Bearing buyers often request bearings with a lifespan of up to 100,000 hours of operation. While the bearing manufacturer has done its own testing to validate the lifespan against different loads, this doesn’t paint the whole picture of how a bearing will endure the buyer’s specific application.
KEB Automation has helped a customer in Germany to convert its high-bay warehouse storage and retrieval machine from an old-generation frequency inverters to the new COMBIVERT F6 drive controller from KEB.
Intelliconnect (Europe) Ltd has provided a new design of rugged corrosion and waterproof connectors to a UK start-up company, who manufactures a unique system for remote monitoring of the wall thickness of pipelines used in the petrochemical, oil and gas industries.
Few of us could have anticipated the impact that COVID-19 would have on our lives when it was first reported at the end of 2019. While vaccination programmes start to be rolled out across nations, testing will continue to be important in fighting the pandemic.
Precisely placing together complex structures, such as a digitally assisted assembly, robotic parts or machining equipment, is one of the greatest challenges of modern manufacturing.