Norgren valve technology helps KUKA deliver streamlined robots

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Pneumatics expert Norgren has helped the global specialist in industrial robots, KUKA, deliver quick and effective end-of-arm tooling solutions for its customers. KUKA understands that for fast implementation and smooth changeover to new or modified production lines, it is essential to be able to install and set up the end-of-arm tooling as quickly and efficiently as possible. Historically, one major...

PHD Automation Components Stop, Push, Lift, & Clamp Parts in Stamping Application

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PHD's NEW Series PDG Disappearing Gages, NEW Series PDK Crowders, NEW Series PLL Lite Lifters, and Series GRM Clamps are used to automate a progressive stamping process. In this application, metal panels are fed down a ramp where the Series PDG Gage extends to stop the panel. The Series PDK Crowders then extend, pushing the panel up against the...

Allenair supplies Gage Cauchois

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Allenair supplies Gage Cauchois the cylinders for all his championship winning Battlebots, Vlad, Vlad The Impaler and Vladiator for use in the forklift flip mechanism, also on the self righting arm. According to Gage he picked Allenair because the cylinders are heavy duty and easily customized. Allenair has been building special cylinders for specific applications for over 55 years.         Allenair...

New Rodless Cylinders performs “below” standard

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Low temperature capability down to –40 deg As part of it’s ongoing rodless cylinder development program, KV’s latest variation to its “Ultraline” series of rodless cylinders is a unique heated cylinder allowing the cylinders to operate effectively at temperatures as low as –40 deg C. Designed primarily for use within the Railway industry, where extremes of...

CONTROL RELIABILITY – Beyond the wire

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Picture this - your company has mandated that safety is priority one and that all new machinery must include the state of the art in safety equipment. Suppose the next purchase is a two-hand operator station for an automated assembly machine that incorporates a pneumatic cylinder that extends for parts hold down and that this hold down could put...

Norgren pneumatic systems speed up palletizer

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Littleton, Colorado, USA – 5 March 2003 When paper manufacturer Australian Paper needed to speed up its automated boxed paper palletizing system, Robotic Automation stepped in to help. They chose Norgren’s Fieldbus II pneumatic valve systems and rodless cylinders, and developed a production line that is now substantially quicker than ever before. Based in Australia, Robotic Automation is a leading...

KV goes to any length to meet customers requirements

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Long stroke Cylinders – Short lead time! The launch of KV’s NEW “Ultraline” range of pneumatic Rodless cylinders was well and truly tested when a customer was seeking a short lead, for a 5.9M rodless cylinder! “This was by far the longest cylinder the company has currently assembled” advises Steve Hart, KV’s production manager. “however the whole manufacture, assembly and test was carried out in...

Modified Material Transfer Pumps Won’t Unravel or Unwrap Wrapped Materials

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The KV Vacuum Shop offers a new, modified material transfer pump that providespackaging automation professionals with the ability to move various types of wrapped materials from one place to another without unwrapping or unraveling. Powered by compressed air, the modified material transfer pumps are ideal for automating the bulk packaging operations for wrapped foods, confectionary, and medical products such...

The Sleeping Policeman

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A dynamic, revolutionary new sleeping policeman traffic hump actuated by a specialized Norgren valve is undergoing road trials in the City of London. The new traffic hump, the Dunlop Transcalm, is the brainchild of inventor Graham Heeks, who has been working with Norgren for the past four years to perfect the valve mechanism. The valve reacts to impact and speed, retracting the hump for...

PHD Series SIP Slides Used to Transfer Multiple Parts

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In this part transfer application, three Series SIP Slides, each with Series GRS Grippers attached, reach and pick up parts. Then a Series SM Slide shuttles them to where the Series SIP Slides extend to place the parts precisely in their respective nests for further assembly. The Series SIP Slides’ lightweight compact design, with high load carrying, and smooth precision...