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Sensors in conveyor belt monitoring
Second Quarter 2023, Gail Norton Instrumentation
We all know how high the costs of damaged conveyors can be. Gail Norton Instrumentation Agencies has designed a unit that can effectively monitor conveyors and stop further damage.

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Beckhoff’s XPlanar greatly increases testing capacity and throughput
Second Quarter 2023, Beckhoff Automation
In the Spring of 2021, Beckhoff began to completely rethink the way it carried out final inspections of I/O components. Its aim was to increase testing capacity and throughput significantly, even though many different types of terminals are produced.

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Bringing product innovations to Hannover Messe
Second Quarter 2023, DNH Tradeserve t/a DNH Technologies
This year’s Hannover Messe, from 17 to 21 April, featured maxon motor’s latest product developments, and was based on the theme of “more torque and more dynamics in the smallest of spaces”.

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Large WEG motors on oil rigs
First Quarter 2023, WEG Africa
Classified as hazardous areas, offshore oil rigs require that any equipment installed on them is designed and certified accordingly – including electric motors to drive critical gas compressors.  ...

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Durable drives for belt conveyor systems
First Quarter 2023, Bearing Man Group T/A BMG
BMG’s new NORD MAXXDRIVE-XT industrial gearboxes, which were launched at the Electra Mining trade show last year, have been well received by leaders in bulk logistics, particularly for use in belt conveyor ...

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New high-tech facility for SEW-EURODRIVE
First Quarter 2023, SEW-EURODRIVE
SEW-EURODRIVE South Africa recently moved into its new state-of-the-art 26 000 m2 headquarters complex in Aeroton, Johannesburg. The new complex more than triples the floor and factory space that was ...

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A new breed of transport system
First Quarter 2023, Beckhoff Automation, Editor's Choice
Planar movers that travel like flying carpets are creating new possibilities in machine design. XPlanar, a new breed of transport system based on floating planar movers able to travel freely over a floor of planar tiles, brings unprecedented flexibility to product transport, and could revolutionise manufacturing plant and machine design.

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Automated cultivation of biomass
First Quarter 2023, Festo South Africa, Editor's Choice
Algae are extremely efficient photosynthesisers, and absorb ten times more carbon dioxide than land plants. In bioreactors equipped with appropriate sensors, control technology and automation, the efficiency of algae can be increased to a hundred times that of land plants. The PhotoBionicCell research project, part of the Festo Bionic Learning Network, is demonstrating a potential approach for industrial biologisation in the future.

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MV motors deliver reliability and better total cost
First Quarter 2023, WEG Africa
Many critical industrial and other applications can benefit from medium voltage (MV) electric motors, due to their reliability and low total cost of ownership. According to Zest WEG sales specialist, ...

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Test rig for new generation rotor blades
First Quarter 2023, Beckhoff Automation
There’s no mistaking the Blaest headquarters on the shores of the Limfjord in Norway, where rows of white wind turbine blades dominate the horizon. In 2005 the load bearing capacity of the blades was ...

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Modular drives for power generation
First Quarter 2023, SEW-EURODRIVE
To best meet urgent local needs and harsh conditions with massively improved lead times, SEW-EURODRIVE is on a mission to localise its modular drive concept for a variety of industrial drive applications. ...

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Managing wear and friction in mini motors
Fourth Quarter 2022
Understanding the impact of friction and wear on a mini motor, as well as the factors that cause them, is a key specification requirement. Technically known as the study of tribology, the effects are ...

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Local assembly of MACC drives slashes lead times
Fourth Quarter 2022, SEW-EURODRIVE
SEW-EURODRIVE’s expanded local capability out of its new Aeroton facility will include the assembly of SEW MACC air-cooled condenser drives for delivery at a rate of three units per week, slashing current ...

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Introducing Commander S and Marshal
Fourth Quarter 2022, Nidec Control Techniques
Control Techniques is launching a new member to the Commander family of drives and a revolutionary app named Marshal. Commander S provides a solution for applications that require plug-and-play control ...

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Motion control in unmanned aircraft
Fourth Quarter 2022
Developed with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the overarching goal of the Gremlins Programme, managed by DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office, is to demonstrate ...

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Small robots in big telescopes
Fourth Quarter 2022, Horne Technologies
SDSS is a cooperative alliance of astrophysicists from around the world. They have already presented the largest 3D map of the universe, a milestone in astronomical research. Equipped with numerous ...

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Siemens and Nissan cooperate on electrified powertrains
Fourth Quarter 2022
Siemens is cooperating with Nissan to build production lines for the new all-electric crossover Nissan Ariya at the company’s plant in Tochigi, Japan. Nissan had already been using the Siemens Digital ...

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Electro-mechanical solutions
Fourth Quarter 2022
As an electro-mechanical solutions provider to many industries throughout Africa, including the mining sector, Vert Energy showcased products and services at this year’s Electra Mining Exhibition from ...

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High tech drive solution
Fourth Quarter 2022, SEW-EURODRIVE
One of the star attractions at SEW-EURODRIVE’s stand at the Electra Mining Africa 2022 exhibition was the company’s new generation MOVI-C all-in-one modular drive solution, which had its African launch ...

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Large motors for oil rigs
Fourth Quarter 2022, WEG Africa
Classified as hazardous areas, offshore oil rigs require that any equipment installed on them is designed and certified accordingly – including electric motors to drive critical gas compressors.  ...

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