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Motion Control <strong>PRODUCT</strong>S Single-axis controller Galil Motion Control has announced its latest drive option for the DMC-30000 Pocket Motion Controller Series. The new DMC- 30016 combines a single-axis motion controller with a 1.4 A/phase stepper drive in a compact unit. The controller drives a two-phase bipolar stepper motor in full-step, halfstep, ¼ step or 1/16 step. The unit is user configurable from 0.5 to 1.4 A per phase in 10 mA increments at 12 to 30 Vdc. The controller/drive package is 3.9 x 5.0 x 1.5 in. www.galilmc.com Programmable servo drives for single axis control Kollmorgen has introduced AKD BASIC servo drives. The Ethernet-based drives feature an integrated single axis motion controller. The camming, s-curve and freeform motion profile capabilities delivered by the integrated motion controller, combined with the simplicity of BASIC programming language and a built-in Program Editor with debugging tools, is said to enable machine builders to easily execute complex processes, faster. A Programming Editor is integrated into the same AKD WorkBench application as the rest of the AKD servo drive family; no extra software package is required. www.kollmorgen.com Brush DC motors Portescap has introduced 12GS motors to its Athlonix platform of highpower density brush DC motors. The 13.5 g package offers output power up to 1.2 W and the motors provide maximum continuous torque up to 1.5 mNm. The motors feature an energy efficient coreless design with an optimized self-supporting coil and magnetic circuit to maximize density, the company says. Units are compatible with incremental encoders and gearheads of various sizes and ratios. They are manufactured in an ISO certified facility and are RoHS compliant. www.portescap.com Motion Control FEATURE Slide bush components inspire designs Printer assembly and linear digital measuring device applications benefit By Larry Hansen Specialty Motions, Inc. (SMI), a linear motion components distributorship in California, was inspired by simplicity – the simplicity of creating assemblies that solved motion control problems. Specialty Motions is now both a distributor and a manufacturer For example, a client’s need for an inexpensive, easy to maintain way to load material into a printing system led SMI (www.smi4motion.com) to create a simple, reliable X/Y assembly. SMI attached aluminum pillow block slide bush components to a custom machined metal plate. SMI founder Tom Corey explains the choice: “If something were to happen – say it (a bearing) wears out over time – and everything wears out – it is so easy to replace the bearings inside an NB Corp. of America (one of the manufacturers that SMI carries) pillow block as opposed to Side view of SMI’s linear digital measuring device (LDMD) designed with the TOPBALL selfaligning slide bush line (inset) from NB Corp. the competition. “With (product from) NB, all you do is take four fasteners off the bottom, remove a skip plate and the old bearing slides out. You put the new bearing in place, put four fasteners back in and you’re off and running again. With the competition on the other hand, they’re pinned in place by a roll pin. You have to either destroy the pillow block or the roll pin to get this thing apart and typically you can’t get the new one back in using the same hole. ‘With the NB product you can replace the bearings internally without destroying the block. With the competition you have to replace the whole block and it is twice as expensive.” In the case of another SMI customer application, SMI needed to measure long flat, square or round materials, such as shafts, right at the shop floor – beyond what the typical vernier caliper could measure. To construct the measuring device, they used the open pillow block slide bush type TW8UU from NB’s TOPBALL self-aligning slide bush line. SMI combined a half-inch slide bush with a shaft and incorporated a 120 in. linear scale with a Digital Read Out. The DRO consistently reads where the carriage is relative to the end plate. The linear digital measuring device (LDMD) can be fixed or mobile. A “VEE” groove allows the material to accurately nest for measurement. The LDMD is capable of accuracies up to ±.001 in. and any length up to 120 in. The unique characteristics of a tremendous variety of reliable and easy to maintain slide bush components made all of these assemblies cost effective. Now SMI is both a distributor and a manufacturer. Larry Hansen is Director and General Sales Manager at NB Corp. of America. NB linear motion products are represented in Canada by RotoPrecision Inc. (www.rotoprecision.ca). www.nbcorporation.com 14 Design Product News • www.dpncanada.com February 2013
CAD Chronicle 3D CAD in the cloud for design, collaboration Autodesk has introduced Fusion 360 that permits 3D design and collaboration in the cloud. Currently rolled out in a Beta Program, the cloud software is said to: realize design ideas faster using an intuitive interface and built in guidance; go from downloading to designing in a matter of minutes on a Mac or PC; share design ideas using social “media” tools. http://autode.sk/fusion360 LBP-003 (CN 4.25 X 7.25).ai 1 12/20/2011 8:26:23 AM Synchronous technology for mainstream CAD Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software business unit has introduced a new 3D CAD editing tool to the mainstream market, based on synchronous technology, that has been shown to increase productivity by a factor of ten or more when working with imported CAD data. Available to users of any CAD application, the 3DSync application can be used at no charge until May 15, 2013. www.siemens.com/plm/3dsync. 3D online configurator Bimba Manufacturing and CADENAS PARTsolutions (www.partsolutions.com), a provider of 3D parts catalogs and online configurators, have announced the addition of 3D functionality to Bimba’s online CAD models. The CAD configurator allows all configured and generated CAD models to be viewed by Bimba customers in 3D with traditional 3D glasses. www.bimba.com Application finds and applies materials Granta Design has announced the latest release of Granta MIT, a materials information management system for engineering enterprises. Version 6 contains new features to manage and search materials data, expanded integration with key CAD and CAE software – including Ansys Workbench, Siemens NX, Pro/E and Abaqus – and data and tools for considering automotive steels, restricted substances and surface treatments. www.grantadesign.com C M Y CM MY CY CMY K February 2013 www.dpncanada.com • Design Product News 15 Amacoil_<strong>DPN</strong>_Feb.indd 1 2012-12-18 8:54 AM
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