Machine Building

Actuators, drives and controls for laboratory equipment

MiniTec has supplied the Sorby Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory with automated belt-driven X-Y actuators, micro-stepping drives and motion controls for flume tanks used to understand sedimentary flow processes.

29th September 2008

Bespoke Machines makes full use of MiniTec profiles

Bespoke Machines Limited, a firm of special-purpose machine builders, makes extensive use of MiniTec's Profile System modular machine framing system for constructing machine frames, guards, covers, linear and rotary positioners, conveyors and ancillary equipment.

28th September 2008

Paveline selects IQAN software-based hydraulic control system

Parker Hannifin's IQAN hydraulic control system is being used by Paveline International to reduce its production costs and improve the functionality of its road maintenance vehicles, while also making them easier and safer to operate.

28th September 2008

A view inside the Corpus Clock

The Corpus Clock is operated mechanically, with time indicated by means of three vernier rings that mask all but one of the blue LEDs corresponding to the hours, minutes and seconds. The chronophage time-eating monster at the top functions as a grasshopper escapement, as well as performing a number of other actions.

24th September 2008

The Corpus Clock with its time-eating chronophage

The Corpus Clock, installed outside the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is operated mechanically. However, time is indicated not by hands but by means of lights.

24th September 2008

Corpus Clock has mechanical escapement but no hands

Huxley Bertram Engineering has played a major role in constructing one of the world's most unusual clocks.

24th September 2008

Servo drives are pivotal to success of tube bending machines

Parker Hannifin is supplying its servo drives to Unison for use in the company's high-accuracy, cost-effective and energy-efficient all-electric tube-bending machines.

18th September 2008

Compact gear pumps meet the needs of machine builders

Compact, lightweight and high-performance, Micropump gear pumps are being used for a variety of applications in machinery.

18th September 2008

CC-Link network expands to encompass entire factory

CC-Link communications have enabled a modest project to automate a compressor house to be expanded to embrace the whole of Yorkshire Fittings' Leeds factory.

16th September 2008

CC-Link connects conveyor inverters to PLC network

A CC-Link communications systems links inverters controlling the speed of conveyors in a cigar factory, thereby ensuring quality is never jeopardised.

16th September 2008