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PROCESS PRECISION
Automated equipment can perform to exact requirements, making it inherently
advantageous in testing and control. Dave Walsha looks at how reliable, high
performance micromotors are achieving process precision

UK MANUFACTURING PMI SURGES

TO A RECORD HIGH IN MAY

A CLEAR VIEW INTO THE DISTANCE
There are many applications where large distances need to be measured as quickly
as possible and with a high degree of accuracy. These are the areas of use for laser
distance sensors that are able to measure distances from 0.05m to 500m
CHARGING STATIONS

A European industry leading enclosure manufacturer has
released a complete electric bicycle charging station for
26 Bearings, explores the increasing importance of load types in industrial
commercial and municipal locations PAGE 15 BEARINGS: Ian Breeze, technical director at Bowman Advanced Split
applications
22 ELECTRIC MOTORS: To achieve maximum performance from a 30 ROBOTICS: ndustrial or collaborative? This is the question everyone is
asking, with the demarcation line between the two options not as
miniature linear motion application, it’s vital to make sure the motor’s
clear as you might think
specification meets the requirements
24 CONVEYORS: When Habasit hatched an ambitious plan to create an What’s New?
embedded wireless force-sensing link in one of its curved plastic modular
belt conveyor system, it turned to Mantracourt
TENTS family of inductive safety 34
Sick has launched the IQB2S

switches to provide designers
and operators with a unique,
cuboid-shaped non-contact
device – as small as a matchbox
– that can be fitted easily into
the smallest machine spaces.

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