Motion Control & Drives


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Drive solution for stacker reclaimer
February 2024
Hägglunds Drives South Africa recently completed a retrofit project on the bucket wheel of a stacker reclaimer at Richards Bay Coal Terminal. The project entailed replacing a gearbox drive solution with a direct drive solution from Hägglunds Drives SA.

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World first planetary gearbox customisation
February 2024, SEW-EURODRIVE, Editor's Choice
When a mining operation in Mpumalanga found that one of its planetary gearboxes on a high-torque conveyor was failing, it called SEW-EURODRIVE for a solution. Leveraging the latest intelligent technology, the solution was a pioneering innovation providing a cost-effective replacement that will ensure reliable performance.

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High-performance additives protect gears in the sugar sector
February 2024, Bearing Man Group t/a BMG
BMG works closely with key players in the sugar sector to enhance production efficiencies, minimise downtime, and extend the service life of critical systems in the field and during harvesting, transport, milling and refining.

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Thermoforming machine automation
February 2024, Beckhoff Automation, Editor's Choice
Hamer has joined forces with Beckhoff to develop a thermoforming machine for water-based cellulose pulp to produce fully recyclable and environmentally-friendly cellulose packaging.

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Invertek Drives highlights VFD advantages
January 2024
The importance of variable frequency drives (VFD) in reducing energy use in industries using electric motor control applications was the topic at Hannover Messe 2023.

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Intelligent filling machine lubrication for food and beverage
January 2024, SKF South Africa
One of the most critical applications determining overall OEE in beverage manufacture is the filling machine itself. Therefore the filling equipment must be accurate, versatile, hygienic and reliable.

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Bearings prevent failures at can manufacturer
January 2024
When the world’s largest beverage can manufacturer was experiencing regular, unexpected production stoppages due to the premature failure of spray-head bearings in its coating machines, the company turned ...

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Powerful diagnostic tool for condition monitoring
January 2024, SKF South Africa
SKF has extended its Microlog Analyser family of data collection devices with a new model that offers faster measurement collection and greater diagnostic power. “The new SKF Microlog Analyser that is ...

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Lubricators sustain five years without breakdown
January 2024
After a food manufacturing plant suffered frequent breakdowns of its electrical motors, Lubrication Engineers (LE) recommended the use of automated single-point lubricators. Five years later the client ...

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Wind turbines with smart sensors
January 2024, Instrotech
The wind’s usable kinetic energy increases with the wind speed. Wind turbines, therefore, use kinetic energy to generate torque and then rotational movement. The rotor, consisting of three rotor blades, ...

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Robot breaks world record
January 2024
An untethered robot invented at the Oregon State University (OSU) College of Engineering and manufactured by OSU spinout company, Agility Robotics, has established a Guinness World Record for the fastest ...

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Tsubaki sealed chains for the harshest environments
January 2024, Bearing Man Group t/a BMG
BMG’s extensive range of Tsubaki high-performance chains are designed to improve the reliability of many mechanical components exposed to harsh environments.

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SKF doubles mean time between failures
January 2024, SKF South Africa
The utilisation of SKF sealed bearings, combined with upgraded internal modifications, reconditioning and locally manufactured custom seals, has increased the average mean time between failures (MTBF) of scraper idlers on a customer’s submerged scraper conveyor (SCC) from between three and six months, up to between 12 and 18 months.

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Inovance brings advanced motion control to South Africa
January 2024, Motion Tronic
Inovance and its South African distributor, Motion Tronic are launching the Easy Series PLC in this country, bringing its flexible, high-performance motion control solution to customers across South Africa in a wide range of industry sectors.

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High-efficiency motors for the mining sector
January 2024, Bearing Man Group t/a BMG
The electric motor is known as the workhorse in the mining industry, and plays a critical role in ensuring optimum productivity at every plant; but a major problem is that they are mostly not optimised for maximum efficiency.

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Inovance Ethercat servo drive for compact dynamic performance
January 2024, Motion Tronic
Industrial automation group Inovance Technology, and its partner Motion Tronic, are bringing market-leading improved performance with ultra-fast current loop technology to South Africa with the launch of the SV660N servo solution for industrial automation applications.

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Time follows function
January 2024, Horne Technologies
What would a mechanical watch look like if it was reimagined and redeveloped from the bottom up? Master watchmaker Benoît Mintiens asked himself this question. He came up with a unique mechanism in the world of mechanical timepieces, a wristwatch that ‘sleeps’ when you take it off and wakes up when you put it back on, setting the correct time automatically.

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Bent-axis pump and motor series for the medium-duty market
January 2024, Parker Hannifin - Sales Company South Africa
Parker Hannifin has launched the new medium duty, fixed displacement, bent-axis pump and motor series, F10. As an evolution of the F11 and F12 products, the F10 series offers elevated performance when it comes to power savings, reliability and durability.

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Robot-assisted workflows in the food industry
January 2024, Omron Electronics
Producers are increasingly having to juggle between longer term range proliferation centred on consumer demands, and range reduction caused by the rapidly changing buying habits of retailers and consumers. This has resulted in them having to be even more agile with existing assets.

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Compact and integrated EtherCAT stepper motor drives
January 2024, Beckhoff Automation
The integrated ASI8100 stepper motor drive from Beckhoff’s range of compact drive technology products up to 48 V DC combines a stepper motor, stepper motor output stage and fieldbus connection in a space-saving design. As an EtherCAT slave, it can be placed directly on the machine without a control cabinet or upstream I/O level, allowing for highly compact, control cabinet-free machines.

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