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The Truth About Compressed Air! If you think compressed air is too expensive and noisy - read this. The facts will surprise you!

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There are a variety of ways to blow the water from the bottles shown in the photo below, but which method is best? To decide, we ran a comparison test on the same application using four different blowoff methods: drilled pipe, flat air nozzles, Super Air Knife (each using compressed air as a power source), and a blower supplied air knife (using an electric motor as a power source). Each system consisted of two twelve inch long air knives. The following comparison proves that the EXAIR Super Air Knife is the best choice for your blowoff, cooling or drying application. The goal for each of the blowoff choices was to use the least amount of air possible to get the job done (lowest energy and noise level). The compressed air pressure required was 60 PSIG which provided adequate velocity to blow the water off. The blower used had a ten horsepower motor and was a centrifugal type blower at 18,000 RPM. The table at the bottom of the page summarizes the overall performance. Since your actual part may have an odd configuration, holes or sharp edges, we took sound level measurements in free air (no impinging surface).

Drilled Pipe

Blower Air Knife

This common blowoff is very inexpensive and easy to make. For this test, we used (2) drilled pipes, each with (25) 1/16" diameter holes on 1/2" centers. As shown in the test results below, the drilled pipe performed poorly. The initial cost of the drilled pipe is overshadowed by its high energy use. The holes are easily blocked and the noise level is excessive - both of which violate OSHA requirements. Velocity across the entire length was very inconsistent with spikes of air and numerous dead spots.

The blower proved to be an expensive, noisy option. As noted below, the purchase price is high. Operating cost was considerably lower than the drilled pipe and fl at air nozzle, but was comparable to EXAIR’s Super Air Knife. The large blower with its two 3" (8cm) diameter hoses requires significant mounting space compared to the others. Noise level was high at 90 dBA. There was no option for cycling it on and off to conserve energy like the other blowoffs. Costly bearing and filter maintenance along with downtime were also negative factors.

Flat Air Nozzles

EXAIR Super Air Knife

As shown below, this inexpensive air nozzle was the worst performer. It is available in plastic, aluminum and stainless steel from several manufacturers. The flat air nozzle provides some entrainment, but suff ers from many of the same problems as the drilled pipe. Operating cost and noise level are both high. Some manufacturers off er fl at air nozzles where the holes can be blocked - an OSHA violation. Velocity was inconsistent with spikes of air.

The Super Air Knife did an exceptional job of removing the moisture on one pass due to the uniformity of the laminar airflow. The sound level was extremely low. For this application, energy use was slightly higher than the blower but can be less than the blower if cycling on and off is possible. Safe operation is not an issue since the Super Air Knife can not be dead-ended. Maintenance costs are low since there are no moving parts to wear out.

Facts about Blowers

Energy conscious plants might think a blower to be a better choice due to its slightly lower electrical consumption compared to a compressor. In reality, a blower is an expensive capital expenditure that requires frequent downtime and costly maintenance of filters, belts and bearings. Here are some important facts: Filters must be replaced every one to three months. Belts must be replaced every three to six months. Typical bearing replacement is at least once a year at a cost near $1000. •

Blower bearings wear out quickly due to the high speeds (17-20,000 RPM) required to generate effective airflows.

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Poorly designed seals that allow dirt and moisture infi ltration and environments above 125°F decrease the one year bearing life.

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Many bearings can not be replaced in the field, resulting in downtime to send the assembly back to the manufacturer.

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Blowoff Comparison Type of blowoff

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Comp. Air SCFM SLPM

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Sound Annual Purchase Approx. Annual First Year Level Electrical Price Maintenance Cost Cost dBA Cost*

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$1,288

$1,500

$8,288

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4.1

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$632

$1,417

$300

$2,349

*Based on national average electricity cost of 8.3 cents per kWh. Annual cost reflects 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.

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Teschler on Topic Newsflash: Engineering starts to pay as well as finance The beginning of a new year is often seen as a time for fresh starts. So it may be appropriate that this new year could mark the first time in decades that engineering is considered a lucrative profession. The lament in recent years has been that the field of finance was attracting a lot of STEM graduates because it paid high salaries to those in analytical jobs, salaries that engineering companies usually couldn’t match. But a recent change in company reporting requirements shows this idea may be changing. We have the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 to thank for this development. Among other things, it dictated that in 2018, public companies had to begin releasing what constitutes the total pay for their median employee as part of their filings with the Security and Exchange Commission. They compute this number by totaling up the pay and perhaps benefits (there is some leeway on reporting this) of all their employees excluding the CEO, then taking the average. The resulting number gives a revealing snapshot of pay scales. Before the rule kicked in, information about salaries could only be estimated from U.S. Bureau

of Labor Statistics data which are broad and next to useless. Though it doesn’t break down compensation by job function, the new Dodd-Frank rule is particularly helpful for sizing up companies employing lots of engineers and other STEM grads. For example, it turns out that some of the highest reported median wages are paid by pharmaceutical companies. Companies that employ a lot of software engineers are right up there with them: The median wage at Facebook Inc. is $240,430. At Alphabet Inc., (parent company of Google) it is $197,274, and the median employee at Netflix Inc. earns $183,304. The data also show it pays to be in the security software business. The median employee at software security firms Palo Alto Networks Inc. and FireEye Inc. earns $223,885 and $149,283 respectively. In addition, defense and aerospace workers seem to be well compensated. The median at The Boeing Co. is $111,204; at Lockheed-Martin Corp., $123,231; and at Raytheon Co., the median worker makes $144,589. It’s not uncommon to find firms paying a median compensation above $100,000. When I looked at a database maintained by the media firm Bloomberg LP, I found 204 firms that paid a median wage above

$100,000 in 2017. Only 25% of them were in the financial sector. I counted 33 of them in the tech industry. The lesson seems to be clear, at least for software engineers: Competent coders can demand top dollar. Interestingly, I only found five industrial companies paying a median above $100,000. It seems that the median pay drops a bit for companies that operate production lines. That’s the conclusion you come to from the figures for Eaton Corp., $71,073; Caterpillar, $65,770; Rockwell Automation Inc., $56,192; and Illinois Tool Works Inc., $40,738. The same can be said for hightech industries such as integrated circuit fabrication. For example, chip makers Texas Instruments, Microchip Technology Inc., and ON Semiconductor Corp. have median compensation of $78,951, $40,737, and $11,035 respectively. My guess is that median compensation figures are likely to push more STEM-oriented youngsters toward non-financial careers. One other probable outcome: Numerous employees will hand their boss a copy of the company annual report with the median compensation figure circled and then will announce, “I want the pay of a median employee.” DW

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Technology Forward What will change for 3D printing

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In 2018, users of additive manufacturing technology saw a number of new ways to build parts layer-by-layer as vendors continued to explore how fast the technology could go. In addition, large manufacturers in aerospace and automotive continue to include additive technology in their product development and production efforts. So, what might be in store for additive in 2019? Recently Materialise offered its take on trends for 3D printing for this year. Here’s what the experts at the company had to say.

1. Applications, not technology, will drive the 3D printing industry forward The AM industry has been shifting its focus to identify the right applications for 3D printing for some time now. In 2019 that shift will intensify, as the application-driven approach to 3D printing is likely to gain attention from the financial world. Fried Vancraen, Materialise CEO, explains that the wheels are already in motion: “Investments are not going to machine manufacturers anymore but to companies and start-ups that apply 3D printing to create real added value in specific domains.” The objective is to widen the pool of industries using 3D printing, which creates a demand for products rather than supply for a non-existing market. But there are challenges. When a company adds additive manufacturing to its mix, design engineers need to adopt a new set of rules: it’s a move from ‘design for manufacturing’ to ‘design for additive manufacturing.’ Knowing what works for a design intended for metal casting isn’t enough when you’re making the switch to metal 3D printing. This is the main reason why many 3D printing players offer consultancy in design to additive manufacturing, to support new adopters of 3D printing with making the most of the technology for their applications. 2. A rise in polymer materials for 3D printing Last year was the year of metal 3D printing. This time, it’s plastic materials preparing for substantial growth in 2019, with material manufacturers playing a big role. Giovanni Vleminckx, a materials expert in Materialise’s research and development team, observed that material manufacturers like BASF are

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producing materials specifically for 3D printing. “New materials for 3D printing were not being produced because they were not processable on commercially available machines. Now, large material suppliers are signaling their willingness and drive to push forward with 3D printing technology. That’s leading to a steady fast growth for 3D printing plastics.” The rise of manufacturing applications, as opposed to prototyping ones, is fueling a growth in materials development. As industries identify ideal applications for 3D printing, material manufacturers will be driven to develop and certify new materials to suit those applications. This growth is especially important for industries like aerospace and automotive that need materials with specific properties and quality requirements. Industries will be able to choose the materials that best serve their applications, whether it’s for functional prototypes or series manufacturing. 3. What will also be needed is material standardization and better machine control. In the meantime, businesses continue to use tried and tested materials for newly identified applications. The emergence of 3D-printed eyewear as a vertical, for example, was founded on an existing material, PA 12; but the real boost will come with the introduction of new materials that fit the industry’s needs.

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4. Software will be key to boosting productivity in 3D printing There is a consensus among Materialise experts that 3D printing is reaching a new level of maturity. “We need to get productivity and profitability up, and costs down. Software plays a key role in that,” says Stefaan Motte, Software Vice President at Materialise. Software makes it possible to automate tasks throughout the 3D printing process. “Automating manual labor during the preparation phase, also during and after production, is already a big help in making 3D printing scalable and cutting the costs down,” continues Motte. Another way to improve productivity is through simulating the 3D printing process. Simulation makes it possible for production operators to spot potential build errors before the build starts. Preventing failed builds can help reduce production costs drastically, bring down scrap rates, and increase overall profitability. 5. Technology-neutral interconnectivity, not proprietary solutions For 3D printing to claim a bigger share of the $12 trillion manufacturing market, the 3D printing industry needs to offer interoperability and technology-neutral solutions. If industrial manufacturers want to be serious about adopting 3D printing as a complementary manufacturing technology for final products, they simply cannot afford to be locked into proprietary solutions that limit their flexibility and choice.

6. Governments will get more involved We have seen 3D printing emerge as a discussion point in governmental environments, says Bram Smits, Public Policy Officer at Materialise, and this can be expected to increase in 2019. This rise is a signal that 3D printing is gaining importance in society and is freeing itself from the label of a prototyping technology. The main concerns for policy are the regulation of intellectual property and product liability. Underneath this is the concern that 3D printing could do to the physical object what the internet has done for music and movies: change business models and shift all the value to the digital file. “3D printing will disrupt supply chains but governments overestimate how much of the value is on the digital file. A part of the value will shift from the object to the CAD file and we need to think how we regulate these files,” says Smits. “The industry should get involved and talk to governments and explain what the technology can do, and what it can’t do and will never be able to do. With this we can create a safe and good regulatory framework that protects their citizens, designers and patients,” concludes Smits. “For 2019, we expect new users will continue to find their way towards additive manufacturing, and we’ll see an increasing number of companies shifting their production to AM or adding AM into the mix. … We don’t expect 2019 to become an inflection point in the history of AM, but the stage is set for another year of incremental steps towards an additive future.” – Fried Vancraen, Materialise CEO. DW

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that connects different actors in the supply chain. This increases visibility and makes it easier for recyclers to access textile waste so that it can ultimately be turned into new products and yarns. Scalable Garment Technologies Inc. — This Canadian company envisions a world where all clothing is created on demand. Through its knitwear manufacturing platform, brands and retailers would first design a garment. Then, customers would personalize the size, fit and material. Finally, SGTi would manufacture the custom garment on its 3D knitting machines. SGTi’s ultimate goal is to create high-quality clothing that fits and is produced quickly, affordably and sustainably. Not only will this result in dramatically less waste from unsold clothes, but it will also cut time and cost for the manufacturer. Tamicare — This U.K. company has developed Cosyflex, the world’s first fully automated 3D-printing technology for apparel and footwear. The Cosyflex machine “sprays” colored fibers and polymers layer-by-layer, so an item can go from raw material to finished garment in as little as three seconds, depending on what it is. With Cosyflex, manufacturers can eliminate many of the typical steps involved in creating clothes, like spinning, weaving, knitting and cutand-sew. This opens them up to become more efficient, produce on-demand and open production hubs that are closer to shoppers. There are also many environmental benefits. Compared to the traditional way of doing things, Cosyflex eliminates cutting waste, reduces the amount of chemicals and water needed to dye fabrics and can use mechanicallyrecycled fibers. DW Fashion for Good | fashionforgood.com DESIGN WORLD

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86 _MOTION CONTROL

128 _MECHANICAL

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Get your motor running....efficiently

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For robots and cobots, good communication among system elements is critical.

114 _INTERNET OF THINGS A scalable communications infrastructure for IIoT sensor networks There are many factors to consider when

Former Google VP and White House CTO Megan Smith believes that greater diversity will make engineering teams stronger — and that data can solve some of our toughest problems. 175 _LEAP AWARDS

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A minor fender bender between Garmers and J.P. Boker, who happened to operate a stamping and washer manufacturing company in Minneapolis, turned into an immediate business relationship. At the time, Garmers could not find a supplier who was able to manufacture the stamped parts needed to complete his dental instrument in large quantities. Boker’s was known for its ability to make custom, complex stampings to match any customer’s specification. The Garmers’ cotton roll holder is a “household name” in the dental industry. The cotton roll holder securely holds any size or length of cotton in place during dental procedures. This keeps the cotton from rolling away or popping out. Another unique feature is the sliding chin clamp that keeps the holder in place on every patient, child or adult. “This chance meeting ended up being a perfect match for both of us and we have continued a strong business relationship that is now going on 85 years,” said Chuck Kersey, Assistant Sales Manager at Boker’s. “Both Garmers and Boker’s share the same principals of hard work, attention to detail, and moral and ethical behavior in everything that they do.” Boker’s, Inc., continues to specialize in producing high-quality custom metal stampings for dental and medical applications. This precision manufacturing covers a complete range of sizes up to 12 in. x 12 in. (flat) with thicknesses from 0.005 in. to 0.190 in. (varies by material) and draws of up to 3 in. deep and 8 in. in diameter. DW

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T18-2 sensors from Banner Engineering withstand washdown and thermal shock environments.

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Sensors are machine edge devices, so are on the front lines — often completely exposed to the worst of what automated assemblies endure. In a recent Design World interview, Banner Engineering global business development manager for sensors Dana Holmes answered several questions about sensor survival in these harsh environments. Here’s what she had to say.

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Design World: Talk a little about what actual sensing functions work in harsh settings. Banner Engineering: Photoelectric sensors are a strength of ours, and they excel in many situations … but rely on light to function. So wet settings or places where material will collect on lenses are challenging. Such manufacturing environments can be served better by ultrasonic technology. That said, photoelectric sensors employ visible red LEDs or infrared LEDs … and the latter actually does better in steamy environments. That’s especially true in opposed mode sensors with a lot of power, they aren’t affected by large water particles in the air of a steamy environment. These sensors essentially burn through that volume better than traditional options.

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Banner Engineering: We ask end users to really understand what’s happening in the environment and share as much as possible about that — so we can help get them into the right product. On the hydrochloric- acid application, we could have designed around that substance upfront — and avoided failures. Settings with temperature cycling — as in dairy or meat processing plants — are also unique. Rooms must stay cold to keep product safe and fresh. But after product goes through, all equipment gets a washdown with hot water. That means machinery goes from very cold to very hot — which can cause condensation as well as thermal expansion and contraction. Some sensors handle this better than others. For example, thermal cycling on metal and plastic joints is pronounced because the materials expand and contract at different rates. That means there can even be openings in those joints — allowing water ingress. So design engineers must be cognizant of this. We manufacture very rugged sensors to survive extreme temperature swings — in some cases, ultrasonically welding polymer sensor halves together so they have a monolithic body that will always stay impenetrable during thermal cycling. Thermal cycling is also a challenge in how it causes condensation inside sensors. For these applications, we’ll fill the sensor with epoxy — so there’s no air on the inside to condense and interfere with the sensor optics. High-pressure spray during washdown is another challenge. Some end users call IP67 washdown, while for others washdown is IP69K. It’s key to understand washdown definitions — and the difference between machinery that gets wiped off and machinery that gets hosed down with no pressure. These situations necessitate IP67 products. But if a machine takes rigorous cleaning with high-pressure high-temperature spray, that machine will need IP69K product. DW

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If the system is unable to record or process the collected data, this can pose a risk of non-compliance with food safety regulations. If the plant is unable to trace critical tracking events such as the transfer of raw milk into a pasteurization vessel or milk powder being transferred from a spray dryer to a silo, the product may have to be discarded. It’s not just about securing process data either. In another example, a study from Climate Central found that 80% of outages between 2003 and 2012 occurred because of harsh weather conditions. However, with the power quality technology available today, manufacturers can protect their equipment from losing data as a result of unexpected outages, while also reducing operational costs. Uninterrupted power supply (UPS) systems can maintain power to equipment, especially the automation network and control systems (like PLCs) in

the event of a primary power supply failure. This not only reduces the risk of food getting stuck on production lines, but also maximizes the availability of performance data. The PCS100 UPS-I has been designed with a failsafe electro-mechanical bypass that ensures protection against power quality events. It protects sensitive loads from sags, surges and outages by using ultra capacitor or battery energy storage and provides continuous power supply in food and beverage plants. Even applications that experience frequent disruptions because of voltage variations, like high-speed packaging lines are safeguarded with UPS. UPS systems are generally designed to shield a facility’s system from short-term dips and spikes in the power supply. In the event of an extended outage, a UPS system can allow the computer center staff to shut down critical equipment safely, while ensuring that data integrity is maintained.

Although UPS systems are not generally designed to maintain power during extended power outages, they provide an important function in unexpected situations and should be used as a means of protecting mission-critical equipment for food manufacturers. As noted, a critical application is for manufacturers processing products that require accurate levels of traceability. DW

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Chain-stretch monitoring system helps power transmission plant Edited by Mike Santora • Associate Editor

Chain drives are a critical part of the manufacturing process in many industries, whether the chains act as conveyors for glass containers or transport automotive frames down kilometer-long production lines. Regardless of the industry, the vibration and constant pull on chain links can stretch, distort, and even break weakened links if they are not properly maintained, causing unplanned downtime as well as lost productivity and profits. The automotive manufacturing industry’s traditional dependence on chain drives has prompted production engineers to look for better ways to monitor chain drives. Until recently, Cognex automotive manufacturers inspected each link using In-Sight 2000 camera scanning a chain link.

a rectangle of metal of the same length as a new chain link. A technician visually checked each link as it passed. If a link looked problematic, the technician marked the chain and hoped it would continue to function until the next scheduled maintenance. If the chain broke in the meantime, the manufacturer incurred expensive downtime until the chain could be repaired. Working with Cognex, engineers at automotive manufacturer General Motors of Canada Company (GM Canada) developed a chain drive stretching system that measures every link in real time and automatically marks non-compliant links without slowing or stopping the line. After discarding a solution that used discrete photoelectric sensors combined with laser pointers to measure chain link lengths, GM Canada engineers developed a real-time chain link monitoring system based on a Cognex In-Sight 2000 vision sensor. The In-Sight 2000 solution uses a red LED illuminator to backlight the chain to provide a crisp outline of the link under inspection, while a complementary red filter helps eliminate the effects of ambient light. A proximity sensor provides the trigger signal to the camera as each link passes within its field of view. Cognex’s In-Sight Explorer image processing software takes the images and runs edge detection algorithms to identify the center of each chain link and then uses a caliper tool to measure the internal length of the chain. “Basic pass/fail inspections can be accomplished with intuitive, point-and-click setup tools,” says system designer Christopher Eid of GM Canada’s Electrical Engineering– Paint Department. “In this case, edge detection is used to locate the presence of the edges of a link. If both edges are found, the distance between the two connections is

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In-Sight software in“easy builder view” for chain-stretch monitoring. The center image shows a chain link and its internal length. The top right column shows the In-Sight Explorer algorithms used in the inspection process, while the lower section shows the pass/fail result for each chain link.

measured, and the result is placed under the respective chain-stretch limit category. The result is then sent to the PLC, which then communicates with the HMI and displays the relevant information.” Using the caliper measurement, GM Canada’s system determines each link’s percentage of variation from the norm. When the variation reaches 4% or more, the vision system sends a signal to a nearby PLC through an optional I/O module. It counts how many chain links fall within each category, as well as the number of rotations for a 1,680-foot chain. The PLC allows the user to measure links at the first detection of a conveyor magnet (reference point) by pressing “Start Now” or by discretional scanning. The user can also decide how many revolutions of the conveyor chain the Cognex system will measure during an evaluation session. “So far, we’ve tested the system on our fastest conveyor,” explains Eid. “We started at 70% coverage because the camera runs faster than the PLC. Today we’re doing most of the analysis on the camera, and we use a 9-frame buffer bit on the Cognex vision sensor, which allows us the ability to cover more coverage per scan. Based on

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the success of the system, we plan to roll several more systems shortly and eventually modify the system for overhead chains for painting stations too.” According to Eid, eventually, the PLC will direct a downstream paint sprayer to mark chain links that fall in the 4–5% stretch category for replacement during the next planned maintenance cycle. As vision sensors gain the speed and power necessary to keep up with the fastest industrial applications, engineers realize that cobbling together discretely wired “dumb” sensors and software is a waste of time and money, especially when vision sensor acquisition and deployment costs are weighed against the regular costs of unplanned downtime. DW

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Rotary seals alleviate fluid power pressure build-up

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Leaking rotary seals can create a headache for anyone within the fluid power industry. There is a fine line between ensuring a rotary seal has enough lubrication to prolong a seal’s life and having so much it causes leakage. Without sufficient lubrication, the seal life is shortened due to excessive wear and heat. System costs also increase due to additional frictional torque. To remedy potential issues with leakage, fluid power design engineers can take a few precautions, such as the use of redundant seals or a drain line. Manufacturers can lower hardware cost and increase functionality with new sealing innovations designed to decrease torque and increase seal life. For instance, using a seal with an integrated check valve function and high contact force on the seal edge helps to increase lubrication while decreasing leakage. In redundant sealing systems, the check valve function automatically releases inter-stage pressure build up when system pressure drops. Seal designs with valve ports made from both sides of the O-Ring profile to the space in the center provide a lubricating groove. Like other O-Ring-activated slipper seals, the initial squeeze of the O-Ring ensures enough contact pressure between seal and mating surface to provide sealing at low pressure. As the system pressure increases, the O-Ring and the seal body have direct contact force on the sealing surface to ensure sealing efficiency at all pressures. A double-acting four-lip seal installed in the lubricating groove prevents static leakage through the ports. When this lip seal is pressurized from one side, it opens the port on the pressure side, equalizing the pressure beneath the elastomer ring. This double-acting Seal diameters can range from about 1 in. to rotary seal delivers twice 2 ft-2 in. (22 mm to 660 mm) and operating temperatures the pressure velocity and a can be from -22 to +392 °F (-30 to +200 °C), making them 50% reduction in friction. well suited to fluid power applications. In testing, wear of the seal and O-Ring was so low that its measurement was inconsequential.

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A solution like this provides multiple seal points on the ring, requiring less compression to provide an effective seal. By creating less force to seal, there is less friction and wear, reducing potential downtime. When pressurized, the elastomer ring opens the port on the pressure side and equalizes the pressure beneath the double-acting four-lip ring — pressure balancing the seal by more than half. Shifting pressurization through the ports renews the fluid in the space between the “legs,” improving lubrication under the seal. This level of lubrication is optimal because the grooves on the inner and outer diameter of the ring maintain lubrication, lowering friction and extending the life of the seal. The sealing industry has answered a need for rotary seals that run at higher speeds at higher pressure and extended seal life for more demanding applications where a high pressure to velocity value is required. This double-acting rotary seal delivers twice the pressure velocity and a 50% reduction in friction. In testing, wear of the seal and O-Ring was so low that its measurement was inconsequential. Specialized rotary seals can be well suited to address highspeed, high-pressure applications that need continuous service at high and low-pressure velocity (PV) values. The seals give improved performance in oscillating conditions and applications involving frequent pressure and velocity changes. These doubleacting rotary seals are tested with low frictional torque at all pressures from 0.5 MPa / 72.5 psi and above with low sensitivity to pressure increases from 0.5 to 20 MPa / 72.5 to 2900 psi. They are suitable for equipment for which a long service life is required in demanding service conditions. Hydraulic swivels, lead-troughs, rotary connections with swivel movements, excavators, hydraulic rotators, robots, manipulators, indexing tables, pivoting motors, hydraulic motors, blow molding machines, top drives and core cutting equipment and other applications would benefit from rotary seals that can run at higher speeds combined with higher pressures. They not only achieve these requirements but generate lower heat, which reduces the wear on the seal. For the equipment operator, that means lower overall costs from reduced maintenance requirements and energy consumption. DW

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Edited by Mike Santora • Associate Editor Flexible shafts have been used for many years in a variety of physically stressful applications. Over the years, customer service lifetime requirements have become more demanding, resulting in the expectation that end-of-service products should behave like new ones. To meet this expectation for flexible shafts, a product that provides lifetime lubrication without the need for maintenance activities is needed. The principle performance characteristics of a flexible shaft are straightforward —the challenge is to sustain these characteristics over the product’s lifetime. This is because throughout the life of a flexible shaft, internal wear and settlement of the internal structure takes place. Consequently, after a high number of revolutions in both directions, the angular, torsional deflection traditionally increases. As the wires that make up a flexible shaft rotate around themselves, the individual wires move across each other causing wear. The geometry of the round wires creates high loads generated at the contact points where they cross with the wires of the adjacent layers running in the opposite direction (see figure 1). These high loads and displacements from torque transmission and bend radii mean the wear can become dangerously high for long endurance service life applications or where precise angular control is important. The construction of flexible shafts precludes the selection of differing materials on alternate layers to reduce galling and pick up, as this can lead to a lack of directional balance in the shaft and give rise to galvanic issues. Traditional lubrication methods, as historically used in low speed torque load applications work well but at higher speeds and torque loads the contact pressures become too high. Using traditional lubrication methods, flexible shafts can degrade quickly at first, and over time require either maintenance or replacement, both of which are costly in many applications. Dry Film Lubricants (DFL) have been successfully applied to the exterior of shafts when used in conjunction with formed metallic tubes; the challenge was to manufacture a shaft that contains DFL throughout its construction. The use Figure 1 of DFL in combination with a traditional lubricant Illustration of a also seemed worthy flexible shaft’s of investigation and construction development.

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Samples were produced from the same shaft construction with various lubrication media in isolation and in combination with each other and tested under the same test conditions. The test regime was highly aggressive in terms of torque load, speed and bend radius to reduce the testing duration. A limit to the number of revolutions was set. Principle data recordings were temperature while running and torsional (angular) deflection, taken at defined rest intervals. From the testing, two distinct groups of results emerged. Group 1, circled in green in figures 2 and 3 above, contains flexible shafts treated with traditional lubrication methods and those with DFL throughout their construction. Group 2, circled in red, contains flexible shafts with either no DFL or only surface DFL. Within these groups, dry samples with no lubrication failed early and produced

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Design Notes Throughout the life of a flexible shaft, internal wear and settlement of the internal structure takes place. Consequently, after a high number of revolutions in both directions, the angular, torsional deflection traditionally increases.

the least favourable results. Of the better performing group, Group 1 (lower temperature and lower torsional deflection), only one of the samples was dry. Of the group lubricated through DFL methods, method 2 out-performed the other application methods. Traditional lubricants work well to suppress the internal friction within a flexible shaft (friction can be correlated to temperature) as does DFL. DW

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Finnish company Newlcon Oy’s Mega-Fixu storage and retrieval system completely automates the identification, shelving and dispensing of medications, enabling pharmacists and medical staff to streamline their storage management. Regarding scale and cost, each NewIcon Mega-Fixu storage system is custom-tailored to fit the size and turnover of the particular pharmacy. To accomplish these tasks, Newlcon Oy needed a solution that could integrate PLC, image processing, and database functions.

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Newlcon Oy chose to have the control system and database run on a Beckhoff C6650 Industrial PC (IPC) equipped with an Intel Core i7 quad-core processor as well as a RAID controller and redundant hard disks. The control system, database, and ERP link are based on TwinCAT automation software. “The reliability and performance of the IPCs are critical to us because the database comprises 150,000 data points for the various storage positions,” explains Mika Rissanen, automation manager at NewIcon. “Also, the openness and modularity of the solution were among the criteria that solidified our decision to employ PC-based control technology. The modularity of our system perfectly matches the modular control architecture offered by Beckhoff. We also had the ambitious goal to integrate the database, image processing, and automation system on a single PC platform.” The Mega-Fixu system has a robot-assisted input unit where each package is identified and measured via a barcode reader and an intelligent image processing system. Following this step, the control system determines the most suitable storage location for the package. The system’s X/Y servo axes controlling the robots that shelve and retrieve medicine packages are equipped with AM8000 series motors that feature One Cable Technology (OCT), as well as 2-channel AX5000 Servo Drives. The servo axes’ movements are controlled via DIN rail-mounted CX5020 Embedded PCs. Future developments include predictive diagnostics and condition monitoring.

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Design Notes All the controls of the NewIcon’s Mega-Fixu system are based on Beckhoff automation components, ranging from the C6650 Industrial PC as a database server to CX5020 Embedded PCs that control the storage system, conveyor and drive components. All communication functions are handled by the EtherCAT real-time industrial Ethernet system.

“Since the order picking systems for pharmacies and hospitals must work trouble-free and be highly reliable, it’s best when service and maintenance are performed proactively,” Rissanen says. “The number of systems we have shipped has increased so rapidly that we are considering an even more comprehensive

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How sweet it is: Coupling assists in sugarcane processing application By Matheus Mendes The sugarcane industry is one of the most flourishing segments of the Brazilian Economy. With a production of up to 624 million metric tonnes of sugarcane in the 2017 harvest season, the country holds the world record production for both sugar and ethanol from this raw material. Uniting technology in both agricultural and industrial fields as well as sugar and ethanol production, demands a great deal of synchronism between these areas, from harvest and delivery of the raw material to the plant up to the milling process. A non-scheduled maintenance stop can disrupt the entire production chain, decreasing productivity, and profitability of the company. In a sugar and ethanol plant located in the countryside of Sao Paulo state, the maintenance engineering department carried out a predictive maintenance operation in cooperation with HENFEL (a part of Ringfeder Power Transmission): The goal was to mitigate the breaking risk of three conventional elastic couplings. Due to their constructive design, the existing couplings presented the risk of causing a non-scheduled maintenance stop of up to 36 hours, which would generate an estimated financial loss of up to 845,000 EUR.

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The existing elastic couplings were installed at the drive of two feeding tables at 45º and one metallic conveyor: essential pieces of equipment for the reception, preparation, and handling of sugarcane in the first crusher – all raw material processed by the plant goes through this system. The aforementioned elastic couplings were assembled with an interference fit on the shafts of both the gearbox and the equipment. This procedure requires heating to obtain thermal expansion of the coupling hubs, allowing the parts to be mounted by axial sliding. This procedure often requires special tools such as inductive heaters or a burner flame. The use of an interference fit is a common method in South America for axially assembled couplings. However, this fixation method involves some “inconveniences” that should be considered. Over time, the exposure of the coupling to humidity (vapors, rain, and liquid of the productive process) and other contaminants generates oxidation between the parts: This makes removal operations very complicated, often requiring hydraulic tools – which proves very difficult to carry out such operations in-house. Accordingly, in most cases, it is necessary to remove the components including the mounted coupling hubs and send them to a workshop to have them separated.

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interrogated, manipulated and translated interactively or in batches with the ability to publish user specific documentation. Since the JT open standard became ISO certified in 2012 and then ISO-revised in 2017, the 3D data format, most CAD programs have adopted JT functionality. ISO JT V2, the revised ISO standard, includes the incorporation of a STEP B-rep as an additional B-rep segment. JT is a standardized 3D data format used for product visualization, collaboration, CAD data exchange, and sometimes for long-term data retention. The JT file format can store an arbitrary number of faceted representations with varying levels of detail. It can contain any combination of data, including NURBS surfaces, product and manufacturing information (PMI),

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and metadata, either exported from native CAD systems or inserted into product data management systems. Theorem’s strategic partnerships with Autodesk and Siemens ensures that there is a parallel development between the latest releases of Inventor, JT and Theorem’s Visualize 3D products, allowing Theorem to continue to provide data solutions to the Inventor and JT communities. JT is useful to CAD visualization systems, which don’t need the full capacity of the original CAD system. Rather, suppliers and others can view the CAD drawing without the need for access to the CAD program that created it. JT is useful here because it can house lightweight geometry and product manufacturing information from CAD systems.

The JT standard was originally created by Engineering Animation and Hewlett Packard and at that time it was called Jupiter Tessellation. By dictionary definition, a tessellation is an arrangement of shapes closely fitted together, especially of polygons in a repeated pattern without gaps or overlapping. Following a series of company acquisitions, the 3D data format is now under the purview of Siemens PLM Software, headquartered in Plano, Texas. JT is the common interoperability format in use across all of Siemens PLM Software and has been adopted as the long-term data archival format across all of Siemens. The format was originally created to support the interactive display of very large assemblies containing tens of thousands of components. When

the whole product is displayed on the computer screen, the hosting the visualizing application displays only a simple model. However, as the user zooms into a particular area, progressively finer representations are loaded and displayed. Over time, unused representations are unloaded to save memory. DW

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machine–even the most affordable ones –has those capabilities at their disposal,” Hooper said. In addition to having access to Fusion 360’s cloud-based generative design, advanced simulation and advanced CAM capabilities, new subscribers will receive 100 cloud credits as a one-time grant. Autodesk cloud credits are the currency for cloud-based services, including generative design, so you pay only for what you use. “Incorporating the unique voxel-level capabilities of HP Multi Jet Fusion with Autodesk generative design unleashes new levels of creativity, speed, and quality from prototyping all the way to production,” added Michelle Bockman, global head of 3D Printing commercial expansion and development at Hewlett Packard. “By empowering the vast Autodesk customer ecosystem to design for 3D across HP’s entire 3D printing portfolio, including our full color platform, we are unlocking new possibilities for customers and furthering our mission to change the way the world designs and manufactures.” DW

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At the Autodesk University Conference, HP unveiled its Opera Glass, a headset designed for “VR snacking.” The headset is for engineers who want to design in 3D CAD, then quickly view the model in virtual reality. It helps engineer switch quickly, and often between CAD and virtual reality. Wearers can switch while seated or standing at a desk. Opera Glass solves the issue of switching to a VR application and disrupting the workflow because the designer must move to a dedicated VR space. These concept glasses let designers look at the design in the VR view, HP says. The glasses are attached to a stick near the designer’s computer monitor, so users can bring it to their eyes and look through it quickly. For example, say a designer is at work on a concept for a new chair. The designer drafts the chair in 3D CAD, but isn’t sure if it makes sense at scale. With VR, the designer could view the chair

model at the right proportions, to scale. The designer would return to 3D CAD and modify the design based on its VR image. The ability to quickly switch from 3D CAD to VR without getting up or gearing up is the idea behind VR snacking; taking a little bite of virtual reality for design purposes. HP already has a number of headsets intended for mixed reality. Other companies also make these mixed reality headsets, including the Samsun Odyssey and the Acer from Microsoft. The Opera Glass will be designed to be lighter than these—thus the quick setup time and the name: just like slipping on a pair of glasses. It would also immerse users in a virtual environment rather than bring a virtual environment to their existing surroundings. It’s intended to smooth the shift from computer monitor to VR headset.

The glasses themselves actually resemble VR googles more than eyeglasses or opera glasses, and they’re perched on a desk stand rather than a stick you’d use to raise opera glasses to your eyes. But the goal is the same as that of those who want to see the opera close up. Raise your glasses to get a better (or in this case) VR view. Again, the glasses are still in the proof-of-concept stage. Engineers have a while to wait until “VR snacking” will become part of their workflow. The working prototype was on display at Autodesk University in Las Vegas. But the signs point to a series of hardware applications that will help engineers toggle between VR and CAD with only a few mouse clicks and without much thought. DW

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At last month’s Siemens cybersecurity press meetings, journalists had the opportunity to get the perspective of researchers at IBM Watson’s Munich IoT operations center. The Center brings together developers, consultants, researchers and designers to drive state-of-the-art collaborative innovation with SMEs and start-ups, as well as governments, schools and universities and investors. Dr. Angelika Steinaker, CTO Identity & Access Management, IBM Security Europe, discussed the importance of identity and access management. According to Steinaker, “everything in security is related to identity” and this is of critical importance to everyone involved in cybersecurity. “If you talk about network segregation, and point security, CM, targets, everything is related to identity,” she stressed. She gave the example of a smart bulb located in a building. Whose bulb is it? Who can access it online to control it? While this seems innocuous enough, think of all of the stakeholders involved. Maybe one company owns the building. Another one has leased that building and its employees are working there. A third company is the facility manager. And yet another provides applications for building insights. So, let’s say that the building is equipped with an application to get insights on energy consumption, which has reduced costs considerably. Everyone’s happy. Until the leasing company’s CISO detects that someone has hacked their database through a smart bulb in a conference room. This brings to light (no pun intended) multiple questions — ones that aren’t necessarily so easy to answer:

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• Who is the owner of security? • How could this situation have happened? • Did the bulb have a Digital Identity? • How could it have been prevented? • How are stakeholders to be supported? Steinaker referenced the famous Peter Steiner New Yorker cartoon from 1993 that featured the caption, “On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog.” She said that today, she might instead caption it, “On the internet, nobody knows you are a bulb.” According to Steinaker, the principles in the Charter of Trust initiative can help to determine the owner and answer these questions. She said that the Watson IoT center in Munich is working with partner companies like Siemens to plan out best practices to avoid these sorts of scenarios. In her estimation, the first step a company should take is to establish Identity Assurance Requirements for device

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1 Define an enterprise security and IAM architecture • Use a recognized method for an enterprise security and IAM architecture • Adopt a graded trust model for IAM capabilities • Design authentication and authorization schemes, based on risk models • Establish an appropriate organization by working across the business units 2

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Features of CC-Link IE TSN • Flexible IIoT system construction • Adopts TSN Ethernet communication technology as a time sharing method • Enables collection of information from end devices by IP communication while securing real-time control communication • Faster time to market and reduced downtime • Easier network diagnosis by using general purpose Ethernet diagnostic tools compliant with SNMP • By means of time synchronization of compatible devices, it is easy to investigate the cause of problems • With the improvement of communication performance, CC-Link IE TSN can offer a best in class motion control operation cycle time of better than 31.25 µs • Segregation of high and low performance device communication, leading to optimized performance for all network stations and the system as a whole • Diversification of development methods • Offers hardware (ASIC and other device based) and software (protocol stack) development methods • Supports both 1 Gbps and 100 Mbps DW

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the information provided by this new interface, diagnostic tools or HMIs can retrieve the EtherCAT network topology information, compare it with the expected configuration and detect communication interruptions and disturbances, as well as unexpected state changes. The specification ETG.1510 “Profile for Master Diagnosis Interface” enhances the “EtherCAT Master Classes” specification and extends the EtherCAT Master Object Dictionary already defined in the “Modular Device Profile” specification. Likewise, the access mechanism makes use of the already specified Mailbox Gateway functionality. Based on already existing standards, the new profile is therefore easy and straightforward to implement. DW

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EtherCAT in 10-Gbits/s

EtherCAT G gigabit communication technology delivers the Gbit Ethernet speeds needed to support highly data-intensive applications. It is compatible with the globally established 100 Mbit/s EtherCAT standard, and offers the same familiar ease of use. In addition, the new branch controller model for EtherCAT G enables efficient operation of multiple network segments in parallel. EtherCAT G supports standard Ethernet transmission rates of 1 Gbit/s; its EtherCAT G10 counterpart is faster with data rates of 10 Gbit/s. The sharp increase in transmission rates beyond the standard 100 Mbit/s provided by EtherCAT increases the possible data throughput. With propagation delay times through devices as a limiting factor on the one hand, but boosted by the newly introduced branch model on the other, EtherCAT G can deliver a twoto-sevenfold performance increase, depending on the application. EtherCAT G and G10 are not meant to replace the EtherCAT standard based on 100 Mbit/s Ethernet. The new performance levels are intended as systemcompatible expansions. Though it is not a substitute for standard EtherCAT, EtherCAT G shares the same characteristics, yet achieves even higher transmission speeds without changes to the protocol or the EtherCAT master software. EtherCAT G provides capabilities that include built-in diagnostics, high-precision synchronization and telegram processing on the fly. It also conforms to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard. EtherCAT and EtherCAT G can be combined within a heterogeneous network. This means that EtherCAT G slaves can operate in a 100 Mbit/s EtherCAT network, and vice versa. In both instances, EtherCAT G equipment falls back to the 100 Mbit/s rate. With the new EtherCAT G branch controller model, though, EtherCAT branches can be set up to enable the parallel operation of 100 Mbit/s segments within a 1 Gbit/s network through a conversion of transmission rates. For instance, the upcoming EK1400 EtherCAT

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G Coupler can create a branch that steps the data rate down from 1 Gbit/s to 100 Mbit/s, making available the wide range of standard EtherCAT Terminals for use as I/Os on an EtherCAT G network. Based on the branch controller capabilities of the EK1400, the 1 Gbit/s data rate on the EtherCAT G trunk remains unaffected. An advantage of the EtherCAT G branch controller system is that it minimizes propagation delays. The new CU14xx branch controller series is designed specifically to interconnect EtherCAT and EtherCAT G segments and enable parallel operation. This setup reduces signal propagation times, shortening communication and cycle times because telegrams coming back from a given segment travel straight from the branch controller to the master at the higher transmission rate of 1 Gbit/s, independent of other network segments. DW

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Efficiency in motor designs is a more relevant concern than ever. With electric motors providing over 60% of all industrial power, efficiency is a key design parameter. Here weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll look at some general requirements as well as more specific ones for permanent magnet ac (PMAC) motors, which hold for common industrial applications in a limited power range. To start, efficiency is defined as the ratio of delivered mechanical power to the supplied electrical power. An electrical motor that is 85-percent efficient converts 85 percent of electrical energy into mechanical energy. The remaining 15 percent dissipates as heat. Energy efficient electric motors use high-quality materials and optimized designs to achieve higher efficiencies. For example, more aluminum in the rotor and better slot-filling factor in the stator reduce resistance losses. Optimized rotor configuration and rotor-to-stator air gap reduce stray-load losses. Improved cooling fan design

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Exploded view rendering of an ac induction motor illustrating the housing, bearings and fan components.

provides motor cooling with a minimum of windage loss. Higher quality and thinner steel laminations in the rotor and stator cores allow operation with substantially lower magnetization losses. Finally, reduced friction losses result from higher-quality bearings.

Selection points for both induction and PMAC motors Optimizing the dimensions of rotor/stator laminations and the quality of steel used is key to improving performance

Hysteresis and eddy current losses together are called core losses. Around 20 percent of total losses are caused by eddy currents and magnetic core saturation. Eddy currents induced in laminations moving relative to a changing magnetic field cause significant power losses. Laminated stator cores reduce eddy current losses and are based on the quality, resistivity, density, thickness, frequency and flux density of the iron. Eddy current losses can be minimized with a higher number of laminations. Hysteresis losses are caused in the magnetic circuits when the flux is continually changing. The majority of flux-carrying material used in electric motors is steel used for stator and rotor cores. Minimize the flux density and core losses by reducing the thickness of laminations. Hysteresis losses are reduced by annealing better grades of steel for laminations to change the grain structure for easy magnetization.

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Reduce eddy current losses by increasing the resistivity of the steel with silicon, but silicon content increases die wear during stamping because it increases steel hardness. Steel crystals damaged during stamping severely degrade the magnetic quality of the affected volume. Annealing flattens the laminations and recrystallizes the crystals damaged during stamping, which extends one sheet thickness into the lamination. Use bath impregnation process for lamination, versus drip for optimum thermal management

Impregnating stators strengthens stator winding electrical insulation, protects against chemicals or harsh environments, and enhances thermal dissipation. Thermoset plastics including epoxies, phenolics, and polyesters are used for impregnating stators. ABM uses the bathing method whereby stators are immersed in resin for an extended period of time to assure optimum penetration and protection. Another impregnation method is called vacuum-pressure, which uses a tank that is evacuated first and then pressurized to achieve penetration into the stators. Driving out air pockets from the electric winding enhances the thermal conductivity of the winding. Design slots in the stator to maximize the volume of copper that can be inserted

Low stator winding mass causes up to 60 percent of total losses, so to reduce them the mass of stator winding must be larger which reduces electrical resistance. Electric motors that are highly efficient contain more than 20-percent extra copper compared to standard efficiency electric motors. The statorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insulated electrical windings are placed inside the slots of the steel laminations. The cross-sectional area must be large enough for the power rating of the motor. In general, open or semi-closed stator slots are employed in induction motors. In semi-closed slots the slot opening is much smaller than the width of the slot, and winding is more difficult and time

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consuming to manufacture compared to open slots. However, the air gap characteristics are better compared to the open type. The number of stator slots must be selected at the design stage because this number affects the weight, cost, and operating characteristics. The advantages of more slots are reduced leakage reactance, reduced tooth pulsation losses, and higher overload capacity. The disadvantages of more stator slots are increased cost, increased weight, increased magnetizing current, increased iron losses, poorer cooling, increased temperature rise, and reduction in efficiency. Use high grade/pure aluminum in the rotor die casting

Custom designed rotors can maximize starting torque, reduce conductor resistance and increase efficiency. Most induction motor rotors are squirrelcage designs. They are rugged, simple in construction and less expensive, but they have a low starting torque. Copper rotors increase efficiency but are difficult and expensive to manufacture.

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Tightening manufacturing tolerances allows optimum air gap between rotor and stator

The air gap is the radial distance between the rotor and stator in an electric motor for standard radial motors. An optimum air gap needs to be maintained for design efficiency. Air gap dimension involves the design of stator, rotor, motor housing, and bearings. All these affect the exact alignment of the stator and rotor axes. Use copper windings that meet DIN EN 13601 and UL Norm standards

The European standard DIN EN 13601 specifies copper and copper alloys for general electrical purposes including dimensions and tolerances, tensile test, hardness test, bend test, electrical resistivity test. It also specifies characteristics of coppers for electrical purposes including the preference for oxygen-free or deoxidized coppers which may be heat-treated, welded or brazed without the need for special precautions to avoid hydrogen embrittlement which causes cracking. For global compliance, UL determines that magnet wire complies with IEC 60317. Magnet or enameled wire is an DESIGN WORLD

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General selection guidelines The motor selection process involves some basic considerations. For starters, verify the application requirements. Then, what torque and speed is needed when and how often? What is the duty cycle? What are the ambient conditions such as temperature and pressure? Even the most efficient motor will not perform to its utmost efficiency if used for the wrong application. Many of the electric motors discussed here are used for gearmotors, a combination of a gear reducer and an electrical motor. A gearmotor delivers high torque at low speed. In short, gearmotors take motor power and reduce its speed while magnifying its torque. Gearmotor duty cycles do not only impact the motor performance rating, e.g., a continuous duty cycle S1 motor will provide a higher output if it’s used at an S3 intermittent duty cycle, but also especially for gearboxes used in extraordinary applications where torque peaks and system shocks are possible. For such situations, it’s critical to carefully determine what duty cycle and what peaks/shocks per a specific time period are experienced so the engineering team of the motor/gearbox OEM can select and recommend a suitable drive system. A good start is to review data on past extreme temperature and or pressure conditions in which the application will be operating and any other unique conditions that may be relevant to the design. Always inform the motor OEM if your application is being used in extreme conditions – this can be a game changer.

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electrolytically refined copper or aluminum wire that has been fully annealed and coated with one or more layers of insulation. ABM, for example, uses wires with a total of 12 insulation coats. Typical insulating films in order of increasing temperature range are polyvinyl, polyurethane, polyester, and polyimide up to 250 °C. Thicker rectangle or square magnet wire is wrapped with a high-temperature polyimide or fiberglass tape. Use of more copper, larger conductor bars and conductors increases the cross-sectional area of stator and rotor windings. This lowers resistance of the windings and reduces losses due to current flow. A high-efficiency electric motor will usually have 20 percent more copper in the stator winding. Design housing for best cooling

The electrical efficiency of motors has improved so much that the power drawn by cooling fans has become a larger percentage of the total losses. Optimization of cooling fan dimensions involves using the minimum power for the fan, while providing adequate cooling. The optimal fan design may result in a 65 percent reduction in fan power requirements. An important design feature is the clearance between the blade and the housing. The space between the housing and the fan blade should be as small as possible to prevent turbulence and decrease backflow. A cool motor runs more efficiently. To obtain the best airflow, optimize the cooling fan and fan shroud design. Assuring a tight bond between the stator and motor housing provides the best cooling performance. Select low-friction bearings suited for operating speeds

Ball or roller bearings are used in high-efficiency electrical motors. They consist of an inner and outer race and cage containing steel or ceramic rollers or balls. The outer race is attached to the stator and the inner race to the rotor. When the shaft rotates, the element also rotates and the friction of the shaft rotation is minimized. They have a long life and maintenance costs are low. High precision application allows the smallest air gap possible. Thermal contraction and expansion can affect shaft and housing fits as well as internal bearing clearances. Power output governs shaft size and bearing bore. Load magnitude and direction determines bearing size and type. Consider additional forces such as unsymmetrical air gaps causing magnetic

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SINOCHRON PMAC motor efficiency is more than twice compared to standard asynchronous motors under partial-load. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made possible by a continuously excited synchronous motor, which operates with practically no rotor losses.

pull, out-of-balance forces, pitch errors in gears, and thrust loads. For bearing-load calculations consider the shaft as a beam resting on rigid, moment-free supports. Ball bearings are more suitable for high-speed applications than roller bearings. High-speed factors include cage design, lubricant, running accuracy, clearance, resonance frequency, and balancing. Knowing the ambient temperature range and the normal operating temperature range will help determine the most effective lubrication method for the bearing: oil or grease. Normal operating temperatures for gearmotors considered here range from -25 to 40 Â°C. Synthetic grease has good performance properties over a wide range of temperatures. Grease allows simplified maintenance, cleanliness, fewer leaks, and contaminant protection. Bearings need a minimum load, so rolling elements rotate and form a lubricant film rather than skidding, which raises operating temperatures and degrades lubricants. Allow a minimum load equal to about 0.01 times the dynamic radial-load rating for ball bearings. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s especially important when bearings are approaching 70 percent of recommended ratings. Use a quality balancing machine, high standards and balance at the operational speeds of the motor application

Noise and vibration can result when the center of mass does not co-exist with the axis of rotation. Balancing has limited effect on efficiency but impacts operating noise and life expectancy that

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is also important for maximum use of resources. Bearing vibration readings are normally taken on three planes – vertical, horizontal and axial. Vertical vibration may indicate a mounting problem. Horizontal vibration may mean a balance problem, whereas axial vibration may indicate a bearing problem. Balancing at operational speeds is important because unbalance can also be caused by centripetal forces at the bearings.

Additional design criteria for PMAC motors PMAC motors are a growing alternative to ac induction motors, which for decades have been the workhorse of almost any electrical motor application. PMAC motors preserve the

reliability and simplicity of the ac induction motor while offering higher efficiency, synchronous operation, and the opportunity to use a smaller frame size. PMAC motors replace the magnetic field induced in the conductors in the rotor with permanent magnets, usually made from alloys of rare-earth metals, giving them much lower electric resistive losses than ac induction motors because no electric current is induced in the rotor. In place of mechanical commutation, a control system is required to determine which coils are supplied with current to produce the maximum torque. Magnetic fields generated by rare-earth PMAC motors can deliver the same torque as ac induction motors with a smaller, lighter motor. Select PMAC motor size to allow operation in partial load area for best efficiency

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Energy savings from PMAC motors depend on the number of service hours, motor size, and motor loading. PMAC motors nearly always maintain higher efficiency – no matter the speed or torque compared to ac induction motors and makes them an attractive alternative to induction motors in variable-speed applications. By substituting existing line-powered three-phase electric motors with PMAC motors, energy savings of 20 to 35 percent can be expected. Optimize design of rotor laminations to show a sinusoidal magnetic field

For example, ABM synchronous motors with highperformance permanent magnets come with a sinusoidal flux distribution as well as Electro-MotiveForce. Stator windings, for distributed windings, are normally identical to asynchronous motor windings. It results in lowered vibration, noise and maintenance cost as well as increased overall performance. Selection of rare earth versus ferrite (ceramic) magnets

Neodymium rare earth, samarium cobalt magnets or ferrite (ceramic) magnets are used in PMAC electric motors. Rare earth magnets are two to three times stronger than ferrite or ceramic permanent magnets but are more expensive. Samarium cobalt magnets are optimal for high-temperature applications because of their high energy density, 250 to 550 °C temperature resistance, small decrease of parameters due to temperature increase, and oxidation protection. The selection of samarium cobalt or neodymium as an electric motor magnet is based on operating temperature, corrosion resistance and required performance. A low-grade neodymium magnet may begin to lose “strength” if heated above 80 °C. Highgrade neodymium magnets operate at temperatures up to 220 °C. Ferrite or ceramic magnets have won wide acceptance due to their strong resistance to demagnetization, exceptional corrosion resistance, and low price. Magnetic losses occur when operating at temperatures above 250 °C, but are recovered when the magnet is brought down to a lower temperature. Cold temperatures of -40 °C may result in permanent losses of magnetic strength unless the circuit has been designed for such extremes. PMAC motors require inverters

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Dynamic metrology is the collection of data on objects traveling on moving machine axes. It’s increasingly common with laser-based inspections and spectrometry, and primarily for semiconductor and electronics manufacturing that uses line scanning of discrete product during various processes. Life-science applications such as cell analysis or DNA and gene sequencing — which necessitate high data-collection throughput — also employ dynamic metrology. Yet another application is in precision laser cutting. Because the stages carrying the product are in motion during measurements, they must exhibit minimal linear errors, Abbe errors, and planar errors. Sources of these errors abound — and include linear-slide and assembly machining inconsistencies, bearing inconsistencies, friction, deflection, thermal fluctuation, inconsistent feedback, and mechanical windup.

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For linear-positioning devices, industry quantifies such error in eight different ways. Abbe errors occur in pitch, yaw, and roll directions; they are significant contributors to accuracy and repeatability and are quantified with angular measures. Linear errors in the X, Y, or Z directions relate directly to the accuracy and repeatability and are quantified with linear measures In contrast, planar errors occur in X, Y, or Z direction and contribute directly to the adjacent axis in a multi-axis system. These are also quantified with linear measures.One special note: Accuracy is affected when the measuring point rides at some distance from stage … and total error is higher when the point of measurement is more distant from the stage. In such applications — where the point of interest is some distance from pitch, yaw, or roll points — minimizing Abbe error is most

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critical. Design engineers must account for such magnification of such errors when specifying linear stages for dynamic metrology applications.

Motion control complements mechanical accuracy Also necessary for dynamic metrology is tight control over motionstage speed. Error in the form of unexpected acceleration and deceleration (as velocity ripple) makes the accurate and consistent collection of results in dynamic-metrology setups impossible. Scanning applications in particular need good velocity control or risk poor data collection (relative to expected position) and blurry results. Causes of velocity ripple include deviations in the mechanical drivetrain; leadscrew, or pulley pitch variations; and friction changes

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EIGHT DIFFERENT ERROR SOURCES IN LINEAR-POSITIONING DEVICES Abbe errors include yaw, pitch, and roll.

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There are several ways to minimize torque ripple at stage axes: Install a high-resolution linear-feedback device on the actuator; install a very low subdivisional error (SDE) encoder on the axis motor; or employ a drive controller with a high servo-update rate.

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More details on all three error types can be found at blog.parker.com; search on dynamic metrology. Keeping errors to a minimum means minimizing their sources — including machining and bearing inconsistencies, friction, deflection, thermal fluctuation, inconsistent feedback, and mechanical windup.

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Consider two operations that include a point of measurement some distance from the linear stage. Total error is higher when the point of measurement is more distant from the stage.

couple to the load, there’s minimization or even total elimination of the backlash, efficiency losses, and positional inaccuracies of belt and ballscrew-driven arrangements. What’s more, linear motors are typically more compact than other drivetrains. That makes for smaller machines with higher stiffness — for lower positional errors and a

lightweight design capable of high speeds. Linear-motor actuators also hold the tightest control over high speeds … even necessitating consideration of encoder subdivisional errors and servo-position control loops in some cases. Where these are addressed and optimized, linear motors can avoid velocity-ripple issues to deliver quick

actuation. At reasonable commercial cost, engineers can optimize systems to achieve following errors to 200 nm at aggressive dynamic-metrology speeds. But to minimize velocity ripple, the engineer must have the application’s speed and sampling rate before specifying encoder resolution and servo sampling rate.

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This plots the error from two stage axes. Bottom-axis target accuracy is ±4 µm; actual accuracy is far better than that — at ±1.2 µm. Top-axis target accuracy is ±4 µm; actual accuracy is far better than that — at ±0.8 µm.

Consider one application for which a design engineering team in the semiconductor market performs laser line-scanning. Assume the process depends on flatness and straightness — with errors not exceeding ±4 µm over a 300 x 300-mm travel zone. Here, wide-base monolithic stages in X-Y systems from some manufacturers can maintain high stiffness for minimal flatness and straightness errors. Consider another line-scanning application and assume scanning frequency of 100 Hz. Also assume velocity ripple must be below ±2% at stroke speeds of 10 mm/sec. That means position error must stay within ±0.2 mm/sec/100 Hz — or 0.002 mm per 0.01 sec. So here, the stage actuator needs an encoder with resolution exceeding allowable position error … a 2-µm encoder at least. Plus the servoupdate rate must be at least tenfold the required correction rate (0.01 second times 10 = 1-msec update rate). Here, only stages with precision encoders and certain servo drive and controller combinations can hold velocity to within requirements.

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In fact, only linear-motor actuated stages can meet the critical specifications of dynamic metrology. Look for suppliers of these systems that supply laser-interferometer test reports to confirm each stage’s ability to outperform other drivetrain mechanisms and deliver metrologylevel performance. DW Parker Hannifin | solutions.parker. com/LP=12738

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Better Communication standards for motion and robot systems As more automation systems incorporate robots and cobots, good communication among system elements is critical.

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Design World: What new developments in automation do you consider most significant? O’Dowd • Analog Devices: Our company has been around for 50 years. For some time, we’ve investigated the systems into which our parts go … to create better solutions for these designs. For example, sometimes engineers asked us to reduce power

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gate drivers (IGBTs) … and the measurement of the currents returning — for a complete control-loop algorithm. We’ve worked to optimize many of these. But from a system point of view, communications have become more critical — and deterministic Ethernet is increasingly a part of these communications. Even in factory control and process automation where 4-to-20 mA and fieldbuses have reigned for a long time, Industrial Ethernet is coming to the floor … in an array of standards.

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Design World: Our industry sees a lot of proprietary standards — all good for certain things — but not always able to work together. O’Dowd • Analog Devices: They’ve been successful … but now as we

need higher speeds, there’s migration towards unified standards — with the Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) collection of standards currently leading. In fact, nine or 10 different IEEE standards are part of that TSN bundle. They cover things such as ingress policing (for the prevention of traffic overload conditions on a network) and other network functions. We expect TSN standards to supersede most existing industrial Ethernet protocols. Design World: But it’s unlikely that those invested in existing industrial Ethernet networks will abandon what they use … and those networks’ unique benefits — especially for realtime functionality. O’Dowd • Analog Devices: Yes — and with the growing tide of robots

and especially cobots, real-time functionality is absolutely critical. So we’ve invested in multi-protocol solutions … because it’s okay if you’re Siemens, Rockwell, or Beckhoff, with all your equipment the one standard you sponsored — but many smaller players must deal with these different standards. For them, it means unless they’re designing for an all-Siemens factory or an all-Beckhoff factory, they must support multiple standards.

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Design World: What kinds of products support all major protocols?

Design World: How does that relate to robots and the new wave of cobots in automation?

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our Ethernet switch ICs have built-in TSN features to support several IEEE TSN standards. We aim to offer compatible updates to next-generation TSN as those standards are finalized. As any latencycontrolled Ethernet standard, TSN standards allow synchronization of the Media Access Control (MAC) physical interface on different boards at different parts of the system. For a drive, motor, or robot, actual motion is controlled by PWM output. The time synchronization then has to make its way through the communications stack and through the motion-control stack and out to the PWM output — to drive the actual gate drivers to time the motor. So many view TSN from the Ethernet point of view — and focus on getting that synchronization down to the boards … a significant problem itself. But they leave the rest of the problem to individual designers. That’s why we bring motor-controland motion-control signal-change domain expertise to our Ethernet work. We aim to deliver system solutions, and not just pieces of silicon. The key point is when a semiconductor supplier can apply domain expertise to silicon design, it is possible to solve wider system-level problems.

are about sensing and understanding the environment … with many offerings today being very much in the analog domain. But using technologies borrowed from other fields — such as radar and LiDAR from automotive, for example— will come to expand the array of system-level domains in robotics. People often ask why we’re acting more as system suppliers and not acting as a traditional component supplier. Well, it’s because we’re working to be relevant at higher levels — by leveraging our domain-level expertise and newer expertise in robots, motor control, condition monitoring, and Ethernet. Design World: Just to be clear for engineers who don’t usually think of design work at the chip level — would you explain what you mean by domain in this context? O’Dowd • Analog Devices: Sure. There are

IC technology silos — for A-to-D converters, performance amplifiers, processors, and power supplies, for example. We also have experience silos for automotive, motor control, and process control. Some we developed internally from work with customers on applications. Some we’ve hired into the team — for example, in robotics and motor control design — to get views that are different from

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fido5000 REM Switch IC — is configurable with a binary download we supply. That means engineers can setup for an EtherCAT version of a field instrument … or a PROFINET version … or Ethernet IP version … and it’s the same hardware, just with a different binary download. With less designing and debugging, that in turn reduces time to market and models in inventory … and boosts assurance that what gets shipped to the end user will be the right version, as it’s just a software image. In this way, the fido5000 REM Switch IC is a flexible part — with TSN protocols ready to go and pin-for-pin replacement compatibility. Design World: Many proprietary offerings provide realtime functionality. Does your new offering adhere to IEEE standards for that?

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Technology Group (DET) director Jordan Woods also represents us on the standards bodies — so we can sell standards-ready silicon from day one. Even when standards aren’t finalized, we have customers evaluating our ICs’ functionalities to deliver on what’s coming. Design World: What in the motion and robotics markets are driving innovation? O’Dowd • Analog Devices: Motor control and robotics are driving

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the need for higher bandwidth. Some in factory automation resist the idea of needing GbE — accepting 100 Mb as enough. But they’ll need higher bandwidth in the future. Even in residential homes, the number of Internet-connected things has risen dramatically. Factories are no different — and high-bandwidth items such as cameras and radar (for time-of-flight measurement and positioning, for example) are leading the charge. Such technologies are key to knowing where people are around a robot, for example. Having a work cell’s cameras execute auto recognition on workpieces … or artificial intelligence — these too demand big bandwidth. What’s more, some design engineers are frustrated with accommodating lots of standards. These two things are driving the trend towards standard TSN. So I predict the big players will continue to support legacy equipment with proprietary standards — even while next-generation standards are still

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Design World: How does this relate to another connectivity-enabled function — that of condition-based machine health monitoring?

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sell preconfigured chips — and supply the binary … already certified with the standards body — so the chips are ultimately pre-certified to EtherCAT or PROFINET or to the applicable standard. That minimizes work for the engineer. But higher-level software — that lets engineers configure networks — that’s not something we offer yet. At the moment these offerings are tied to more integrated designs. Design World: On the topic of more connectivity between motor-driven machine axes and robotics — what’s particularly innovative here? O’Dowd • Analog Devices: We’ve

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supplied lots of I/O for PLC-based control … analog out and in … digital out and in. We see such controls moving to higher data rates as well — and I think TSN standards will become very prevalent here. But at Ethernet IP becomes standard in the factory everywhere — and not just in parts — it will replace some 4-to-20 mA and fieldbus connections. So while motor controls and drives will spur higher bandwidth, maybe not factory automation but certainly process control — including oil and gas and pharmaceutical industries — will increase use of lower bandwidth over longer distances. Design World: Another area of interest is network security.

O’Dowd • Analog Devices: We’ve been doing MEMs vibration sensors for 25 or 30 years … with most airbags in the world controlled with our MEM sensors, for example … and first-generation Nintendo Wii consoles as well. With our motion and vibration-sensing expertise, now we’ve begun exploring ways to use MEM sensors in motor control … as a lot of information can be gained from monitoring motors over time to understand their states — as bearings wear or loads begin to have issues, for example. We’ve all heard stories of that one guy who can hear problems or lay his hands on a machine to detect issues — or skillfully use probes for measuring various characteristics. In short, there is now a way to have this level of monitoring using technology rather than a highly skilled “machine whisperer” … DW Analog Devices | www.analog.com

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Engineering a scalable network architecture does not come without challenges. There are many factors to consider when choosing the

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The network topology will influence what will be required from a planning and administration effort. For example, mesh topology can be more sophisticated to manage than the star topology. Often times, mesh networks require installing extra devices that act as routers, not to capture important data, but to achieve the desired coverage.

6 considerations for designing IIoT systems

Network capacity

Network capacity refers to the amount of traffic a network can handle at a given time. High network capacity allows for seamless and reliable system operations as the number of end nodes continuously grows. Self-interference caused by confined radio resources is the number one issue that dampens network capacity in wireless IIoT networks. Devices deployed within the operating range of each other and sending data using the same frequency band vie for the use of that shared radio resource. The higher the device density and the more frequent the data transmission in a network, the more likely multiple messages are sent simultaneously. This leads to packet collisions and eventually, data loss. Often, self-interference is further complicated by a light-weight, asynchronous medium access control (MAC) protocol such as ALOHA, adopted by many low-power wireless technologies. While reducing complex overheads and, ultimately, power consumption, purely asynchronous systems entail uncoordinated communication among end nodes, which heightens the collision likelihood. Efficient use of the finite radio spectrum, also known as spectrum efficiency, is key to remedying self-interference and improving overall capacity. This can be achieved by low bandwidth use of a signal and DESIGN WORLD

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short radio “on-air” time – the time a packet travels from source to destination over the medium. A well-designed radio technology with high spectrum efficiency can offer a network capacity of millions of daily messages using only a single base station.

Inter-system interference

Intersystem interference is another major threat to effective operations and the scalability of IIoT communications networks. This problem is often caused by co-existence of multiple radio signals in the same license-free industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency bands. The 2.4 GHz ISM band is the most widely used frequency in legacy industrial applications and systems and therefore, the most congested one. Wireless technologies using this band are susceptible to significant electromagnetic interference from various sources like Wi-Fi hubs, Bluetooth-enabled cell phones, microwave energy, RF lighting, industrial heaters, and welding

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equipment. If all of the 2.4 GHz channels in your industrial facility have already been saturated, they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recommended for other IIoT deployments. Using less crowded sub-GHz ISM bands, for example the 902-928 MHz, can partly mitigate the interference problem. Nevertheless, these bands are now gaining increasing popularity as well. To best tackle near-future exponential traffic in the shared spectrum, system designers should equip their IIoT architecture with a robust, interference resilient wireless technology. Frequency Hopping and channel coding (i.e. Forward Error Correction) are common techniques adopted to improve system robustness.

Network setup, management and maintenance

Managing ten sensors and a thousand sensors are two totally different situations. The theoretical network capacity may sound impressive, but if it involves outrageously complex network configuration and management, manufacturers most likely wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find the necessary IT competence to scale. The choice of network topology can decide what will be required from a planning and administration effort. For example, mesh topology, widely adopted by short-range wireless technologies, can be more sophisticated to manage than the star topology of wide-area solutions. Often times, mesh networks require installing extra devices that act as routers, not to capture important data, but to achieve the desired coverage. Redundancy is hence an intrinsic part of these networks, which can complicate management activities.

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Battery life is another critical aspect when it comes to device maintenance and scalability in practice. Maintenance costs account for a substantial proportion of Total Cost-of-Ownership in wireless sensor networks. Imagine how expensive and cumbersome it would be with a thousand field sensors deployed remotely and the need to replace batteries every few days.

Communications security

Security comes up in all IIoT conversations, and unless the communications technology is equipped with a versatile, well-proven cryptographic scheme, secure data transfer will be an enormous challenge in everexpanding IIoT networks. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is the globally validated standard for message encryption to protect data confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity against eavesdropping and other malicious attempts. Typically, a cipher-based message authentication code (CMAC) can be computed based on AES cipher blocks. Thanks to its low power, high speed, and high throughput, the AES algorithm is highly suitable for wireless sensor networks.

Interoperability

Scalability and interoperability essentially go hand-in-hand, and the key to long-term interoperability is standards. Standards establish consistent and transparent technical models for third-party developers to easily integrate the communication protocol into various IoT devices and application platforms. An important aspect of a scalable system is its ability to adapt to upcoming technological trends and flexibly evolve with corporate needs. In this context, implementing an industry-standard protocol allows for dynamic future hardware and software changes in the IIoT architecture without incurring downtime or undue delays.

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Network Longevity

Manufacturers in search of a scalable IIoT architecture should also consider the longevity of the communication technology. Longevity reflects stable operations of the IoT system over years without foreseeable disruption due to network shutdowns. Expensive industrial assets and critical infrastructure often have a long lifespan (several decades), however certain wireless technologies are already on the verge of phasing out. System designers who choose to ignore the impending sunset of these technologies will probably find themselves having thousands of disconnected devices a few years down the road. Aligning network and device longevity should be a core pillar in a company’s long-term IoT strategy. Evaluating different communications options Today, there exists a plethora of wireless communication technologies, each with a different level of scalability and suitability for massive IIoT sensor networks. High bandwidth technologies like cellular (3G, LTE, etc.) and Industrial WLAN (based on IEEE 802.11 standards) are mainly intended for data-intensive, time-sensitive applications such as security cameras, voice communications, industrial routers, and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. On the downside, the extremely high-power requirement makes them fail to support large-scale, battery-operated sensor networks. Cellular technologies additionally raise considerable concern over network longevity. By 2018, most major global telecoms have announced their 2G shutdowns with the 3G sunset currently rolling out. Short-range technologies based on IEEE 802.15.4 standards like Zigbee and WirelessHART are more optimized for power consumption due to lower data rates (e.g. 250 kbps). Operating in the 2.4 GHz band, their physical range is limited to a few tens of meters due to high rates of signal attenuation and fading. To improve coverage and expandability, these technologies are mostly deployed in a mesh topology. Nevertheless, the relaying mesh functionality can easily shorten battery life, since devices must constantly “listen” for messages that need to be relayed through them.

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Scalability of IEEE 802.15.4-based mesh networks can be constrained by several factors. First, though theoretically, nodes can be added as much as needed, inflating complexity in network planning and management – as discussed previously, limits their capacity in practice to a few hundreds of devices. As these networks often cannot scale beyond medium-range applications, their deployments in geographically dispersed industrial campus are hampered. More importantly, IEEE 802.15.4 technologies are exposed to substantial inter-system interference in the congested 2.4 GHz airways that potentially confines network expansion. Leveraging sub-GHz frequency bands and very low data rates to reduce path loss and improve receiver sensitivity, low power wide area networks (LPWAN) offer excellent range, coverage, and data propagation. Long wavelengths allow LPWAN signals to travel over kilometers and deeply penetrate through walls, buildings, alongside other “heavy” physical obstructions. Therefore, they provide more reliable data transmission than 2.4 GHz signals in structurally dense, rebar environments like mines, refineries, and other manufacturing facilities. In terms of battery life, LPWAN can be suitable thanks to a combination of star topology, deep-sleep mode, and lightweight MAC protocol. Note that both excellent range and power efficiency in LPWAN are achieved at the cost of data rates. These networks are therefore best-suited for condition monitoring, facility management, and predictive maintenance IIoT applications wherein latency is tolerated. Scalability greatly varies across LPWAN systems due to their difference in network capacity and interference immunity. What’s more, not all LPWAN solutions are based on rigorous industry standards and some of them lack a versatile, valid security scheme like AES. So far, only two camps of LPWAN technologies have been standardized by global Standard Development Organizations and are thus verified for their Quality-of-Service and long-term scalability. One is cellular LPWAN including NB-IoT and LTE-M implementing 3GPP standards. The other is MIOTY – an emerging technology implementing the new ETSI standard on Low Throughput Networks – TS 103 357. As a key takeaway, scalable IIoT architecture requires a communications solution that can support continuous network expansion without compromising system performance. For batterypowered sensor networks in structurally dense, wide area industrial settings, LPWAN provides the most viable scalable solution. With multiple technologies available today, system designers should thoroughly consider critical factors that determine scalability – from both technical and operational viewpoints. DW

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But bearing failures in the field more often than not will result from “root causes” instead of sub-surface bearing fatigue. While the failed bearing becomes the victim, in most instances the failure is due to abnormal surface stresses from less-than-ideal operating environments. The adverse conditions potentially shortening a bearing’s service life can include excessive misalignment, insufficient loading, overloading, and excessive running speeds, and many others. These issues present looming challenges for designers throughout the bearing selection process, leading to this question: How can the actual performance and longevity of bearing arrangements in real-world operating conditions be predicted with a relatively high degree of certainty? Powerful simulation software tools have been engineered for the job.

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Such modeling and analysis simulation tools help designers evaluate the design of bearing arrangements and their field performance based on application requirements and conditions. This analysis optimizes bearing arrangements, accelerates the design process, reduces testing times, and supports bearing selection. Evolving technologies Enabling technologies to model and analyze bearings and bearing systems have evolved dramatically over the past decades, thanks to advances both in technology and computing power. Viewed historically, the models in the 1960s and 1970s focused primarily on two rigid bodies in contact and were compared with mathematical theories and

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experiments. This led to the development of a complete bearing model in the 1980s, in which many contacting elements were combined in a single model (bearing rings and rolling elements). But these first models were restricted to steady-state calculations and lacked an accurate rolling element retainer (bearing cage). Subsequently, specialized test rigs were constructed to validate such unknowns as cage forces and bearing dynamics. Today’s advanced simulation tools have come a long way from the early days — offering successive levels of capabilities resulting in highly accurate representations of bearings and complete systems. A single-shaft bearing simulation tool exemplifies the available software packages for use by designers across industries. An

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Adding operating conditions — Speed, loads, lubrication, and shaft and housing fits can be added to the application model, even allowing speed and load conditions to be entered as a combined load cycle.

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designers can run a single load analysis or a full load cycle analysis, depending on machine operating conditions. Also, a bearing preload optimization analysis can be conducted. Viewing and reporting — Calculation results

can be populated with a comprehensive range of performance output parameters, including bearing fatigue life, bearing load, loaded zone, contact stress, bearing displacement and misalignment, friction, bearing defect frequencies, and shaft deflection. The output can be viewed in various graphical charts and 3D animation. Reports are created automatically and are exportable for sharing the results. Step-by-step process Building a complete bearing system model with a single-shaft simulation tool begins by designing a shaft and then adding the common components via a user-friendly “drag-and-drop” feature. Once a shaft is defined, bearings can be easily integrated consistent with how the bearing would be mounted on the shaft and in a housing. With gears, designers can define the type (bevel, helical, hypoid, spur or worm) and then are prompted to enter gear geometry and input power to the gear, which automatically reconciles different gear forces. As for the remaining components for “drag-anddrop” onto the shaft, springs introduce the ability to preload bearings against a ground (such as the housing) and preload against another bearing. (This is useful for applications where springs are used to locate a bearing or meet minimum load requirements for applications, such as pumps, compressors, and electric motors.) Spacers establish defined endplay values, which assists in applications with back-to-back or face-to-face bearing arrangements. The second primary step in the modeling process encompasses applicable boundary conditions. Shaft rotational speed, radial and axial forces, power input (gear), a moment load, and gravity can be added to the model. Similar to the components, force, power input, and moment can be applied by “drag and drop”; the other boundaries are simply an icon click. All applicable boundaries can be varied in an “Analysis Variations” portion of the program (except for gravity, which is separately applied to allow the study of applications in horizontal or vertical positions).

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The third primary step in the modeling process targets lubrication and fits. Designers can define the lubrication method (grease, oil bath, or oil spot), oil viscosity, and contamination levels. For fits, an icon click opens a sub-window allowing modification of shaft and housing fits, initial internal bearing clearance, and inner and outer ring temperature values – all impacting the operating bearing clearance. After a model is completed, analysis and reporting follow. An option is provided to run a single data set analysis (single analysis) or to run several conditions (load-cycle analysis), based on the defined operating boundaries. Another option provides a time weight portion to determine bearing service life over several different operating conditions. Analysis output can be formatted and delivered in data tables and visuals – and designers at the outset can create a preferred template set-up for the reporting. Other distinct tables can communicate details about re-lubrication intervals, operating clearance, bearing defect frequencies, and gear forces. Visual plots and animations can be generated, too.

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Springs may not be at the top of a designer’s mind when working on an application, but they are essential in many applications. The sizes and types available vary greatly, and their choice is influenced by application parameters and industry requirements.

Healthcare and medical, agricultural, and automotive industries can choose from an amazing array of springs. But it’s important to choose the right spring for the specific application. The following are commonly used spring types:

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Belleville washers, also known as coned-disc springs, conical spring washers, disc springs, Belleville springs, or cupped spring washers, are a conical shell that can be loaded along its axis either statically or dynamically. Compression springs are usually of a coil type and offer resistance to a force that often compresses a spring. Constant-force springs exert a constant force over their range of motion and do not obey Hooke’s law. Generally, they are constructed as a ribbon of spring steel that rolls up when relaxed. Extension springs, also known as tension springs, are designed to store energy and exert a specified pull force when extended to a specific length.

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Power springs, also known as clock springs, store and release large amounts of rotational energy in the form of torque. Torsion springs work by torsion or twisting. When twisted, they exert torque in the opposite direction proportional to the amount they are twisted. Lastly, wave springs, also known as coiled wave springs, are made up of pre-hardened flat wire in a process called on-edge coiling or edge-winding that add a wave to give them a spring effect. Automotive Springs Springs are used throughout a vehicle’s interior, exterior and within the engine. Compression springs are used in anti-lock brake systems and fuel injectors along with

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locks, pumps, and valves. The most common form is a straight cylindrical formed from round wire, but they are also used in other complex shapes, such as hourglass, conical, barrel, square, ovate, rectangular, or with reduced ends that are produced from round or flat wire. Extension springs are used in what is termed foundation brake components — the brake-assembly components at the wheels of a vehicle. Power springs are used in retractor mechanisms such as those found in seatbelts while torsion springs are used as couplings between concentric shafts such as in a motor pump assembly. They are typically found in single coil or double coil forms. Coil springs are often found in heavier trucks, specifically on the front suspension between the upper and lower control arms.

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Compression springs are used in anti-lock brake systems and fuel injectors along with locks, pumps, and valves. The most common form is a straight cylinder formed from round wire, but they are also used in other complex shapes, such as hourglass, conical, barrel, square, ovate, rectangular, or with reduced ends that are produced from round or flat wire.

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These springs are suitable to carry heavy loads and are therefore also used within the air brake assembly. Belleville washers are used in clutch and brake mechanisms as well as in transmissions. Healthcare and medical springs Within the healthcare and medical industry, springs can be found in devices as diverse

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when a squeezing action is needed, such as in a surgical stapler. Extension springs are used in stretchers, surgical lights, and many small handheld devices. Constant force springs, either motor type (drum take-up) or extension type (strip end connection) are often found in surgical instruments and MRI machines. Wave springs are sometimes specified in place of conventional round wire compression springs. Generally, wave springs occupy 30-50% of the compressed height space of comparable round wire springs, offering more deflection with the same load specifications. They are used in drug delivery devices, especially EpiPens or insulin pens, as well as in support prosthetics and orthotics. Many of these healthcare and medical applications are hygienic and require production in cleanrooms. Also, shoulder-to-shoulder engineering can be instrumental in helping device makers to go from initial design through to market.

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All pneumatic motion requires clean and dry air with sufficient flow and pressure. The process of filtering, regulating and lubricating compressed air is known as air preparation, sometimes shortened as air prep. Manufacturing plants include air prep at centralized compressors, and additional air prep is beneficial at each machineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pointof-use. The air prep system â&#x20AC;&#x201D; often referred to as the FRL after the filter, regulator and lubricator that is often included in the assembly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is essentially the breathing mask on a machine, its personal protection equipment. Therefore, it is a must-have system, and it consists of many components. This article will discuss the components used in machine air prep systems and show how each is used, Figure 1.

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Operating pressures Air prep systems are typically assembled inline and come in a variety of port or body sizes. Most air prep systems fall in the range of 1/8-in. to 1-in. NPT female port sizes, with some exceptions. These systems are often modular in design, so when specifying an air prep system, it’s importation to match like-size devices for ease of assembly and use of accessories. Generally, the pressure range of each pneumatic device is 20 to 130 psi, to match up with the common supply air pressure in a manufacturing facility, which is between these values. While a lockout valve may have a pressure range of 0 to 150 psi, other air prep devices such as filters, regulators and soft-start/dump valves require a minimum operating pressure to

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Figure 3: As the name implies, this NITRA combination filter/regulator combines both filter and regulator functions into a single, space saving unit. | Courtesy of AutomationDirect

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The air prep system not only protects the machine from debris and moisture, it can also protect operators from hazards by providing a means to safely remove pneumatic energy from the machine.

activate internal pilot and drain valves. The minimum operating pressure may be as low as 15 psi and as high as 35 psi, depending on the device. Manual shut-off relief valves Crushing, pinching, cutting, amputation and other injuries due to unexpected or automated machine motion often occur due to an employee’s failure to safely disable and isolate energy sources, and lockout/tagout the machine before performing service or maintenance work. Pneumatics is one of those energy sources, and because of the possibility of injury, OSHA and ANSI have important regulations regarding lockout/ tagout control of hazardous energy and prevention of unexpected startup. The air prep system not only protects the machine from debris and moisture, it can also protect operators from hazards by providing a means to safely remove pneumatic energy from the machine. The manual shut-off relief valve or a pneumatic isolation lockout valve provides removal of motion-causing pneumatic energy, along with a means to lock the valve in the off position as part of a lockout/tagout procedure. It shuts off upstream air pressure

and relieves downstream air pressure to an entire machine or zone, Figure 2. Its oversized exhaust ports provide a quick pressure release, which can be very loud, so suitable silencers (mufflers) should be used, especially if ear protection is not required in the area. These shut-off or lockout valves are typically either the first component connected to plant air at a machine, or the first valve following the FRL components. These valves use either a manually-rotated knob or push-pull activation, and both configurations can be locked out with a padlock. To aid visual identification, the knob should be red in color to indicate a safety device, like an emergency stop button. It’s important to note that, even though the shut-off valve relieves air pressure, trapped air (energy) may still be present downstream from the air prep unit. The use of center-closed, three-position valves is just one of several examples of this, and it’s the designer’s responsibility to provide and document a manual or automatic sequence to remove such air for safe maintenance of the machine.

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Pneumatic air filters Filters are a critical part of an air prep system for removing both particulates and moisture. These filters use either a centrifugal or a coalescing design. The centrifugal types remove particulates and some moisture, while the coalescing types remove more water and also oil vapor. A dryer/refrigerator unit, not discussed here, may be required to remove larger amounts of moisture, and is installed just downstream of a plant air compressor. A standard industrial air filter typically includes a replaceable 40-micron filter element mounted inside a polycarbonate bowl of various body sizes to accommodate different flow rates,with a metal bowl guard often included. For stricter filtration requirements, 5-micron filter elements are available. Finer, micro filters are available to remove particles 1 micron and below for special applications, but these require a courser filter upstream. Depending on usage, periodic replacement of a filter may work, but a downstream pressure switch — or better yet, a differential pressure switch

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measuring pressure across the filter, with its output monitored by a PLC — can be used to detect a clogged filter. Regardless of the design, the filter can remove particulates, water and oil vapor — all of which are trapped in the filter — or accumulate at the bottom of the bowl as a solution that can be drained through a manual, semi-automatic or automatic drain. Manual drains require manually opening a drain plug to remove the accumulated liquid. Semi-automatic drains open each time compressed air is shut off, and an automatic drain opens when air is shut off or when the liquid in the bowl activates a float. The type of drain used depends on the plant supply, application and environment. Very dry or low use equipment will work fine with a manual drain, but proper maintenance requires fluid level checks. Semi-automatic drains will work well in machines that are often turned off with air pressure removed. However, if air is always on or if water accumulates quickly, an automatic drain is the best choice.

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Regulators A regulator is often â&#x20AC;&#x153;set and forgetâ&#x20AC;? when used to supply compressed air at a consistent pressure to a machine, with a typical adjustable pressure range from 20-130 psi. Some processes operate at the low end of the pressure range, so lowpressure regulators are available to provide an adjustable range from zero up to around 60 psi. Regulators are also available to provide instrument air at common pressures, typically in the 3-15 psi range. "Gear precision grade" Because supply of air at constant pressure is critical to machine operation, a regulator with a locking pressure adjustment Gear precision grade knob is required. An integral pressure gauge should also be included to help Gear precision Grade quickly identify actual air pressure. Another useful device is an adjustable 0 1 2 3 4 5 pressure switch mounted downstream of the pressure adjustment device and N4 N5 N6 N7 N8 N9 8 monitored by the machine controller. 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pressure regulators have an input and output that must be connected 73) correctly. The air must flow from input to output, and installing the regulator 13 12 10 9 8 7 backwards will cause it to malfunction. 14 12 11 10 9 8 13 12 11 10 9 The8 regulators should also have a relieving operation in most applications. 11 10 10 9 8 With a7relieving operation, if the pressure setpoint is reduced at the regulator, the regulator output will reduce downstream air pressure. able :

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A combination filter/regulator includes all the features of a standalone filter and regulator in a single, space-saving device, Figure 3. Precision combination filter/ regulators are also available with more precise pressure-regulating capability. Lubricators A lubricator adds lubrication as an oil mist to the pneumatic air supply instead of removing contaminates as a filter does. This lubrication can increase speed and slow wear in pneumatic devices such as air-operated hand tools including grinders, impact wrenches and torque drives. It also reduces leakage in operating components by sealing the rods, although it is not required to oil the seals on most modern pneumatic devices such as valves, cylinders, rotary actuators and grippers. Lubricators are available in many port sizes and the lubrication rate can be adjusted. To assist with maintenance, a sight gauge is included, and the oil can be added while the devices are under pressure in most cases. The mist level must be properly adjusted and the oil level maintained, and the proper oil (typically light viscosity oil such as SAE 5, 10 or 20 with rust and oxidation inhibitors added) must be provided. Also, the device in need of lubrication must be close enough to the lubricator for the oil mist to remain suspended in the air. Too much oil may cause

an oil mist in the facility, along with oil puddles and slippery floors. Soft start/dump valves The soft start/dump valve is an important device for operator safety, and typically includes a 24 Vdc or a 120 Vac solenoid controlled by an emergency stop, or by guard or light curtain safety circuits. It dumps motion-causing pneumatic energy by shutting off upstream pressure and relieves downstream pressure when de-energized during a safety event. When the circuit is reenergized, the solenoid gradually increases air pressure downstream. This keeps tooling from moving too quickly and banging at startup. This valve is mounted downstream of the FRL, typically feeding air to motion-causing solenoid valves. The dump valve exhausts pressure quickly, so a high-flow muffler should be used to attenuate the sound. An adjustable flow control is provided to control how fast the air pressure returns to the set pressure. Air prep accessories All the pneumatic air prep devices above are provided with a mounting bracket for stand-alone applications, or the mounting accessory can be purchased separately. Air prep systems are often modular in design which allows individual shut off, filter,

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Innovative electric motors If you build an electric motor whose rotor and stator are flat, not cylindrical as in ordinary motors, you are devising what’s called an axial motor. Axial motors, as their name suggests, produce flux in an axial, rather than radial, airgap. The resulting envelope for the motor can be discshaped. This short, stubby profile makes axial motors good candidates for use in cramped quarters such as the recess of an automotive wheel hub.

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Axial flux magnetic machines can produce a higher torque than a conventional motor of the same size. The reason is that magnetic flux in a conventional radial motor scales with the square of the diameter, but flux in an axial machine scales with between the second and third power. So the bigger the motor, the larger the advantage of an axial design.

The axial magnetic motor from Magnax in Belgium sandwiches the stator windings between two rotors carrying rare-earth magnets. The motor design is called yokeless because each stator winding (visible in the near-by close up) sits in the magnetic field of the rotor magnets without the use of metal pieces forming a yoke.

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Motors with an axial form factor have gotten a lot of attention in recent years as the move toward electric vehicles has fostered a need for small, compact powertrains. New axial designs have been proposed for use in drones, robotics, and other applications where spaceefficient power is a benefit. It can be useful to study specific axial designs as a way to understand how these motors operate. One of the more interesting examples of the technology is what’s called an electrostatic motor, devised by C-Motive Technologies Inc. Rather than use magnetic attraction to spin a rotor, the C-Motive machine uses an electric field. In addition to the advantages of an axial design, the C-Motive electric field devices are lighter and smaller than magnetic devices of similar output parameters.

Motors that use an electric field for motive force are built around the idea of spinning capacitors rather than the spinning inductors of conventional electromagnetic designs. Energy conversion in conventional magnetic motors takes place in the air gap between the rotor and stator. In contrast, energy conversion in electric field-powered motors takes place in a dielectric material. Electric field-powered motors have only become practical in recent years with the development of dielectric materials having a high electric permittivity. Their novel architecture combined with other advances lets these motors store 45,000 times more energy than possible previously. The main factor determining the efficiency of electric power mechanisms for energy conversion is the density of the electric or magnetic energy stored in the electromagnetic or electric fields. The fact that electric field machines can be smaller and lighter than magnetic versions can be explained partly by the configuration of magnetic force lines. They form in the heavy electric steel in the motor. The magnetic circuit is used for power transfer, but energy conversion takes place in the air-gap itself between the stator and the rotor. And the air-gap volume accounts for a relatively small part of the machine’s volume. The electrical steel takes up most of the space.

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A key advantage of an axial-flux motor is the large amount of motor area devoted to energy conversion compared to that of a conventional radial-flux motor. In radial-flux machines, energy conversion takes place in the cylindrical air gap between the rotor and stator. Power scales up with the square of the motor diameter. But power scales up in an axial-flux motor at a rate somewhere between the second and third power of motor diameter thanks to the larger energy conversion area.

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In contrast, electric field machines have power lines starting and ending in the rotor and stator plates. Energy conversion takes place in the gap between the stator and rotor. But the rotor-stator gap takes up a sizable part of the volume of the whole machine. Assuming that the specific energy is equal for both electric field and electromagnetic machines, the machines based on the electric field effect will be significantly smaller. Because dielectric materials are much lighter than ferromagnetic materials, machines based on the electric field effect will be also lighter and likely less expensive. To understand how a motor can be devised using capacitors, consider a round capacitor with each of its two plates divided into two or more sectors. The rotor sectors have a constant electrical charge of alternating polarity. The stator sectors have timevarying ac charges. When a voltage is applied across this capacitor, there is an attractive force between the stator and rotor sectors. If the rotor and stator sectors are offset from one another, the attractive force establishes a moment. The moment rotates the rotor until the sectors coincide.

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Visible on this stator from a C-Motive electrostatic motor are the segments making up the stator capacitor plate. The rotor capacitor plate would look identical though it would be attached to the shaft that rotates. C-Motive says the stator and rotor capacitor plates are on conventional FR4 printed circuit board material. The large number of plate segments are indicative of the large number of poles that characterize the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motors.

At the moment the sectors coincide, the polarity of the applied voltage is switched between the positively and negatively charged sectors. The action is analogous to that of commutation for dc motors. If the number of plates rises, the motor torque increases. The torque of a capacitive machine operating this way can be calculated by differentiating the energy stored in the capacitor electric field. Motor designers can boost the torque the motor can provide by increasing the number of rotor-stator capacitors. Of course, as the rotor spins, the capacitance between the rotor and the stator varies in proportion to how much their surfaces coincide. But the moment of this capacitive machine is constant and independent of the rotor angle. The speed of the capacitive motor is a function of the supplied power. Shades of Ben Franklin The idea of a capacitive motor created this way is quite old â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ben Franklin devised one in the 1750s. But the concept has only recently been realized in motors practical for real use. One such design comes from C-Motive Technologies Inc. in Madison, Wisc. C-Motive calls its design an electrostatic motor. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest innovation, according to C-Motive CEO Justin Reed, is a dielectric in the form of a liquid that lies between the capacitor plates that make up the stator and rotor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People have assumed the viscous drag of a liquid dielectric would be too high. But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve figured out a way to manage the viscous drag,â&#x20AC;? Reed says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The resulting electrostatic motor produces high levels of torque that are superior to

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Prototype electrostatic axial motors from C-Motive. The company says the motors are under consideration for a number of applications. C-Motive also says the typical drive circuit for these motors would be relatively ordinary medium-voltage, lowcurrent inverter.

what rare-earth PM motors produce on a torque-per-kilogram basis.” Reed also says it is relatively easy to cool the C-Motive motor because its dielectric fluid conducts heat to the enclosure. This factor additionally lets the motor be sealed if necessary, to handle harsh environments with no degradation of its cooling capacity. Reed thinks the operational sweet spot for the electrostatic motor will be applications in the 2,000-rpm range and below. “For all intents and purposes the only loss in the machines is the viscous drag. The drag will keep them out of areas that need 15,000 rpm motors,” he says. “The slower it spins, the more efficient it becomes. That’s the opposite of any electromagnetic motor.” Reed says the electrostatic motor is in the development phase with the first full prototype expected early next year. The prototype will be

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is termed yokeless because it includes iron teeth carrying windings but without using an outer iron section to hold the teeth. This gives the motor a shorter flux path. The windings around the teeth are positioned such that there are no overhanging loops that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t contribute to generating flux. Thus in the Magnax axial motor, 100% of the windings are active. Ordinary radial flux motors might only have 50% of their winding wire contributing to the generation of magnetic flux, adding extra resistance and causing heat build-up. Magnax further boosts motor efficiency through use of rectangular-section copper wire. The point of the yokeless design is to help maintain a constant air gap between the stator and rotor. Other magnetic axial motors tend to generate enough force between the rotor and stator discs to actually deflect the rotor against the stator and cause a failure.

As Magnax describes it, the yokeless axial flux design is such that the two rotor discs constantly put equal and opposing forces onto the stator disc. The rotors connect directly to one another via a shaft ring, so the magnetic forces cancel each other out leaving no loads on the internal bearing. To help cool the motor, Magnax brings the windings into direct contact with the outer aluminum casing for better heat transfer. Magnax says its motor is highly scalable, ranging in diameters from 15 cm (~6 in.) to 5.4 m (~13 ft) and perhaps beyond. The motors can also be slotted in next to one another to run in parallel. Typical applications might include EVs, aircraft rotors, and in large-diameter, high-torque, lowRPM wind power, hydroelectric and wave power generation. DW References C-Motive Technologies Inc., www.c-motive.com Magnax, www.magnax.com

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To additively make a three-dimensional part,

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AMFG launched a software platform that uses artificial intelligence to automate additive manufacturing production. The AI-driven software addresses issues of manual and unscalable production processes by providing manufacturers with complete AM production automation.

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AI-driven software for industrial 3D printing London, UK, based AMFG, a leading provider of automation software for additive manufacturing, launched a software platform that uses artificial intelligence to automate additive manufacturing production. (AMFG was known as RP Platform). AMFG’s AI-driven software addresses issues of manual and unscalable production processes by providing manufacturers with complete AM production automation, including: Scheduling automation Printability analyses Post-processing automation Machine analytics

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Although AM technology is maturing, it can be difficult to predict if a part will be 3D printed as expected, especially for inexperienced users.

“Our vision is for our software to enable autonomous additive manufacturing,” says Keyvan Karimi, CEO of AMFG. “While 3D printing has the potential to transform manufacturing, we’ve seen the lack of a scalable production process as a key barrier. Our software closes this gap by incorporating machine learning algorithms to provide an endto-end solution for the 3D printing manufacturing process.” “Ultimately, we’re creating an autonomous manufacturing process for industrial 3D printing. For us, this means taking manufacturing to a new era of digitalised production.” The Post-Processing Scheduling software helps users plan and allocate the resources needed to fulfill any additional post-processing requirements. Completed builds are automatically moved to the platform’s dedicated Post-Processing page, where post-processing actions can be allocated to the appropriate production jobs, prioritized and marked as completed when done. For full traceability, all the date and time of all part status updates are logged centrally in the system. A beta version of the company’s digital QA management tool allows users to import part documentation, such as reports, data sheets and 3D images, and compare these specifications to the physical, 3D-printed part for quality checking. Tools that take advantage of 3printing Recent updates to Autodesk Fusion 360 further the use of cloud capabilities, generative design, and additive manufacturing. These updates include a collection of tools that work inside Autodesk’s

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Inventor (including Nastran In-CAD, HSM, and a nesting utility). Also new is a suite of specialized toolsets available with AutoCAD, and a cloud-based technology offered with Fusion 360, Fallon said. The Fusion 360 integrated workspace includes a hybrid manufacturing experience that combines advanced additive and CAM capabilities in a single workflow. For example, Autodesk Netbabb and Fusion 360 connect with Autodesk generative design technology and HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printers. “Incorporating the unique voxel-level capabilities of HP Multi Jet Fusion with Autodesk generative design unleashes new levels of creativity, speed, and quality from prototyping all the way to production,” added Michelle Bockman, global head of 3D Printing commercial expansion and development at Hewlett Packard. Autodesk is working to expand the manufacturing for generative design to include 2- and 2.5-axis machining, meaning designers will be able to specify those machines when working on a generative design. Simulating metal 3D printing EOS and German start-up Additive Works are collaborating to enhance the additive manufacturing process of metal materials. Their cooperation focuses on the simulation based pre-processing software Amphyon, DESIGN WORLD

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With 3D printing service bureaus, a typical process of transforming CAD files into printed part accounts for more than 75% of the total cost. So most bureaus would rather not run multiple test prints to determine the suitability of a part for 3D printing, especially in the case of metal 3D printing and the production of high-value, custom metal components with complex geometries. On average 15% of these metal parts will fail to print properly. To solve this issue, Materialise launched simulation software that is specific to metal 3D printing. In combination with its Materialise Magics 3D Print Suite, the software brings simulation for additive manufacturing to the production floor. Operators can use this program to predict and analyze the behavior of a part by creating a virtual prototype. Then, they can

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Siemens announced an Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation solution for predicting distortion during 3D printing. The product is integrated into Siemens’ endto-end Additive Manufacturing platform. Building on the Simcenter portfolio, the AM Process Simulation uses a digital twin to simulate the build process prior to printing, anticipating distortion within the printing process and automatically generating the corrected geometry to compensate for these distortions. The simulation product helps predict possible warp and structural problems in metal 3D printing. The simulation product is integrated into the Powder Bed Fusion Process chain in the Siemens PLM Software Additive Manufacturing portfolio. It provides a guided workflow to the user that assesses distortions,

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for reconciliation of designs, and finally, generates supports. The software then groups framework types according to manufacturing requirements. For example, frameworks that require heat treatment, such as bridges, are grouped separately from those that do not. Frameworks not requiring heat treatment are quickly identified before that step in the process is completed. Finally, QuantAM Dental reviews the files and gives a list of potential errors for any sub-optimal frameworks. The systems operator can then slice the build files ready to transfer them to the AM system. And finally, check into SolidWorks and PTC additive features in these companies CAD programs. These two companies have been developing functions for additive for several years DW.

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Former Google VP and White House CTO Megan Smith believes that greater diversity will make engineering teams stronger — and that data can solve some of our toughest problems.

Technology for all

When Megan Smith was in public school in inner city Buffalo, N.Y., her teachers created a mandatory science fair. The teachers didn’t want the students to simply go through the motions when choosing a project — instead, they pushed students to choose something that they were really passionate about. The answer was obvious for Smith. The energy crisis was in full swing, and she’d heard that Jimmy Carter was having solar panels installed on the White House.

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I really like working on things that help people with their lives and I like working with things that reduce the impact on the planet. So those have been my general themes, as well as working with adventure and working with great people on things that could matter.

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“I became interested in how we could use green energy to solve this problem that fossil fuels had gotten us into. So, I looked at solar, wind, geothermal, and hydrogen storage,” she said. Smith followed this passion with a trip to Boulder, Colorado, where she participated in a tech project over the summer with a curriculum focused on solar energy and energy engineering. She worked with other kids from around the country and discovered mechanical, civil and other kinds of engineering. That experience convinced her to go to an engineering school. Smith attended MIT, where she majored in mechanical engineering and eventually worked at the institute’s renowned MIT Media Lab. She learned the power of teamwork by getting involved in a solar car project that designed and raced vehicles 2,000 miles across Australia, but soon she changed directions. “I ended up moving from green energy because as Reagan came into power, the Saudis dropped the price of oil — so there really wasn’t funding to move into green energy at scale,” she said. “I ended up moving more towards the internet, which is how I ended up in the Media Lab.” From there, Smith’s career took some interesting turns. She went to Apple Japan and worked on some basic services like Apple link and AOL, as well as early multimedia, CD-ROMS and video. Then she met Bill Atkinson who was one of the co-creators of Macintosh, and he hired her for his startup called General Magic. “We worked to build a smart phone company, way before smart phones existed,” she said. General Magic worked on numerous ideas that were revolutionary for a phone at that point, such as touch screens, LCDs, and connectors. But Smith said that while the company was correct directionally, it had formed too early. But she noted that the people there, sometimes multiple companies later, were the ones who brought us the iPod, iPhone and Android.

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“Most of the phones on the planet come from the heritage of that company,” she said. “I think that’s another important engineering perspective — you have to iterate before you’re successful, you’re always learning with each step.” Smith worked on a lot of hardware as well as a lot of partnerships while at General Magic, so she was interacting with Sony, Motorola, Philips, Apple, as well as with telecom carriers like AT&T. This allowed her to learn the business side of things. She describes her time there as like going to business school, allowing her to apprentice, train, and master different aspects of the job. Ultimately, that company (which is the subject of a brand new documentary film) didn’t succeed, and Smith went to work for Planet Out, founded by her friend Tom Riley, an early leader in queer media. Smith rose to become CEO of the organization and got it to a cash flow positive position before it merged with Gay.com. She then took a bit of time off when her oldest son was born, and then went to Google for 11 years. When she arrived, Google had about 1,200 employees, but it grew to more than 50,000 during her tenure, in which she eventually served as VP of business development. She helped Google acquire companies that became products such as Google Earth, Maps and Spreadsheets — anything that was product-centric. Tech for the people Smith was tapped by President Obama to be his third Chief Technology Officer, a role she held from 2014 to 2017. “President Obama saw a need early on, and asked, ‘Why do I have a surgeon general and a lawyer and an operator and a communicator, but I don’t have a technical person in the core team? I have them, of course, at NASA and NIH and Energy and in the lab, and those are amazing technical people. The government has an IT team that’s supporting everyone and building the systems, but why don’t I have a technical policy capacity builder, just like I have surgeon general or a lawyer?’ And that was a pretty new idea. It still really is, it’s really the beginning of digital, open data driven, collaborative government,” Smith said. “We’ve had tech upgrades before — for example, President Lincoln got the Pony Express, and he had to move us to the telegraph. It’s not like upgrading capabilities is a new idea, but often it leads in certain agencies rather than across them — and I think President Obama could see

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this need for these Americans that he saw in the private sector who were missing. Not missing in government — but missing in the leadership team.” The U.S. CTO role has now been put into law by Congress. It sits together with the President’s Science Advisor in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Smith said. But it’s also an assistant to the President. The CTO role is to help the President and his/her team harness the power of data innovation and technology on behalf of the American people. The President also has a Science Advisor, generally a scientist or someone with technical/STEM background who’s run labs or done research. According to Smith, the CTO’s more of an entrepreneurial disrupter techie. “The idea is pulling in that entrepreneurial character that we see in Silicon Valley right now — to advance the capabilities of the government and the American people in these areas, and bring that know-how into the policy conversations,” she said. One of the things Smith and her team focused on was open data. They opened more than 200,000 data sets. This isn’t private data, such as from the IRS, but general public data from the U.S. Geological Survey (helpful for mapping apps), weather data and NOAA data sets, HUD, the Census, and so forth. This helped create things like the College Scorecard, where young people who are choosing schools can look at how much each one costs, what’s the graduation rate, what kind of money do people make when they leave. There’s a methodology that comes from Silicon Valley that Smith is very fond of. She calls it Scout and Scale. “The venture capitalists don’t make these companies, they find amazing entrepreneurs and they support them through all kinds of ecosystem methods and practices,” she said. “What if we could do that around solving any kind of problem? Who already figured out what to do? Who has something working or promising, typically regionally, that others don’t know about? How would you scale that?” As an example, Smith’s team created TechHire, a program for adults trying to get into tech jobs. “At the time there were 600,000 jobs open in tech, and companies were starving for employees. We could see St. Louis and other cities were doing these short course boot camps. In a couple months, with intense training, people could become what’s called ‘no collar tech.’ So they’d learn to code and then could apprentice their way into these companies and then suddenly they don’t have to move from San Antonio or St. Louis or Albuquerque or wherever they are.” “What’s interesting now is 23,000 Americans will graduate from boot camps in coding, and at the time it was maybe a thousand or so, but we could see this emerging. We could see in Louisville that the mayor there had done Code Louisville with teens there. In Delaware, the employers’ part of the ecosystem was pleading for people. And so they were jamming community colleges. President Obama was going to Boise, Idaho and we found 15 tech Meetups. But no one in Boise knows that’s happening, so in a way we were taking some of the community organizing principles that you would

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use for a potluck church picnic or something, but as it applied to economic policy and capacity building.” Smith feels that government needs to keep thinking technology and data. “This pattern of looking to tech is emerging massively at commercial enterprises like Walmart. It hadn’t been emerging as much in government except in the deeply technical ones, like a DOE. Think about the Department of Transportation. When Secretary Fox came into that job, there was no conversation in his confirmation hearings about technology at scale. And yet by the time he finished, he had worked on all the rules for UAVs, for self-driving cars, for next gen air traffic. His had become a technical agency. Before that, it was much more civil engineering, mechanical engineering, energy engineering — now, it’s that plus digital. Into the engineering fold Smith has long been passionate about bringing more diversity into the engineering and tech

worlds, from women to people of color to the LGBTQ community. And she has some specific advice for young women or other minorities considering a career in engineering. “Engineering’s a fabulous background, just like liberal arts,” she said. “And you want to take lots of different classes. If you’re in the liberal arts, take an engineering class, take a data science class, take some other things. If you’re in the engineering side take some liberal arts classes. And social science classes and other things,” she said. “You can have a huge impact on the world. It’s creative job, it’s a teamwork job. You can be on amazing teams and do this work. There is a lot of discrimination because there’s a lot of stereotypes. There’s history that’s missing so you don’t really learn that everybody’s been awesome the whole time.” Smith said that there is a lot of culture that can be debilitating to certain people. “Stand on the side of the pool when

astronauts are about to do some kind of underwater testing. When a guy steps up, people say, ‘Wonder what he’s going to do today?’ When a woman or man of color steps up there’s more of a, ‘Hmm, wonder if he can do it?’ You’re fighting internalized and externalized stereotyping constantly.” “It’s so interesting, because the true history of astronauts is that a lot of people thought women should be the first astronauts because they were smaller. And there was the Lovelace Project that showed that they actually performed equally or better on certain tests. But it was, I think Johnson, who said, ‘No, we’re going to do test pilots.’ And since test pilots were discriminatory, then only men could do it. That’s what happened to us. As opposed to the Soviets, who had a man and a woman right away.” “We have a lot of work to do to pull out of that, and I think that one of the key things that you can do is know that you’re

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not alone in the challenges that are there and find community. Find women and men who are supportive of you. And work with them.” “You know, there are companies in Silicon Valley where some of the diversity folks there will forewarn people, ‘Don’t come to this company because it isn’t awake yet. And it’s discriminatory.’ A lot of the Silicon Valley companies have a culture of intellectual combat in how they interact with each other. It’s just unnecessary to behave this way. But because of that, young people being mentored in that can write goofy memos like that kid from Google. [A young male software engineer was fired in 2017 after writing a memo in that relied on gender stereotypes] That’s what he saw, and he didn’t know the context, and so he just wrote this superficial perspective. Even though it’s a culture that’s creating that problem, not anything based on science.” Smith said that the only companies and organizations that make progress are ones that

realize diversity should be shortlisted in terms of priorities. For many companies, it’s a shareholder value and they put it in their top 20. But that’s just too low, she insisted. “It needs to be in the top three,” she said. “We saw companies like Intel and Slack and others who moved it to the shortlist, and all of a sudden started to make great progress. Lou Gerstner, when he was turning IBM around, said to his management team, ‘We’re not a diverse team, but we don’t have to be ignorant. And so I want all of you to spend time with these employee research groups and we’re going to add it to the agenda. And every week this will be something we touch on.” Communication as a skill for engineers Smith, who is now the CEO of shift7, a recent startup in the tech collaboration space, said she feels that it’s really

important for engineers to work on their communication skills, just like everybody else. “Anybody who is a good communicator has usually worked on those skills, and practiced speeches and gotten feedback, learned to write. You know, make an argument, put yourself out there. It’s really important in any profession, engineering or otherwise, you have to be able to sell your idea,” she said. “One of the people who I got to work with, Eric Schmidt (former Google chairman), did a huge amount of work around learning, speaking, and communicating, and bothered to pay attention to that, just like you would be current on the latest technology. I think it’s an important thing for engineers. We also have to shift the culture to support people in communicating better. If you’re not as strong at communicating, get a teammate. Work together.” DW

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When we launched the LEAP Awards this past Spring, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Looking at similar “best product” type competitions across multiple industries, it seemed reasonable to expect a few dozen entries in this inaugural awards program. So, I was very pleased when we received more than 100 entries! The categories for LEAP are roughly divided across three of our flagship publications’ brands: Design World, Fluid Power World and EE World. These eleven categories represent products and components across the engineering spectrum. • Additive Manufacturing • Advanced Materials • Connectivity • Embedded Computing • Fluid Power • Industrial Automation

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avenue in which to bring you additional, unique product information — what’s truly innovative as well as what stands out among an always-crowded field. Critical to LEAP’s success is the involvement of the engineering community. No one here at WTWH selected the finalists and winners. Instead, our editorial team did the arduous work of assembling a top-notch independent judging panel, comprised of a crosssection of OEM design engineers and academics—18 professionals in total. This judging team was solely responsible for the final results. For this year’s awards competition, products had to have been released within the past two years and be available for commercial purchase in the United States. Finalists and winners in each of the 11 categories are listed on the following pages. The winners were announced at a gala awards banquet in conjunction with DeviceTalks West in Costa Mesa, California last month.

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Bonnie Baker Consultant ATW, LLC Bonnie Baker is the author of six books, including A Baker’s Dozen: Real Analog Solutions for Digital Designers. Baker holds a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona and has authored more than 500 technical publications including magazine articles, app notes, seminar sessions, data sheets, and a few patents. She is also frequent presenter at technical conferences and shows. She has been involved with analog and digital systems for more than 30 years. Baker started as a manufacturing product engineer, supporting analog products at Burr-Brown. From there, she moved up to IC design, analog division strategic marketer, and then corporate applications engineering manager. In 1998, she joined Microchip Technology. This expanded her background to not only include analog applications, but microcontroller solutions as well.

Carl Dekker President MET-L-FLO Inc. Carl Dekker is President of Met-L-Flo Inc., a Contract Manufacturer specializing in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing. The company has been providing these services since 1991 and usees multiple different technologies for its clients. Dekker has presented his work at various conferences globally and has been published in various industry journals. He is currently the Chair of the ASTM F42 Committee on Standards for Additive Manufacturing, VP of the Additive Manufacturing Users Group, and a Past Chairperson of the SME’s Rapid Technologies and Additive Manufacturing (RTAM) Community (formerly the RPA). He is also a proud recipient of the SLA “Dinosaur” award. Past and present positions held include: Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Conference Advisor (2002-2018), Industry Advisory Board Member for RapidTech (2010-2014), RapidTech National Visiting Committee Chair (2011-2014), T.E.A.M. NAB (Technician Education in Additive Manufacturing National Advisory Board) Member 2011-2014, 2017, Museum of Science and

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Industry Fab-Lab Advisory Board Chicago (20092012), Waubonsee Community College Industry Advisory Board (2008-10), Valley Industrial Association Board Member (2009-12), National Design and Manufacturing Conference Advisor 2005, National Plastics Exposition Conference Advisor 2006 and 2009 and Secretary of the 3D Systems North American Stereolithography Users Group 2003 and 2004. He has also served as the Chair of many specialty programs and conference sessions.

Plamen Doynov Research Professor University of Missouri-Kansas City Plamen Doynov became a research professor in physics last year, after a long and storied career that included stints as the Principal Engineer at MRIGlobal, a Biomedical Engineer at Flint Hill Scientific, and VP of Electrical Engineering at Aviation Simulation. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from The Catholic University of America. Doynov has been active in and a local board member of the IEEE and has won numerous honors and awards from the MRIGlobal Council of Principal Sciences, Boeing and the Bulgarian Society for Biochemistry and Biophysics. He has experience in electronics, electrical and biomedical engineering, as well as research and development of specialized scientific systems.

Bradford L. Goldense President Goldense Group Inc. Bradford L. Goldense is a subject matter expert in the management and processes of product development, innovation and performance measurement. He has authored or been cited in more than 300 articles and books and holds nearly 150 registered copyrights. Brad was a faculty member of the Graduate Engineering School Executive Program at The Gordon Institute of Tufts University for 19 years. He is internationally recognized and has DESIGN WORLD

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consulted with more than 200 of the Fortune 1000 in 500 manufacturing locations around the world. GGI has helped many companies to increase their stock price by improving R&D innovation and execution, and by improving communications of prowess to the marketplace and investor community. He previously held positions at Texas Instruments, Price Waterhouse, Knight & Associates, Index Group, and a family engineering business before founding GGI. Brad has a BSCE from Brown University and an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson School. He holds four professional certifications: New Product Development Professional by the Product Development and Management Association, Certified Manufacturing Engineer by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Certified Computer Professional by the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals and Certified in Production and Inventory Management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society. Brad was a founding member of the Society of Concurrent Engineering and founder of the Society of Concurrent Product Development which he ran until 2006. He retired from the board in 2012. His non-profit corporation lives on, with appreciated support and funding from 3M.

Geoffrey T. Haigh Principal/Senior Partner Haigh Consulting LLP Geoffrey Haigh holds a BS in Physics and Instrumentation from Drew University and is a Principal Partner and Senior Scientist form Haigh Consulting, which creates IP and solves problems for clients. Haigh has 31 patents issues worldwide and was the originator and inventor of the ADI ICoupler technology during his time working for Analog Devices Inc. Devices he has designed and patented are on Mars rovers. He also previously worked for Analogic Corporation on factory automation systems and nuclear measurement instrumentation.

Russ Hempstead Senior Development Engineer Just Right Surgical Russ Hempstead has been working in the medical device industry for more than 25 years. He has focused on early stage design and development through manufacturing

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of class II medical devices. Biomedical engineering was an obscure specialty when he attended college, so he pursued his degree in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in polymer science. Hempstead has extensive experience in clinical settings for the purposes of early concept generation, as well as product launch. Clinical settings include animal and cadaver labs for product validation activities and hospital operating rooms for procedure familiarization and observation. He has led engineering teams in various facets of device development and manufacturing for the last 13 years. In all of those instances, he was an individual contributor in addition to the project manager. Hempstead has been considered a subject matter expert in the areas of plastic material selection for biocompatibility and sterilization, design for injection molding, design for manufacturability, and finite element analysis.

Sam John President Innovative Products Inc. As President of Innovative Products, Sam John is responsible for the design and manufacturing of various custom-built automatic machines for different industries. He also resolves design and manufacturing issues, conducts project meetings and issue status reports, manages budgets, submits project proposals, and directs projects. He’s worked with clients as varied as Medtronic, Tinker Air Force Base, GE Oil and Gas, and AVARA Pharmaceutical Services. Previously, he worked for Sorb Technology (now Fresenius) and Akzo-Nobel. A member of the ASME, John has an MBA from Oklahoma City University, a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calicut.

Dan Jones President Incremotion Associates Dan Jones started as a production worker at a motor company in the late 1950s, balancing ac squirrel cage rotors and pressing shafts into rotors. He earned his BSEE from Hofstra University in 1965 and a Master’s in Math from Adelphi University in 1969. He has more than 50 years’ experience as a motor design engineer, manager, chief engineer, marketing director, vice president of marketing,

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and consultant. Jones is experienced in custom motion marketing activities, surveys and strategic planning meetings and is a Life member of IEEE. He employs SPEED and MotorCAD for the design of all types of linear, radial, flux, and axial flux machines, PM brushless, switched reluctance and induction machines. Jones is the author of more than 250 seminars, papers and technical articles on a wide range of motion control subjects. He was project manager for the design and development of six specialty DC motors used on the two Mars Viking Landers in 1976.

Robert Kollman Director Kollman Power Engineering Robert Kollman is a power electronics designer and researcher with more than 45 years of experience, mostly with Texas Instruments. There, he led the development of high-volume power supplies for commercial production at TI’s strategic customers. Kollman’s Group developed more than 5,000 power supply designs — ranging from mW to kW of output power. Kollman is a prolific author, with more than 150 published contributed articles including the well liked “Power Tips” series. He was heavily involved in the Unitrode Power Supply Design Seminars including writing articles and making presentations.

Thomas E. Manley Engineering Manager Feedall Automation Thomas Manley is Manager of Engineering at Feedall Automation, where he directs and designs the machine orders that come through the engineering department. He is also a part-time engineering instructor at Lakeland Community College and is the designer of 14 U.S. Patents for various companies that he has worked for. Manley has worked with high-profile companies such as Harley-Davidson, American Axle, Meritor, Caterpillar, and Ford Motor Company, among others. He helps companies and engineers implement automation systems into their plant, while adhering to their desired budget and goals.

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Kristin Morris Lead Electrical Engineer Pacific Diabetes Technologies Kristin Morris is the Lead Electrical Engineer at Pacific Diabetes Technologies, a Portlandbased startup developing an integrated solution for glucose sensing and insulin delivery. She is involved in every level of design, from the lowlevel PCB and firmware, to mobile applications and data processing. Morris holds a Master’s of Engineering Degree in Computer Engineering from Portland State University. During her studies, she also received valuable work experience via internships at large corporate companies such as Intel, Mentor Graphics and Electro Scientific Industries (ESI). She then kicked her career off by continuing on at ESI full time, before making the leap into the startup world in 2013, where challenges, inspiration, failures and successes awaited.

Russell Olmsted Project Engineer Arrow Tech Company Russell Olmsted is a Mechanical Engineer with experience in product development, product management, and distribution sales. He also has expertise in compressible and in-compressible fluid applications, fluid power applications and components focused on filtration, pump, and motors, and specialty and compressed gas components. Olmsted is currently a Project Engineer at Arrow Tech Co., where he reviews and evaluates current work-flow processes with Arrow Tech and M&D Welding daily. His expertise involves developing contact-record-management (CRM) capabilities, providing technical support to marketing and operations to resolve any issues with existing products, and developing solutions to production problems related to materials, processes and tooling.

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Ernie Parker Retired Professor Hennepin Technical College Ernie Parker started his education at Granite Falls AVTI (now Minnesota West Technical College) and went to work at the Char-Lynn Company after graduating. He then joined the Army, where he was trained as a Radar Technician and served in Vietnam. In 1971 he returned to Char-Lynn (now Eaton Corp.). He worked in various capacities as an Engineer, Assistant Purchasing Agent, Draftsman, Electronic Tech, and Hydraulic Tech. While at Eaton after the service, he attended evening school and obtained his teaching licenses. He eventually began teaching in the Fluid Power Technology area at Hennepin Technical College and became the manufacturing Department Chair in 1995. In 1977, he started Hydra Tech Inc., a consulting and fabrication company for hydraulics and pneumatics. Parker has built more than 200 test benches, training benches, and all kinds of different equipment for companies like Boeing, Donaldson Co., 3M, John Deere, Caterpillar, Eaton and many others. He is on both the Education Board and the Certification Board of the IFPS. Parker also works with the NFPA (National Fluid Power Association) with their bicycle vehicle challenge for university capstone projects. Hennepin Technical College Foundation receives his help as a Board of Directors member to support scholarships for students. He feels very honored that he has been able to help individuals find their direction in life and educated over 1000 students and industry personal over his career. In 2009 he received the” Educator of the Year” award from the Board of Trustee for the State of Minnesota that includes 37 two-year and four-year colleges, 54 campuses and more than 11,000 full and part time faculty.

Karl H. Schultz President Schultz Associates Karl Schultz is the President of Schultz Associates, specializing in manufacturing and technical management consulting in the electric motor industry. He is also considered an expert in implementing lean/world class

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business processes. Schultz is an experienced hands-on manufacturing management consultant who has had both line and staff positions in the electric motor industry. He was the division Director of Manufacturing Engineering for Emerson Electric for 10 years, supporting four plants in the U.S. and Mexico. He was then the Business Director of Manufacturing Engineering at GE Motors for three years. Consulting has taken him worldwide in many various successful projects. He has more than 25 years in the electric motor industry. Schultz holds a BSME in Machine Design from Western Michigan University. He was a member of the Electrical Manufacturing and Coil Winding Association, serving as the VP and a Board member. He is a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and a past member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He has received numerous awards such as Best Industry award (General Signal), Most Valuable Player award (BMI), performance awards (GE Corporate & Motors), and others. He is an adjunct instructor at the Oregon Institute of Technology – Wilsonville, teaching junior and senior level management courses such as Lean/6 Sigma and Organizational Behavior.

Bill Schweber Engineer, Author, Editor Jaffa Engineering Bill Schweber is an electronics engineer who has written three textbooks on electronic communications systems, as well as hundreds of technical articles, opinion columns, and product features. At Analog Devices Inc., he was in marketing communications, so he has been on both sides of the technical PR function, presenting company products, stories, and messages to the media and also as the recipient of these. Prior to Analog, Schweber was associate editor of the company’s respected technical journal, and also worked in their product marketing and applications engineering groups. Before those roles, he was at Instron Corp., doing hands-on analog- and power-circuit design and systems integration for materials-testing machine controls. He has an MSEE from the University of Massachusetts and a BSEE from Columbia University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and holds an Advanced Class amateur radio license. Bill has also planned, written, and presented on-line courses on a variety of engineering topics, including MOSFET basics, ADC selection, and driving LEDs.

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Tom Solon Director of Sales and Marketing RH Murphy Co. Inc. Tom Solon has a diverse engineering background in roles as both an OEM and supplier, spanning many industries, from housewares and consumer products, to semiconductor manufacturing and medical equipment technology. A recognized authority in linear motion products, plastics, and semiconductor handling, Tom has authored numerous articles and technical papers. Tom earned his BSME in Machine Design and BA in Economics from Brown University and is a licensed Professional Engineer. He devotes much of his free time to public education as a school board member and technical education advisory board member.

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Mike Vasquez CEO 3Degrees, LLC Dr. Mike Vasquez is a 3D Printing expert, specializing in pushing the boundaries of advanced 3D printing technology. He is the Founder of 3Degrees, a Chicago-based consulting company focused on helping organizations maximize their investment in the technology. Over the past decade, Vasquez has worked sideby-side with some of the top machine manufacturers, material producers and end users in the industry, consulting with them to identify novel applications, test new materials, and develop frameworks to maximize R&D efficiency and boost ROI. He has also created a software tool called Trace. It aims to assist companies formalizing their use of 3D Printing to ensure they can meet quality and technical standards outlined by their supply chain and industry requirements. Vasquez completed his PhD in Additive Manufacturing at Loughborough University and received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s from MIT in Materials Science and Engineering.

Michael Torres’ technical expertise is the design, development, and testing of advanced avionics (flyable electronics) that meet speed, size, weight, and power requirements of these systems. He focuses on the development of software mathematical algorithms to facilitate design solutions that meet these requirements. Torres has developed and patented automated test systems for avionic systems and their test equipment. He holds nine Navy patents and is an expert in the development of manufacturing fixtures that simply the manufacturing of components, reducing the manpower requirements and producing better and more repeatable results. Torres holds a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering specializing in Electronic Warfare from the Naval Post Graduate School, a Master’s of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California at Santa Barbara, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.

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Winners + Finalists Folliowing are the winners and finalists, in alphabetical order, for the 2018 LEAP Awards:

• Additive manufacturing

• Embedded computing

Winner:

Littelfuse MP8000 Bluetooth Enabled Motor Protection Relay

HP Inc. Jet Fusion 300/500 Series

Microchip Technology Inc. SAM L11

Omron Automation Americas CIP Safety Controller

Other finalists:

Parker Hannifin Universal Pneumatic Valve Manifold

3D Systems Figure 4

Mentor, A Siemens Business Mentor Embedded IoT Framework (MEIF)

• Advanced materials

RelChip, Inc. Extreme Operating Microelectronics (EOM)

Winner: L.J. Star Incorporatedc MetaPlex Optical Grade Polymer Sanitary Sight Windows

• Fluid power

Protolabs Farmbot - humanity’s first opensource CNC farming machine Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Augmented Operator Advisor Serapid Telescopic Jib

Winner: Other finalists: Dura-Bard Solution Strengthened Ductile Iron

Eaton Corp. Boom Stability Control System

• Mechanical Winner:

Other finalists:

• Connectivity

Danfoss Power Solutions D1 Pump

Winner: Fischer Connectors Fischer Freedom LP360 Other finalists: Cicoil Micro IDC Cable I-PEX Connectors MHF I LK Micro RF Coaxial Connector Silicon Labs Wireless Gecko SoC

Rolling Motion Industries Traction Drive Technology Other finalists:

FD-Groups America, Inc. Auto-Steering Valve Festo Evolutionary Intelligent Pneumatics

• Industrial automation Winner: Omnify Software Omnify Empower / 6 River’s Robot Chuck

CPC - Colder Products Company Ultra-Compact LQ2 Quick Disconnects R+W Coupling Technology World’s Largest Ball-Detent Safety Coupling Twin Spring Coupling TSC500 flexible coupling unit WITTENSTEIN Rack Assembly in Minutes, Chipless Pinning with INIRA

Other finalists: Cognex DataMan 470

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Discrete Semiconductor Solutions for

Extreme Environments

Winners + Finalists • Motion control

• Switches & sensors

Winner:

maxon precision motors Exoskeleton Joint Actuator

Omron Automation Americas A2W Wireless Pushbutton

Other finalists:

AMETEK Windjammer Pro Brushless Blowers

RAFI RAMO Series Industrial Controls

ElectroCraft RPX and LRPX

Renesas Electronics CMOS Image Sensor

GAM Enterprises Zero backlash gearbox

• Test & measurement Winners (tie in this category):

Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions, Inc. 15mm Linear Actuator

Super Industrial : TM

Upgraded versions of standard commercial and industrial discrete semiconductor products.

spacellite : TM

Enhanced devices designed to meet the reliability and functionality specifications for today’s satellite applications.

Anritsu Signal Quality Analyzer-R MP1900A BERT

Kinitics Automation KLA05 Linear Actuator

and

Lin Engineering Miniature Hybrid Step Motor

Keithley Instruments DMM and DAQ

Oriental Motor USA Corp. Battery-Free Multi-Rotation Absolute Mechanical Encoder

Other finalists:

• Power electronics Winner:

Mentor Graphics T3Ster and FloTHERM and FloTHERM XT Calibration Tektronix 6 Series MSO Mixed Signal Oscilloscope

Maxim Integrated Himalaya uSLIC Solution Other finalists: CUI Inc. High Performance Peltier Modules with arcTEC Structure Mentor Graphics MicReD Power Tester

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SOONER OR LATER, CUSTOM IS CRITICAL! And when it is, your best partner for custom motion products is Allied Motion. From simple cable and mounting modifications to cleansheet motion systems, Allied Motion is the industry leader in customized motion soutions for virtually any application. Don’t force fit standard motion products into your designs. Call Allied Motion when custom becomes critical.

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Product World Custom coupling for extra parallel misalignment Zero-Max zero-max.com Drawing from experience, Zero-Max engineers have customized a shortened version of the Model 6P60C CD coupling. Designed with a composite disc center member, this coupling handles misalignment, minimizing reaction loads in a confined operating space much better than the previously used steel disc coupling.

Providing a peak torque value of 12,700 in.-lb, the CD Coupling is torsionally stiff and able to operate

at speeds up to 4,400 rpm. The custom CD Coupling ensures low reaction loads on the system’s shaft bearings. This custom CD Coupling provides up to 3° angular misalignment with 0.069 (1.8 mm) parallel and 0.260 (6.6 mm) axial misalignment also allowed. Also, the coupling has aluminum hubs that have little inertia.

The modified couplings provide a straight forward solution. They are easy to install by simply removing

the failed coupling and connecting the newly modified CD Coupling’s clamp- style hubs in the system’s power train, without having to redesign or relocate any machine components.

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Hydraulic components for usage in extreme environments

High Pressure Components

HAWE seated valves provide directional control with zero leakage

Additional functions for intelligent solutions:

Solenoid actuated valves with integrated additional functions for clever controls in compact design

Compact Combinations

Valve combinations used for lifting equipment with one or two single acting cylinders

Industry Leading Performance

Proportional directional spool valve PSL

HAWE hydraulik is aware of the importance of functioning explosion protection in extreme environments and provides products that are in accordance with global standards. We manufacture the highest quality hydraulic components to maximize space and product durability for the mobile, industrial and oilfield markets.

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Product World Variable output alignment laser systems BEA Lasers bealasers.com This Alignment Laser System has a variable laser light output suitable for short distances. The dimming feature provides greater flexibility when aligning objects against different backgrounds, such as dark, light, chrome or other shiny surfaces. The new Alignment Laser Systems are also suitable for variable work conditions where lighting and/or the alignment surfaces change or are uncertain.

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For over 70 years, Components Corporation’s PCB Interconnect Products have ensured the highest standards of performance in the most demanding wireform interconnect and testing challenges. • PCB test points

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Micro brakes for small precision equipment applications Ballscrews & Rollerscrews

Miki Pulley mikipulley-us.com 112 Model Electromagnetic Micro-Brakes are a compact, high

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performance braking solution for small, precise motion control applications. The brake design ensures fast response in high torque demanding applications. The simple design has a stator

Linear Motors

with integrated mounting flange, proprietary composite friction liner, and armature complete with ring plate spring and hub.

Linear Actuators

Field proven, these Micro Brakes halt

rotation mechanically by using the electromagnetic field to create mechanical friction. With fast response, the brake’s armature engages the stator when the coil is energized. A constant-force plate spring

Linear Guideways

transfers torque to the rotating brake body halting all motion.

Additional features include: quiet

operation, high holding torque for its size, space saving design configuration, long service

Linear Encoders / Positioning Measurement Systems

life, stable and reliable braking power. Easily installed, these Micro Brakes require no maintenance. They are available in three armature assembly options depending on application requirements. AC Servo Motors

Specification range based on model selected: • Brake torque: 0.295 – 1.770 ft lb (0.4 -2.4 Nm) • Backlash: Zero • Ambient Temperature: 14 F ~ 104 F; (-10 ° ~ 40 °)

Hiwin D1 and D2 Servo Drives

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ROSS CONTROLS A Global Leader in Fluid Power Safety

Pneumatic and Hydraulic Safety Solutions

Safe Cylinder Control and Stop

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Hydraulic Block & Bleed

Safety Exhaust Safe Cylinder Return

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Product World AI controller extends equipment life with machine learning Omron Automation omron.247.com WE Series Linear Guideway Wide Series Ball Type.

The Sysmac AI Controller handles several key steps in the data-driven decision process for predictive maintenance, thereby freeing up industrial professionals from tedious calculations, analyses and infrastructure upgrades.

The AI functionality – also known as “machine learning” – is able to identify abnormal

machine behavior without being explicitly programmed to do so. Since there could be different factors and measurements that indicate an issue when observed together, automating the feature extraction process saves time and resources. Leveraging the machine learning results during production is key to ensuring end user cost savings.

Rather than being a cloud solution, Omron’s approach to artificial intelligence-based

control involves hardware, offline software and in-person service. No internet connectivity or IT infrastructure/service is required. The hardware is based on the Sysmac NY5 IPC and the NX7 CPU and includes Omron’s AI Application Components, a

PG Series Linear Guideway Integrated Magnetic Encoder.

library of AI predictive maintenance function blocks. Several additional AI specific utilities are also included.

MGN / MGW Series Linear Guideway Stainless Steel Miniature Linear Guideway Size 5 Now Available.

HG / EG / RG Series Linear Guideways Ball and Roller Type.

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Ball Valves

Solutions Under Pressure Power Unit Layout Components

Check Valves

Pressure Gauges and Isolators

Flow Controls

Bar Manifolds

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Product World Lighting system for machine vision B&R br-automation.com

LM Linear Actuator / SAR Linear motor driven high acceleration and accuracy, unlimited travel.

This integrated vision system features flexible light bars and backlights for optimum results even in difficult lighting situations. Lighting control is synchronized with the automation system in the sub-µs range. As integral parts of the automation system, both cameras and lighting are easy to synchronize with other sensors, motor positions and events in the machine application. Lighting control with microsecond precision is

KA Type Linear Actuator / SAR Ballscrew or belt driven, exible design.

guaranteed when synchronizing multiple cameras and light sources. Broad spectrum of possibilities The flexible light bars are available individually or arranged as ring lights in groups of four, six or eight. The backlights are available in two sizes. Each light can have up to four different LED colors at a time. The selection ranges from white and various visible colors to infrared and ultraviolet. This makes it possible to achieve the right contrast, color,

KK Type Linear Actuator / SAR Ballscrew driven, high accuracy and reliability.

illumination and intensity for any application.

B&R’s light bars feature electronic angle adjustment from -40° to 90°. When

producing multiple products on the same machine, the lighting angle can be optimized between batches – once it has been set, it can be saved as part of the batch recipe.

KS Type Linear Actuator / SAR Ballscrew driven for clean room applications.

AC Servo Motors.

Hiwin D1 and D2 Servo Drives for Servo Motors, Torque Motors and Linear Stages.

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Product World 3-phase SSRs for panel mounting Carlo Gavazzi Gavazzionline.com The RGC3.â&#x20AC;Ś48 Series, is a 48 AAC per phase rated device with a panel mount or thru-wall mount, natural convection heatsink. To keep the dimensions compact, the existing RGC3 solutions at higher current ratings (above 40 AAC) use forced ventilation and hence require a supply voltage. The new 48 AAC rated 3-phase relay uses a larger, natural convection heat sink that eliminates the need for additional supply voltage if system monitoring is not required.

The device can be panel-mounted inside of an electrical enclosure, or if a side-wall cutout is available, the heatsink portion of the

relay can be mounted outside of the cabinet. Thru-wall mounting offers an additional benefit of keeping the heat generated during the operation of the SSRs outside of the enclosure, away from other sensitive electronic equipment. The 48 AAC rated RGC3â&#x20AC;Ś.48 Series are available with line voltage ratings up to 600 Vac, either dc or ac control, with optional system monitoring featuring electromechanical relay alarm and auxiliary output. Applications include HVAC, Heat Tracing, Plastics or Packaging, especially in situations where supply voltage is not available, or heat generated by the operation of an SSR has to be kept outside of the enclosure.

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Product World One component glob top epoxy

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Create your own vision solution with our vision app-based camera platform.

The EP17HTND-CCM is a new single component epoxy that is not premixed and frozen. It is more convenient to handle, apply, and store than typical two component glob top systems. This black, heat curable compound has a flowable paste consistency suitable for glob top, chip coating, and bonding applications. EP17HTND-CCM meets NASA low outgassing specifications and is serviceable from -80° to +600°F [-62°C to +316°C]. This adhesive forms high strength bonds to a variety of similar/dissimilar substrates such as metals, ceramics, plastics, composites and various circuit board materials.

EP17HTND-CCM is thermally conductive and

electrically non-conductive even upon exposure to hostile environmental conditions. EP17HTND-CCM has a highvolume resistivity of more than 1015 ohm-cm at 75°F and over 1012 ohm-cm at 400°F. Its thermal conductivity is 9-10 BTU•in/ft2•hr•°F [1.4423 W/(m•K)] at 75°F. Also noteworthy is its ability to resist many chemicals including acids, bases, salts, fuels, oils and many solvents.

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Extended range of shaft collars JW Winco jwwinco.com

From the world’s largest manufacturer of world-class electromagnetic clutches and brakes

The Semi-Split Shaft Collars GN 7062.1 with Extension Tapped Holes,

For holding and stopping applications A wide array of standard torque ranges (1.75in/lbs - 880 in/lbs) Custom designed and manufactured for your application Manual release, zero backlash, and adjustable torque also available Inch and metric bores available

GN 7062.2 with Flange Holes, and GN 7062.3 with Damping Washer, along with Two-Piece Shaft Collars GN 7072.1 with Extension Tapped Holes, GN 7072.2 with Flange Holes, and GN 7072.3 with Damping Washer are new from JW Winco.

Electromagnetic clutches & brakes for virtually every application

Available in full, slotted, and split versions, this range of shaft collars

can be used in multiple ways in machine and fixture fabrication. They secure shafts and axles, acting as a positive stop or as an attachment option for additional functional elements. The affixed damping washer

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The shaft

collars are made of sintered steel, while the socket cap screw is stainless steel and the damping washer on both GN 7062.3 and 7072.3 is elastomer, transparent and temperature resistant up to 176 °F (80 °C). There are also standard part accessories, such as GN

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7062.30 Elastomer Damping Washers, for Semi-Split Shaft Collars and GN 7062.10 Stainless Steel Sensor Brackets

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brushless motors and matching drives for demanding applications. Sensorless or hall motors and drives for aerospace, military, medical, industrial, canned pumps, vacuum, extreme temperature applications. Custom drive programing and designs available. Standard or custom designs up to 98% efficient, up to 200,000 rpm. Highest power density in the industry. Slotless and slotted designs. Available with encoders and gearheads and separate or integral electronics. Quantities 1 to 10,000.

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Product World 7-Lamp LED string light Larson Electronics larsonelectronics.com This Class I, Division 2-rated Cree LED string light has seven LED fixtures that operate on 120/240 Vac. This hazardous location unit comes with 13-ft of 12/3 SOOW line-in cord connecting each lamp fixture. This unit is designed for use in areas that are wet, damp or dusty.

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Product World Corner-mount interior LED lamp Optronics optronicsinc.com The ILL38CMB Corner-Mount Interior LED Lamp is a modular, low-profile lamp that can be installed in virtually any trailer as original equipment or as an aftermarket upgrade.

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Flow Ezy Filters ................................. 151 Fotofab .............................................. 232 GAM ....................................................... 113 Gefran ..................................................142 Harmonic Drive ..................................185 Harwin .................................................. 59 HAWE Hydraulic ................................ 191 HBM, Inc. .............................................. 110 HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION ...... 160 HELUKABEL USA ............................. 51 Helwig Carbon Products, Inc ...... 238 HIWIN .................................... 193,195,197 HYDAC International .......................139 I-PEX Connectors .............................241 icotek Corp .......................................... 75 IDEC Corporation .............................. 65 IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH .........................200 igus Inc. ............................................... 154 IKO International .............................. 169 Intech .................................................. 248 Interpower ......................................... 234 Interroll ............................................... 207 IronCAD ................................................ 97 ITT Enidine ..........................................198 J.W. Winco, Inc. ................................238 KEB America, Inc. .............................. 49 Keller America .................................... 41 Key Bellevilles .................................. 222 Keystone Electronics Corp. .................. 13,237 KHK USA ............................................. 140 Koford Engineering ........................ 201 Kollmorgen .......................................... 53 Kuebler ................................................ 133 Kuriyama of America, Inc. .............. 68 LAPP USA .......................................... 60 Lee Spring Company ..................... 231 LEMO USA, Inc. ................................ 138 Lenze Americas ............................... 143 Lin Engineering ............................... 227 Madison Co. ....................................... 170 Main Manufacturing ...................... 244 Maple Systems ................................ 132 Master Bond ....................................120 maxon precision motor .................. 32 maxon precision motor ......... Insert MEAN WELL USA, Inc. .................... 91 Memory Protection Devices ......... 21 METCASE .......................................... 221 MICROMO ..........................................IBC Miki Pulley US .................................... 18 Mitsubishi Electric Automation ................................... 94 MK North America ............................173 MOCAP ............................................... 246 Monnier ................................................172 Motion Index Drives ........................ 38 Murrelektronic, Inc. ........................ 224 MW Industries Atlantic Spring ............................. 30 MW Industries BellowsTech ................................. 57 MW Industries - Helical .................208 MW Industries - ServoMeter ....... 105 Nason ................................................... 111 NB Corporation ................................. 16 NBK America LLC ............................. 233 Neugart ............................................... 212 New England Wire Technologies ..................... 147 Newark element14 ............................ 121 Newcomb Spring ............................. 109 Nitto Kohki USA .............................222 NKK Switches of America, Inc. ................................. 56 Novotechnik .....................................253 NSK Precision .................................... 117

Ogura Industrial Corp. .................. 201 OKW USA ............................................. 119 OMRON Industrial Automation ................................ 229 OMS Motion, Inc. ............................ 242 Opto 22 ................................................ 77 Oriental Motor USA Corp. ............223 Orion Fans ....................................... 210 Parker Hannifin Corporation Pneumatic Division ................... 67 PBC Linear .................................. 42,43 PCB Piezotronics ............................130 Pepperl + Fuchs ................................89 PHD, Inc. ............................................213 Pilz Automation Safety L.P. ......... 161 POSITAL-FRABA ............................... 70 PRECI-DIP ..........................................159 Pyramid Incorporated .................. 206 QC Conveyors ................................. 216 R+W America ....................................157 RelChip .............................................. 215 Renishaw ...........................................137 ROLEC .................................................. 11 Rollon...................................................165 ROSS Controls .................................194 Rota Engineering Ltd. ..................218 RYCO Hydraulics ............................ 220 Schmersal .......................................... 211 Schneider Electric IMS .................. 167 Schroeder Industries ..................... 179 SDP/SI .................................................. 110 Serapid Inc. ...................................... 225 Servo Kinetics, Inc. ........................ 205 SEW-EURODRIVE ............................ BC SICK, Inc ............................................. 177 Siemens Industry, Inc. ....................171 Siemens PLM Software ..................69 Smalley Steel Ring ........................... 10 Smart Products USA ....................... 19 SMC Corporation of America ..... 217 Sorbothane ..................................... 244 STEUTE Industrial Controls ........ 125 Sunstone Circuits ......................... 203 Super Swivels ................................. 236 Tadiran ................................................. 25 Tech-Etch, Inc. ................................ 204 The Arthur G. Russell Co., Inc. ..... 28 The Lee Company .......................... 187 THK Corporate .................................. IFC Tolomatic ............................................. 47 Tompkins Industries, Inc. ............... 46 Tribal Manufacturing ...................... 120 Trim Lok ................................................ 84 US Tsubaki .......................................... 64 Veljan Hydrair ................................. 254 Wago USA ........................................ 247 Watlow ................................................ 148 Weintek USA, Inc. ............................. 80 Whittet-Higgins ............................... 149 Wittenstein ......................................... 39 Yaskawa Electric America .......... 239 Zero-Max, Inc. .................................... 2

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Del-tron Precision, Inc. ..............315 Deublin ...........................................316 DieQua ...........................................317 Digi-Key Electronics ...................318 DMIC ................................................319 Dorner .............................................320 Eagle Stainless Tube ................321 Electrocube, Inc. .........................322 Emerson ........................................323 Emerson ........................................324 Encoder Products Company .................................325 Equipto Electronics ...................326 EXAIR Corporation .....................327 Fabco-Air .......................................328 Festo ...............................................329 Fischer Connectors ...................330 Flow Ezy Filters, Inc ...................331 FluiDyne Fluid Power ................332 Fotofab ..........................................333 GAM .................................................334 Gefran ............................................335 Groschopp ....................................336 Harmonic Drive LLC ...................337 HARTING, Inc. of North America.........................338 Harwin ............................................339 HAWE Hydraulik ..........................340 HBM, Inc. ........................................341 HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION ......................342 HELUKABEL USA .......................343 Helwig Carbon .............................344 HIWIN ..............................................345 Honeywell Intelligrated ............346 HYDAC International .................347 I-PEX Connectors .......................348 icotek Corp ....................................349 IDEC Corporation ........................350 IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH .....................351 igus ..................................................352 IKO International, Inc .................353 Intech ..............................................354 Interroll ...........................................355 Interpower .....................................356 IronCAD ..........................................357 ITT Enidine ....................................358 J.W. Winco, Inc. ............................359 KEB AMERICA. Inc. .....................360 Keller America Inc .......................361 Key Bellevilles ..............................362 Keystone Electronics ................363 KHK USA Inc. ................................364 Koford Engineering ....................365 Kollmorgen ....................................366 Kuebler ...........................................367 Kuriyama of America .................368 LAPP USA .....................................369 Lee Spring .....................................370 LEMO USA, Inc. ...........................371 Lenze Americas ..........................372

Lin Engineering ...........................373 Madison Co. ..................................374 Main Manufacturing .................375 Maple Systems ...........................376 Master Bond ................................377 maxon precision motor .........................................378 MEAN WELL USA, Inc. ..............379 Memory Protection Devices, Inc. ............................380 METCASE ......................................381 MICROMO ......................................382 Miki Pulley US ..............................383 Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. .....................384 mk North America, Inc. .............385 MOCAP ...........................................386 Motion Index Drives ..................387 MTS Sensors ................................388 Murrelektronik .............................389 MW Industries Atlantic Spring .......................390 MW Industries Bellows Tech ..........................391 MW Industries Helical ...............392 MW Industries ServoMeter .....393 Nason .............................................394 NB Corp ..........................................395 NBK America LLC ........................396 Neugart USA Corp. ....................397 New England Tubing Technologies ...........398 New England Wire Technologies ..........................399 Newark element14 ......................400 Newcomb Spring ........................401 Nitto Kohki USA .........................402 NKK Switches of America, Inc. ...........................403 Novotechnik .................................404 NSK Precision ..............................405 Ogura Industrial Corp. ..............406 OKW USA .......................................407 OMRON Industrial Automation .............................408 OMS Motion, Inc. .........................409 OPTO 22 ........................................410 Oriental Motor USA Corp. ........411 Orion Fans ....................................412 Panasonic Electric Components ..........................413 Parker Hannifin Corporation . Pneumatic Division ................... 414 PBC Linear ....................................415 PCB Piezotronics ........................416 Pelonis Technologies, Inc.........417 Pepperl + Fuchs ..........................418 PHD Inc. .........................................419 Pilz Automation Safety ............420 POSITAL-FRABA ..........................421 PRECI-DIP SA ...............................422 Prince Manufacturing ...............423

Protolabs .......................................424 Pyramid Incorporated ...............425 QC Conveyors ..............................426 R+W America ................................427 RelChip ...........................................428 Renishaw .......................................429 Rittal ................................................430 Rolec ...............................................431 Rollon ..............................................432 ROSS Controls .............................433 Rota Engineering .......................434 Rotor Clip .......................................435 RYCO Hydraulics .........................436 Sager Electronics .......................437 Schmersal .....................................438 Schneeberger, Inc. .....................439 Schneider Electric IMS .............440 Schroeder Industries ................441 SDP/SI-Stock Drive Product ....442 Serapid Inc ....................................443 Servo Kinetics ..............................444 SEW Eurodrive ............................445 SICK, Inc .........................................446 Siemens Industry, Inc. ..............447 Siemens PLM Software ............448 SIKO Products ..............................449 Smalley Steel Ring .....................450 Smart Products USA .................451 SMC Corporation of America ....................................452 SOLIDWORKS ...............................453 Sorbothane ..................................454 Spartan Scientific .......................455 STEUTE Industrial Controls.....456 Sunstone Circuits ......................457 Super Swivels ..............................458 Tadiran ...........................................459 Tech-Etch, Inc. .............................460 The Arthur G. Russell Co., Inc. .....................................278 The Lee Company .....................461 THK ..................................................462 Tolomatic .......................................463 Tompkins Industries ..................464 Tribal Manufacturing .................465 Trim-Lok, Inc. ................................466 US Tsubaki ....................................467 Veljan Hydrair ..............................468 WAGO .............................................469 Watlow ............................................470 Weintek USA, Inc. .......................471 Whittet-Higgins ...........................472 Wittenstein ...................................473 Xcentric Mold & Engineering ............................474 Yaskawa America, Inc. ..............475 Zero-Max, Inc. ..............................476

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