Southco

LUCTRA® SUCCESS HINGES ON SOUTHCO SOLUTION

When Durable, a global specialist in premium office furniture and accessories, needed a robust friction hinge for its LUCTRA® lighting system range, the company turned to Southco. Southco’s market-leading technical and engineering expertise, coupled with its aptitude for bespoke products, helped to deliver a winning solution for Durable and its customers.

Morgan Advanced Materials

NEW SENSORS DELIVER UNRIVALLED ACCURACY IN OIL & GAS APPLICATIONS

Morgan Advanced Materials has launched a new range of high-accuracy sensors for the oil & gas extraction sector, harnessing the unique capabilities of its proprietary piezoelectric materials which can provide reliable sensing and monitoring in high-temperature environments above 200ºC.

Southco

SOUTHCO LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCT HANDBOOK FOR 2015

Southco, Inc., a global leader in engineered access solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of its 2015 product catalog. Southco Handbook 65 is the leading global resource for best-in-class engineered access hardware solutions, providing solutions to engineering design challenges for over 70 years.

PORTESCAP

Athlonix 22DCP Brush DC Motors deliver speed-to-torque performance in a cost-efficient package

Portescap introduces the next generation of Athlonix™ high power density brush DC motors. Athlonix DCP motors offer an optimized price-to-performance solution ideal for a broad spectrum of applications. Available in a 22mm diameter, the new 22DCP motor will feature an energy efficient coreless design with an optimized self-supporting coil and magnetic circuit, which delivers maximized power density and sustained endurance over the life of the motor.

Advantech

Panel Express, the new and flexible HMI/SCADA from Advantech

September 2015 – The latest in the Advantech family is an application-ready solution that brings together a rugged hardware platform (a Panel PC or an embedded fanless PC), and a user-friendly HMI interface. Panel Express is the perfect one-stop solution for all customers that are looking for a unique supplier providing efficient, integrated solutions to support various demanding tasks in harsh and industrial environments, where ruggedness is the key feature.

Morgan Advanced Materials

Morgan launches brush gear upgrade for Vestas wind turbines

Morgan Advanced Materials has further enhanced its range of market-leading products for the wind energy sector with the addition of a new brush gear for users of Vestas V52 to V80 series wind turbines.

NORD Drivesystems

New heart beating in all NORD inverters

Bargteheide – In a design change implemented from October 1, 2015, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS will equip all motor-mounted and cabinet-installed frequency inverters with new, more versatile microcontrollers and a new firmware. Notably, this architectural upgrade enables the inverters originally designed for asynchronous motors to also control synchronous motors, which is becoming increasingly important particularly with the advent of IE4 efficiency motors. Highly dynamic drive tasks can now be executed even without encoder feedback. There are substantial benefits: for instance, customers who have been using IE3 motors with an encoder can save energy and costs by switching to IE4 motors without an encoder. Moreover, new generation NORD inverters are capable of performing drive-related PLC functions, which can significantly relieve external controllers. In some cases, previously used mini-controllers may even become redundant and be completely omitted. The inverters support the manufacturer-independent PLCopen function blocks for motion control. They can be freely programmed according to IEC 61131-3 in “Structured Text” or “Instruction List”. This makes application development less complex and reduces the associated costs. Customer-specific drive-related functions can be implemented by means of the inverter PLC without an application-specific firmware and free from cost-intensive verification and validation.

NSK

A steel processing plant has converter’s main bearings replaced with special NSK split spherical roller bearings

NSK has successfully replaced one-piece spherical roller bearings with specially-manufactured split bearings in the converter of a European stainless steel plant. Demonstrating utmost precision and care, this challenging service task was completed in just three days.

IMI

Valve Doctors® provide bespoke solution to increase power generation at nuclear plant

When the engineers at Exelon's Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station (PBAPS), located in Pennsylvania, had to upgrade the facility's residual heat removal (RHR) system, they called upon the expertise of IMI Critical Engineering, a leading global provider of flow control solutions. The result was a bespoke solution and customised testing programme that have complied with very demanding specifications to ensure efficiency, safety and regulatory compliance.

PEPPERL+FUCHS PROCESS AUTOMATION

PEPPERL+FUCHS ACQUIRES ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING PROVIDERS OF HART PROTOCOL DEVICES

Twinsburg, Ohio – Aug. 28, 2015 – Pepperl+Fuchs, a world leader in process automation and applications, has acquired MACTek Corporation, a leading provider of HART protocol devices. The move is part of Pepperl+Fuch’s strategy to further extend its integrated solutions offerings and strengthen its position in the WirelessHART market.

Join the 155,000+ IMP followers