are exploring molded plastic and other odd-ball substrates for circuits as a way to simplify product designs and cut costs.

Connectors must meet certain criteria to survive the most extreme environments.

168 _LEADERSHIP The Importance of flexibility— Mark Mondello, CEO, Jabil Inc.

A look at how a thoughtful mechanical engineer keeps bureaucracy at bay and his company flexible.

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by Indaero to manufacture several production tools. Crucial to achieving this is the ability to quickly design and produce complex curved geometries that perfectly fit the intricate shapes of the aircraft panels. Previously, the company was limited to producing flat shapes with traditional methods, which affected the performance of the final tool during affixation to the panel by workers.

“The 3D printer has been a gamechanger for us,” says González. “The ability to 3D print curved production tools in robust materials made us realize the importance of having tools that perfectly fit the panels. Not only does it make the work of our operators much easier, it frees up resources and increases our overall productivity.

This improvement was immediately recognized by a number of leading Airbus providers such as Aernnova, who previously worked with our competitors and whose business we have subsequently secured.”

This is being exemplified through the company‘s work for Aernnova where the Fortus 450mc 3D Printer is being used to optimize a series of production tools for the manufacture of an Airbus NH90 Helicopter. In particular, a 3D printed manufacturing tool to fix a slide box onto the interior panel of the helicopter wing.

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“Integrating FDM 3D printing within production tooling for this project is delivering several clear benefits,” explains González. “Firstly, from a resource perspective there’s now no need for two operators as the tool fits against the panel independently – leaving one operator to position the slide box with both free hands. Secondly, we can produce a lightweight and robust tool 66% faster than with CNC machining. As a result, this part of the project is being completed ahead of time, leading to a reduction in manufacturing cost of over 50%. The customer response has been fantastic.”

Andy Middleton, President EMEA, Stratasys, concludes: “FDM has long been an additive technology of choice for the aerospace industry, particularly for customized tooling applications.

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There are three variations of the M1 battery ranging in size and weight from 3.3 kg to 10 kg. A soldier’s kit can weigh anything between 40 kg and 80 kg, so the M1 battery can be attached to armoury without impacting the soldier’s speed or performance. This factor is critical to the development of batteries for military devices.

The range also features an integrated one-meter length cable that can be used to connect the battery to the device. Depending on operational requirements, this allows the user to bury or covertly position the device so that the battery is easily accessible, making it easy to locate in necessary circumstances.

Soldiers need their batteries to perform for extended periods of time and under challenging conditions. The temperature and operating voltage has been traditionally known to affect the performance and runtime of Lithium Ion batteries. The Lithium Thionyl Chloride chemistry used in the M1 range, however, is resilient in humid and arctic conditions.

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A brushless dc drive is a type of adjustable-speed drive required by electrically commutated motors (ECMs), such as brushless dc, to control motor speed and torque. Providing benefits such as precise speed regulation, quiet operation, twoquadrant direction control, braking, high duty cycle reliability and reduced energy consumption, Brushless dc drives are suitable for gearmotors powering machinery in a range of sectors – including critical application medical equipment, material handling including automated guided vehicle (AGV) applications, packing, food processing and other industrial applications.

A key benefit of brushless dc drives is reduced maintenance: Because motor commutation is accomplished in the drive, brushless dc motors can expect many years of reliable operation without requiring preventative maintenance. Other benefits of the Brushless DC drives include:

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Design for Industry Medical

Ultrasonic motors power micro positioning stages

This family of compact linear and rotary stages is driven by ceramic direct-drive motors. The ultrasonic motors provide smooth motion with high resolution and a high dynamic range. The selfclamping motor principle locks the stage into place, devoid of creep, once a target position has been reached. This intrinsic brake-like behavior provides advantages not available with classical electromagnetic drive technologies.

Two linear stages with 18 mm and 22 mm travel are available, as well as an XY stage providing 22 x 22 mm. Several encoder options, from 0.4 Âľm to 10 nanometers, are standard. All stages achieve closed-loop peak velocities to 200 mm/sec. The rotary stages come with turntable diameters from 20 to 50 mm, encoder resolution down to 17 Âľrad, and maximum velocity of 720 degrees per second.

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ultrasonic principle with drive frequencies >100 kHz the motors are silent. Displacement is generated in continuous sub-nanometric increments, leading to extremely smooth motion with a wide dynamic range.

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Using high-energy lithium batteries to miniaturize medical devices

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In order to design a more miniaturized handheld medical device, start by examining the battery.

Handheld surgical devices have unique performance requirements that are particularly well suited for lithium metal oxide batteries that deliver high voltage and high energy density, along with instant activation and extended operating life, even at extreme temperatures. Lithium metal oxide batteries deliver an open circuit voltage of 4.0 V with high pulses of up to 15 A and 5 A continuous current at 3.2 V for a limited time.

Often utilized in hand held surgical power tools and cautherizers, these powerful little batteries enable hand-held devices to become lighter and more miniaturized. Here are some real-life examples: BioAccess portable small bone drills were originally powered by alkaline battery pack that performed well and offered excellent reliability. However, by substituting 6 AA-size TLM1550HP lithium metal oxide batteries for the Alkaline battery pack, BioAccess achieved a 64% weight reduction with only 40% of the volume. An equivalent alkaline battery pack would have required 3X the weight and 2.5 times the volume (15 AA-size alkaline batteries vs. 6 AA-size TLM-1550-HP batteries). Use of a lithium metal oxide battery pack also permitted faster drilling speeds, more active drill time (30 to 40 seconds at a time for up to 20 to 30 cycles), more instantaneous power, and greater stall torque, resulting in more efficient drilling cycles with less operator fatigue.

The lithium metal oxide battery pack used in the BioAccess small bone drill is designed for one-time use and is then discarded. However, similar surgical power tools could also be powered by industrial grade rechargeable Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries that feature up to 20 year operating life with 5,000 full recharge cycles, able to deliver high current pulses (up to 5 A), and offering a much wider temperature range (-40° C to 85° C) with the ability to be discharged and recharged at extreme temperatures (10-hour rate). These ruggedized batteries outperform consumer grade Li-ion cells that can operate for 5 years and 500 recharge cycles, with a high annual self-discharge rate (up to 60% per year), and a limited temperature range (0° C to 60° C).

Lithium metal oxide batteries and industrial grade Li-ion rechargeable batteries offer intelligent space-saving solutions for a growing number of medical applications that require miniaturization without compromising power or performance.

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Collaborative robots work alongside humans on the factory floor to raise productivity and support the shift to mass customization.

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Intelligent conveying system

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The design challenges are familiar: shorter response times to new market trends, increased demands for customization, and lower costs. The modular Linear Transfer System (LTS) with Smart Carriage technology helps address these challenges with its on-board intelligence and data memory, plus freely configurable tracks. In addition, it also includes on-board battery power.

Operator safety is addressed without compromising productivity: as workers approach, the Smart Carriages will first slow down, and then stop, but only in the section where is a potential hazard.

Through the on-board intelligence and connectivity, the Linear Transfer System allows each carriage to behave differently and autonomously. For example, the Smart Carriages can choose the optimum route to reach next station and enable processing of the product being carried as they go along.

The on-board battery system not only powers on-carriage devices such as

sensors, controllers and memory, it also drives the carriage itself. This removes the need to draw power from the track, increasing layout flexibility. There are also reliability benefits, since there are no brushes contacting the track to draw motive power for the carriage, which can create dust and require frequent cleaning. This advantage offers reduced maintenance and also makes the system suitable for use in clean environments.

The safety concept allows cage-free operation and increased productivity. The implemented safety features such as Safe Torque Off (STO) and Safety Limited Speed (SLS) in combination with sensors detect when an operator is nearing the conveyor system and slow the carriages to a safe speed – but only in the local area where the operator might come into contact. Elsewhere on the LTS, operation continues at

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The system offers a full suite of track pieces in different lengths and bend radii to meet their individual requirements. DW

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The Galaxie gearbox can combine with a motor with IIoT connectivity.

It offers up to 91% efficiency. The tooth contact ensures high overload capability.

How does it work? In short, the gearbox guides a large array of individual teeth along an internal ring gear. The tooth geometry follows a logarithmic spiral that lets multiple teeth transmit power at once through hydrodynamic contact — covering much larger surface areas than traditional line contact. The result is a gearbox with zero backlash, even at the zero crossing. The logarithmic spiral path of the teeth allows for synchronization accuracy that outperforms traditional hollow-shaft drives with comparable outer diameters.

The Galaxie gearbox can combine with a motor with IIoT connectivity. It boasts up to 91% efficiency —18 to 29% better than traditional strain-wave and cycloidal geared arrangements.

As part of a drive system, the hydrodynamic tooth contact of the Galaxie produces another performance benefit: high overload capability. Emergency stop torque is 150 to 300% better than legacy systems, and torsional rigidity is to 580% higher ... so gearboxes of other designs might need to be up to three times larger to deliver the same torque as a given Galaxie. The Galaxie’s design also allows for a very large hollow-shaft diameter in

The Galaxie imparts more precise motion control so the Broetje-Automation MPAC delivers riveting rates to 21 per minute — up from 18 per minute from legacy setups.

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Consider one recent use for robotic riveting. Broetje-Automation GmbH makes multi-panel assembly cell (MPAC) riveting machines, and now get 20% higher productivity from the setups thanks to Galaxie drives. In short, the MPACs fully automate the riveting of fuselage sections and aircraft struts.

“These machines use thousands of rivets to join the fuselage parts of passenger aircraft made by leading manufacturers,” said Christian Heyers, head of control systems at BroetjeAutomation.

Within these MPAC machines, right-angle Galaxie gearboxes go on critical axes. “The Galaxie kinematics deliver enormously improved torsional

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Users of the WITTENSTEIN Galaxie get increased productivity and (in the case of machine-tool applications) longer tool life thanks to high stiffness and precision. That also makes for faster cutting and feed rates with better manufacturing quality.

stiffness and absolute freedom from backlash — even with alternating loads,” added Axel Peters, executive V.P. of fastening at Broetje-Automation. “We get significantly more precise motion control — even at reversal points — and around 30% faster positioning of the MPAC’s lower tool. That’s let us increase riveting rates from 18 to 21 per minute.” DW

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Passenger numbers and luggage volume at Victoria Airport in British Columbia, Canada, are nowhere near the numbers at large international hubs. Yet there are still plenty of challenges for the OEM that provides the airport’s baggage handling system (BHS). The airport did not have the room to accommodate all the usual modules - from check-in through security screening to sorting. To fix the problem, the airport company commissioned Glidepath, a manufacturer specializing in baggage conveying, parcel sorting, and freight logistics technology.

The new handling system has a capacity of 750 pieces of luggage per hour. “The baggage handling system is made up of 85 conveyors with a total length of some 250 m,” says Jason Williams, project engineer at Glidepath. “It comprises two in-line screening CT machines. It has two decision points for sortation, DESIGN WORLD

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NORD AC vector drives consisting of an energy-efficient geared motor and a distributed frequency inverter power the conveyor modules.

and it has two separate infeed lines. It has four-way sorters, spiral power curves, bag alignment devices, a luffing conveyor, and Glidepath’s proprietary ploughs and power curves.�

All drive tasks are carried out by IE4 AC vector drives from Nord Drivesystems. Each drive unit consists of an IE4 permanent-magnet synchronous motor, a motor-mounted NORDAC FLEX frequency inverter, and a two-stage gearbox. The hollow shaft gearboxes are secured on the drive axis with a Gripmaxx bushing. This attachment

Connecting the photo eyes to the inverters (wall-mounted) reduces the cabling effort for Glidepath.

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ensures safe, easy-maintenance fitting without keys. The frequency inverters are configured exactly to Glidepath’s specifications— with plug-in connectors for power, communications, encoders, and sensors. They also have an internal EtherNet/IP interface with easy feedthrough installation.

The pluggable drives saved Glidepath time during installation and commissioning. The coded connectors enable quick and accurate networking.

“With the field I/O capability of the NORD drives, we were able to connect the majority of our field devices directly to the frequency inverters,” said Williams. Additionally, industrial ethernet communications enable not only remote monitoring and control of all drive axes, but also seamless monitoring of connected sensors and actuators. For Williams, this was a crucial factor: “The

real advantage here is, the drives support high-speed Ethernet, which allows for reliable bag tracking on our system.”

The drive systems take on various tasks at the conveyor modules. They move luggage at different speeds from one belt to the next. They ensure height adjustment when conveying diagonally.

Glidepath only came to realize the full potential of the integrated positioning function of the inverters once the drives were commissioned. As they gathered parameters for various applications, NORD engineers soon found that the positioning function was the solution for the luggage sorters. DW

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The H-860 uses non-contact linear motors with flexure guides (in the base of the hexapod) and frictionless and backlash-free flexure joints (top and bottom of each strut) along with carbon fiber parts to further reduce the moving mass. Click for a video showing its user selectable pivot point and capabilities.

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In a recent Youtube video by “Nat & Friends” on how Google built the Pixel 2 Camera, PI’s H-860 “shaker” hexapod is shown in a motion simulation application. Modern cameras use electronic image stabilization algorithms to reduce side effects from motion that otherwise would blur images and video. The better a designer can simulate real-world vibration and motion, the more effective countermeasures can be devised.

Vibrations and motion typically occur in many degrees of freedom, i.e. there is angular and linear motion in multiple axes often at the same time.

After recording motion profiles using instruments such as accelerometers, and turning them into digital signals that can be replayed on a motion simulator, engineers can then begin to test and fine-tune different electronic stabilization algorithms to come up with the best result for each situation.

A hexapod platform can provide motion in all six degrees of freedom (X, Y, Z; Pitch, Yaw, Roll), to simulate any type of motion or vibration that occurs in the real world.

It is critical for the hexapod not to add any mechanical vibration of its own to affect the motion profile to be played back.

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H-860 hexapod providing sinusoidal Z-axis scan with 30 Hz in Z, amplitude 0.5 mm. Due to the low inertia (moving mass) and high dynamics, the H-860 can simulate accelerations precisely. Measured with accelerometer at the motion platform. of rivets. drives and bearings for just that purpose.

Hydraulic, or electric screw drives, always create and transmit additional vibrations onto the motion platform. This motion platform is based on non-contact voice coil linear motor drives with flexure guides and flexure joints for the 6 “legs.”

This design, combined with a carbon fiber structure to reduce mass and inertia, forms a highly responsive, dynamic, and precise 6-axis motion platform.

Using this shaker hexapod platform, Google engineers can simulate unwanted

motion and vibration for both still images and video recordings. The hexapod controller and GUI make it easy for software engineers to create any random motion and make the smartphone mounted on its platform move along a predefined trajectory with the frequency content that corresponds to the typical trembling of the human hand. The H- 860 voice coil hexapod can provide motion with frequencies to 30 Hz and above and provides linear repeatability of ±0.5 microns in X, Y, Z and angular

repeatability of ±9 microradians in the pitch, yaw and roll axes. The hexapod controller and GUI allow predefined motion profiles, such as sinusoidal signals and freely definable trajectories with high path accuracy.

Traditional multi-axis stacks are relatively simple in their design, but parallel-kinematics has many advantages. They do however require a more advanced controller to handle the millions of math operations required to take care of the coordinate transformations.

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Parallel-kinematic motion platforms compared to traditional serial kinematics stacks of single- axis stages.

supported by all the stages below it and so on, meaning that the bottom positioner has to carry all the load, significantly reducing its dynamics. All axes carry different loads, with different dynamics making tuning harder since each component has a different natural frequency. With only one common lightweighted platform carried and actuated by six parallel actuators, hexapods provide a very high stiffness and natural frequency. The lower inertia (moved mass) leads to higher dynamics, better responsiveness, and faster settling for all axes.

In a serial kinematic system, motion is confined by bearings – and the center of rotation is related to the fixed radius of each rotary stage and goniometric cradle used. In order to move the center of rotation, mechanical changes, have to be made or fixturing needs to be modified. With a PI hexapod, a single

software command can set the center of rotation to any location inside or outside the hexapod envelope. In this multi-axis hexapod systems, the center of rotation can be changed by a single software command on the fly.

With traditional multi-axis positioners, as a stage moves, cables need to be dragged along. Friction and torque generated by bending forces contribute to parasitic motions reducing accuracy and repeatability. Parallel kinematic positioners, such as hexapods, avoid moving cables altogether.

Stacked axes interact in complicated ways. For example, runout in the x-axis can cause unwanted motion in the y– and z-axes; angular deviation of an axis similarly imparts motion in the travel- directions of the other axes, with magnitude proportional to the distance to the moving axis. And in stacks, that multiplicative lever arm can be large. DW

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Figure 1. Finite element analysis (FEA) of a nonlinear-surface permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM)

The automotive industry is in the midst of a disruption, and the transcendence of electric vehicles from niche to mainstream products is a driving force behind this change.

Yet challenges remain to improve the motor designs used in electric vehicles. One potential solution is the use of Power Magnetic Devices (PMDs), a category of devices that include motors, generators, transformers and inductors. In simple terms, these components use an electromagnetic field to convert electrical energy to mechanical energy, or vice versa.

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a complex multiphysics problem from a mechanical, electrical, and thermal perspective. (Figure 1) Faraday Future, a start-up technology company focused on the development of intelligent electric vehicles, is using COMSOL Multiphysics software, a multiphysics finite element analysis program, to produce state-ofthe-art electric motors with high power density.

The organization is also taking an innovative, modular approach to electric vehicle design. Omar Laldin, Lead Electromagnetic Engineer at Faraday Future, explained: “My group develops motor designs for a generic set of vehicles, primarily suited to our variable platform architecture, which allows for modular development of electric vehicle powertrains. We can add or remove motors, adjust battery quantities, and collapse or increase the size of the chassis.”

“To be able to do that, we have to design the motor for a variety of conditions, and need to take into account several different aspects of the motors beyond just the electromagnetic components, such as the mechanical and thermal behavior,” Laldin added. Figure 1 shows an example of an electromagnetic analysis conducted by the group.

This involves completing a series of advanced optimization algorithms, which quickly model how particular designs will behave. Speed is important as

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these optimization algorithms must be run over numerous iterations to ensure a variety of designs are investigated. As a result, some aspects of the models need to be simplified.

Laldin explained: “It could take several weeks to do a full CFD analysis to predict thermal behavior. There are often thousands of designs to be considered, and hundreds of operating points for every given design, making it impractical to do detailed multiphysics analysis with a computationally heavy tool. Tools like COMSOL, which allow us to conduct thorough electromagnetic and mechanical analyses along with simplified thermal analysis, work in a very stable way and give us quick feedback on each of these aspects during the design process.”

The versatility of COMSOL also helps the Electromagnetic Motor Design Group collaborate with the other teams within Faraday Future, including Motor Mechanical, Inverter, Motor Control, Powertrain Control, Systems Engineering, and so forth. Collectively, these groups form the Powertrain Group within the organization.

“We do all the early stage analysis before we send data to other teams to make sure we’re in the right ballpark, and that limits the number of iterations we have to do with other teams. I think that’s one of the most beneficial aspects of the COMSOL simulation and modeling tools,” he added.

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in most vehicular systems. The actuator was made up of a coil of conducting wire wrapped around a stationary E-core, along with a movable I-core (Figure 2).

They performed a 2D electromagnetic field analysis in COMSOL, coupled with a genetic algorithm implemented in MATLAB software. The model accounted for the highly nonlinear behavior of the various steel materials, while the genetic algorithm provided the globally optimized and multi-objective “ParetoOptimal Fronts,” which provided the tradeoff between reducing the volume and power loss (Figure 3).

They used geometric parameters of the actuator as inputs in the algorithm, and obtained losses based on the coil resistance. This allowed for the rapid investigation of numerous designs of the electromagnetic actuator, capable of delivering 2500 N of force.

Investigating losses The team investigated the nonlinearity of the steel used in electric motors, which changes the nature of high frequency conductor losses in a slot. These losses increase at high speeds due to the increase in skin and proximity effect in the conductors, they are also affected by the temperature. Due to the geometry of the motor, some winding architectures and their conductors are more easily cooled than others. For example, the spacing of the conductors and their dimensions can affect the heat transfer in the slot.

Laldin and his colleagues performed further multiphysics analysis coupling the electromagnetic components with the thermal behavior to identify hotspots in the motor that could cause catastrophic failure. They discovered that the current density within the conductors changed significantly due to changes in flux density across the slot. They calculated

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Laldin said: “The loss in different conductors can differ even if we have the same current. We model these variations and do some approximate and quick thermal analysis in COMSOL, which allows us to study the temperature distribution.”

By identifying the maximum hot spot temperatures, this enables manufacturers to determine the reliability of the design and prevent destructive motor events.

This multiphysics approach brings further time savings to Faraday Future as one person can both design and analyze a motor and its components.

Laldin said: “Instead of doing 10 iterations with the various teams, our tools allow us to complete the design in 1 to 2 iterations. This is one of the biggest advantages of having a multiphysics analysis tool—we can cut down on the number of iterations we need to do between different groups. It’s a lot quicker for one person to optimize the design, followed by minor

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Application exchange for the future Faraday Future is a relatively young company, and yet it has achieved great strides in the electric vehicle sector as it designed, developed, and constructed a working electric vehicle within just two years. The organization has embraced COMSOL’s Application Exchange, an online community where users can upload and share their models, and discuss techniques and findings with other users, to help fuel this growth.

Laldin said: “The only realistic way to achieve such innovation is to use the experience of our suppliers and the capabilities they have.

In a user community, it’s a lot easier to find solutions to the tool for problems that we all have in the field.”

Laldin added: “COMSOL was a very natural choice for us as we are developing state-ofthe-art technologies and appreciate the need for speed. For example, if I need a new feature in the software, the company is very responsive in including that feature in the next release.”

COMSOL’s open and responsive Application Exchange platform will also help Faraday Future keep ahead of the competition, as Laldin added: “On top of that, fostering this online community fits with the startup mentality where you’re willing to contribute non-sensitive data and know-how in an open exchange for the benefit of everyone involved. I have always felt that you always get more out of user communities and the exchange than what you put into it, especially when it’s backed by a state-of-the-art industrial partner. It’s a very good combination for a company like ours.” DW

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Digitalization connects all of the steps of part manufacturing planning and production with a single source of information, or a digital thread. Implementing a digital strategy can enable part manufacturers of all sizes to take greater advantage of automation, adopt 3D printing for production, and ultimately expand into new market opportunities and reduce time to delivery.

Advanced automation capabilities for computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), including robotic programming, adaptive milling, and tooling design, provide industry-specific technology to help deliver high-quality products to the market in less time. The new NX Machining Line Planner tool, combined with integrated NX CAM software for feature-based machining, provides new capabilities for industries with high-volume production of complicated parts, such as automotive and industrial machinery. The latest version of NX continues to support end-to-end solutions for additive manufacturing, helping manufacturers realize the goal of using 3D printing for industrial production.

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GigE Vision compliant cameras of almost any kind are added easily, even in parallel, using standard camera interfaces and configured in TwinCAT Engineering. The cameras can be calibrated directly, in the engineering environment or mid-process in the runtime system. With TwinCAT Vision, there is no need for specialized tools or programming languages when coding the image processing logic, because the machine vision applications are created in the PLC, using familiar PLC programming languages. DW

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While there may still be some debate about what Industry 4.0 really means, there is no denying that greater interconnectivity of devices and increased network capability will be the key drivers behind achieving Industry 4.0 goals.

As manufacturers examine future challenges around low volume production, increased customization and increased competition, it is easy to understand why the concepts of Industry 4.0 have come to the forefront.

Industry 4.0, combined with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), not only holds the key to addressing many of these challenges, but also promises to deliver innovations that today’s manufacturers have not even thought of yet.

Industry 4.0 can be defined as the combination of “cyber-physical” systems with the IIoT. Underpinning it are Ethernet and Internet-based technologies that provide the connectivity for everything to communicate with everything else, regardless of ‘where’ a device or system is physically, or, ‘what’ it actually is.

Today, while we talk about high levels of interconnectivity, usually there are incompatibilities in networks and technologies that mean projects are divided into separate islands.

As we overcome these incompatibilities and drive ever greater levels of integration and interconnectivity, Industry 4.0 will allow production machines to provide more transparency and cooperate to a higher degree. Some say that this will ultimately lead

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None of this can happen, though, without the networks to carry the information between the places where it’s needed, in real-time. Ethernet provides a good foundation for this infrastructure, but being able to deliver the necessary performance will require technology with greater capabilities than is common now.

One network that claims it can offer such capabilities is CC-Link IE.

Gigabit Ethernet standard for automation Industry 4.0 applications need to share large amounts of data from multiple devices in real-time. Hence bandwidth is critical to the successful operation of these systems. CC-Link IE is an open gigabit Ethernet standard for automation. As such, it

offers a performance increase of around 10 times compared to any other similar protocol today. Further, CC-Link IE has a bandwidth of 1 Gbps.

CC-Link IE is based on the Ethernet standard IEEE 802.3, and allows for ring, line and star topologies. In addition, the line and star topologies can be combined for greater flexibility. The ring and line connections permit simple “daisy chaining” of devices.

Addressing cyber security concerns One of the key concerns related to the increasing adoption of industrial Ethernet is cyber security. While the use of Internet-based technologies has increased the possibilities of what can be achieved in manufacturing, it has also increased the threats.

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Potential users may have concerns regarding CC-Link IE’s compatibility with TCP/IP (UDP/IP) traffic. While current network design practice encourages segmentation of networks for security and performance reasons, sometimes it’s still necessary to support non-control related network traffic. CC-Link IE supports this with the capability to encapsulate TCP/IP (UDP/IP) packets for transmission across the network, thus allowing this traffic to “tunnel” through the CC-Link IE system.

CC-Link IE allows considerable application flexibility by supporting multiple protocol types on the same network. This reduces costs and increases maintainability. In addition to the standard I/O control, it offers safety (SIL3), motion control and energy management on the same cable. This allows the CLPA to offer a cost-effective, simplified, flat network architecture that meets the needs of nearly all applications in the discrete sector.

Speed and simplicity CC-Link IE’s basic communication technique is based on a shared memory model. All the devices on the network occupy an area of the controller’s memory. To communicate with them, it’s only necessary to change the value of the data in the area corresponding to the relevant device. The network automatically handles the traffic via the standard “cyclic” (synchronous) communication.

The same process happens in reverse for communication to the controller from devices. For high priority, unscheduled events such as alarms, or lower priority non-cyclic transmissions such as diagnostic information, an alternative “transient” (asynchronous) communication method is available. Even high levels of transient traffic do not impact the deterministic regular cyclic communication, meaning normal system functions are not impaired and the scan cycle is completely deterministic.

Deterministic performance is achieved with a token passing method. In practice, this allows network update times to occur in a few tens of microseconds, depending on system size and configuration. CC-Link IE also offers the ability for redundant controllers, so even a controller failure will not necessarily result in lost production.

CC-Link IE can help manufacturers reap the benefits of greater connectivity across their processes, with improved network performance delivering tighter control, greater data throughput at high speed, deterministic performance and inherent security. It is also set to play a key role as manufacturers push towards models of Industry 4.0 in order to address the production challenges of tomorrow. DW

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Digital transformation is providing manufacturers new insights into their operations with smart machines and equipment that are connected throughout the enterprise. Many OEMs would benefit from tapping into these increasingly connected systems. Machines are getting smarter and OEMs can add further levels of insight into what manufacturers are beginning to learn about their facilities. These new levels of visibility can promote asset performance and simplify meeting contractual obligations.

For example, OEMs that monitor a smart machine’s performance or identify critical process anomalies can expand the support they provide.

But, rather than working with their customers to proactively prevent issues from happening, they often physically send help to a customer’s site. The result? Longer downtime for customers and higher travel costs for OEMs. All of the smart machines using connected technology in the plant are limited by keeping OEMs out of the digital ecosystem.

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Fortunately, the days of working in the dark are over. Cloud-based machine analytics present an opportunity for OEMs to get real-time and historical insights into smart machines or equipment from anywhere. This can help them reduce customer downtime, improve collaboration, meet performance guarantees and even create new revenue streams.

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remote-monitoring and analytics capabilities in-house from the ground up, which can be a time-consuming and costly process.

Most OEMs, for example, do not have the IT staff or expertise required to deliver critical aspects of remote analytics, such as secure remote access, cloud-based data collection and database management. As a result, they take on the upfront costs to acquire the skills needed for developing a machine customized to their customer and supporting the equipment long term.

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The technology available to OEMs allows them to simply embed a gateway device onto their smart machines or equipment, and connect with minimal configuration between the device and selected controllers. That is all it takes to begin securely accessing actionable information with prebuilt dashboards.

Information creates opportunities When OEMs gain access to real-time performance information for their smart machines, they can serve customers in new or better ways.

Rather than traveling to a customer’s site if equipment fails, smart machines provide OEMs the opportunity to remotely troubleshoot and diagnose the problem. They will also have the ability to collaborate with their customer and resolve the issue in a timely manner. It’s a win-win: the OEM can more quickly help its customer and reduce travel costs, and the end user can realize higher uptime and output, and lower maintenance costs.

Performance guarantees are another big area of opportunity. By collecting data and analyzing performance analytics, such as OEE, OEMs can collaborate with their customers to optimize the performance of a smart machine and help it reach required performance levels. Additionally, cloudbased analytics provide a single, shared version of the truth about machine performance.

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When OEMs gain access to realtime performance information for their smart machines, they can serve customers in new or better ways. could begin offering a wider range of agreements that promise higher levels of performance.

OEMs can use cloud-based analytics to continually improve their machine designs. Whether looking at multiple machines deployed across one customer’s sites or one machine deployed across multiple different customer sites, the OEM can identify deviations in performance, trends and patterns, and best practices. They can then convert that data into engineering changes, and ultimately supply customers with better-performing, more reliable machines.

Bigger roles for OEMs Access to cloud-based analytics can also lead to new business models and help carve out bigger roles with current customers.

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Once OEMs gain access to performance data, they can supplement the expertise of their customers’ in-house teams, especially as companies struggle to find and retain skilled maintenance workers.

For example, an OEM could take over responsibilities for monitoring machine or equipment performance, and for servicing them as needed, with guaranteed response times built into their support contract. The OEM also could use the information it collects to begin providing proactive maintenance and training to help customers get ahead of failures and operate more effectively.

Let there be light Cloud-based, smart machine analytics are revolutionary – they give OEMs access to insights that have existed outside their field of view for decades.

They empower OEMs with instant insights into how their machines and equipment are performing, and new opportunities to better serve their customers.

But analytics are also central to the larger role that smart machines play in end users’ operations to help improve asset utilization, time-to-market and more. OEMs that are not supporting their customers with a digital transformation by providing smart machines and cloudbased services not only risk missing out on business opportunities, they risk being left behind entirely. DW

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The combination of PoE and ToE provides a single cable solution (data, power, and triggering) to simplify system installation and reduce maintenance effort and features a powerful and flexible isolated digital I/O. The FPGA reconstructs images before transmitting them in real-time to the host PC via DMA (Direct Memory Access). This frees up the host PC processor and ensures zero frame or packet loss during image acquisition and transmission.

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Leading companies active in these groups have pledged their commitment to ensuring the interoperability of deterministic industrial devices and have made significant investments in achieving this goal. Rapid developments of these technologies have been made over the last year.

“With the rapid adoption of TSN as a foundational technology for automation, the community is increasingly relying on an interoperable set of network services and infrastructure. 17 market leaders are reinforcing their commitment to complete a unified communication technology,” said Todd Walter, Avnu Alliance Industrial Segment Chair. “By leveraging the liaison agreements of Avnu, IIC and OPC Foundation, we’re creating a faster process for the creation of an open, interoperable ecosystem of devices that take advantage of secure, guaranteed latency and delivery for

critical traffic. It is exciting to see the fruits of our labor in these milestones.”

The pillars of this announcement are: Conformance testing advances: •Avnu TSN conformance test plans for time synchronization of industrial devices are ready and available to test houses. A liaison between Avnu and OPC Foundation meets the needs of the industry with certification of OPC UA TSN products.

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the IIC TSN Testbed and to advance the conformance tests with the assistance of University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab, an Avnu-recognized test facility. Test houses participated in preparation for their future roles to provide full conformance testing for manufacturers of industrial automation equipment.

Standards evolved, more vendors, •more devices: The Publish Subscribe extension for OPC UA is available in release-candidate form, enabling the exchange of OPC UA over UDP connections. This is the prerequisite for running OPC UA TSN. “OPC UA over TSN adds additional capability to the OPC Foundation portfolio, including enhancing controllerto-controller and machine-to-machine communication and information integration. OPC UA addresses the complex requirements of initiatives like Industry 4.0 and the IIoT, providing information integration between devices, applications and the cloud, providing the foundation for the muchdemanded seamless communication and information integration between IT and OT networks,” said Thomas Burke, OPC Foundation President.

Demonstrated interoperability between different vendors: Interoperability testing with the IIC TSN Testbed is progressing with eight handson plugfests taking place in the US and Europe over the past 18 months. More than 20 companies have participated in these face-to-face events to test and demonstrate interoperability between devices from various manufacturers and vendors – both collaborative and competitive. Many of the devices are already communicating in OPC UA data format. The results from the Testbed plugfests are fed into the conformance testing plans to ensure that the tests exercise the fundamentals of the architecture. “Our TSN Testbed stands as a showcase for the business value of TSN. The work coming out of the TSN

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Testbed is already having a direct impact on suppliers and manufacturers who see the technology as a value-add for their system structures,” said Paul Didier, IIC TSN Testbed Coordinator, Cisco Solution Architect. “Companies are invited to participate in our plugfests to test their own TSN devices for interoperability, including OPC UA Pub-Sub TSN devices.”

As a next step these companies and organizations are committed to driving OPC UA TSN technology forward.

By gathering test experiences in a production environment, the groups plan to develop further conformance testing for interoperability and extend the specifications for use cases that require even more precise timing.

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The generative technique is a completely different approach to design. By calling upon advanced software and computing power the system runs through many possibilities based on the engineers’ design specifications and then presents the optimized design to the engineer. Engineers are involved at the beginning and at the end of the design process. If they don’t feel any of the returned designs meet their standards, they can adjust inputs such as the targeted decrease in weight of the component, and cue the generative-design system to start again.

Here’s a close-up look at how engineers use generative design: Using a single ribbon on the Solid Edge user interface, engineers define a component’s material, the features critical for the simulation, and other forces and physical phenomena that will act upon the model. They also set constraints for the design areas that can be reshaped as the generative system runs through design possibilities, areas that are off limits, and areas where specific geometry such as load bearing surfaces or pivot points are required.

From there, engineers press go. Solid Edge’s generative design software automatically generates design alternatives that meet all the engineering inputs.

The engineer can also choose how long the design tool will run. The longer a simulation runs, the higher quality the results.

Behind the scenes, the software is using an approach called topology optimization, which uses finite element methods to analyze hundreds of potential design solutions.

It finds and then presents the best of the bunch—the most optimized models based on inputs—to the engineer.

Not Going Away While the process takes advantage of advanced software and computing power to optimize designs, engineers are still vital to the process. As we’ve seen, they need to understand design requirements, set design criteria, and go through the returned designs comparing optimized models in order to select the design that best meets their needs. While generative design software narrows the field, the engineer controls the final decision. After viewing results, engineers may find they need to modify their inputs and run another generative design study.

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CAD programs continue to evolve to meet the needs of industry, Plugging pedal specs into Solid Edge’s generative design tool, including the instructions for the part to be made from a single-piece assembly, resulted in the program delivering this solution.

It’s important to know that the 3D CAD models returned through generative design use a mesh based 3D geometry representation, in which mesh that looks like a net made of flat triangles defines the model. The stereolithography method that 3D printers call upon to print parts uses the mesh method.

So do the handheld or large instruments that scan a part to be reverse engineered. That method allows for the curved, shapely parts that don’t follow typical geometrical lines.

But most current CAD systems use boundary representation, or B-rep, models, which serve as an exact mathematical model of a 3D part.

Solid Edge allows you to combine mesh and B-rep models in one environment using Siemens convergent modeling technology. Engineers can use standard Solid Edge commands to add features to these mesh models such as cut outs, holes, or bosses to generatively designed models. The meshed results are integrated into the normal model-editing process so engineers can further optimize components and add specifc features. Also, generative models can be placed in assemblies side by side with B-rep models and be placed onto drawing sheets.

Generative design is set to change the way engineering organizations work; the way engineers work. Individual engineers may eventually look like managers, only they’d be managing many software agents. They’d hand out tasks such as “go explore this design and

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A d v e r t o r i a l Traditionally, a gas pedal often consists of five or six different parts welded together.

In this example from Hall Designs, a race car components designer, two of those were machined pieces and the others were laser cut sheet-metal pieces welded together.

then generate a number of alternatives.” Engineers may have four to ten of these design tasks running simultaneously while they’re spending their time meeting with customers or suppliers, or doing any of the other myriad jobs engineers carry out in the course of the day. And when they return to their computer, they’d have many design alternatives waiting to be reviewed. In this way, generative design gives engineers more time, freeing up time traditionally spent modeling.

Opportunities Generative Design offers for manufacturing companies For manufacturing and engineering organizations, generative design holds the potential to cut the cost per part. It can, for instance, reduce the amount of material the part uses. This is because topology optimization running behind the scenes uses the

The generative technique is a completely different approach to design. By calling upon advanced software and computing power the system runs through many possibilities based on the engineers’ design specifications and then presents the optimized design to the engineer. Engineers are involved at the beginning and at the end of the design process. If they don’t feel any of the returned designs meet their standards, they can adjust inputs such as the targeted decrease in weight of the component, and cue the generative-design system to start again.

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finite element analysis method to break the component into tetrahedrons and runs analyses on those tiny elements. In this way, it finds small and large areas within the design that contain more material than needed.

Reducing the amount of material a part is made from is of particular importance to manufacturers that make parts in high volume, though the benefits can also apply to makers who use batch production or one-off parts. Less material in the original design means minimal downstream manufacturing material waste.

Efficiency and energy consumption gains are seen when lighter-than-usual components are used for moving machine components. And of course when it comes to vehicles and airplanes, lighter components reduce energy consumption, which of course comes with environmental benefit. And those lightweight components also allow some manufacturers to meet regulatory requirements for the efficiency of their products.

Another way generative design reduces manufacturing costs: the generative process results in a single, solidmesh body that can replace multibody components, such as a welded assembly.

This reduces a manufacturer’s need to spend money on jigs, fixtures, welders, and welding material. And singlebody parts can be made via additive manufacturing, also called 3D printing, which also reduces the need to design and manufacture tooling.

Pedal to the Metal To see how generative design saves time and money while offering customers and consumers a wow factor, take the case of Hall Designs, which designs racecar components. Hall Designs began using Solid Edge generative design as a beta tester late last spring, says Craig Hall, company owner.

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“I was just kind of playing around with it,” Hall says, “and then it took off and evolved into making an actual part for a customer.”

Up to that point, the part, a gas pedal, had been traditionally manufactured.

“Just a steel part, laser cut and bent, with machined pieces that had to be welded together,” in Hall’s words.

The steel gas pedal was made from five or six different parts welded together, two of those were machined pieces and the others were laser sheet-metal pieces also welded together.

He plugged pedal specs into Solid Edge’s generative design tool, including the instructions for the part to be made from a single-piece assembly. Not only did the generative tool return a design for a single-piece assembly that met all Hall’s needs, that design was for a piece lighter than the original, too, because Hall had told the tool to reduce the weight of the steel gas pedal. Hall Designs knew the part would be made via the 3D printing process and was pleased by the shapes that generative design returned.

“That organic shape would have led to costly machine work to create it in the usual way,” Hall says. “I was using generative with the goal of 3D printing.

From the beginning, we knew generative would save us weight and give a unique look to the part and separate itself from parts we’ve made in the past.”

Hall 3D printed a sample part in aluminum and found it strong enough to be used as a gas pedal in the customer’s vehicle racecar.

“We haven’t raced with it yet, but it’s a fully functional piece,” Hall says.

He’ll continue to use Solid Edge’s generative design tool.

“I spend my time taking customer parts and coming up with a generative shape as an option for them. When I have a lot of components on a piece, that’s when I’d really like to try to replace it, whether it be with a metal printed, or even a plasticprinted part.”

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How to design quiet gearmotors What applications need quiet gearmotors? The answer might surprise you — because the human ear can detect noise at 10 dB lower than ambient levels, and many gearmotors operate in close proximity to people. In this technical article, we outline recent staff engineers’ research and development into the problem (and potential solutions for) gearmotor noise.

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Sound is the back-and-forth vibration of particles in a medium created when a traveling wave passes through the medium. Noise is undesirable sound. Sound pressure is defined with logarithms that compare sound pressure to the decibel (dB) sound pressure standard of 0.00002 Pa = 20 µN/m² near the lower limit of human audibility. One decibel is one tenth (deci-) of one bel, named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell.

Gearmotor noise isn’t just a gear problem — it’s a system problem. Physical interactions between gears can excite system dynamics, so most gear noise doesn’t originate from the gears. Gear whine is created by the gears as they mesh and is amplified by resonances in the housing’s ribs, beams, and sides.

Gear rattle is a sound that is excited by the driving source such as the electric motor. Each gear has its period of rotation and so a unique fundamental frequency.

Why design quiet gearmotors? Consider where gearmotors must operate in public spaces. Here, motion control in churches, libraries, auditoriums and theatres need quiet gearmotors for curtains, podiums and stages that need to

rotate, lift or slide, unnoticed by the audience.

In contrast, military equipment needs quiet gearmotors for Stealth operations. Medical equipment benefits from quiet gearmotors for increasing patient comfort and assurance.

Residential settings — for example, in biomass heating systems — benefit from quiet gearmotors as well. Here, stored wood chips or pellets in a silo must be conveyed to a boiler by an auger via a motor-driven rotary feeder — and ash removal is accomplished the same way.

Gearmotor basics: Functions and today’s design process A gearmotor delivers high torque at low speed. It’s a combination of a gear reducer and an electrical motor. In short, gearmotors take motor power and reduce its speed while magnifying its torque.

The two most important factors at the gearmotor output shaft are rpm and torque. So once the input-torque requirement is known, the next step is to calculate the needed motor-input horsepower.

The gear train inside a gearmotor multiplies

Simulation to optimize a proposed gearmotor design can reduce overall design time by as much as 75% — and 3D models that completely define the gearmotor can be used by quality, manufacturing, and procurement teams to analyze, build, and inspect the gearmotor. 3D illustration courtesy ABM Drives Inc.

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Single-stage helical geared motors and drives with helical gearing ensure quiet operation and long life.

torque from the motor side to the output shaft.

This is the gearbox ratio and is the number that determines the torque multiplication from input. 30:1 means that the output torque is 30 times the input, not accounting for internal efficiency losses.

A right-angle or parallel-shaft gearbox can combine with permanent magnet dc, ac induction, or brushless dc motors. Advanced gearmotor technology includes the use of new materials, coatings, bearings, and gear tooth designs optimized for noise reduction, strength and longer life, in smaller spaces.

Gearmotor designs are for specific operating conditions and load ranges. So at the start of a machine build with known problems or opportunities for improvement (including possible economic gain or improvement in how personnel or users perceive the gearmotor)

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consider the motion components and features (including gearmotor options) that might work. Then narrow down the options to feasible alternatives. Next identify those with the best balance of performance and economics to reach a design target. Finally, integrate the most feasible, risk-reduced, and economically viable features and capabilities into products with both form and function.

Such a design approach is now easier than ever. In the past, designs often started with mechanical engineers and then passed to the team’s electrical engineers and finally onto the control engineers. By the end, all the flaws were baked into the design. In contrast, today the standard is integrated design supported by mechatronic modeling. But with holistic design approaches, engineers must understand the accuracy requirements of the entire electromechanical system. Another caveat is that control system, drives, and gears and mechanical linkages must be carefully chosen to leverage all the components’ full capabilities. That necessitates a design approach that starts from the drive back to and including the motor.

More thorough and detailed design objectives boost the odds of project success.

So keep the motivation behind the project top of mind and allow that motivation to guide engineering decisions. The goal is to have a system to serve humans and not the design itself. The old adage, “You’ll never get there if you don’t know where you’re going” certainly applies to the design process.

One indispensable tool in engineers’ arsenal — especially in the work of making machine builds as quiet as possible — includes simulation to optimize proposed designs. Such software can reduce overall design time by as much as 75%. In the case of gearmotors, 3D models and associated data help engineers analyze and virtually build and inspect their gearmotors — and completely define the assembly to improve quality, manufacturing techniques, and procurement.

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Noise generated when gears engage Selecting gears and motors is a science. Even suitable gears make noise. Complicating matters is that gear noise comes in many types. To solve gear-noise problems, the first step is to determine the type of noise that is objectionable.

What’s considered gear noise depends on the speed of operation. Use qualitative and quantitative terms to describe how design factors and manufacturing mistakes play into the noise equation. Then discuss with the design team (and potential suppliers) the problems of gear noise, dynamics, measurement, and modeling.

Another starting point for gearbox design is to define a service factor — including hours per day and shock or vibration requirements. A gearbox with an irregular shock profile (as in a military design, for example) requires a higher service factor than a gearbox that runs intermittently.

Gear noise is generated by tooth-to-tooth load transfer that causes pressure-pulse trains radiating through the gearset and motor housing. The noise’s frequency is the product of gear rotational speed and the number of gear teeth. Most types of gear noise occur at tooth mesh frequency or harmonics in the audible range. That said, noise can also occur as a lowfrequency modulation of the higher tooth-mesh frequency noise. This results in a phenomenon called sidebands.

Gear noise can be very annoying — even when it isn’t the most significant noise source.

That’s because it occurs as pure tones that the human ear can detect even at 10 dB lower than the overall noise level.

The asymmetric gear noise spectrum arises from amplitude and frequency modulation of gear-mesh excitation produced by low-frequency manufacturing and assembly errors. Gearmotor sounds from gear mesh, bearing rotation, lubricant movement, motor vibrations and interaction of the housing all contribute to the overall sound generated.

Vibration tendencies can be minimized with high-quality helical gearing and optimized gear engagement.

Helical teeth engage gradually over the tooth faces for quieter and smoother operation than spur gearsets and have higher load capacities.

Shuttling force is the side-to-side oscillation of the tooth mesh force along the profile as the tooth pair undergoes the engagement process. The oscillating force can cause dynamic

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excitation to the gearbox system. Since it occurs at the mesh frequency, it contributes to the gear noise response. With double helical gears, this axial force is eliminated.

The tooth finish contributes to the sound generated. Helical gearing that has only been hobbed is louder than helical gearsets that have been shaved or ground to remove rough tooth-surface finishes that hobbing generates.

Use noise optimized gear geometry to minimize the impact of individual gear engagement impulses.

Designing and analyzing gears as a system lets engineers improve and optimize microgeometry for the reduction of gear noise.

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Contact ratio: The gear contact ratio is the average number of teeth in contact. It usually varies between 1.2 on the low end to 1.8. Spur and straight bevel gears with operating contact ratios under 2.0 create more noise than gears with larger contact ratios. Helical and spiral bevel gears have total contact ratios well above 2.0 and produce less noise.

A smooth, quiet and higher speed gearset may have more teeth, finer diametrical pitch, lower angle pressure, and a higher contact ratio. Changing one of them can change many of the other design elements.

Optimizing the entry and exit points of gears reduce vibration, noise, sliding friction and heat generation.

All gear designs are a compromise to reach the target results.

It’s clear then why quiet gearing must be very precisely manufactured. High-quality gearing guarantees quiet operation. With high precision manufacturing, gear noise can be cut from an average level of 82 dB to 77 dB measured 300 mm away from the pitch point.

Torsional modes may be excited by low order harmonics of shaft rotation; the magnitude of excitation is directly related to gear machining errors.

No matter the design, make the normal pitch difference as small as possible. The profile form error should be as close to the theoretical involute as possible. The key is in the finishing method after hardening to ensure final accuracy.

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Also keep in mind that it’s impossible to eliminate all gear noise, because it’s impossible to cut perfect gears. Even if one could, it’s impossible to limit the effect of system dynamics. One can only minimize and control gear noise to the extent that it won’t be considered problematic or audible.

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Minimize gear noise in high-speed stages by fine machining and grinding. Gearmotor rotation speed plays a significant role in noise generation. There’s very little difference between a hobbed-only gearset rotating at 30 rpm versus a groundfinished gearset. But at higher gearset speeds they exhibit a more noticeable sound difference. During gear manufacturing, hobbing is a roughing operation that produces smooth and accurate gear teeth. Shaving and hardening are finishing operations improving dimensional accuracy, surface finish, and hardness. Shaving removes small amounts of material to correct profile errors. Final

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grinding operations produce a high surface finish, correcting any distortion following heat treatment. Precision ground gearing provides for low noise and extended life.

Quiet operation requires minimal gear backlash. Backlash is clearance between mating gear teeth and should be enough to allow lubrication film between the teeth. The easiest way to reduce backlash is to shorten the distance between gear centers with low or even zero clearance. Such an approach lessens variations in center distance, tooth dimensions, and bearing eccentricities.

Variables such as manufacturing errors, mounting tolerances, and bearing play often increase backlash in a gearmotor. Precision gearmotors minimize such imperfections by incorporating close-tolerance parts.

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gears, quality bearings and machined housings with close tolerances.

To minimize noise, all gearbox components should be optimally tuned to each other. Three types of gear tooth transmission errors are spacing errors, random errors, and elastic deformations, which combine with mean profile deviations. Gear resonance can be reduced by identifying excitation mechanisms; using finite element analysis to determine the natural frequencies of individual gears; eliminating torsional modes from operating range; detuning and damping helical and bevel gears; and identifying remaining resonant problems with other elements of the gearmotor such as housings and accessories.

Vibration is generated at the gear mesh because of time-varying mesh stiffness, manufacturing errors and assembling errors.

This vibration is transmitted to the housing through shafts and bearings. The radiated noise is induced from the vibration of the housing. Because geabox vibration and noise significantly degrade performance of gear transmission, the prediction and control of gearbox vibration are paramount to design output-motion reliability as well.

Simulate the radiated noise of a gearbox using software that uses the finite element method (FEM) and boundary element method (BEM). Such software helps identify the assembly’s mode order and which housing sides make the maximum acoustic contributions. Here, one solution for especially noisy portions of the housing is to add ribbing to reduce the radiated noise.

Reduce natural resonance by optimizing housing designs with ribbing and nonsymmetrical components — especially on parallel-shaft gearbox types. Motor housing and gearbox covers should be single die-cast components to eliminate the tolerances on motor-gearbox interfaces (a common problem area for noise and vibrations). They should harmonize ideally with each other.

Depending on housing design, parting lines can fall on the top or bottom and be stepped or angled. For silencing, trimmed and precisely machined aluminum die-

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A smooth, quiet and higher speed gearset may have more teeth, finer diametrical pitch, lower angle pressure, and a higher contact ratio. cast housings additionally reduce noise emissions. Tight-fitting housing covers and flanges prevent distortions that can amplify noise. Aluminum housings absorb harmonics and other vibrations better than cast iron.

Even a 10% increase in wall thickness can boost stiffness by 33% or so. But adding ribs, corrugations, and curves to die-cast housings keeps material costs low while maintaining rigid strength and durability — even in assemblies with thinner housing walls.

Effective rib arrangement positions are in arcs on the panels with large acoustic contributions. The ribs are effective when placed along the lines from the effected location to the nearest fixed points of the housing. Arranging ribs on the housing surface is one of the main techniques to stiffen the gearmotor housing.

Next to metal selection, maintaining uniform wall thickness is critical. Wall thickness is a balance between strength and weight. Wall thicknesses dictate the consistent flow and thermal properties during the die casting process.

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Thicker walls produce larger shrink rates depending on the material. Generally speaking tight tolerance parts for die-casting is + /- 0.002 inches. Many factors are put into play such as materials, part complexity, tooling and the die casting process.

Excitation from the motor’s electromagnetic field can transfer to the rotor, so look for motor rotors that are sturdy and robust. Stator magnetic forces vibrate the rotor as any ring when struck. The stator vibrates in one or more of its flexural modes; models represent the core as a beam supported on both ends and flexing due in response to applied forces.

Analysis demonstrates that vibration arises from electrical imbalance or mechanical unbalance (in the motor, coupling, driven equipment); mechanical effects (in the form of looseness, rubbing, and imbalanced bearings); external effects (in the base or driven equipment or from misalignment); and excitation of critical resonance speeds. Tip: During analysis, list all possible causes for the frequencies under examination.

Then eliminate the causes one by one until all that remains is the true source of the problem.

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Key to quiet operation is high-quality rotor balancing. All types of rotating machinery need balancing at operating speed. Rotor balance involves the entire structure — shaft, rotor laminations, end heads, rotor bars, end connectors, retaining rings, and fans. Only careful control of the design and manufacture of these motion components ensures stable and precise motor balance.

If the motor’s operating speed coincides with the housing resonant frequency, amplification will occur. The only option is to change the resonant frequency of the housing — usually by changing the stiffness or weight of gearset, housing, or motor.

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gearbox-motor combination and integrating them into the equipment.

Pre-engineered gear solutions are suitable if a design engineer doesn’t have the time or engineering resources to build a gearmotor in-house — or if the design needs a quick setup. New modular approaches to support OEMs (and enable new machine tools, automation, and design software) now let engineers get reasonably priced gearmotors even in modest volumes.

It’s true that one benefit to selecting a separate motor and gearbox and then combining them can less expensive than choosing a pre-engineered gearmotor.

Another benefit to this approach is that one may be able to design the most optimized gearmotor for the application at hand … because this approach also gives the design engineer the most control over the final configuration and cost.

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Customizing conveying systems As more companies look to automate processing lines, they’re relying on conveyor manufacturers for an assist. Here’s why.

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demands efficiency, and conveyors are one technology to enhance the productivity of processing lines. No wonder then that conveyors have become integral components in all phases of the automation, assembly, and industrial markets. What’s more, while some of the dominant global brands have been early adopters to embrace the full potential of conveyors, more companies of all sizes are taking a closer look at how they too can better integrate conveyor systems to ultimately improve entire lines.

Though integrating such conveyor systems can be daunting — especially those meant to become an integral part of larger processes — manufacturers offer help. The first step is to evaluate application and determine the expectations for conveyor system. Even for this step, resources about to make this process easier.

Pallet conveyors coordinate tasks: The manufacturing environment inside facilities is much different than what it was a generation ago. Automation is now a prime driver behind the way products are produced. Many applications include both manual processes and robotic interaction … so conveyors today

must be engineered to meet these challenges.

That’s why pallet system conveyors have become a popular choice.

Pallet system conveyors are suitable for many automation-focused applications that need exact movements and positioning of parts, as they can be setup or programmed to start and stop at specific intervals to synchronize with robotics or other processes. These conveyors dominate

New waves of technologies are transforming not only the way products are produced and packaged, but manufacturing facilities as a whole. Flexibility and connectivity are paramount to equipment design, and that’s perhaps most true for conveyors. The conveyor here serves a bank of robots that assemble commemorative products.

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Pacing conveyors to stagger items:

There’s a suitable conveyor system for every installation.

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automotive-component manufacturing and other industries — including medical devices, electrical and electronics, and product testing and inspection that require automated and manual assembly (or handling) of products.

Pallet system conveyors typically come on three different platforms to convey the pallet:

• A dual-belt configuration powered by a common drive • A flexible plastic chain or belt design • A linear motor Pallets can stop and raise up off the belts or rotate the pallet 90° or 180° to reposition product as needed. Companies using palletsystem conveyors are leveraging their accuracy. These conveyors put products at exact locations — and conveyor lift and location stations deliver repeatability of 0.002 in. Pallets can come in either square, rectangle, or octagon shapes; they can make tight turns and travel up inclines or down declines as well.

Pallets can stop and raise up off the belts or rotate the pallet 90° or 180° to reposition product as needed.

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Another type of conveyor that’s increasingly common in manufacturing automation and packaging are pacing conveyors. These conveyors take randomly spaced products and orientate them into even spacing for packaging, machine infeed, or other processes.

The system usually has two variable speed belts and a moveable conveyor junction. This two-belt design allows pacing conveyors to operate at a faster rate than a standard one-belt conveyor.

As randomly spaced products enter the conveyor, a photo eye detects the product spacing. Then a servomotor control automatically varies the conveyor speed and conveyor junction placement to evenly space product. Pacing conveyors are completely noncontact sand contain no guides, diverts, or plows. Usually these conveyors have HMI interfaces to let operators set the spacing, speed, and orientation of products. That in turn helps applications that require the merging multiple lanes together without product stops or gates.

Flexible chain conveyors for tight spaces: Some application designs need products moved in and around equipment and machinery. Here, conveyors must be flexible and make tight turns. Flexible chain conveyors are a good fit here.

Automated applications within processing and packaging, industrial, medical, life sciences, and health and beauty industries often operate in tight spaces or in plants that require product elevation changes (for storage and space management) so are benefit from integration of flexible chain conveyors.

In fact, the flexibility of these conveyors extends past the platform itself. Their ability to twist, turn and snake around tight places gives design engineers and plant managers the flexibility to easily integrate the conveyors with existing equipment.

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Precision timing-belt conveyors: Many industrial automation, product assembly, manufacturing, and packaging applications need product in exact spots on the conveyor at the right time. Precision timing-belt conveyors excel here.

Powering the conveyor to deliver accurate alignment of time and distance are servomotors that provide indexing repeatability of ±0.040 in. at a rate of 100 indexes per minute. This level of precision is critical — especially in robotic applications.

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Selecting the right conveyor system Clearly there are many conveyors engineered for automation-type applications, but the objective is to select the right one for a given application.

Conveyors built to specification improve productionline efficiency and output. So there’s no reason to settle for a conveyor that’s shoehorned into application, especially when a system can be engineered to seamlessly integrate into a larger process.

But to do that requires an understanding of what the goals and expectations are for conveyors. In other words, what must the conveyors to do? Knowing this upfront establishes a good foundation for a successful conveyor installation.

Whether the conveyor system is to serve the operations of an OEM or integrator, a small family-owned shop, or a multinational business, there are common design concerns regarding new conveyor installations. Begin to outline the conveyor objectives by answering these questions:

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• How will the conveyor system integrate with what the plant is trying to build?

• What is the height, weight and shape of the product(s) being moved?

• What’s the targeted rate of production?

• How much space is available for the conveyors?

• Is space likely to be tight, needing conveyors to make sharp turns or go up inclines?

• Is the machine or production line manual or automated?

• Is the anticipated flow of production linear or oval?

Quantifying this information upfront helps get a more complete picture of the application — and define the project scope to let the conveyor supplier streamline the quotation process.

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Application expertise for conveyors Consider the above questions to envision how conveyors should interact with the processing line or project into which they’re integrating. All components within an assembly automation application (including conveyors) should work together optimize the overall operation. Answering the above questions can also identify where improvements in product flow and handling can be made. Such analysis may determine no improvements are necessary — and that’s great. But if a planned conveyor system isn’t quite meshing with other application systems, or it appears as though the target output is in jeopardy, reviews can help ... and in fact, this is where reputable conveyor suppliers prove their worth.

Perhaps more valuable than the actual conveyors are supplier knowledge and experience integrating designs for material handling and industrial automation.

Collaborative discussions with conveyor suppliers and identifying potential design roadblocks is a great way to start. Some suppliers accept responsibility for the ultimate design and do heavy lifting to supply conveyor systems that are specifically optimized for the application at hand.

Of course, collaboration doesn’t necessarily result in custom conveyor designs — because after all, standards offerings are less costly than custom. But good supplier recommendations are typically based on using standard products as much as possible while integrating custom designs where

needed to ensure reliability and flexibility.

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using frequency-domain methods With motion control applications, a PID or proportional + integral + derivative controller is often implemented using tuning or by a trial-and-error process on the shop floor. But modeling of the motion control system allows analytical derivation of the PID controller terms.

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At the summing junction, feedback is subtracted from the target position R(s) and the result is an error E(s) that is sent to the PID controller. In motion-control applications the PID controller operates in discrete time with a sampling period. Every sampling period, the digital controller takes the error signal and produces an output within ±10 volts.

It does this using a zero-order hold and a DAC or digital to analog converter. The zero-order hold refers to the process of sampling the signal and then holding between intervals; this introduces a delay into the system.

The digital to analog converter then takes the output of the PID controller and converts it to an analog voltage. The amplifier takes the voltage signal and produces an output current to the motor.

The linear actuator takes the output current and produces a linear force which translates into output position. The linear encoder provides position feedback to the controller typically using a quadrature signal measured in counts. While the model is a mixture of discrete and continuous time elements, let’s execute an analysis in continuous time to simplify the model.

In fact, the modeling of the motion control system takes place in the s domain using Laplace transforms to derive the transfer functions. The s-domain transfer function for

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Note that these calculations are not a guarantee of system stability. The engineer must check the system response to a step input using the closed-loop transfer function … and must also check system stability using a Nyquist plot. the PID controller in ideal form is:

Where Kp is the proportional gain, Ti is the integral time constant, and Td is the derivative time constant. Letting Ki be the integral gain and Kd the derivative gain:

The amplifier is modeled as a constant gain Kam. To account for its limited bandwidth fb a first-order low-pass filter is added. The time constant of the filter is tam:

Letting Kam = 2 amps/volt and fb = 2,000 Hz:

With these terms, the parallel form of the PID controller can be implemented:

The zero-order hold transfer function is a first-order low-pass filter with sampling period tsh/2:

The linear actuator is modeled as a gain Kf — the linear motor force constant plus the Laplace transform of F = ma. Here, a is the acceleration and m is the mass of the actuator and payload. The model assumes no friction as the system will be using an air bearing. The actuator transfer function with output in position (meters) and input in current (amps):

Letting tsh = 0.001 sec: Letting Kf = 8.9 Newton/Amp and m = 00.5 kg: The DAC is modeled as a constant gain with n bit resolution:

Letting n= 14 bit:

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The linear encoder is modeled as a gain Ke. If the resolution of the linear encoder is 0.1µm/count, then the linear-encoder gain is Ke = 10,000,000 counts per meter.

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H(s). The open-loop function in this frequency domain analysis is:

Solving for the PID derivative gain:

The response of the open-loop function to a sinusoidal input is called its frequency response. The frequency response can be calculated by substituting s by jw in the open-loop function.

Steady state response is then:

Lastly, solving for the PID integral gain:

Where the difference between the output and input sine waves can be described by two parameters — magnitude M and phase f. Magnitude measures the amplitude ratio and phase measures the phase shift. The magnitude and phase can be determined with a calculator for low-order systems. For higher-order systems, the magnitude and phase can be determined using technical computing software such as Matlab or GNU Octave.

First — we need to calculate the phase of Gp(jw1)H(jw1) or argGp(jw1)H(jw1). This is the addition of the phase shift for each element of the open-loop function at the specified frequency w1. The specified frequency must be chosen … let us choose 487 radians/sec:

Note that these calculations are not a guarantee of system stability.

The engineer must check the system response to a step input using the closed-loop transfer function … and must also check system stability using a Nyquist plot. Finally, to match the PID gains to controller, the form of the PID must be the same. For example, the motion controller PID must take the suitable or parallel form.

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Second — the magnitude |Gp(jw1)H(jw1)| is calculated as 1.749.

Third — we need to specify the phase margin fm (or stability) of the system. Phase margin is the difference between the actual phase and -180° at the frequency w1 where gain equals 0 dB. We choose a 62° phase margin.

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Fourth — the argument or phase shift contribution of the PID controller can then be found:

The magnitude of q must be less than 90° … Now we can solve for the PID proportional gain:

Solving for the derivative time constant:

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But there are signs of progress. Here’s what industry leaders are saying about developments in IoT technology.

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The Internet of Things (including the Industrial Internet of Things) is: A concept—a view that the analysis of tons of gathered data will, if all goes well, help improve manufacturing efficiencies. l A hope—The use of these analyzed data will enable a company to increase its bottom line in the form of new services, or new performance due to the analysis. l A perspective—now that we have the tools, the digitization of everything will usher in a new age of optimized systems, and perhaps even systems that adjust themselves to manufacturing needs automatically. l And sometimes, an actual hardware component—primarily sensors today, but eventually AI enabled or controlled electro-mechanical systems. l

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It is the task of the design engineer to find ways to develop products that deliver on one or more of the above four views. Despite the buzz that’s been around this industry for several years, though, the development of tools and programs for the design of IoT systems and equipment are still embryonic with sensors and preventive maintenance services being the main offerings. Analytical software is coming, but also still in development as algorithms need to mature.

The most frequently mentioned applications of IoT today are services, especially preventive maintenance services. These services are an improvement over what has been available for a decade or more. Yet they are not ready to deliver on the promise of manufacturing machines evaluating themselves and implementing improvements automatically.

But there are signs of progress. We asked several industry leaders about the developments in IoT technology.

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What hardware trends do you see coming for designers of IoT automation systems?

“One hardware trend we see coming,” says Benson Hougland, vice president, Opto 22, “is edge gateway appliances for automation systems, which facilitate communications and data exchange between OT (operations technology) domains and IT (information technology) domains.”

As Hougland noted, IoT platforms, software, and applications typically do not easily or directly support industrial automation communication protocols such as Modbus/TCP, EtherNet/IP, ProfiNet, or even OPC. These protocols have served the OT world well, but the IoT relies on communication protocols, data formats, and tools more common in the IT world. These communication protocols and so on include, RESTful APIs, JSON, MQTT and NodeRED. Edge appliances that enable communication will help designers move forward in their IoT designs.

While sensors are an important part of the IoT, communication is just as crucial. Notes Oscar Rojas, CEO, Weintek USA, Inc., Ethernet offers a number of advantages, including “its lower cost, faster speed, higher reliability, and better noise immunity. More

PLCs, from basic models to advanced ones, have adopted Ethernet interface as standard equipment, and it can be expected that within the next five years, Ethernet should rise as the standard communication method between HMIs and PLCs.” But Rojas sees a potential challenge with the IoT involving WiFi. “Real time access to monitoring or controlling management centers is becoming critical to industrial automation. Unfortunately it is not always easy and sometimes it is virtually impossible to install an Ethernet wiring connection between on-site machines and the upstream ERP-level applications and supervisory management center.”

Thus, integration between the operations technology and the intelligence technology still is an issue to the advance of IoT applications.

In addition to edge devices and Ethernet, digitization is the next feature or capability needed for IoT. “Digitization is a key megatrend impacting industrial companies today,” says Gerald Espy, Product Manager – PLC Business, Schneider Electric. “While there are parts of the industry that have been connecting devices for operational efficiency for years, the benefits of digitization for industries is only now being recognized across the entire industry. The evolution of these technologies has drastically reduced the marginal cost of connectivity, communication, and data analysis leading to greater operational efficiency and overall profitability.”

IIoT-embedded devices will be key hardware components, enabling devices to connect with the other parts on the machine or plant floor, as well as cloud-based digital applications, analytics and services at an enterprise level.

Espy agrees with Hougland that edge control is a critical area of focus for future automation systems, especially for managing the analytics tools to which they’re connected.

“And cyber security will be a must at every level of an implementation,” continued Espy. “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Designers will see more encrypting features in firmware, true embedded hardware password protection, and other cyber security features for their design needs.

Physical security will also be a must. “With the availability of connected systems, a natural extension is an intelligent physical

IIoT services are an improvement over what has been available for a decade or more. Yet they are not ready to deliver on the promise of manufacturing machines evaluating themselves and implementing improvements automatically.

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security device to provide remote control and monitoring of access to equipment and restricted areas,” says Steve Spatig, general manager, Electronic Access Solutions, Southco, Inc. “These smart locking devices can then be controlled and monitored remotely with a cloud based control system.

Data collected can provide forensics for security or safety breaches and provide simplified control and distribution of access credentials.”

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“The most obvious software trend is data analytics,” says Arun Sinha, Director of Business Development, Opto 22. “The promise of the IoT includes things like preventive maintenance and prescriptive algorithms, which are achievable through data science and analytics. The good news is that the designers of automation systems don’t need to become data scientists. Many IT companies large and small are developing IoT platforms with sophisticated analytics engines. Examples include IBM Bluemix, Microsoft Azure, and Hitachi Lumada.

Some now are even putting a strong focus in their portfolio on specific solutions for manufacturing intelligence. Designers of automation systems should probably familiarize themselves with these platforms’ capabilities, but focus their design efforts on embedding the communication methods and data formats that these platforms require.”

“We see a shift toward more user-centric software, rather than machine-centric,” says Espy. Open and hardware-agnostic software enables manufacturers to give customers access to a full spectrum of industrial applications and services to address their own unique areas of operational efficiency improvement, no matter what devices are installed in their automation system.

Putting this power in the customer’s hands allows them to get the right applications for the specific configuration and installation of their operations when they need it most. Of course, software services and 24/7 support should always be included to support the customer when needed.

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Schneider Electric sees opportunities coming in the form of augmented reality and transparent cloud-based connectivity for operators. “Mobile devices empowers operators to increase productivity,” continues Espy. Tighter integration between management and what is happening on the plant floor through a suite of enterprise level applications enables more agile and accurate management decisions.

Spatig agrees, noting that cloud based solutions with web portal administration versus on premise software installation and maintenance provides a cleaner user interface, without the need for software maintenance and revision control.

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automation components,

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The IoT is a concept that somehow must be rendered into useful products. One key to developing such products will revolve around a business’s end-goal, such as cut downtime, improve quality, or increase security, or increase profits. Products will range from simple, single-purpose to sophisticated systems.

One example of simpler IoT products involves security. “Innovative smart locking solutions will be enabled as a result of the connected facilities,” says Spatig. “Physical security will be enhanced and simplified to bring remote access control and management down to the equipment level - something previously only practical at the architectural, building level.

More complex products will not necessarily fit COTS approaches, however.

“IoT applications in end-user locations such as manufacturing facilities and process

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Digitization is a key megatrend impacting industrial companies today.

While there are parts of the industry that have been connecting devices for operational efficiency for years, the benefits of digitization for industries is only now being recognized across the entire industry.

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IIoT opportunities are coming in the form of augmented reality and transparent cloud-based connectivity for operators. plants are different from one to the next,” explains Hougland, “so the concept of a turnkey or COTS ‘product’ from designing IoT capability into automation systems may not be common in the marketplace.

Instead, the “product” may take the form of a goal or desired outcome, such as decreasing downtime, increasing efficiencies, or improving quality. The common thread is that these desired outcomes usually start with a business goal, like increasing profits.”

Initially, many OEMs are exploring the “increase profits” goal by developing products that are services. “For example, a compressor manufacturer may not charge for the equipment, but rather for the CFM (cubic feet per minute) delivered by their machine,” adds Hougland. The remote monitoring made possible by IoT capability built into the automation system on machines usually through an edge gateway appliance enables such services.

Another forecasted product will be “smart” machines, machines capable of reacting to a change in the market automatically and adjusting accordingly, without supervision.

“These new smart machines are better connected, more flexible, more efficient, and safer than traditional equipment,” says Mark Duncan, segment manager, material handling, Schneider Electric. “They can quickly respond to new demands and participate in preventative maintenance, all while minimizing thier environmental footprint and total cost of ownership.”

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These smart machines will be selfaware thanks to wired and wireless sensors with embedded intelligence that monitor the components of the machine to avoid component failures and the associated downtime. The information gathered by these machines will also be distributed locally or to a remote cloud, automating decision making on the factory floor.

“These machines must also be safe and cyber secure with embedded products like safety PLCs, light curtains, and safety cameras to keep the users and machine safe from harm,” continues Duncan. “With direct connection to the broader Ethernetbased network, the IIoT-embedded devices should have strong communication capabilities, as well as cyber security certifications like Achilles Level II. Finally, by leveraging the wireless network that these smart machines are connected to, operators can use their mobile devices to control machines and processes while moving around the plant floor. Soon, these operators will be able to use augmented reality and artificial intelligence to accomplish these same tasks in real time.”

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With issues such as temperature extremes, washdown capabilities and cleanliness considerations, components for this industry must be thoughtfully selected.

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Recently, a food processing OEM was designing and installing a new line of extremely high-speed filling machines intended to deliver higher performance with a smaller shop floor footprint. Redesigning the pneumatic valve system in the OEM’s machinery using collective wiring and stainless-steel filter-regulators cut the size of the overall footprint nearly in half and minimized both build and installation times. By relying on a supplier that understood their overall processes and helped them choose the right components, the OEM was able to realize a variety of bottom-line advantages:

• They halved the size of machine’s control panel.

• Their costs for components decreased by almost $1,000 per machine.

• Each machine required one hour less wiring time and one hour less plumbing time.

• There was an operating cost savings of $2,200 per machine ($22,000 per year).

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Redesigning the pneumatic valve system in the OEM’s machinery using collective wiring and stainless-steel filter-regulators cut the size of the overall footprint nearly in half and minimized both build and installation times.

The combination of timely advice and intelligently chosen pneumatic components is critical to the ultimate success of systems like these. For any given application, selecting the optimal pneumatic component depends on understanding two main issues:

• The required operating performance and parameters • The operating environment.

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Standard pneumatic cylinders have an end cover, cylinder, piston, piston rod and front gable, along with a piston rod bearing and scraper seals. Their general design adheres to ISO standards. In most applications, the cylinder and end caps are made of aluminum, to provide the level of strength required without adding excessive weight; chrome-plated steel or stainless steel are often used for the piston rod.

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Figure 2. Food and beverage processing equipment must often work in extremely low temperatures (such as in an ice cream production facility) or extremely high ones (such as a baking plant). Look for pneumatic cylinders that offer options for whatever conditions they will encounter, such as the P1D-X series, which employs advanced seal technology and other design features to allow it to work in extreme environments as low as -40° C or as high as 150° C.

Pneumatic cylinders’ performance characteristics are often specified for an operating temperature range of 20° to 80° C; however, more challenging applications require cylinders that can exceed these limits. To meet these demands, a growing number of pneumatic cylinder manufacturers have developed products designed for environments as low as -40° or as high as 150° C, which can require the use of higher performance lubricants and special sealing materials.

All too often, the operating environment is overlooked in the process of selecting a pneumatic cylinder or accessory.

Environmental factors may include ambient temperature, vibration, operating media/ chemicals and other fluids or materials present. However, a variety of other aspects of the operating environment should also be

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considered. For example, in humid operating environments or those that pose a risk of salt spray, all external cylinder surfaces need to be coated, and the piston rod should be made of stainless steel.

Requirements for cleanliness Applications in food and beverage production typically require specific certification of the pneumatic cylinder and other associated equipment and special clean design features that minimize entrapment points for bacteria. Multiple national and international standards must be taken into account. For example, 3A Sanitary Standards Inc. is dedicated to advancing hygienic equipment design for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries.

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3-A certification. Other important standards and guidelines are published by NSF (National Sanitation Foundation) International, the International HACCP Alliance, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and the Safe Food Alliance.

Food production environments necessitate frequent washdowns of the work area, which can lead to damage to static and dynamic gaskets and seals. Constant exposure to damp and the caustic sprays of hydrogen peroxide and other cleaning materials used in wash-down cycles can eat away at unprotected materials.

These environmental challenges have made stainless steel the most commonly used material for all food processing applications.

Although stainless steel is more expensive and more costly to machine than aluminum, it can resist the steam, high pressure water, and caustic cleaners often used in food and beverage production. This makes it easier for designers to meet stringent requirements for hygiene and corrosion resistance, which justifies the higher initial investment for many machine designers.

Fortunately, however, some new, less costly alternatives to stainless steel pneumatic cylinders are available for food and beverage processing applications, Figure 1. They feature cylinder barrels and end covers made of anodized aluminium, with stainless steel piston rods, piston rod nuts, and end cover screws. Pistons, piston bearings, and piston rod bearings made of polyoxymethylene, an FDA-approved thermoplastic with high stiffness, low friction, and excellent dimensional stability. Polyurethane scraper rings, piston seals and cushion seals are used to seal in keep the transparent food-grade grease.

No matter which component is being specified, it’s critical to understand the details of the food processing application and what is required—such as pressure, temperature, flow, and port sizes, configurations, and locations. Too often, filters or valves are chosen based on cost or size alone, forcing maintenance personnel to spend extra time on maintenance as a result of the system designer’s less than optimal choice. Longevity and repeatability are basic requirements for any good pneumatic solution. Choose components that have been thoroughly tested and designed to withstand the toughest conditions for operation, vibration, and impact.

In food processing applications that involve sub-freezing temperatures, specify products designed to withstand these conditions without sacrificing performance or reliability, Figure 2. In a filter-regulator, for example, the air must be dry enough to avoid ice formation. If temperatures reach 32° F or lower, performance will be degraded because liquid particles become gelatinous or frozen.

When specifying pneumatic cylinders, take a careful look at the ingredients to which they may be exposed; for example, ice, sugar crystals or dough can form deposits on piston rods that will interfere with their operation. To alleviate this problem, choose options that allow installing metal scraper rings (rather than rubber or plastic ones) with the piston rod seal to remove the residue before it can damage the cylinder assembly.

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Watch out for water The accessories and options for pneumatic components are frequently neglected, so it’s important to ensure the entire product can withstand the environment where it will operate to avoid forcing maintenance personnel to waste time replacing parts. For example, the adjustment knob or T-handle of a typical regulator is made of a composite material. The caustic chemicals used in wash-down can corrode many types of plastic, so in addition to a stainless steel regulator, the knob should be made of stainless steel or other compatible material.

Filter-regulator options such as tapped manual drains or automatic stainless-steel drains are widely used to get rid of excess liquid and prevent water from draining onto the floor. Look for non-relieving regulators that do not release gases or liquid into the atmosphere. Whenever possible, select pre-lubricated or lubrication-free mechanisms that use food-grade grease and don’t require periodic lubrication.

Although some pneumatic valves meet NEMA protection standards or IEC/IP ratings, most are designed to be mounted in an enclosure to protect them during wash-downs. Check the design of this enclosure for any crevices between the valves and subplate or manifold bases and other non-smooth surfaces that can harbor bacteria. For those who use serial communications with their valves, these electronics also require protection.

Components that require lubricated compressed air or periodic manual lubrication should be avoided when working in food processing to minimize the risk of product contamination. Lubricant in the compressed air can collect near exhaust ports, and manually applied lubricant can spill onto or collect on multiple components.

Using dry air in non-lubricated applications is critical; condensation can corrode system components, increasing maintenance costs and reducing system efficiency. Also, unless distribution air lines are made of stainless steel, aluminum, or high-strength plastic, water can create pipe scale that can work its way into components and cause malfunctions. Water is a poor lubricant; when emulsified with residual compressor oils, it becomes a milky substance that must be drained away. Depending on the amount of liquid produced, this can lead to problems with OSHA. In addition, there should

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never be any contact with synthetic emulsions in food processing. Dry, filtered, non-lubricated air usually eliminates these issues.

Making smarter choices Over and above issues related to a component’s required performance and the environment in which it must operate, food processing OEMs are increasingly demanding systems that can connect seamlessly and communicate intelligently with other systems within the facility.

For example, IO-Link smart control of pneumatic valve manifolds makes process data easily accessible and allows monitoring by PLC. This point-to-point communication technology for sensors, actuators and control devices can be built into most PLC configurations or incorporated into most existing industrial Ethernet and fieldbus networks. IO-Link technology can be especially beneficial for machine applications that require frequent changeovers; both reconfiguration time and unplanned downtime can be reduced significantly.

Although the choice of pneumatic components for any industrial application is often a matter of making tradeoffs to work within budget restrictions, system designers can prevent future frustration and ensure optimal equipment performance by resisting the temptation to cut corners on corrosion resistance, cleanliness issues, and long-term maintenance costs while laying the groundwork for additional expansion and enhanced system communication. DW

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Alan Griffiths | Principal Analyst | Cambashi

The ‘Industrial Internet of Things’ involves a range of technologies from semiconductors to cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

Businesses can take advantage of this technology to make their processes more efficient, and they can use the digital technology of IoT to transform their businesses and industries. The potential opportunities for IoT include customer and supplier relationships as well as internal processes.

Manufacturers are defining and prioritizing IoT projects in the same way as they would treat any new technology – “it can be done” doesn’t mean “it should be done.” The proposer needs to build a business case.

But IoT projects can offer whole new business models such as productas-a-service, so the right group of people need to be involved to assess the

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opportunity and develop ideas to fit their organization’s priorities, timescales, budgets and culture.

For example, to introduce its “Sigma Air Utility operator model,” with pricing based on the consumed quantity of compressed air, Kaiser Compressors needed to build instrumented, connected machines. If the machines fail, the revenue stops, so as with all ‘as-a-service’ business models, there is pressure to build reliable machines and minimize maintenance downtime. This approach needs broad involvement in the decision making process.

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Elekta, a Swedish manufacturer of medical technologies for treating cancer and brain disorders, uses connectivity and smart device technology to help differentiate their service business and expedite the way their products are serviced.

Swedish medical device manufacturer Elekta partnered with PTC and ServiceMax to implement Connected Field Service. In the first year of the project Elekta carried out more than 600 preventative actions, which translates to uninterrupted treatments for more than 14,000 patients. |istockphoto.com

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Remote access is entry-level IoT. The next step is to feed data into analysis and control systems.

Existing processes to gather requirements and define plans for projects of this type may not be sufficient. As the apocryphal quote attributed to Henry Ford explains, “My customers would have asked for faster horses.” However, what counts as transformational can depend on your point-of-view. For example a new (IoT) remote access system that allowed authorized process engineers to log in to their factory production lines triggered the comment, “It changed my life,” from a process engineer. This individual had previously struggled to accept night-shift stand-by duties. For him, the change has been transformational – even though the remote access needed is hardly new technology. Now, he volunteers for the night shift “…and if I can’t handle it online, I can usually guide the onsite team to fix problems.”

Remote access is entry-level IoT. The next step is to feed asset data into analysis and control systems. Taking an IoT approach rather than a traditional machine-to-machine approach pays off here, because in addition to solving remote and multi-site communication questions (an internet connection is all that’s needed), it also simplifies connection to suitable analysis software hosted in the cloud. The IoT approach supports many configurations, so, for example, if low latency response must be guaranteed, an IoT approach can integrate local (so-called ‘edge’) servers.

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These monitoring, optimization and autonomy examples are happening inside a manufacturer’s organization and can be local to the production groups. They can be transformational because they may open up the next step for lean manufacturing initiatives.

However, it can be easier to see transformational effects from projects that offer something new to customers. Field service and asset management are the low-hanging fruit here. For example, GE Digital and PTC have formed a partnership to provide innovative solutions to companies like Elekta. Here, the transformation is due to the connectivity of the machines Elekta sells to its customers, not the connectivity of the machines it uses in its factories.

Predictive maintenance can be relevant both to machines in the factory, and also to products sold to customers. Rolls-Royce introduced its TotalCare Services some

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20 years ago. TotalCare uses a “power by the hour” model in which customers pay for service based on engine flying hours.

Rolls-Royce engineers analyze engine data to manage customers’ engine maintenance and maximize aircraft availability. For security and availability reasons, ground-toaircraft communications are independent of the Internet, using a specific Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS). Since its introduction, the scope of TotalCare has grown in parallel with the growth in sensors-per-engine, and the capacity to analyze large volumes of data per engine per hour. Now, the Efficiency Insight service includes Engine Health Monitoring, and tracks the health of thousands of engines operating worldwide.

Previously only relevant to low-unitvolume, high-unit-cost industries such as aerospace, the dramatic fall in sensor and communication costs have broadened the potential of these concepts to other industries. For example, food processing machinery makers Minerva Omega created the startup DSC Nexus, which has brought www.designworldonline.com

In its customer story on Rolls-Royce, Microsoft quotes Richard Beesley, Senior Enterprise Architect Data Services at Rolls Royce: “With the increase in the volume and velocity of data that we’re looking at, Microsoft Azure IoT Suite has a key part to play in our ability to reliably aggregate data across our customers fleets.”

This sums up the evolution RollsRoyce has experienced in the years since it introduced TotalCare® Services. From an innovative commercial approach to maintenance – known worldwide as “power-by-thehour,” this service now offers options such as Efficiency Insight, which can combine data from real-time engine health monitoring and identify emerging patterns allowing aircraft operators to see and respond to trends on aircraft, routes and airport performance. | Courtesy of Rolls Royce

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The ‘Industrial Internet of Things’ involves a range of technologies from semiconductors to cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

IoT capabilities to machinery, including slicing machines found on retail meat and cheese counters. For these relatively low cost machines, sensors monitor the electric current/voltage profiles during start up, during no-load, and while cutting. So a new power cord with an integrated sensor and Wi-Fi connectivity is all that’s needed to retrofit an existing machine. When the electricity waveform demonstrates it’s time for a new blade, appropriate operator or technician action can be scheduled.

While predictive maintenance takes center stage in the industrial machinery sector, there are other highlights in other sectors. The common theme is business justification based on achieving goals familiar to manufacturers since long before IoT: • Reduce costs and improve operations • Achieve competitive advantage by offering customers a better experience • Open up new revenue streams The balance of these three goals varies, but they are always there, whether it’s a connected car in automotive, cloud services for voice control of consumer goods, or smart metering and smart grid architectures in utilities. In agriculture, use of equipment across the whole business network is changing, from the supply of agricultural machines to the operation of fleets in the field using GPS, automated harvest collection and product identification and tracking.

In construction, the trend towards offsite manufacturing and on-site assembly is being taken to the next level in OPTIMISED, a €7m EC (European Commission) funded H2020 Factory of the Future project focused on advanced manufacturing. According to Graham Herries, the EU ‘OPTIMISED’ Project Coordinator, this will apply a range of IoT technologies including RFID, edge computing, drones and deep learning to item tracking, personnel management using wearables, all based on building information modeling (BIM) management.

In retail, IoT is helping deliver every supply chain manger’s dream of visibility and Walmart, working with IBM, is taking the opportunity to integrate ‘blockchain’ technology for distributed ledgers to ensure food security through supply networks.

As success stories such as these – from the ‘early adopters’ – become common, the technology will be taken up by the majority in that industry, and it will become mainstream. But there are still challenges that need to be overcome, and different possible futures for industry. DW Cambashi www.cambashi.com

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Will your next circuit board come out of a mold?

Several manufacturers are now exploring molded plastic and other odd-ball substrates for circuits as a way to simplify product designs and cut costs.

Leland Teschler | Executive Editor

If you looked inside a smoke detector designed by a

The conventional smoke detector, top, and a version redesigned by the Swiss firm Multiple Dimensions AG, bottom. Conducting traces are applied directly to the molded part. One notable option available via molded interconnect methods is that a capacitive switch can be integrated into the circuit to replace the previously-used mechanical switch.

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Swiss company called Multiple Dimensions AG, you might at first be a little confused. You’d find the usual 9-V battery, smoke sensor, and test switch, but no wiring or circuit board connecting the components together.

The reason for the lack of wiring is that the smoke detector is an example of a molded interconnect device (MID). The injection-molded smoke detector parts do double duty providing both a mechanical structure and a substrate for conductive traces between electrical components.

The point of molded interconnect techniques is to eliminate the need for a separate printed circuit board (PCB). Eliminating the PCB is obviously advantageous for structural simplification and reducing the number of parts. Manufacturers say that when volumes are high, the economics can be compelling.

Molded interconnects have been around in various forms for years. But they have tended to be used in niche products rather than in the main stream. “A lack of volume manufacturing is one reason molded interconnect technology hasn’t caught on. But what appears to be happening now is that manufacturing costs

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Examples of the MID process in use: (Left) Griffith University in Australia worked with Chicago-based technology application consultants Design HMI LLC on an automotive dome light using a process called circuits in plastic (CiP). Center, another dome lamp design using MID technology created by Harting SA. Right, a capacitive touch sensor integrated into the MID dome light. The overall MID dome Lamp design came from OSRAM, Microchip Electronics, IEE SA, and Harting SA.

The point of molded interconnect techniques is to do away with the need for a separate printed circuit board (PCB).

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are going down and there is a pressure to deliver on form, fit, and reduced weight,” says David Wiens, product marketing manager at the Board Systems Div. of Mentor Graphics, a Siemens Business.

Mentor is well positioned to have a bird’s eye view of interconnect work: It provides both PCB design and MCAD software products. Wiens says Mentor has seen interest among design engineers in software tools specifically able to handle the kinds of problems that arise in MID designs.

“We find a lot of engineers working with molded interconnects now use MCAD systems rather than PCB or ECAD systems,” Wiens says. “That means the software has no intelligence about the electronics or how the electronics is built. They are trying to add intelligence about these things to an MCAD structure. Conversely, we have customers doing molded interconnects from the ECAD side, but there are tradeoffs.

You must visualize in 3D, but you are still working with a planar board,” Wiens says.

Difficulties may arise when conductors go on substrates selected for their mechanical properties as in MIDs. One potential problem is that materials can change consistency when they go through a molding process. The changing parameters can affect the electrical qualities of conductors deposited on top. And putting conductors on mechanical components that bend in complicated geometries can change

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electrical qualities in ways that may be hard to anticipate. Consequently, the mechanical make-up of molded interconnected parts may be sophisticated, but the electronics sitting on the part tends to be relatively simple.

The complexities of molded interconnects pose problems for CAD systems because a lot of designs get recorded as AutoCad or Gerber files. For one example, ordinary PCB CAD programs can build-in design constraints imposed by specific PCB manufacturing facilities. But there are a disparate variety of processes used to devise MIDs. Consequently, CAD suppliers say it is impractical to create design software able to handle the numerous MID processes now in use.

Sizing up processes One MID process that has been around since the late 1990s was devised by LPKF in Germany. Called laser direct structuring (LDS), the usual procedure is to injectionmold the part from a special polymer containing organo-metallic substances.

Once molded, the part is hit with a laser beam that creates tracks on the surface of the part that will later be turned into conductive traces. These activated areas become metallized in a chemical bath to create the conductors. In a final step, a barrier layer of nickel is applied and then conditioned with a thin layer of gold to ensure good solderability.

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gaps are possible. The fact that laser light activates the polymer surface imposes some limitations on the maximum size of the parts that can be processed. For example, if an area of the part falls outside the angle of incidence of the laser, either the part or the laser must be repositioned to finish the job.

In some cases, the component might have to be rotated during the laser processing step if there are conductors on more than one plane. And the process can’t be used to create multilayer circuits.

It’s possible to create two-sided boards with LDS. To do this, the part must have vias, as with ordinary PCBs, but the vias must be conical on one or both sides depending on the thickness of the material.

The internal diameters of the vias must be large enough to ensure unimpeded processing by the laser beam.

Some manufacturers that employ LDS report success using even more stringent design rules. Multiple Dimensions AG, for example, says it gets trace widths down to 80 μm with a high yield thanks to its own advanced process development techniques.

The smallest part the German manufacturer has produced using LDS is 2×2×0.8 mm.

Multiple Dimensions says it has used several methods to design traces on molded parts. One way is through use of a software package called Target3001 that is specifically designed for 3D-MID functions.

But more conventional means are used as well. Frequently, a mechanical engineer makes a projection of the plane where the components will reside from the 3D part model, then exports it as a 2D file. Then electrical engineers import the file and begin the circuit layout. Once complete, the trace design goes back to the mechanical engineer who, in turn, reincorporates it into the 3D CAD file defining the molded part.

Alternatively, Multiple Dimensions may use conventional PCB packages from Mentor, Eagle, or Altium to build up a combination of flexible and rigid PCB surfaces. The design then gets completed on a 3D substrate.

Multiple Dimensions says its rule-ofthumb is that applications involving current below about 1 A are candidates for its MID process, particularly those involving sensing.

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Examples from EastPrint Inc. of screen-printed conductors on molded parts.

The center part is printed in the flat with graphic and conductive ink. The part at right is formed and cut. The clear plastic part on the left is the same part that reveals the forming that takes place in the injection mold. The part shown makes up a control panel. The user controls are visible on the reverse side as seen at right in the top image.

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In one project, Multiple Dimensions used the MID process to create the fingertips of a robotic hand (about the same size as a human hand) with conductive traces. The surface of the robot’s palm is covered with sensors whose pressure signals route to a connector.

Screen printing Not all molded interconnect techniques use lasers to create traces. An alternative method is to put traces and electronics on molded parts with a process derived from screen printing. That is the point of a collaborative effort among companies that include Sun Chemical Corp., Eastprint Inc., DuraTech Industries, AlSentis LLC, and T+ink.

One goal of the collaborative effort is to more easily field MIDs for user-interface tasks such as control and display panels.

Suppliers think MIDs would help pave the way for widespread use of 3D capacitive

Manufacturers say 3D capacitive touch implemented via MID could find highvolume uses in appliance and automotive applications.

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touch technology resembling that in the iPhone6. As used in iPhones, 3D cap touch incorporates capacitive sensors in a way that let the electronics detect different pressures from the user’s finger. It can also detect multiple touches and calculate the difference in pressure on various points of the screen.

Component makers think MIDs could bring similar capacitive touch technology to consumer appliances and white goods such as washing machines. Buttons, sliders, and rotating touch sensors all could be devised with no moving parts. The resulting controls also potentially might be cheaper because they would eliminate the several layers of materials involved in ordinary mechanical switching. Conventional membrane switches, for example, generally contain at least four layers that include a printed circuit and a spacer. This assembly could conceivably be replaced by a single MID implementing projected capacitive touch, or PCAP, technology.

PCAP touch screens use a matrix of rows and columns of conductive material, layered on sheets of glass. Voltage applied to this grid creates a uniform electrostatic field. When a conductive object, such as a finger, touches a PCAP panel, it distorts the local electrostatic field at that point.

This field interruption is measurable as a change in capacitance. A finger bridging the gap between two of the tracks further interrupts the charge field. The capacitance can be measured at every individual point on the grid. This system can also accurately track touches. The top glass layer of a PCAP brings more sturdiness than resistive touch technology, and it is possible for a PCAP system to sense a passive stylus or gloved finger.

Manufacturers say 3D capacitive touch implemented via MID could find highvolume uses in appliance and automotive applications. Indications are MID-based capacitive touch systems could also be economical in medical devices, portable consumer electronics, and industrial controls.

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switches made with screen printing techniques are like an advanced version of in-mold labeling,” says Eastprint VP Tom Bianchi.

Eastprint, a long-time maker of membrane switches and electronic front panels, says applications having volumes in the 50,000 to 100,000-piece range are probably fair game for screen-printed MIDs. Bianchi says designs using the technique are largely custom, so design rules can vary from one job to the next. But screen-printed conductors generally can have the same pitch as ordinary printing jobs on polyester substrates. Bianchi also says the usual approach is to screen print electronics before creating the indentations and other geometry that will appear on the mechanical part. “The silver conductive inks are stretchable. Once printed they maintain their conductivity,” he says.

Bianchi says Eastprint uses ordinary flatbed screen printers to print MIDs – there’s nothing special about the manufacturing equipment. The design rules for circuit artwork tend to depend on the job at hand, Bianchi says. “There are general rules of thumb for how deep we draw conductors and how tight their radius can be, but a lot of that is application dependent.”

Screen printed electronics has one notable advantage over MID techniques involving laser etching: Multilayer circuit boards are practical with screen printing.

Bianchi says Eastprint has done circuit designs containing as many as ten layers.

DuraTech Industries, primarily a provider of custom label printing services, has used screen printing technology to print a resistive heating element on a flexible substrate that was then molded into a headlight lens. The heating element melted snow and ice that would otherwise build up on LED headlights that generate little heat.

Duratech printed electronics development engineer Steve Roellich says the voltages and currents used on screenprinted electronics the company creates generally fall in the 2 to 12 Vdc and 10 to 150 mA range. But he adds that there are variables within conductive ink and trace geometries that can be adjusted to handle

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higher voltages and currents. Low-end current capacity is generally dictated by trace resistance. Trace resistance depends on trace geometry – length, width, and thickness—as well as the amount of silver loading in the ink and ink curing, he says.

Roellich says Duratech regularly prints circuits comprising three layers and has produced five-layer versions as well. He figures the practical limit on the number of layers has yet to be determined. “We run into printing challenges when we get past three layers. Real estate for routing traces becomes an issue as the number of layers rise,” he says. In the same vein, designs with smaller the trace widths and tighter spacing cost more.

Also important is how the in-mold electronics connect to the outside world. If a molded-in header provides connections, for example, design engineers may need to

ensure potential witness marks don’t cause connection problems. Similarly, witness mark location can be important if visible blemishes aren’t acceptable, as in a user interface device.

Because of such considerations, Roellich says design engineers planning in-mold projects should work with printing and molding suppliers that have experience doing in-mold electronics. “The most successful projects I’ve seen start with all the suppliers in the same room working through the part design and manufacture.

Each supplier sets expectations for what they can provide.

That helps evaluate factors that bear on manufacturing feasibility such as overall part geometry and the surface geometry of the electronics. You want to make sure the forming of the in-mold electronics applique is within the capabilities of available

forming processes. The forming geometry and the mechanical, chemical, and environmental requirements help determine the substrate material.” DW References AlSentis LLC | www.alsentis.com/ Duratech Industries | www.duratech.com EastPrint Inc. | www.eastprint.com Mentor Graphics, a Siemens Business | www.mentor.com Multiple Dimensions AG | www.multipledim.com T+ink | www.t-ink.com Target3001 MID layout software | ibfriedrich.com/en/index.html

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Counterfeit bearings: what to expect in 2018

Year over year, the threat of counterfeit bearings remains persistent. A lucrative market and a history of spotty legal backlash keeps would-be counterfeiters emboldened. But for the last two years raids and seizures are on the upswing. Bearing manufacturers are getting better at targeting counterfeiters and creating awareness for consumers. Here’s how industry professionals are protecting customers and what customers can do to protect themselves in 2018.

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One of the most pressing challenges is dealing with counterfeit packaging.

Counterfeiters lack the knowledge and resources to create passable fake components so they rely on slick packaging to create the illusion of premium products.

The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) is an interagency government organization that focuses on IP rights and enforcement, specifically counterfeit products. At a summit in late 2017, it was stated that in the previous year, the estimated value of global counterfeit products had risen to around 3- 3.5% of global trade. Compare that against 2013, where there was a 2.5% increase from the previous OECD study. A clear pattern of counterfeit growth has emerged for the last 10 to 15 years for all products. So why, specifically for bearings, has there been such an increase in counterfeit activity? Schaeffler’s Director IP, Americas, Antun Peakovic says it likely has something to do with risk versus reward.

“If you sell $1million of counterfeit bearings, you may get a small fine. If the theft is really egregious, you might even get some jail time. But it’s more likely a conviction would lead to a fine or something with parole. By contrast, if you sell $1million in narcotics, you’re going to get a very steep penalty.”

To combat the steady stream of counterfeit bearings flowing into the market, manufacturers

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Counterfeiting is a global problem with fake components coming from around the world, not just countries like China and India that have a long history of infractions. have had to get better at locating the problem and making customers aware of it. Frequent meetings with U.S. and foreign customs agencies, authorized distributors, and end users have helped target the problem.

Meanwhile, groups like the American Bearing Manufacturers Association, The Federation of European Bearing Manufacturers’ Associations, and The Japan Bearing Industry Association have banded together to improve counterfeit awareness. These groups make up the World Bearing Association and its website, Stopfakebearings.com.

Created in 2006 by three regional bearing associations, WBA works to support the lawful interests of those in the industry through sustainable development, open economic engagement, and legal protection.

The website focuses on prevention through creating awareness and keeping open channels of communication within the industry. The website states, “Awareness comes before action. Help your associates, customers and friends to protect themselves against counterfeits by letting them know about the problem. WBA is more than happy

to provide communication materials for this purpose. We are dedicated to informing about problems with counterfeiting of premium brand bearings and to assisting supplier, distributors, and supplier law enforcement agents in the identification and eradication of product piracy.”

One of the most pressing challenges is dealing with counterfeit packaging. Counterfeiters lack the knowledge and resources to create passable fake components so they rely on slick packaging to create the illusion of premium products.

“They haven’t made any improvements in engineering know-how or expertise. But their ability to copy packaging, and marking, and make products look more genuine, has improved.

Part of that’s due to technology. You can scan or copy things and reproduce them so easily now, where maybe 20 years ago, you couldn’t. They are getting better at marking and packaging, which requires us, of course, to get better at marking, and packaging,

Counterfeiting is a global problem with fake components coming from around the world, not just countries like China and India, with a long history of infractions.

Products are shipped from the US to South America, and vice versa and they are also shipped from Germany, and other countries.

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While new packaging techniques might be showing up in counterfeit bearings, there is still an abundance of older products counterfeiters are trying to move. Peakovic also explained that there are plenty of stored bearings from the last four or five years that are going to pop up.

“That’s the most common counterfeit we see; the counterfeiting of products that have been on the market, or labeling that has been on the market for a few years,” says Peakovic.

Companies are not changing their products to combat this. They are changing how their labels look and how their boxes appear; this is an ongoing and ever evolving process. Larger manufacturers make tens of thousands of different part numbers and millions of bearings every year. Consequently, having an annual change of packaging, box type, or overall re-vamping, is certainly not cost effective. It continues to challenge manufacturers.

The easiest thing that companies can change is how and what they mark. For example, individual part marking. For Schaeffler, that means each part has its own identifier, a data matrix code and the label matched to the bearing inside the box. That QR code is individual to that product, and that bearing, and that production date. It’s very specific, and very difficult to copy.

Additionally, several companies now have apps that customers and can use to identify counterfeit products. Available on iPhones and Androids, users can scan codes on a product and can identify, at least, whether the code has been scanned before.

This process keeps a log of whether the code has been scanned before, and whether it’s been determined to be counterfeit. Apps like this help make communication global, immediate, and more difficult for counterfeiters to adapt to, something they are quite good at.

“One thing about counterfeiters is they adapt well.

If they start getting caught across the border, they begin to change patterns. In some countries, Brazil, for example, they will send blank product, something that can be marked in-country and packaged incountry. They’ll send blank bearings, which are not infringing on anything other than, perhaps, customs regulations, in a sense that they’re not marked with country of origin. But they don’t have any brand on them. It’s relatively easy to find marking equipment that can mark these products,” says Peakovic.

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Counterfeiting is a global problem with fake components coming from around the world, not just countries like China and India, with a long history of infractions.

Products are shipped from the US to South America, and vice versa and they are also shipped from Germany, and other countries.

Once a counterfeit bearing has infiltrated the marketplace it can be sent anywhere.

Nearly every type of bearing is subject to counterfeiting. Every product, size, and part number is vulnerable. The fast-moving products like small ball bearings such as a 6200 series or 6300 series ball bearing are common simply because of the product’s production volume. Means of distribution looks to have a slightly larger impact on the counterfeit market in the next few years.

Smaller shipments of counterfeit products have been a problem in the last year and could continue through 2018.

“10 years ago, or even, 5 years ago, we would get container shipments. We would get large-volume counterfeit products shipped to a particular distributor. If you caught those, then great, you stopped the whole shipment of counterfeit products.

Now what we see is these expedited freights, FedEx, even for very large

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products. Even for two-ton products, we’ll see airfreight products going through.

Sometimes those are caught. But you can imagine, if you have one container with 20,000 bearings and you catch that container, fantastic. If you have those 20,000 bearings divided up among 10,000 shipments, you’re not going to catch all 10,000 shipments,” says Peakovic.

The pattern is for a multitude of smaller shipments. A development that is much more challenging to stop, both at customs and for manufacturers. But manufactures maintain that continued education and communication can help keep counterfeiters guessing. DW Schaeffler | schaeffler.us

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R S H I P At the helm of the massive 190,000-employee manufacturing giant, you’ll find a thoughtful mechanical engineer dedicated to keeping bureaucracy at bay and his company flexible.

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Mark Mondello, CEO, Jabil Inc. Like many of us, Mark Mondello didn’t grow up wanting to be an engineer—he simply liked to tinker. Raised on the south side of Chicago, his family didn’t have much money, so his father (a meat packer) fixed anything that broke. Mondello watched over his dad’s shoulder and quickly learned the mechanics of how things worked. Soon, he could fix most anything from sprinkler heads and motors to air conditioners and cars.

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“I’ve got an endless amount of energy, and I love people, and I like technology, so it has all fit together, and I’ve really been blessed.”

Even in college, the engineer calling wasn’t immediately obvious to him. An athletic student, Mondello focused on intramural sports his first couple of semesters. But then in his sophomore year, it dawned on Mondello that “engineering was probably a good thing, and I really liked the mechanical program.”

After flirting with the idea of getting a master’s in mechanical engineering, he decided that his BSME was sufficient and took a job with Moog in East Aurora, N.Y. At the time, Moog aimed to open an engine-controls division in Florida. The company wanted to physically separate its aircraft-controls and engine-controls teams, and Mondello joined the group to start the controls division down south.

“It was a great group of folks and very engineering intensive. We went from a small leased facility to a really beautiful building,” not too far from where Jabil’s St. Petersburg, Fla. headquarters are now.

“I got to work on some neat projects and move between Florida and Buffalo for work,” he said.

Then through a softball league, Mondello befriended a group of people who worked for Jabil. Over drinks after games, the group chatted about work and exciting new projects.

After five successful years at Moog, Mondello was intrigued by the idea of making a switch to Jabil, but not that drawn by the work.

“Compared to what I was doing at the time—stuff I could see—just trying to figure out ones and zeroes and analog electronics didn’t seem all that interesting to me.”

But one thing lead to another, and he agreed to interview and then hire on at Jabil, more out of curiosity than anything else.

As a Production Supervisor for Jabil—then a tiny fraction of its size today—he got truly hands-on learning.

“We were small, a bit disorganized, and worked hard to take care of our customers … which has been an approach embedded in our culture forever,” he said. “There weren’t a lot of rules, which worked well for my personality. Whatever you could grab onto and get done, you could do it … so I did. It gave me really authentic [exposure] and a kind of first-row view of what we do. Spending every day from early morning to late in the evening on the manufacturing floor was great—and it was hands on … building

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product and learning the product.”

Mondello was supervising people from day one, and he was infatuated with the disorganization of the growing company. He wanted to help put a bit of process around the disorganization, “but not too much”— because he felt the lack of formal process actually fed Jabil’s entrepreneurial behavior, an important competitive strength of the company.

He continued to advance at the company while working to understand the manufacturing processes, what Jabil was building, the planning process, and the quality system. He investigated issues that arose with certain end products as well as challenges with various hardware types.

The company was experiencing hockeystick growth and opening international manufacturing plants, so corporate leaders began to ask Mondello his opinion on areas of expansion in Mexico, Asia, and Europe.

Soon, he was interacting with various customers and products and end markets … and that led into a move into management.

In fact, Mondello assumed the role of Jabil COO in the early 2000s and has been CEO since 2012.

And that entrepreneurial way of doing things? The company strives to keep that spirit today, though Mondello noted that Jabil

requires more rigor and process due to its size. Even so, he endeavors to keep too much bureaucracy at bay. He also loves his current position.

“I’ve got an endless amount of energy, and I love people, and I like technology, so it has all fit together, and I’ve really been blessed,” he said. “The foundational platform of the company has allowed me to see a lot and travel the world. My wife often says, ‘you’ve been everywhere and seen nothing,’ because I spend most of my time working. But what I do get to see is the 190,000 employees we have today.”

Mondello said his favorite part of business travel is spending time with Jabil employees in the evenings, over breakfast, or walking the factory floors and seeing what they’re doing. He’s often amazed at how much more factory-floor workers accomplish today than what they did in the 1990s.

Jabil also has a culture where people have access to the senior leadership, and Mondello loves that.

“People are very open,” he said. “Other than looking at a dashboard of metrics, the best barometer for me is getting out with our folks. It doesn’t matter if that’s a city in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, or China—I love the interaction.”

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...will manufacturing plants soon become fully robotized lightsout operations?

Mondello doesn’t think so, at least not anytime soon ... in some cases the human touch is a superior and more efficient solution than pure lights-out automation.

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Mondello thinks that many times, engineers are characterized as “introverted nerds who like to sit in the lab.” But he said that description doesn’t do many engineers justice.

“Regardless of formal education or background, I think there’s an interesting blend of introverts and extroverts in all fields,” he said. “I see a lot introverts in finance and accounting, yet I see some are extroverted as well. I interact with a ton of engineers, and I’m fascinated with the career paths they carve out for themselves.”

According to Mondello, Jabil’s leadership gave a lot of thought to functional career paths versus managerial career paths about a decade ago.

The goal is to retain the best and brightest employees, some of whom may love working in teams, but may have no desire to lead teams.

“We’ve got good paths today at Jabil to let people create wonderful careers here, and the aspiration doesn’t have to be ‘I want to be an executive in a big company.’ It can be ‘I want to be a thoughtful contributor that makes huge difference at the company where I work,’” he said.

Mondello went on to point out that engineering degrees aren’t too different from law degrees.

“I think both degrees teach people how to think logically. I think that the law degree can be a little more abstract, and the engineering degree can be a little more process, but they teach people how to think. They teach people how to problem solve,” he said.

Jabil culture: Focus on efficient builds Mondello describes Jabil as “building everything”—and in fact, the company has approximately 43 million square feet of manufacturing space around the world. But Jabil must also handle an array of challenges ranging from varying geographies to different currencies.

“We build stuff, and I think we build it in ways that are efficient … not as optimally as I’d like, but we’re getting it. Yet, we do so much more than build stuff, because we also design stuff. In fact, we have a kind of progressive digital thread coming through the company, if you will, although, I think the word digital is grossly overused today, and I think a lot of people don’t even know what it means.”

Mondello feels that many companies shouldn’t focus on building, because it’s not their core—it’s not where they excel or where they make their biggest investments. Instead, their priorities should continue to be things such as product R&D, branding, marketing, and touching customers.

“Our core is building stuff, so I take a lot of pride with my leadership team on being really, really good at what we do,” he said. “We invest in manufacturing, and we invest in the systems around it, and we invest what we know of being real, fundamental, digital things … What we do in engineering and manufacturing is our core. That’s our livelihood. That’s what we do. If we’re not great at that then we’ve got real problems.”

Mondello has been quoted as saying, “Take great care of our people, and our people will take great care of our customers,” a phrase that seems to have existed almost as long as businesses have. But Mondello’s earnestness in saying it makes you believe that it’s part of his and Jabil’s central belief system.

“This prophetic quote is simple on its surface. But people don’t care what you know if they know you don’t care. I carry that around in a few slide decks,” he explained, and then smiled sheepishly. “People around here make fun of my slide decks, because they are not very advanced.”

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“Why wouldn’t you have a culture where you talk constantly about taking great care of the people? We don’t have a brand that you see on TV. It’s not a brand you’re going to see when visit amazon.com or walk into Walmart or go to a grocery store. We’re the brand behind 350 of the greatest brands in the world, and how exciting is it to be doing a lot of the heavy lifting for the greatest brands around?”

While Mondello noted that the corporate culture is absolutely one of caring, it’s also a culture of what he calls thoughtful accountability. As an example, he describes a business review where an executive asks a manager why he only achieved a financial number of 98 instead of the 100 he’d promised.

“In many cultures, the conversation ends there … and then theatrics begin with leadership pounding the table, saying ‘you said you’d do a 100, you need to do 100.

Leave the room, and come back when you can do 100, or we’ll get someone else to deliver the 100.’”

“I think that’s really a poor way to deal with individuals, especially people who care and are working really hard. When I say thoughtful accountability, it might be saying, ‘okay, we’re clear that you said you were going to do 100, and you’re telling us now you’re going to do 98—so why are you doing 98? How much of what drove you to

deliver 98 was within your control? How much was out of your control?’ Many times, you’ll discover what that individual did to deliver the 98 was Herculean—because they really should have delivered 89. But they delivered the 98 because of six variables, two were in their control and four absolutely were not. Maybe they were customer-driven, market-driven, macro-economic-driven, geopolitical-driven.

“That’s why I always want to be sure we do our best to understand why something is what it is. Why the result was what it was, and being sure that we think through that, and act accordingly. Yet, when you run company at 4% operating margins and very low SG&A, it would be impossible for us to be sitting here being a 20 or 22 billion-dollar company if we didn’t have a good process around accountability—because we can’t have people who aren’t working hard or who are unfocused on their task or who are delivering poor results despite full ability to deliver better results.”

Customers and manufacturer define design cycle together The world of design engineering has changed during Mondello’s career. Design is more of a joint exercise today, and the speed of engineering has quickened.

“15 or 18 years ago, a customer would come in—there wasn’t much email back

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then—and they would drop a 300-page data pack on an engineer’s desk. Within that 300 pages would be a perfect description detailing in words, numbers, and drawings exactly what they wanted.”

“Back then, seven times out of ten it was some type of electronic module or submodule destined to go into something.

Now with all communications digitized, these days we usually work with engineers and product-development folks as well as our customers’ marketing folks. They say, ‘Here’s our product roadmap at a macro level for the next two to three years. What do you think, Jabil? What ideas would you have to make our product roadmap better? What ideas would you have to not jeopardize what we’re thinking for product function?’”

According to Mondello, customers want early input from Jabil on serviceability,

reliability, cost, and producibility.

Conversations tend to be higher-level; then Jabil engineers often discuss possibilities among themselves. Next, they return to the customer with a multitude of ideas for product functionality, size, power efficiency, customer interfaces and touchpoints to the product … and even the conceptual “feel” of the product, which (according to Mondello) is a significant part of the business today.

Tomorrow’s manufacturing plant Mondello said that having great factories is an absolute must for Jabil, or else they’d have no business.

“We can’t continue compete day-in and day-out on price without ensuring we do a great job on cost,” he said. “Key here are efficiencies in how we run our factories.

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Ironically, Jabil has different customers that own different parts of the “pieces” that Mondello described, so his team has been able to have some pretty deep conversations on where their roadmaps are heading. That lets Jabil pick companies from its customer base for partnerships to keep its factories cutting edge. As he explained, “we build a lot of the robots, we build a lot of automated equipment for our customers, and then we end

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“Customized automation robotics don’t belong everywhere,” he said. “I’ve observed a lot of companies talk about it, and some implement it but never make a fair return on the ROI—for the capital expenditures, robotics, and automation that they apply to factories.

With the appropriate upfront investments, there are investments of time and training, and then the facility must run the assets long enough to get them through the depreciation cycle for a reasonable ROI.” “What’s more, in some cases the human touch is actually a superior and much more efficient solution than pure lights-out automation. We have factories that are largely human-touch factories as well as lights-out factories and everything in between. But I think the most suitable setups is specific to the economics of the product business sector.

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Micro clutches Miki Pulley mikipulley-us.com

These CYT clutches are designed for compact precision applications and may be easily mounted to a driven shaft. Further custom variants are possible by pairing a sprocket, timing pulley, V-belt pulley or shaft to the armature. The clutches connect and release power by being located between the input shaft and the load. The CTY stator is a bearing mounted type of clutch. It provides a connection between a motor and a load with low inertia, minimal drag and long service life.

The CYT Clutches are durable and versatile with a straightforward

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Product World Incremental and absolute encoders Automation Direct automationdirect.com AutomationDirect has expanded its Koyo encoder product line to include additional incremental encoder output options and higher resolutions for absolute encoders.

The TRD-S Series of 6 mm solid shaft and TRD-SH Series of 8 mm hollow shaft

incremental encoders now have 5-12 Vdc open collector output versions in addition to the existing 12-24 Vdc open collector or 5 Vdc line driver output versions. These light-duty industrial grade incremental encoders have an IP40 environmental rating with resolutions available from 100 pulses per revolution to 2500 ppr and up to a 200 kHz maximum response frequency.

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Distributed servo drive system saves space Beckhoff beckhoff.com The AMP8000 distributed servo drive system breaks new ground for modular machine concepts.

The AMP8000 integrates a servo drive directly into a servomotor and has an compact design. By relocating the power electronics directly into the machine, a control cabinet only needs to house a single coupling module in order to supply power to multiple servo drives with a single cable via the distribution module.

With the AMP8000, space requirements for

drive technology inside of electrical cabinets are reduced to a single coupling module. Via EtherCAT P technology, which provides EtherCAT signals and power over one cable, such a coupling module can control up to five distributed AMP8000 Servo Drives via an IP 67-protected AMP8805 distribution module. Since the entire AMP8000 system is cascadable, even complex motion systems can be implemented with a remarkably simple topology.

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The ACS580 is an all-compatible generalpurpose drive that provides user-friendly, energy-efficient motor and process control.

It is designed to control pumps, fans, conveyors, mixers and many other variable and basic constant-torque applications.

The wall-mounted drive is available in power ranges from 1 to 350 HP at 460 volts, in both UL Type 1 and 12 enclosures. The

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Product World Speed reducers Gearing Solutions gearingsolutions.com The FlexFrame 5 HP face mounted speed reducer has patented adaptors creating compatibility with either IEC or NEMA motors. This allows users to quickly switch or replace motors, interchange IEC and NEMA motors for export applications, add face, flange or foot mounts, and use GS convertible shaft adaptors to match any motor to any gearbox.

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Sensor for automation applications Balluff balluff.com The BES Q40 sensors are an application solutions with a common compact form factor. With the addition of the Basic BES Q40, these sensors expand the line of cubic 40x40 sensors beyond the existing Factor1, extended range and ceramic coated versions.

Designed for general factory automation applications, they provide two flexible active sensing surfaces with 20 mm of operating distance with flush mounting capabilities.

Features: • Select the active sensing area to be on the front or side of the sensor by part number for flexible installation.

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Product World Small STO-certified servo drive Elmo elmomc.com

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Elmo has doubled the power of its servo drive, the Gold Twitter, to suit demanding applications in the era of Industry 4.0. With a weight of only 33 grams and continuous currents of 160° (80 V) and 140° (100 V), the Double Gold Twitter delivers over 10,000 w

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Universal-voltage motor thermistor relay Carlo Gavazzi GavazziOnline.com The DTA04 motor thermistor relay has universal input voltage, giving it the flexibility to be installed in a

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variety of control panels. This is a DIN rail mounted thermistor relay for protecting electric motors from overheating, ensuring continuous production and preventing machine downtime.

Simplicity, versatility, and reliability are crucial

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New Planetary Gearmotors from Bodine The high-performance 24A4-60P PMDC gearmotor features our all-new 60mm planetary gearhead, and provides up to twice the torque of conventional helical/spur parallel shaft gearheads. Its rugged design, high torque density and high efficiency make it an ideal drive solution for industrial automation applications, packaging equipment, and for a wide range of solar- or battery-powered equipment.

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Self-calibrating temperature sensor Endress+Hauser us.endress.com/TrustSens The iTHERM TrustSens hygienic RTD is the world’s first selfcalibrating temperature sensor. TrustSens’ self-calibration process functions in situ and provides the necessary documentation to meet the conformance requirements for various regulatory agencies.

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Product World Encoders for electric automation Heidenhain heidenhain.us The ECI 4000 is an absolute inductive rotary encoder for hollow shaft diameters of 180 mm. Not only is this encoder robust and accurate, but, as a modular system with a scale drum and a separate scanning unit, it also has suitable mounting characteristics for use in robots. The ECI 4000 rotary encoder, as well as the

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ECA 4000 angle encoder, significantly improve the absolute position accuracy of the tool center point on industrial robots by up to 70 - 80%.

Proportional valve electrical actuators Danfoss powersolutions.danfoss.com The PVE series 7 offers fast, accurate, and intelligent operation with plug-and-perform design and works in conjunction with high performance proportional valves — PVG 32, PVG 100, PVG 120 and the new PVG 128 and PVG 256, as well as steering valves EHPS, EH, EHi and OSPE. Standard for all proportional PVE S7 is the use of a spool position feedback signal to close the loop on the PVG/ steering valve main spool position, ensuring it is in the right position at a given input signal. This ensures high precision of the valve flow with high repeatability which leads to improved machine performance and productivity as well as less operator fatigue.

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Midsize heavy-duty safety couplings R+W rw-america.com

Ballscrews & Rollerscrews

These two new smaller STN series safety couplings with conical clamping hubs bring heavy duty industrial style overload protection into midsize applications. The two new sizes, 2 and 5, cover disengagement torques ranging from 200 to 5,000 Nm, and shaft diameters from

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45 to 80 mm (1.750 to 3.125-in.).

Using the ball-detent safety element system, the driving and driven ends separate

within milliseconds of a torque overload, releasing the motor inertia from the driveline, and reducing expensive repairs and costly downtime. The driveline is free to coast to a stop after disengagement, and re-engagement simply requires that a force be applied to the back sides of the plunger modules, either with a mallet or pry bar. Disengagement torque values are adjustable

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OD frameless, brushless servo motor kits

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Maxon maxonmotorusa.com The EC 45 Flat Frameless Brushless Servo Motor Kit has only a rotor and stator – with no bearings

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or motor shaft. With an outer diameter of only 43 mm, these pancake servo motor kits are extremely compact.

Available in size ranges from 30 to 70 Watt, these EC (electronically commutated) frameless

slotted motors have low voltage windings, high pole pair count and are shipped as BLDC

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frameless motor kits.

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Dc brushless motor Portescap Portescap.com The 22ECP35 two pole brushless dc motor has 30% more continuous torque and 100% more WE Series Linear Guideway Wide Series Ball Type.

power over similar comparative motors without compromising the operation and long life required from a brushless dc motor. The 22ECP35 brushless dc motor has patented Ultra coil technology which provides torque and power density, with limited core losses over a range of working speeds without friction and brush wear. The 22ECP35 can be adapted to most applications in the medical and industrial markets, enhancing the life and reliability of a device without compromising on power and machine throughput.

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Valve connector Canfield Connector canfieldconnector.com The Series 5K DIN valve connector enhances two exiting product lines.

The 5K connector is now offered without the integrated gasket design

MGN / MGW Series Linear Guideway Stainless Steel Miniature Linear Guideway Size 5 Now Available.

to promote version compatibility with the company’s MCCR (Multiple Control Connector Receptacle) and its ILW (Interposed Lighted Wafer). Both products are used primarily in the hydraulic valve industry.

Features: • Provides snug and secure pin contacts on solenoid spades.

• Runs one wire rather two from the MCCR device to the control box.

• Can be manufactured in a range of plastic housing materials for compatibility with

HG / EG / RG Series Linear Guideways Ball and Roller Type.

high temperature and various chemical applications.

• Allows the ILW module to plug into a molded connector to provide a convenient indicator light

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Product World Roller pinion system in stainless steel Nexen nexengroup.com The RPS engages two teeth simultaneously for accuracy with zero backlash at any length. The system is also quiet, and 99% efficient.

Stainless steel makes the system corrosion resistant, with a life of up to 36 million meters. The RPS provides a low maintenance, durable alternative to rack and pinion, ball screw and belt drive technology. The RPS is used for a range of applications including laser cutting, plasma cutting and gantry applications.

Features: • Speeds: 11 m/s (36 ft/sec) • Accuracy: +- 50 um • Zero backlash • Unlimited length (custom lengths and modular components available)

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Extensive range of sizes and offered in both fixed cam indexing solutions up to 108 stations or fully programmable. The RT series robust design will ensure to maintain high precision in intense automation settings.

The RT, TMF and TR series can all be equipped with any make of AC motor with absolute or incremental encoders for positioning.

Our programmable trunnion index drives can be adapted to fit the proper size robot motor for auxilliary axis.

Manufactured in a large range of sizes and variety cam profiles and fixed number of stations. Built with aluminum housings that can be treated to suit any automated environment and case hardened internal components to extend the indexer’s life.

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Ranging in size from LFA035 to LFA150. Engineered to give precision in XYZ. Each link has multiple cam followers that are traveling in case hardened guideways. LFA systems can be purchased as fixed linear stroke or fully programmable.

Ideal for high-speed and high-accuracy assembly jobs with 100% repeatability and synchronization on every index cycle. Options include cylinder, disk cam, disc groove, globoid, pneumatics and servo technology.

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LINARIX linear position sensors now have low-cost versions of these industrial measurement tools. These components have compact, inexpensive plastic draw wire assemblies in place of the metal components used in earlier models. They are suitable for monitoring the linear position of components in medical equipment, hoists, forklift trucks and other material handling systems intended for indoor use.

KA Type Linear Actuator / SAR Ballscrew or belt driven, exible design.

The low-cost sensors are available in three measurement ranges: 1.25,

2.4 and 7.5 m. These designs are compact and easy to position in complex machines. The linear position sensors are part of Rockwell Automation’s Encompass network of complementary products.

KK Type Linear Actuator / SAR Ballscrew driven, high accuracy and reliability.

Molded-in aluminum threaded inserts Spirol spirol.com The design of the Series 60 Blind-End and Series 61 Through-Hole Inserts consists of axial grooves to maximize torque resistance,

KS Type Linear Actuator / SAR Ballscrew driven for clean room applications.

balanced with radial undercuts for high-pull out force. These moldedin inserts are designed to be placed in the mold cavity prior to plastic injection, and offer performance due to unrestricted plastic flow into the retention features on the outside diameter of the inserts.

These lightweight threaded inserts for plastics are manufactured from 2024 grade aluminum which provides the best combination of

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strength, corrosion resistance, machineability and cost.

The Series 60 and Series 61 molded-in inserts are lead free,

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Product World Custom suction cup PIAB piab.com This suction cup is specifically designed to handle thin and brittle food items such as the sheets of pasta used in lasagna or very thin slices of cracker bread. A tailormade solution, the food contact approved F-BXT cup is designed with an extra-long and thin lip enabling it to handle fragile pasta sheets with special care. Approved for direct food picking, the nimble cup will guarantee safe, secure and hygienic automated procedures for, for instance, lasagna sheets or similar items.

The detectable, blue cup is suitable for use with visual inspection systems favored by the food industry.

The cup and its fittings also comply with metal detectors available on the market. The combination of 2 ½ funnel-shaped bellows and a stable body with a large vacuum flow orifice enables a steady hold on products, even at high speed and in quickly accelerating systems.

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