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E-T-A Circuit Breakers has announced the
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DS SolidWorks has announced SolidWorks
Premium 2010 contains SustainabilityXpress
functionality that considers how
materials are produced, parts are manufactured,
products are used, and finally disposed
of. The software now also includes
a mouse gestures heads-up display to perform
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GEA ViEX, a Canadian manufacturer
of industrial heat exchangers
in Newmarket, ON, required
a method to weld stainless steel
heat exchanger cassettes together
with consistent, high quality welds.
Heat exchangers from GEA ViEX (www.
gea-viex.com) are used in industries such as
food, oil/gas, petrochemical, chemical, motor,
pulp and paper, metal refining and ethanol.
For the cassette welder design and build,
GEA ViEX had to look no further than across
its parking lot to enlist the help of neighbor
Mecsmart Systems Inc. (www.mecsmart.
com). Mecsmart is a special purpose machinery
builder and custom automation house,
with experience in automation and machinery
in many different industries. Mecsmart
had previously worked with GEA ViEX designing
and integrating a CNC spot welder
for large sheet steel panels. Working together
with GEA ViEX, Mecsmart developed an automated
method of welding stacks of stainless
steel cassettes together.
According to Mecsmart president Walter
Roethlisberger, the fixture design “had to accommodate
two different widths and four different
depths, in any combination for future
production.” John Broschell, GEA ViEX Inc.
president and CEO, said that the flexible design
will “further allow us to attack the market
in a cost-effective manner.”
For the seam welding operation, plasma
welding was selected; it does not spatter or require
material be added (additional expense,
even more so for stainless steel) like MIG
welding does. It is faster and requires less
maintenance than TIG welding and also has
less weld contamination from electrode wear
than TIG. The cassette plasma welding system
design supplied by Thermal Arc consists of a
WC100B weld console and PWM-300 torch,
and a Powermaster 500 dc power supply.
Roethlisberger explained that one of the
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4 Design Product News
dpncanada.com November/December September 2009 2007
In this issue
DEPARTMENTS:
6
By Design
Bosch Rexroth Canada invests
$1.5 million on hydraulic
manifold production facility
E-T-A Circuit Breakers rolls out
safety circuit protection and
over current technology
Festo hosts Mobile
Mechatronics Lab
PTDA Canadian conference tackles
economic recession and recovery
6
Power Transmission Distributors Association members Ajay Bajaj
of Rotator Products (left) and Paul Meo of NTN Bearing were
MCs of a PT/MC conference that demonstrated how companies
can meet challenges in a harsh economic climate.
12
Festo automation expertise helps
streamline material handling design
When custom material handling specialist Brandelle was
contracted to build an automated workcell for client
Blount, it provided specs for Festo’s set of engineering
software tools to determine component types and sizes.
13
14
16
Bearings Product
Spotlight
Bearing products and
technology
Motion Control
Special Focus
Nook Industries looks at
designing linear motion
component medical apps
CAD Industry Watch
Bill Fane reviews parametric
drawing application
DoubleCAD XT
21
Medical Engineering
Mark Sunderland shows how
innovation can keep you
competitive in a down market
25
Advisory Board Directions
John Bachmann develops
and delivers online curriculum
for Industrial Careers Pathway
Electronic controls make dual-clutch
transmission more accessible
DCT manufacturers say their units provide the convenience of
planetary automatic, and equal or exceed the efficiency and
fuel economy of a conventional manual transmission,
according to Automotive Scene columnist Bill Vance.
DPN editor
Mike Edwards
24 26
HyperWorks 10.0 CAE platform offers
more graphical & analysis horsepower
Altair Engineering has announced its latest CAE
software suite has greater power to solve multi-body
dynamics problems such as those posed by vehicle
collisions, acoustics and hydraulics/pneumatics systems.
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Clippard .........................................28
Conductix Corp. .............................13
Cords Canada ................................10
Craftech Industries .........................26
Festo ................................................5
Kinecor ...........................................11
Lapp Canada ..................................15
Magnetek .......................................25
Master Bond ..................................16
MFG.com .......................................26
MicroMo Electronics ......................14
M.W. Fasteners ..............................13
Omega .............................................2
Pivot Point .....................................24
PTC ................................................19
Ringball .....................................12,13
Rittal Systems ................................22
SAB North America ........................27
Seal Master Corp. .............................8
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Siemens PLM Software ..................17
Smalley Steel Ring .........................18
Solidworks .....................................21
Williams Fluidair Corp ....................22
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September 2009 dpncanada.com
Design Product News 5
Renderings
Getting through the recession with innovation:
customer focus stimulus plan “v. 1.3”
By Mike Edwards, Editor
The headline above is taken from
the title of an essay published online
earlier this year by David Duncan,
an industrial designer and president
of IDWS.ca of St. Catharines, ON.
Most people in business understand that
standing pat, even in the best of economic
times, isn’t an option. “Complacency can
start to creep into a company and mediocrity
can allow competitors to take away
market share if nothing is initiated,” says
Duncan, whose firms helps companies develop
“Form with Function.”
It seems that once manufacturers have
hacked and slashed operations to stop the
bleeding in this recession, they have to ask
themselves, “then what do we do”
Duncan’s whimsical “v. 1.3” could
mean anything, of course, but what it
does indicate is the need for a plan. “Most
corporations know relatively well how
to house clean and manage the cost and
expense side of the business, but generating
future products and innovations
will be the challenge for going forward,”
Duncan states in his blog at www.idws.
ca/blog/p=15.
Complacency and
mediocrity can allow
competitors to take
away market share
He notes that corporations such as
Xerox are preserving their investments
in research and development, listening to
their customers and not trading off the future
for short-term bottom-line goals.
“The questions companies need to be
asking are varied but some might be the
following: Where should we be in one
year, three years or five years for competitive
advantage What internal stimulus
plan is in place to motivate our customer
base What products will bring income
back into the company at the end of this
recession What will inspire consumer
confidence in the future; will it be as
simple as having the best-in-class product
available Will we be able to recognize a
future need for the end user Will we be
able to differentiate ourselves with the
right market trends”
The road to customer-satisfying innovation
isn’t easy for new products developers,
notes Duncan. “One of the most
difficult parts of being innovative – the
doing of new things, is giving that new
‘thing’ a body, a face – the creative style,
feel and shape, that ‘wow’ factor to gain
market share.
“This creative process for marketability
is well developed in the automotive
industry. Well before heavy investment is
spent on engineering a vehicle, industrial
designers create multiple concept sketches,
3D computer models and clay models
of an idea. These virtual vehicles show the
‘vision’ of the new product, in a format
that can be reviewed by management, engineering,
marketing and focus groups.
“The bottom line for companies will
be the need to preserve cash, keep operations
fluid, and at the same time develop
innovative and stylish products. This
might be okay for large corporations to
absorb, but what if modifying a product
is done only once every couple of years”
asks Duncan.
His idea for companies to keep “moving
forward with ideas” is to implement
an “Open Innovation” business model.
“The general idea behind the concept
is to restructure some of the product de-
velopment overhead, by using external
firms with experience in specific areas of
R&D.
“For example; outsourcing the industrial
design segment of the product development
process means that a company
can utilize the same design strategies as
seen at Apple and General Motors, but
at a more manageable level. “Coordinating
the in-house process with outsourced
knowledge means that a company can
decrease the time to market and increase
the customer focused value of the end
product. Traditional production methods
are changing, and the Open Innovation
model has many facets for a company’s
product life cycle.
“It is a process that will need to be
evaluated and customized as companies
try to stay innovative and competitive in
this global economy.”
If you found Renderings interesting, please send
a message to medwards@clbmedia.ca.
Festo Inc.
Tel: 1-877 GO FESTO
Fax: 1-877 FX FESTO
festo.canada@ca.festo.com
www.festo.ca

6 Design Product News
dpncanada.com September 2009
By Design
Altair HyperWorks 10.0 seminar
attracts Canadian engineers
MILTON, ON – Altair Engineering
Canada Ltd. hosted a briefing seminar
for Canadian customers to introduce the
version of its CAE software suite, Hyper-
Works 10.0 (www.altairhyperworks.ca)
Presenter David Kirby said that HyperMesh,
Altair’s flagship product for
finite element pre-processing, includes
several new algorithms for tetrahedral,
hexahedral, “mesh flow” and mid-surface
meshing. Other presentations covered
MotionView and MotionSolve for multibody
dynamics solutions, HyperView
and HyperGraph illustrating advances
in performance visualization, and Optistruct/HyperStudy
for advances in optimization.
The new release builds upon the
breadth of solver solutions and computation
speed of RADIOSS, Altair’s advanced
integrated solver. RADIOSS 10.0,
an implicit and explicit solver technology
for linear, nonlinear and crashworthiness
problems, delivers an even broader solution
scope and new element formulations
that enable analyses to be completed up
to seven times faster than before.
“HyperWorks’ finite element and mo-
Jean-Pierre Roux (right), president of Altair Engineering
Canada, with seminar presenters David Kirby (left),
senior application engineer and Gregory Delbridge,
application engineer. Canadian customers now have
access to HyperWorks 10.0, Altair’s CAE software suite.
tion analysis solvers, RADIOSS and MotionSolve,
span the most popular and demanding
solution types while delivering
benchmarked accuracy, speed and costeffective
scalability that are required today,”
said Dr. Uwe Schramm, chief technology
officer for HyperWorks.
“HyperWorks 10.0 lets engineers be
engineers,” said Altair HyperWorks vice
president Jeffrey Brennan.
E-T-A intros circuit protection technologies
E-T-A Circuit Breakers (www.e-t-a.ca) has introduced new
over current detection and circuit breaker technologies for the
Canadian market. Its TD and 9001 Hall effect current detectors
protect power semiconductors in power electronic circuits by signaling
when current in the circuit has exceeded the nominal detector
trip point. In addition, the ESX10-T SMART Circuit Breaker has
Hazardous Location Certification and CSA approval. The company
has been introducing it to design engineers especially in the oil
and gas, chemical processing and mining industries.
Bob Ashmore of E-T-A demos ESX10-T circuit protection technology.
A new $1.5 million CNC machine and CAM software package will build customized hydraulic manifolds
for Bosch Rexroth Canada customers efficiently and for a competitive price.
Bosch Rexroth Canada makes
major investment
Bosch Rexroth Canada (www.boschrexroth.ca)
is beating the recession
blues for both itself and its customers
by installing a new $1.5 million CNC
machine and CAM software package
that uses the latest technology to build
customized hydraulic manifolds for its
customers efficiently and for a competitive
price.
In the current tough economic conditions,
Bosch Rexroth is continuing
to make investments centered around
customer satisfaction, including implementing
lean programs such as 5S, BPS
(Bosch Production Systems) and continuous
improvement of its processes and
technology,
According to Dino Paladino, general
manager, Systems, with Bosch Rexroth
Canada. “Investing in state-of-the-art
equipment and personnel training is key
to our commitment to maintaining the
level of service and satisfaction customers
expect from Bosch Rexroth.”
The new Mazak HCN 6800 horizontal
machining centre will provide the
Welland facility with added flexibility
and capacity to manufacture custom
manifold blocks for Bosch Rexroth’s
hydraulic solutions. A team of application
engineers and designers develop the
integrated circuits and manifold designs,
and then forward the information to the
machining centre for manufacturing.
As part of the project, Bosch Rexroth
also implemented new CAM software to
help improve the process. The software
is Delcam’s FeatureCAM, which recognizes
the features of the manifold block
from the original three dimensional
model, identifies the tooling required to
manufacture the block, then creates the
required machine code.
“The FeatureCAM software will
eliminate the majority of programming
typically required when trying to transfer
information from our design group
to the machine.
“We realize that our market will be
significantly changed after this downturn,”
Paladino says. “Bosch Rexroth
Canada remains optimistic that business
conditions will improve and this large
equipment investment ensures we will
continue to be a leading solution provider
for hydraulic systems in Canada.”
News in
Brief
Bosch Rexroth BC region
Christoph Neuscheler has been appointed
regional manager for Bosch
Rexroth Canada’s BC region (www.
boschrexroth.ca). Neuscheler is based
in Burnaby, BC.
Beckhoff packaging
Beckhoff Automation has has appointed
Joe Martin has as the company’s
Packaging and Converting sales
manager for North America (www.
beckhoffautomation.com/packaging).
Maplesoft acquired
Maplesoft (www.maplesoft.com) of
Waterloo, ON, has announced that
it has signed a definitive agreement
to be acquired by Cybernet Systems
Co., Ltd. of Tokyo.
PTDA welcomes AGM
AGM Canada Ltd. (www.agmcanada.
com) has joined the Power Transmission
Distributors Association (www.
ptda.org) as a distributor member.
AGM distributes bearings, fluid power,
PT and motion control products.
October 19-22, 2009. Toronto. Canadian
Manufacturing Technology Show presented by
the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (sme.
org/events).
October 22-24, 2009. San Diego, CA. PTDA
2009 Industry Summit of the Power Transmission
Distributors Association is co-located with the
Beckhoff’s “Automation UpDate” a hit
TORONTO – Beckhoff Automation (www.beckhoff.ca) brought
its “Automation UpDate” seminar series tour here earlier in the
summer. The technical presentations featured six primary product
developers and export managers from Beckhoff, as well as
a unique mix of local machine builders who detailed their successes
using automation and controls technology from Beckhoff.
Graham Harris, president, Beckhoff Automation.
Festo Mobile Mechatronics Lab rolls in
MISSISSAUGA, ON – The Festo Mobile Mechatronics
Lab made a stop here last before motoring on to World-
Skills 2009 in Calgary this month. The 53 (l) x 25 (w) x 14
(h) ft trailer can accommodate up to 40 seats for a classroom
setup with a 55 in. LCD screen for presentations
and videos, as well as more than 20 dynamic displays and
20 static product boards demonstrating hundreds of advanced
automation components from pneumatics, electromechanical
and process automation sectors.
Calendar
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Don McCrudden,
Festo national sales manager.
FPDA Fall Networking Symposium (www.ptda.
org).
December 1-3, 2009. Las Vegas. Autodesk
University 2009 conference for users of
Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Alias and other
software products (http://au.autodesk.com/
AU2009).
PTDA executive director Mary Sue Lyons:
“differentiate your company from the competitors.”
Power transmission
conference focused on
state of the market
NIAGARA FALLS, ON – The 2009
Power Transmission Distributors Association
(www.ptda.org) Canadian
Conference brought together the power
transmission/motion control industry’s
leaders for an insiders’ focus on
Canadian industry trends. Held in May
here, participants left the conference
with a heightened understanding of the
drivers of the Canadian economy and
associated opportunities for power
transmission/motion control (PT/MC)
manufacturers and distributors.
Jayson Myers, president of the Canadian
Manufacturers & Exporters,
(www.cme-mec.ca)reiterated the importance
of manufacturing in Canada.

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To allow maximum flexibility and future expandability, the welder
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motion moves it along the weld. With this configuration, different
stack heights and widths are easily programmed, without requiring
changeover in the weld tooling. The track motion eliminates the robot
reach as the limiting factor of weld length, allowing welds up to
4.8 m long to be completed in a single pass.
To address any waviness or bow to the parts, as well as width
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weld head. The weld head tracks vertically on a roller and the weld
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clamping wheels.
Combining the plasma welder, robot, track motion and float-
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stainless steel heat exchange plates to be
seam welded to cassettes with no filler
wire added, providing more than double
the speed of manual GTAW welding.
Cassettes are clamped in fixtures
which are loaded by crane into a Preston-Eastin
HSTS-320 headstock-tailstock
unit. Headstock and tailstock are
mounted to a common base to ensure
alignment. It is driven by an ABB MU-30
servomotor and controlled as a seventh
axis by the ABB robot controller.
The purpose of the fixtures is twofold;
to position the stack of cassettes
for welding, and to clamp the stack of
cassettes together to the correct height,
ensuring there are no gaps at the seams.
The system was designed with two fixtures,
so that one fixture could be loaded
and prepared in an external loading base,
while the other stack is being welded increasing
machine up-time.
Combinging the plasma welder, robot, track
motion and floating weld head allows up to 3
mm thick stainless steel heat exchange plates to
be seam welded to cassettes with no filler wire
added, providing more than double the speed of
manual GTAW welding.
Unloading a finished stack and reloading
the fixture can take up to three hours
as the cassettes and stacks are so large that
they must be handled with an overhead
crane. If only a single fixture was used, the
machine would be down that entire time.
Instead load and unload times are accelerated
by a factor of 6 times.
To ensure ease of sourcing for replacement
parts and maintenance, components
from established, well represented
supplier were used, including Festo
pneumatics and valves, Allen-Bradley
PLC and HMI, THK linear guides and
blocks, and Schunk grippers.
To allow the operator to view the
weld without having to stop the machine
and enter the safety fence, a camera was
mounted behind weld head and a monitor
was mounted above the operator interface.
The system is Ethernet connected,
so that the camera can be monitored
within the plant over Ethernet or external
to the plant over the Internet.
Broschell is pleased with the working
relationship of the two companies and
the expertise of Mecsmart.
“It’s a joint effort...(and) having them as
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Products: Factory Automation
Code-reading systems
The stationary 1D/2D code readers from
the Siemens Industry Automation Division
are said to be characterized by a high
reading reliability and speed, as well as by
diverse communication and connection
possibilities. A primary use of the Simatic
MV440 code-reading systems, which feature
high protection rating IP67, is for
reading data matrix codes such as direct
part marks (DPMs) on objects under difficult
ambient conditions in an industrial
environment.
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Fieldbus planning software
Pepperl+Fuchs has introduced the Field-
Connex Smartplant Symbol library. Designed
for EPCs and plant builders looking
to plan fieldbus segments or to keep
their documentation current, the library is
an add-on that extends Smartplant planning
software with FieldConnex fieldbus
infrastructure components. The library
includes verified standard symbols for all
components of the FieldConnex fieldbus
infrastructure.
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Transduction has introduced the TR-
6190 and TR-6001 industrial PCs with
NEMA 4, 19- and 15-in. TFT LCD
screen. Units include Intel Core 2 Quad,
Core 2 Duo or Celeron D processors with
800/1066/1333FSB, dual gigabits LAN, 2
x USB 2.0, 2 x COM and 1 x LPT ports. It
also includes 2 x ISA and 4 x PCI expansion
slots. Input power options include
110/220 Vac and 12, 24, 48, 125 and
250 Vdc. The systems include up to 4 GB
DDR2 667/800 MHz memory. Operating
temperature is 0° to 60°C and actual
MTBF is in excess of 100,000 h.
www.transduction.com
Interface cables, modules
Weidmuller has introduced a line of preassembled
specific Interface cables along
with an expanded line of universal Interface
modules. Each assembly features a
jacketed round cable that is attached directly
to the original connectors for each
PLC model I/O card, which plugs into
the PLC I/O card for signal termination.
A shielded Sub-D connector (15, 25 or
37 pole options) with shielded 24 AWG
cabling is offered. Industrial connectors
rated up to 250 V and 8 A are available
for higher voltage signals.
www.weidmuller.ca
Fibre optic cable assemblies
HARTING has announced the availability
of LC fibre optic cable assemblies rated
for outdoor use and multimode applications.
The cable is pre-assembled with
HARTING’s outdoor rated PushPull
LC connector and available in various
lengths. Single-ended versions are offered
as well, allowing customers the flexibility
to assemble the second connector as
needed. Features include: protection level
IP65/IP67; 2-fibre multimode (62.5 µm);
typical wavelength 850 and 1310 nm.
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Feature: Factory Automation
Brandelle and Festo team up on material handling
to ensure Blount chain saw bars “make the cut”
By Mike Edwards
When any logger – weekend warrior
or forestry veteran – picks
up a chain saw, it’s important
to know that the tool is sharp and true.
To automate its inspection of cutting
bar production, the Guelph, ON-based
Oregon Cutting Systems Group of
Blount (www.oregonchain.ca) turned to
Brandelle Industries of nearby Milton,
ON (www.brandelle.ca). Blount manufactures
quality cutting system products
Particularly
challenging was the
cutting bar material
handling system
under the OREGON brand name, it produces
professional solid, solid harvester
and Pro-Lite guide bars for professional,
commercial and consumer wood cutters
and is exported to over 130 countries.
The company brands bars for many
major chainsaw manufacturers and sells
Oregon-brand in the replacement market
worldwide.
Brandelle has a strong presence in the
automotive material handling and test
fixture sectors, along with utilities, food
processing and material handling, specializing
in ergonomic lift assist systems and
gantry end-of-arm tooling.
It was commissioned by Blount to
design and build an automated workcell
that could handle and inspect cutting
bars in ranges from 11 to 47 in. and 1.5
to 16 lb. Rejected parts would have to be
separated for a neighboring straightening
press and inspection workstation.
According to Vincent Gohl, engineering
supervisor at Blount Canada,
“Brandelle provided a well designed, cost
effective solution for this project,” said
Gohl. “To date I am very happy with the
project and the material handling equipment
Brandelle has built.”
According to Brandelle co-owner and
project lead designer Gary Bot, there
were a number engineering component
issues that needed addressing quickly
to meet Blount’s delivery expectations.
Particularly challenging was the vacuum
technology and shock absorption properties
of the cutting bar material handling
system, so that bar cleanliness and orientation
wouldn’t lead to dropped units.
Stepping in to assist Brandelle was a
design team from Festo Inc., located in
Mississauga ON (www.festo.com). With
parameters outlined by Brandelle, Festo
was able to employ their suite of engineering
software tools to determine component
types and sizes. “This software is a
real time-saver,” said James MacDonald,
Festo Assembly & Handling Account
Manager and lead team liaison with
Brandelle. “It spits out every component
necessary for the customer application.”
Festo software includes
PositioningDrives for electro-mechanical
linear drives, pneumatic sizing using the
ProNeu expert system, vacuum selection,
tube selection, air consumption, selecting
grippers, selecting shock absorbers,
calculating mass moment of inertia,
Soft Stop for reducing travel times, and
bearing guide calculation for pneumatic
linear drives.
The critical suction cup component
recommended and implemented was 8
pieces of the 50 mm diameter Festo
ESS, which is made from Bayer AG’s
Vulkollan material. The material is unaffected
by deep-drawing oils on the cutting
bar plates, such as Tizinol.
The pick and place systems were
designed with Festo’s toothed belt axis
ECG and HGPL long-stroke gripper,
among many other Festo components
such as vacuum generator, servo motors,
proximity sensors, linear drive and motor
The critical suction cup component recommended and implemented was the 50 mm diameter Festo ESS,
which is made from Bayer AG’s Vulkollan material. The material is unaffected by deep-drawing oils on the
cutting bar plates.
control unit that made up 85% of the
project’s bill of materials.
“We didn’t have a lot of time – only
a one-month design and build window,”
said Bot. “At the quotation period with
Blount we consulted with Festo immediately.
They provided an advanced BOM
to structure the job, we proceeded to
heavy engineering and then verified with
the customer. “There’s no one in the
pneumatics industry that can touch Festo
for delivery times.”
Gary Bot and his co-owner partner,
Mike Brouwers, founded Brandelle four
years ago, partly with the expertise from
the Brouwer’s Machine & Tool business.
This expertise allows Brandelle to manu-
facture custom machined components
in-house for quick turnarounds on its
projects, Bot explained.
Brandelle currently has mechanical
and electrical engineers on staff, as well
as tool and die makers. Besides automated
material handling systems, Brandelle
can also design printed circuit boards for
custom applications. The company has
just been ISO 9001 and 14001 certified.
A sister company, Brandelle Biomass
(www.brandellebiomass.com), has just
been formed that manufacturers solid fuel
boilers that consume wood pellets, switch
grass pellets, wheat shorts/oat hulls, corn,
wood chips and firewood. Biomass units
are current pending CSA approval.
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Products: Bearings
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glass balls are available for maximum
corrosion resistance. They are
available for varying shaft diameters
and are temperature resistant up to
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Linear, rotary bearings
LM76 has introduced plain bearings
that employ advanced PTFE polymers,
ceramic, and specialty composites
for linear and rotary applications.
Units are said to be quiet, low
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impact, and shock. They are also
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Thomson has introduced stainless
steel “A” Ball Bushing bearings. Units
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rust and corrosion resistance while
providing system rigidity in temperatures
up to 315 C. They also provide
steady state travel speeds up to 10
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precision up to a maximum of 600
mm for the ball screw design, and up
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They measure 70 x 32 mm (W
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efficient bearings for powertrain applications.
They have been calculated
to reduce friction by up to 30%
CO2 emissions by up to 13 g/mile
for a four wheel powertrain. The
line includes tapered roller bearing,
driveline angular contact bearings,
and pinion units based on doublerow
ball bearing units. SKF’s VEP
software allows for the calculation
of bearing loads on rollers or balls
that are responsible for the bearing’s
friction.
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Dual seal bearing inserts
Quality Bearing & Components has
introduced the BBXINS series of
ball bearing inserts that feature dual
seal construction and fit shafts ranging
from 1/2 to 4 in. diameters. The
set screw type bearing inserts have
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effectively locks the shaft into place
so that the two turn as one. Widths
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Feature: Motion Control
Designing linear motion components
for medical applications
Advanced medical device designs
are evolving rapidly and demand
higher standards for medical liability.
Applying linear motion components
to these medical applications yield the best
results when collaboration begins at the
early stages of the design.
Modification to current parts or a
custom design may offer the optimum
solution; therefore, an emphasis must
be placed on collaboration during the
early stages of design with medical device
manufacturers.
Nook Industries offers a wide variety
of standard modular actuators and
ball screws for medical applications in
Because of their own pressure for miniaturization, the medical technology industry (as well as optics, etc.) are
increasingly demanding smaller ball screws.
their extensive catalog. As a leading linear
systems and components manufacturer,
Nook Industries recognizes that medical
application specifications often exceed
the capabilities of standard, catalogued
products. Nook leverages its decades of
expertise when modifying standard parts
or creating custom designs for medical
applications such as those that reflect the
Food and Drug Administration’s Quality
System Regulation 21 CFR-Part 280.
According to Nook Industries’ CEO,
Christopher Nook, “We often start with
the customer’s performance specifications
focused on the product’s expected life,
environmental conditions, material selection
and physical size. We then incorporate
enhancements to the product’s design
that address the rigors of most medical
applications.”
The following disciplined realization
process is executed for Nook medical
device applications.
Beginning with specification requirements
provided by the medical device
manufacturer, definition of design priorities
must be incorporated for finished
devices intended for human use including:
• Performance: load capacity and
length/range of travel requirements
• Efficiency: high-precision/lowprecision
• Accuracy: lead accuracy measured in
microns
• Envelope: compact
• Material Constraints: stainless
steel, magnetism/non-magnetism,
radioactive elements, etc.
• Operating Environment: non-direct
exposure with patients or attached to
the human body, etc.
Design reviews are conducted at
various stages involving comprehensive,
systematic, and documented examinations
of a design that will evaluate the
adequacy of the design requirements and
evaluate the capability of the design to
meet these requirements.
Designing a ball screw is not practical
if it can’t be consistently and efficiently
produced. Nook leverages SolidWorks
COSMOS software at this stage to provide
a full range of integrated modeling
and simulation that medical product
manufacturers need to design better products,
faster – and at lower cost.
Nook leverages
SolidWorks COSMOS
software for modeling
& simulation
With the growing worldwide shift
toward smaller packaged applicationstypically
requires lower load capacity and
higher precisions.
Nook’s Precision Screw Group has
recently introduced its Small Diameter Ball
Screw Assemblies (SD Ball Screw) designed
for smaller footprint applications to meet
the needs of these medical applications.
In addition to medical equipment, these
screws are used in robots, guided missiles,
unmanned vehicles and aerospace
applications.
The small diameter ball screw line was
developed as an extension to its Power-
Trac offering to provide design engineers
a globally accepted metric product for
compact, portable, and lightweight applications
requiring high accuracy, repeatability,
and durability.
The small diameter (below 10mm) ball
screws are designed with a load capacity
of 40 to 100 lb, and a high-precision (lead
accuracy measured in microns).
• Lead accuracy of: ± 100 µm/300 mm
– Standard Rolled (Carry, MRT)/±25
µm/300 mm – Precision Rolled
(PMT)
• Standard diameters from 6 to 12 mm
• Standard leads from 1 to 6 mm
According to Nook Industries CEO,
Christopher Nook, “The Small Diameter
(SD) Ball Screw’s small size and customizable
design offer precise, efficient movement
in a compact package for medical
device applications.”
This article was contributed by Nook
Industries.
www.nookindustries.com

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Technical
Literature
Environmental metal recovery. Eriez has
introduced a brochure about the company’s
eco-friendly products and sustainable practices
using technology for magnetic, vibratory
and inspection applications.
www.eriez.com
Overload safety couplings. 12-page Zero-
Max catalog of Torq Tender overload safety
couplings has been published. The overload
safety couplings disengage motor drives for
overload protection in models that will disengage
torques from 2 to 3000 in. lb.
www.zero-max.com
Vibration Mounts. The V115 CD-ROM from
Advanced Antivibration Components
features vibration mount catalogs and
eStore Interactive links to over 3000 products.
From the CD-ROM, users are able to
order online, request a quote, check stock,
and download 3D models.
www.vibrationmounts.com
Power products. The Phihong Technology
Power Solutions catalog includes fixed
and interchangeable-plug wall plug adapters,
car chargers, desktop adapters, open
frame power supplies, LED drivers, and
Power-over-Ethernet products.
www.phihong.com/catalog/index.html
Bearings, cable carriers. 2009 catalogs
from igus are available on CD-ROM. The
searchable CD features full versions of the
company’s cable carrier, continuous-flex
cables and bearings print catalogs, as well
as videos and links to CAD files.
www.igus.com
Vibration measurement. IOtech has
released the 2009 Vibration Measurement
and Analysis Solutions Catalog and is available
for download from the IOtech website.
Included in the catalog is the IOtech 600
Series of Dynamic Signal Analyzers (DSA).
www.iotech.com
Inch, metric components. Stock Drive
Products/Sterling Instrument has
announced a 360-page “Inch / Metric
Supplement Catalog, D795” CD catalog.
http://sdp-si.com/web/html/newprd-
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CAD Industry Watch
By Bill Fane
Are you a large operation
that suddenly
needs a few extra
basic CAD seats in a hurry
Are you a smaller operation
that only needs a few CAD
seats Do you only need a
CAD seat on an occasional
basis DoubleCAD XT
from IMSI/Design could be
the answer.
DoubleCAD XT is available
as a free download
from http://www.doublecad.com/Download/
tabid/1128/Default.aspx.
That’s right; a fully-functional
unlimited commercial-use
license is free.
DoubleCAD XT 1.1
claims to be AutoCAD LT
2009 compatible workalike,
with 2010 “coming.”
My first impression was
that DoubleCAD XT 1.1 looks almost
exactly like AutoCAD LT 2008, with
toolbars that appear to be virtually identical
to the AutoCAD 2008 products. It
does not have a ribbon menu, as do the
comparable AutoCAD 2009 products
(illustration above).
DoubleCAD XT calls itself a “workalike,”
suggesting that
users can easily switch
back and forth between
it and AutoCAD LT.
There are two issues
here. The first is that
there are some differences
between the two
in how the interface and some commands
operate, including differences in what
happens when you press Esc, the space
bar or Enter.
The other main issue is the basic interface
itself. If your background is AutoCAD
2008 or earlier then you could probably
convert or even switch back and forth
without too much trouble. On the other
hand, switching between DoubleCAD
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DoubleCAD XT: Capable CAD at zero cost
AutoCAD LT 2009 (background), AutoCAD
2008, DoubleCAD XT (foreground).
AutoCAD LT user
market the target for
DoubleCAD XT
XT and AutoCAD 2009 or later would
probably be about as awkward as switching
from or between AutoCAD 2008 and
earlier versus AutoCAD 2009 and later.
DoubleCAD XT has its own proprietary
file format, but it also claims to
support AutoCAD .DWG files from R14
up to 2009. For the most part it seems to,
but there are a couple
of points to be noted.
One item that may
be significant in your
operation is the fact that
AutoCAD 2008 added
self-scaling annotative
objects such as text and
dimensions. AutoCAD LT offers full support
for them, but DoubleCAD XT only
displays the first size created and does
not display the alternates for other scales
that may be attached. Also, it does not
have any method of setting the annotation
scale, so all annotative objects appear
all the time in all viewports regardless
of viewport scales. The most significant
point, however, occurred when I saved the
drawing from DoubleCAD XT and reopened
it in AutoCAD LT. The annotative
objects had lost their annotativeness, and
all the alternate scale representations had
disappeared.
Another significant difference is support
for External REFerences (XREF). The
Help facility sort of says that DoubleCAD
XT supports them, but the wording is a
little vague. What actually happens is that
the “externally-referenced” file simply
gets absorbed into the current drawing as
a local block definition.
Interestingly, DoubleCAD XT properly
opens an AutoCAD drawing containing
xrefs, and the xref connections
survive the round trip if you save it back
and then re-open it in AutoCAD.
On the other hand, DoubleCAD XT
has a number of features not found in
AutoCAD, such as self-healing walls,
transparent fills, Bezier curves, and support
for Google SketchUp.
Bill Fane (bill_fane@bcit.ca) is a software
reviewer and retired mechanical engineering
instructor at BCIT in Burnaby, BC.
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Last year, Maplesoft introduced
its MapleSim 1.0
product. With it, designers
and engineers can create mathematical
models of complex electro-mechanical-thermal
systems
simply by dragging and dropping
objects from a comprehensive
library of several hundred predefined
component modules and
then connecting them together as
appropriate.
The just released MapleSim 2
feeds everything to the Maple 13
computational engine when you
run a simulation of your design.
Maple 13 then derives the equations,
simplifies them by as much
as 90%, and returns the probed
results as graphical plots. You can
easily play what-if scenarios by
changing the input parameters and
then running the simulation again.
MapleSim 2 makes it even easier
MapleSim 2 can produce 3D animations of
its output, as well as create graphic plots.
to optimize your design in that you
can now work backwards. You
simply define a desired output and
then the input parameters are automatically
varied until the output
matches what you wanted.
Another very significant change
in MapleSim 2 is the addition of
3D visualization and animation
capabilities.
As you create your model, physical
connection links are represented
as simple ball-and-stick connections.
When your analysis runs,
MapleSim 2 still produces the same
graphed outputs from your probe
points that version 1 did, but it also
displays a 3D animation that can be
viewed from a number of orthogonal
or pictorial viewing directions.
Force and torque arrows and path
tracks can also be displayed.
You can re-play the animation,
pause, rewind, play backwards, or
use a slider bar to go to a specific
frame without running the analysis
again. Fast-forward and fastbackward
speed can be varied by
more than two billion to one (2 ±31 )
so that you can analyse something
as slow as a bureaucrat or as fast
as something breaking just after the
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Finite element modeling and
visualization tools
Siemens PLM Software has announced the latest
release of Femap software which provides new
finite element (FE) modeling and visualization
tools for increased productivity. Femap Version
10.1 enhancements add new functionality in
model visualization and post processing, as well as NX Nastran software integration
and support, including: multi-group display; load/constraint set and analysis management;
global ply composite post processing; and, 2D tensor force and stress plots.
www.siemens.com/plm
5-axis milling toolpaths
Instant 3D document
generation from CAD models
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Delcam has launched version 10 of
its PowerMILL CAM system and
version 2010 of its FeatureCAM and
PartMaker CAM systems. Major
enhancements include the latest in
background-processing, multi-threading
and 5-axis simultaneous milling.
The main benefit of backgroundprocessing
in PowerMILL 10 is that
users can prepare data in the foreground
while calculating toolpaths
in the background. Multi-threading
capabilities in both PowerMILL and
FeatureCAM 2010 allow individual
calculations to be divided between
the cores in a multi-core machine.
www.delcam.com
QuadriSpace Corp. has announced Smart
Template Technology, available in Document3D
Professional 2009, that lets users
import their 3D CAD models into a smart
template, customize the automatically generated
document and then publish to standard
print, web or interactive 3D formats.
Out of the box, Document3D includes
more than 50 templates, each capable of
using 3D models to automatically create
pages that include 3D graphics, tabular
parts lists and step-by-step instructions.
www.quadrispace.com
Mechatronic and multi-domain
simulation for EDA
Ansys, Inc. has announced the latest release of
its Simplorer software for electronic design automation
(EDA) products, used for the design of
mechatronic and other multi-domain systems.
The release introduces a new interface, advanced
modeling capabilities including dynamic links
to other Ansoft software, enhanced integration
with third-party simulation software, and computational
performance enhancements.
www.ansys.com
CAD-driven CMM software
Engineering, styling suite
Renishaw’s MODUS CMM software
application combines with the company’s
UCC2 universal CMM controller
and sensors, including the REVO 5-axis
measuring system. MODUS provides a
platform for 5-axis measurement. Key
features include: CAD-driven offline
programming with full simulation and
collision detection of 5-axis moves; and,
native DMIS support.
www.renishaw.com
Think3 has announced ThinkDesign
2009.1, its CAD product suite, includes
new features for the creation of frame
elements for the industrial machinery
market, improvements to commands
for curve and surface editing, enhancements
in the sheet metal functionalities
and other features for the machinery
and components sectors. Frame functionality
is an integrated module of
ThinkDesign, which is an instinctive
sketch-based method that facilitates
the creation of frame elements.
www.think3.com

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Products: Motion Control
Compact drives with Ethernet
Bosch Rexroth Canada has announced a
power range from 50 W to 3.5 kW for the
compact IndraDrive Cs line of servo drive.
The drives support all standard Ethernetbased
communication interfaces such as
SERCOS III, PROFINET IO (RT), Ether-
Net/IP and EtherCat. The user configures
his choice of communication protocol
himself using software on universal communication
hardware. This reduces the
complexity and diversity of variants particularly
for machine manufacturers who
have to offer tailor-made customer solutions
with various Ethernet interfaces. The
multiple transducer interface of the drive is
said to work smoothly with transducer systems
such as EnDat, Hiperface, simple TTL
incremental transducers, sine-cosine transducers,
resolvers and the serial transducer
system of Rexroth’s MSM motors.
www.boschrexroth.ca
Timing belt tooth
ARC-POWER Technology timing belt
tooth design improves performance due
to circular force distribution leading to
extreme low friction during tooth engagement.
Polyurethane
timing belts come
in AT10 and AT15
tooth profile, are
steel or stainless
steel reinforced
and are available
in open ended and
welded or truly endless. Belt widths from
25 to 100 mm, various backing materials
and a selection of over 3000 existing profiles
are available.
www.brecoflex.com
AC gearmotor torque boost
Managed ethernet switches
MEN Micro Inc. has extended its line of
managed Ethernet switches to include a
new 3U CompactPCI (CPCI) version. The
F302 features eight Fast Ethernet channels
on the front via RJ45, M12 or D-Sub
connectors, depending upon the applica-
tion, and an optional channel accessible
through the rear J1 connector for communication
within an embedded system.
A service interface at the front provides a
number of options to configure the Ethernet
channels individually via a hardware
key, a Telnet command line interface or
SNMP, without opening the system itself.
Units are designed for rugged, communication-intensive
applications as found in
transportation and other mobile environments.
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Gearmotors and motors
Bodine Electric Company added over
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Pump displacement increase
Bosch Rexroth Canada has introduced the
Silence pump series and optimized standard
series. The B and G series pumps are now
increased to 7 cm 3 /rev and the displacement
of the B series has been doubled. The
displacement of the G series has also been
enlarged up to 63 cm 3 /rev. In addition, the
U and T series Silence pumps are available
in two new nominal sizes. The pumps satisfy
demands for all displacements between
4 and 63 cm 3 /rev.
www.boschrexroth.ca
Self-diagnostic network
Series EX250 Serial Network modular
components from SMC Pneumatics
Canada provides 32 sensor input points
(in addition to 32 solenoid valve output
points), and they are also IP67 rated. The
series self-diagnostic functions help users
quickly identify problems that could have
otherwise caused major downtime. The
EX250 device is built with self-diagnostic
features to protect the input blocks from
over-current and to detect insufficient
voltage supply to the valves.
www.smcpneumatics.ca
Self-adjusting air cylinders
Festo introduced the self-adjusting PPS
pneumatic cylinder, which ensures an optimum
cushioning action every time, even
if friction and pressure change. It also
reduces the acceleration forces acting on
components. In comparison with shock
absorbers, self-adjusting cushioning is less
expensive and more robust, the company
says.
www.festo.ca
Spring/collet actuated clamp
Amlok has introduced the hydraulic series
RCH rod clamp that provides power-off
clamping of rods and shafts. It is actuated
by a spring/collet mechanism and
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unclamped by hydraulic pressure. The
rod clamps are designed to clamp components
after the motion has stopped and
to hold the position securely as long as
forces do not exceed the table values. The
mountings have been designed to apply
to standard heavy duty NFPA-style MF1
cylinders. The standard housing can be
mounted to different machine structures
or be custom-designed.
www.ame.com
Rotary air valves
Clippard Instrument Laboratory has introduced
a new line of Rotary Air Valves.
The rotary valves are 4-way with ¼ in.
NPT ports. They are manually-operated
3-position closed centre valves offering
an operating pressure range of 0 to 150
psig and an operating temperature from
32° to 140°F. With a small footprint, this
base mounted rotary valve is said to offer
flexibility for strategic locations.
www.clippard.com/rotaryvalves-b
Vacuum system components
ity to utilize Eaton’s Screw-In Cartridge
Valve (SICV) technology to give users a
wide choice of configuration options. The
valves are an open centre, parallel circuit
architecture, and available in configurations
with up to 10 operating sections.
Rated flow is 120 lpm and they are rated
at 250 bar using the NFPA T.2.6.1 protocol,
giving them a maximum pressure of
290 bar (4200 psi).
www.eaton.com/hydraulics
Fluid power simulation
Famic Technologies Inc. has released version
5.7 of Automation Studio, software
for system design, simulation and documentation
of hydraulic, mobile hydraulic,
pneumatic and electrotechnical projects.
The software can be used to create, analyze,
test, troubleshoot, and validate systems,
while the newest version features
multiple new tools and enhancements that
have been partly suggested by our users.
For example, when a multiple hydraulics
or pneumatics pressure lines selection is
realized, it is possible to apply to it in one
step, the type of line using the multi selection
context menu. Using the multi selection
contextual menu, it is now possible to
change the type of flowline on all selected
hydraulic or pneumatic flowlines.
www.automationstudio.com
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Multifunctional monitoring
The Novotechnik MAP 4000 Series features
include programmable input selection
and mathematical functions, as we l
as up to four limit switches, and ana-
log outputs. Units can perform up to 40
measurements/s.
www.novotechnik.com
Multi-loop PID controller
TecMate refreshes
lead-acid batteries
By Mike Edwards
January/
February
2009
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be
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eglected sealed
lead acid (SLA)
ba teries pose an
N annual headache for
motorcycle,
scooter, snowmobile and boating
Clippard Instrument Laboratory has introduced
a series of sub-miniature mani-
desulfater-chargers are available to refresh
enthusiasts. However, designed-in-Canada
folds for the 10 mm and 15 mm solenoid
these deep discharged ba terie so owners can
valves. The single-sided units are available
with 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16
tion key.
get on their way when they firs turn the igni-
stations.
TecMate North America (www.tecmate.
www.clippard.com/10-15mm
com) of Oakvi le, ON, manufacturers a wide
range of electronic diagnostic tools and chargers
for the 6-, 12- and 24-V ba tery market.
For over a year now, it has contracted Oakvi lebased
product design specialist ORSeS Inc.
(www.orses.ca) for mechanical redesign and
packaging of its products.
ORSeS services include an experienced
industrial design consultancy, through Brad
Schi ling, its chief technical o ficer. Schi ling has
more than 20 years of industrial design experience,
including at GE major appliances, and
Sub-miniature manifolds
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Watlow has introduced the EZ-
ZONE RM – a DIN-rail mounted,
configurable multi-loop PID temperature/process
contro ler. Units can be
configured with between 1 to 16 modules
contro ling from 1 to 64 loops.
www.watlow.com
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more than 15
years of PTC
Pro/ENGINEER 3D
modeling experience, in-
cluding advanced surfacing,
sheet metal and plastic package design.
A l the external packaging of the products
have been redesigned and modeled by ORSeS
using Pro/E. The electrical components and
PCB design has been done under the supervision
and guidance of Martin Human, CTO for
TecMate.
According to Mike Cooper, TecMate director
of sales in North America, “The new
designs have included a number of important
design specification changes, which are driven
by customer requests. Changes include a varied
color scheme and new sealed shapes for the
product range and an improved, simpler manufacturing
process, which in turn has helped
reduce the product costs.” Much of this has
been enabled due to the use of 3D modeling,
as we l as the experience of ORSeS.
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Numatics has announced the addition
of vacuum components and system design
capabilities. Available components
include a wide range of vacuum generators,
suction cups (in a multitude of sizes,
configurations, and materials), vacuum
switches (for system monitoring and feedback),
and all the necessary accessories
for system support and installation. Each
vacuum generator is designed to provide
the optimum vacuum output at the lowest
possible operating pressure reducing energy
consumption, noise levels, clogging,
and the overall cost of the equipment.
www.numatics.com
Modular hydraulic valve
Eaton Corp. has introduced a modular
hydraulic mobile sectional valve that offers
flexibility for a broad range of mobile
applications. The CM 120 valve combines
modular design features with the abil-
Promess, Inc. has added a series of hollowshaft
units to its line of Torque Functional
Test (TFT) systems intended for intelligent
assembly applications. Based on direct
drive rotary motor technology, the TFT-HS
series permits users to access components
with tools and/or sensors inserted through
the centre hole during the assembly operation.
Promess TFTs provide monitored
and measured amounts of torque during
assembly and test operations. They utilize
servomotors, position sensing feedback
technology, and proprietary torque
transducers to produce controlled torque
inputs and feedback monitoring.
www.promessinc.com

September 2009
Medical Engineering
Solving problems while
finding a market niche
dpncanada.com
Design Product News 21
By Mark Sunderland
During the early 1990s, I was contracted
by the Economic Council
to write a study paper for a
report on Healthcare. The assigned subject
was “Labor Saving Technology in
Hospital Care.”
The difficulty was in measuring the
labor to be saved. Unlike a construction
site for which a tape can measure the
product of a day’s work – or an assembly
line that has a visible and measurable
input/output ratio, hospital productivity
isn’t so easy to observe. And how can we
measure something by rules if it transcends
the rules we know
So processes with observable ends
were examined, intra hospital travel for
example. The cost per given distance of
moving a patient within a hospital is substantially
higher than first class air travel
– and with greater risk. Beyond the cost
of human motive power, the procedural
costs are enormous. There are solutions
but in the medical system, innovation
is generally a cakewalk compared to
the process of introducing it. Approvals,
evaluations and testing periods can all be
fraught with obstacles, especially when
the subject is simple enough for everyone
to be involved.
The health industry
is vulnerable to an
economic downturn,
just like everyone else
There is a fallacious belief that the
health industry is above an economic
downturn and although there is some
truth that the system must function, there
are major obstacles for suppliers – especially
those that outsource their manufacturing.
The upside can result from a more scrupulous
look at production and shipping
and in finding solutions that may have
been overlooked in easier times.
The companies that bode well are generally
those that had the prescience for
the evolution of healthcare and are consequently
poised to enable much of the
patient monitoring remotely and even
beyond a hospital campus.
BRYTECH Inc. (www.brytech.com) is
a Canadian medical technology company
that has developed a Remote Physiology
Monitoring System (RPM). The RPM is
a wireless networked, vital signs monitor
that can be worn by a patient. It is
approved by Health Canada for hospitals
and for managed care applications.
The system enables patient monitoring
in triage (in medical use, triage is the
assignment of degrees of urgency and
order to treat wounds or illnesses) or step
down by wireless transmission of the vital
signs data to remote caregivers. BRYTECH
is also introducing versions of the wireless
monitors for patients on respirators and
patients in their home.
In the current state of health economics,
innovation should perhaps be more related
to process than product. To some extent
we are all inventors, we have to be in order
to make it through the day – how to get
to work in a transit strike and how to get
lunch when the canteen is being renovated
– and we often devise an improvement. Life
is a creative process so instead of ringing
hands over an economic woe we should
maybe free our hands to grasp the potential
that it affords us.
Mark Sunderland is President of Ottawabased
BioMedical Industry Group (mark.
sunderland@biomedgroup.com).
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METRIC HYDRAULIC
PIPING PRODUCTS
Products: Editor’s Choice
Wireless remote control
to enhance the operator’s experience and
equipment maneuverability.
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Energy saving software tool
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Magnetek, Inc. has announced the Telemotive
XLTX radio remote control. The
XLTX bellybox transmitter is said to incorporate
the latest electronic technology
in a lightweight, comfortably contoured,
durable case. The design offers a graphic
display for two-way feedback applications
and a high-power RF to maximize use in
the harshest environments, the company
says. The flexible design also offers options
for proportional, stepped/detented, and
on/off controls. The controls are available
with a variety of handle options designed
Baldor has released the latest version of its
software estimating tool that enables users
to evaluate the energy efficiency of electric
motors and variable speed drives. BE$T
3.0, the Baldor Energy Savings Tool can
be downloaded free of charge from the
company’s website. The software analyses
the efficiency and annual electricity usage
of users’ existing motors, and calculates
the cost savings that can be achieved by
replacing them with equivalent higher
efficiency models. Built-in motor performance
and pricing information enables
the software to suggest optimum replacements
and to estimate the investment payback
period.
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Washdown gearbox options
Revolutionary Solutions for
Demanding Industrial Applications
Available nickel plated, lacquer coated or
in stainless steel, Wittenstein’s washdown
range of servo gearboxes are suitable for
applications in food packaging/processing,
the pharmaceutical/medical industry
or wherever clean room or harsh environments
play a critical issue. IP65 protection,
food-grade grease and stainless steel
components are some of the features for
the range. The washdown option is available
as standard for the following alpha
products: alpha LP+, alpha SP+, alpha
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and alpha V-Drive
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the extension of its product offering to include
a line of over current detectors. The
TD and 9001 Hall effect current detectors
protect power semiconductors in power
electronic circuits by signaling when current
in the circuit has exceeded the nominal
detector trip point. They are designed
to be mounted directly to a PCB and, like
Hall effect current sensors, provide isolation
between the sensed current and the
output. Both have a response time of 1μs
(typical) and operate over a temperature
range of -40° to 125ºC and, because the
devices are Hall effect based, have negligible
levels of power dissipation.
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Design Product News 23
Products: Adhesives & Fasteners
Silicones adhere in minutes
Henkel Corp has introduced Loctite two
part silicones for industrial bonding and
sealing. Bonding time is 5 to 50 min to
metal, glass and ceramic substrates and the
shelf life is 12 months at room temperature.
They offer tensile strengths of 300 psi
to support windows, solar panels and outdoor
displays. The silicones resist temperature
up to 230ºC, offer elongations up to
240% and can withstand vibration, flexing
and thermal shock. They are also resistant
to UV rays, water most cleaning solutions.
www.henkelna.com/oemnew
Smooth alignment hinges
available in tapped and stud types and permit
torque-free clamping. They are RoHS
compliant with zinc die cast handles and a
matte black plastic coated, abrasion-proof
epoxy resin finish. Available in fixed and
adjustable versions, the distance between
the eccentrical cam and the contact surface
is adjustable. Thrust force maximum
is 8 kN.
www.jwwinco.com
Extruders allow for simplicity
Nordson Corp. has enhanced its line of EX
hot melt adhesive extruder systems that allow
for fast adhesive changes without intensive
cleaning. They are closed “melt on
demand” systems allow for avoidance of
carbonization and ambient air exposure,
offer a melt rate of 3 to 2500 kg/h depending
on extruder size and are self-cleaning
and virtually maintenance free. Systems
can also be customized with additional
heating zones and fieldbus interfaces.
www.nordson.com
Adhesive with cure indicator
DYMAX 3-20794 is a color-changing
adhesive formulated with Ultra-Red fluorescing
technology. Bondable substrates
include PC, PET, PS, PU, PVC, and ABS.
It cures in seconds when exposed to highintensity
UV light. It starts out blue in its
uncured state, making it visible.
The blue color disappears when sufficient
light energy has been provided to the adhesive
bond area to achieve full cure.
www.dymax.com
Beckson HGB series hinges open 270º to
ensure smooth alignment. Units are double-acting
and are said to lie flat in almost
any application, forgive off-level mounting
due to their side-to-side vertical offset, and
allow up to ¾ in. setback from the edge of
a panel for secure fastening. They measure
1.5 x 4.25 in. and are made of high-strength
acetyl resin with Monel pins. Installation is
via #8 stainless steel flathead screws.
www.becksonmfg.com
Counterbalance hinges
Southco’s ST-12C counterbalance hinges
provide consistent performance in a compact
package. They are specified to stay
within ±20% of rated torque for 20,000 cycles
and provide ±90% of rotation in each
direction for 180º motion range. Hinges
feature an all-metal construction and are
rated for a maximum static radial load of
1000 N and a maximum static axial load
of 1200 N. Available in four torque values
20-, 28-, 36- and 44-in. lb force.
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Levers with eccentrical cam
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Automotive Scene
dpncanada.com September 2009
Electronic controls make dual-clutch
transmission accessible
By Bill Vance
There’s a new player elbowing its
way onto the transmission scene.
Over the years the technology has
been dominated in turn by the manual
sliding gear “crash” gearbox, the manual
non-clash synchromesh, and finally the
full automatic in which a torque converter
is combined with planetary gearsets. A
variation was Henry Ford’s 1908-1927
Model T that used planetary gearboxes
manually operated by foot pedals.
A small market share is also held by
continuously-variable transmissions, as
well as automated conventional manuals
with electromechanical clutching and
shifting. The recent entrant is the Dual
Clutch Transmission (DCT) inspired by
the European market, which for fuel
economy reasons strongly favors manuals.
According to DCT manufacturers,
units provide the convenience of a planetary
automatic, and equal or exceed the
efficiency and fuel economy of a conventional
manual.
The DCT has been used in racing applications
since the 1980s, but until recently
was not refined enough for passenger cars.
Advanced, powerful electronic controls
have helped change that.
In the DCT, the traditional torque con-
verter is replaced by an ingenious
dual clutch arrangement
in which two separate multi-plate wet
(oil bathed) clutches (dry ones can also
be used), a larger one and a smaller one,
are mounted concentrically one inside
the other on the same plane. Each clutch
operates independently and is connected
to one of two concentric shafts, or “shaftwithin-a-shaft”
known as quill drive, that
carry power to regular synchromesh type
transmission gears.
One clutch sends power via the outer
shaft which is splined to the odd numbered
gears, e.g. 1st, 3rd and 5th. The
other clutch’s power goes through the
inner shaft to the even numbered ratios,
e.g. 2nd, 4th and 6th. Since all the gears
are contained in the same case, the DCT
is in effect two parallel transmissions
combined into one unit.
The clutch is activated by a hydraulic
piston that pressurizes the clutch plates.
At idle the piston releases, disconnecting
In a DCT, when the gear shift is about
to occur, the first clutch opens (green
figure), disengaging g g1st gear, and the
second one closes simultaneously to vate second gear (blue
acti-
figure).
the clutch. Electrohydraulic servos move
the synchronizing sleeves to engage and
disengage gears.
In operation, the DCT starts off in 1 st
gear, and while the car is accelerating, the
next gear is pre-selected and sits waiting
with its clutch disengaged. When the gear
shift is about to occur, the first clutch
opens (green figure), disengaging 1 st gear,
and the second one closes simultaneously
to activate second gear (blue figure).
Shifts are virtually instantaneous and
are accomplished under load, so there
is a continuous, seamless flow of power,
something not possible in a conventional
manual transmission. Although shifts are
as smooth as a hydraulic planetary, the
elimination of inherent torque converter
slippage helps improve fuel economy.
The DCT can be driven in fully automatic
mode with shifts managed solely
by the mechatronic “brain,” or manually
selected by the driver via buttons, paddles
or shift lever. The DCT is not torque limited
like the continuously variable transmission,
and can be designed to handle
torque ranging from a Volkswagen engine
to the prodigious 922 lb ft of torque of the
Bugatti Veyron’s 8.0 litre W16. The DCT
can be used with a longitudinally or laterally
mounted engine, and in 2- or 4-wheel
drive applications.
The first production DCT was introduced
in six speed form as the DSG (direct
shifting gearbox) by Volkswagen in 2003
in their Golf R32 and Audi TT 3.2 (Audi
is a division of VW). It was co-developed
by VW and BorgWarner. Other manufacturers
like Porsche (who call theirs PDK)
and Ferrari are using DCTs, and Ford has
said it plans to introduce a DCT as early
as 2010.
In spite of the DCT and the torque
converter planetary transmission having
approximately the same number of parts,
the DCT is still more costly to build. This
should change with increased production
and the availability of more DCT component
suppliers.
Although aimed primarily at the
European market, the DCT holds the
potential to become a real challenger to
both the synchromesh manual and the
planetary automatic in other markets too.
But the synchromesh has over 80 years of
development, and the planetary automatic
70 years since the first fully automatic
“Hydra-Matic” appeared on the 1940
Oldsmobile, so both will be formidable
opponents.
Bill Vance is an automotive journalist and
author.
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Design Product News 25
Online business and personal skills training for
industry: everywhere, and anytime
By John Bachmann
For many companies serving
Canadian industry, providing
employees with training on technical,
business and personal development
topics is greatly complicated by geography.
Even if you’re lucky enough to be
located close to a community college or
university, courses covering the specific
topics your staff needs may not be offered.
Usually this is simply the result of insufficient
local demand – a dilemma that can
be overcome by accessing courses online.
Over the past year, I had the chance
to work with co-instructor Paul St.
Germain and experts at Mohawk College
to develop and deliver the first online
course in the Industrial Distribution
Leadership Certificate Program (IDLCP).
This course on Marketing, Sales and
Customer Relationship is part of the
Industrial Careers Pathway initiative led
by the Power Transmission Distributors
Association and supported by more than
20 other industry associations.
I had previously taught the course
in class at Mohawk but the process of
converting it to an online format and
then delivering it was an eye-opening
experience. The software that we used
to set up the course web site was really
slick. Material was grouped in lessons,
with some content, such as assignments,
not accessible by students until scheduled
release dates. This course was delivered
“asynchronously,” i.e. the students could
view the lesson videos whenever they
wanted to and did not have to log on at a
specific time for a live lesson.
All the course material needed to be
prepared keeping in mind the lack of
teacher-student interaction when students
viewed their lesson videos. (These were
PowerPoint slide shows with voice-overs.)
This meant filling in some gaps in the
slides and lesson notes that had been used
in class and providing written feedback in
lieu of classroom discussions.
Experience with this first online course
identified both similarities and differences
relative to correspondence courses. Selfmotivation
is still important and, as a
result, the rate of attrition is higher than
for in-class courses. But unlike traditional
correspondence courses, there are more
opportunities for student participation.
Online discussions allow students to share
their opinions relative to topics such as
“what will outside selling in the industrial
market look like in 2020” or “managing
time more efficiently.”
In addition, students can (and regularly
do!) contact their instructor to ask for
clarification on topics and assignments.
In an online course, regular assignments
serve as a two-way feedback mechanism,
albeit with a bit of a time delay.
The assignments submitted by the student
tell the instructor how the students
are doing, while the instructor’s feedback
addresses misunderstandings or incomplete
learning.
To date, employers have been using the
IDLCP (www.ontariolearn.com) courses
to upgrade the knowledge and skills of
some of their more seasoned staff. The
average industrial experience level for this
first online course was 16 years. We hope
that industrial employers will start to use
the program for younger staff with say,
two to five years of experience, whom they
wish to develop. Just think of the return to
the company if these people were making
decisions over the next 10 years that
were informed by a better understanding
of business fundamentals and co-worker
behavior!
John Bachmann is Corporate Sales &
Marketing Manager, Wainbee, and
Chairman, Canadian Fluid Power
Association.
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Products: Editor’s Choice
Altair CAE suite expanded
Altair Engineering has released Altair HyperWorks
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