Custom modular EnviroMax laboratory and robotic process enclosures are engineered to maintain either vented exhaust air, HEPA filtered supply air, bi-containment enclosures, or temperature controlled re-circulating air. Various accessories, including support tables, work surfaces, lighting, electrical, plumbing, and glove ports are available for applications such as isolating liquid handling workstations or HPLC equipment sample weighing.

EnviroMax Enclosures by HEMCO Corporation are specifically engineered to isolate lab automation equipment and robotic processes while maintaining a safe working area.

HEMCO Enclosures are designed to isolate liquid handling workstations, HPLC equipment sample weighing, high throughput screening, powers handling and other lab automated processes by providing exhaust air systems, clean workstation or temperature/humidity controlled environments.

Systems can be engineered to maintain either vented exhaust air, HEPA filtered supply air, bi-containment enclosures or temperature controlled re-circulating air. Sliding door accessibility can be from any or all sides.

The enclosures feature a flexible, modular design and are engineered and built to exact customer size and design requirements. A variety of accessories including support tables, worksurfaces, lighting, electrical, plumbing and glove ports are available.

The 1200/3600 Series of high-capacity weigh feeders from Siemens Energy & Automation Inc. are designed to provide solid performance in rugged operating environments. The weigh bridge has a patented dual-idler, stainless-steel, torque shaft suspension with no moving parts designed to eliminate material build-up. This design reduces dead load and applies live load to the load cells. The load cell is completely encapsulated and hermetically sealed to guard against contamination from dust, moisture or corrosion. The result is reliable accuracy and low maintenance, the company says.

Changes that address the leadtime required to make a mold tend to focus on the machining cycle. A faster machine following suitable tool paths can allow machining cycles for cores and cavities to proceed considerably faster. However, saving time from these cycles can only go so far; significant time is also lost elsewhere. Making a mold demands not just machining time, but also programming time–and much of that programming may not even involve the core and cavity.

For a small mold shop within Rockwell Automation, the response time for delivering a mold has steadily become more critical. The shop occupies the fifth floor of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, headquarters for Rockwell’s Allen-Bradley brand. As the company has become steadily more proficient at outsourcing mold making to suppliers, the mission of this shop has changed. Jobs that remain in-house include molds that are difficult to outsource–along with molds that are just plain difficult. Among the shop’s time-critical work are the repair and replacement jobs for molds that are needed urgently, because the production of some plastic component is being delayed for want of that mold.

Jeff Wendtlandt is a senior mold build technician with this shop. He both programs machining work and oversees that work at the machining center. Delivering molds quickly used to be far more difficult for the shop, he says, and the reason had more to do with programming than it had to do with machining.

Mold assembly designs used to arrive as wireframe CAD models, he says. The programmer would study prints to isolate the distinct features of the various machined parts that make up the mold. Later, the use of wireframes was replaced by solid models, allowing bases, plates and other mold components to be represented as separate solids. Models were easier to view and comprehend downstream. Even more significantly, however, the move to solid models made it possible for CAM software to make better use of the models. Using a CAM system capable of feature recognition and knowledge-based machining, the Rockwell shop has now automated much of the redundant programming work that used to take so much time.

Many end users in the food processing and packaging industry have turned to Machinery Control Systems when packaging machine controls reach the end of their natural life
There are many packaging machines built in the late eighties or early nineties where the electronics are coming to the end of their natural life. This means frequent failures and unscheduled stoppages. The advance of electronics over this period has meant that many of the components are no longer manufactured so the original controllers can no longer be made and with few spares around the machines are becoming inoperable.

The mechanics of these machines are still in good working order and still have several years of working life left.

Many end users in the food processing and packaging industry have turned to Machinery Control Systems for a solution.

MCS have specialised in upgrading these machines by replacing the electronics and rewriting the software.

The cost of this work is recouped within a few months with the bonus of many years of efficient and reliable production ahead of them.

Vibratory part feeder feeds rivets and screws ‘heads up’ at a very high speed without using compressed air for orientation and removal of components nor does it require a sensor.
Elscint Automation, a leading vibratory parts feeder manufacturer has developed a Vibratory Part Feeder to feed rivets and screws at a very high speed. Such components are required to be fed ‘head up’. The orientation is usually done on a slot.

Though this method is good for orientation, it reduces the speed of operation and requires usage of compressed air for increasing the feed rate and removal of unoriented rivets / screws and also requires a sensor for stopping the vibratory parts feeder when the chute is full.

The Vibratory Parts Feeder developed by Elscint Automation not only achieves a very high speed or feed rate but also does away with the usage of compressed air for orientation and removal of component as also the sensor.

Either of the five Models of Elscint vibratory parts feeders can be used for this purpose depending upon the size and loading capacity required.

This unit has a lot of applications in varied industries.

However, this is possible when a tubular output is required.

A special purpose pneumatic press for a safety switch manufacturing company secures several screw contact assemblies into a plastic switch body.
Bespoke Machines has manufactured a special purpose pneumatic press for a well known safety switch manufacturing company. A press has been purpose built to secure several screw contact assemblies into a plastic switch body. The design of the switch dictated that some of the contacts should be secured while the plunger assembly was depressed.

The remainder must be secured while plunger is extended.

Previously to the introduction of this machine an operator would secure some of the contacts in one press and the remainder in another.

The press supplied by Bespoke Machines cycles twice.

Between cycles the punches and contacts are automatically re-aligned and the plunger is actuated.

This press gives several benefits namely: a.

Elimination of the risk of repetitive strain injury ( RSI ).

b.

Consistency of product quality.

c.

Reduction of the labour content in the assembly process.

d.

Reduction of floor space required to perform the operation.

e.

Deskilling of the assembly process thus reducing the training period for new operators.

Bespoke Machines is a special purpose machine manufacturer specialising in assembly machines.

Many production processes do not lend themselves to the use of standard production machines.

Unique machine designs have to be developed for a process to benefit from the advantages of automation.

Motor trolley with pneumatic drive wheel release is a compromise between automatic operation, when the drive wheel is in driving position, and manual operation, when the drive wheel is released.
Industry often focuses on complete automation solutions in order to drive down costs but ’semi’ automatic applications can also generate increased productivity. As a result the number of semi-automatic applications is increasing. In a semi-automation system some operations are made automatically, while others are manually operated.

This kind of operation is particularly common in lifting and handling systems where heavy components need to be transported or maneuvered over short distances or within a restricted area.

An example would be the automatic transfer of a dash board to the operator who then has to fit and install the dash board manually.

It is in this type of application that the motor trolley with pneumatic drive wheel release is the ideal compromise between automatic operation, when the drive wheel is in the driving position, and manual operation, when the drive wheel is released.

In automatic mode the operation of the pneumatic cylinder which actuates the drive wheel is normally initiated from a control system or simply by a limit switch.

In systems where there is no need to release the drive wheel the Danaher Motion TMT trolley still can be provided with the same spring loaded function as used in the prior motor trolley model.

The wheel drive of the new TMT motor trolley, which is an addition to the handling and automation product range from Danaher Motion, has an increased diameter to give longer life.

It also has guiding wheels that enable the trolley to run in curves as well as through switches and turn tables.

A new adjustable counter weight allows the use of any motor/gear combination while retaining the balance of the trolley.

Standard versions of the motor trolley are supplied with a SEW - motor that can be supplied in a one or two speed options, with a brake (a manual release is available as an option) and a power pick up where required.

The trolley can be ordered without a motor, with a standard gear or without the gear.

Linear Motion Systems, as part of Danaher Motion, provides standard and custom linear bearings, linear guides, ball and lead screws, gearheads, linear actuators, slides and systems, precision balls, moulded products, resolvers and feedback devices, brakes and clutches, AC and DC drives and stepper and servo motors.

Its products are applied worldwide throughout a variety of motion applications in the medical, industrial, aerospace, and mobile off-highway markets.

Its highly recognized brand names include: ThomsonT, Thomson BSAT, MicronT, and Deltran PTT.

A high-speed component placement machine is placing chips from 1206 down to 0402 used in a company’s central heating electronic programmer and timer products.
Kaisertech has supplied an Assembleon Topaz XII high-speed component placement machine to Danfoss Randall, the domestic heating controls specialist. The new machine, part of Assembleon’s Gem range, is being added to an earlier version of Topaz which has been in use at Danfoss for several years, the company also has other similar units on a separate line, making a total of four Topaz placers at the company’s Bedford plant. Kevin Hannah, engineering manager at Danfoss says that the new Topaz unit was chosen because of the existing machines’ good track record, commenting ‘exceptional reliability and service back-up coupled with the fact that there have been no major breakdowns gave us every confidence to purchase more Assembleon machines’.

At Danfoss the Topaz units are placing chips from 1206 down to 0402 used in the company’s central heating electronic programmer and timer products.

In addition the Topaz can place a wide range of SMDs including PLCC, QFP, BGA and GSP at placement rates of up to 19,500 components per hour.

Board sizes up to 460mm x 440mm and components up to 6.5mm high can be handled.

Pneumatically operated indexing table is actuated by pawl and ratchet mechanism and plunger is used to lock the table thus ensuring the indexing accuracy.
Elscint the leading vibratory bowl feeder manufacturer from India offers Elscint Indexing Table, which is activated by pneumatically, operated air cylinder to move the indexing table.

This table is actuated by pawl and ratchet mechanism and for indexing accuracy, plunger is used to lock the table at desired position thus ensuring the indexing accuracy for accurate indexing jobs.

This table also uses large size thrust bearing thus offering adequate smooth indexing operations.

Small pressure springs are a tiny but vital part in numerous modern products and disentangling and feeding can be a problem, solved now by a disentangler that feeds up to 200 springs/min.
Small pressure springs are a tiny but vital part in numerous modern products. In fact, one of the most time consuming techniques is the handling of small components such as springs. Not only are they usually supplied in a tangled mass, from which they need to be freed, but they are also difficult to pick up and fix into position.

It is very important that the feeding and location of the springs is extremely accurate during assembly.

Elscint manufactures the Elscint Spring Disentangler for disentangling of various types of springs.

This finds usage in all industries where springs are used.

The Elscint Spring Disentangler feeds out the springs through tubes to the point of use.

Various types of springs can be used in the same Unit with slight change over tooling.

Capacity and separation rate depends on the shape and size of the springs.

An output of up to 200 springs per minute can be achieved through each feeder tube! Elscint also offers other accessories like Hand Pick Off, Escapement etc.

to go with this equipment.