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THK is committed to meeting the worldwide demand for linear motion products. We manufacture, assemble, and ship across North America from our location in Hebron, Ohio. We’ve also ramped up our automating processes at existing facilities, including our U.S. manufacturing plant, where over 70% of THK Robotics Components are manufactured. Automated processes at this state-of-the-art facility enable increased production while maintaining the high standard of precision associated with THK products.

To learn more, call us at 1-800-763-5459 or visit www.thk.com.

See us at ATX West, Anaheim CA, Feb. 7 - 9, Booth #4254

THK Manufacturing in Hebron, Ohio

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Any time a manufacturer listenstoand partnerswithitscustomers,itsengineerswill designandbuildthekindofproductsthatcan accelerateinnovation.Engineerswanttosolve problems,whetherwithcustomoroff-the-shelf solutions—buttheywanttheirproductstobe reliable.Afterall,noonewouldbuildhimselfor herselfan“almostgoodenough”product...so whyshouldanaverageproducteverbeacceptableforacustomer?

Eachyear,DesignWorldtakespridein celebratingthoseoutstandingmanufacturers thatwerevotedthebestintheircategoryby engineersinthefieldandindustrypeers.These companiestakegreatprideintheirproducts andprovidestellarcustomerservice.

Theproductsdescribedinthefollowing pagesweredesignedandmanufacturedforuse inmanycategories,whichincludeadvanced materials,digitalmanufacturing,electrical,

fasteningandjoining,fluidpower,mechanical, mechatronics,motioncontrol,networks,software,switches,andtestandmeasurement.

Ithasbeenachallenginglastcoupleof yearsforallbusinesses,includingmanufacturers.Butthisyear’sleadershipcompetitorsshow howresilientmanufacturerscanbe.Thesecompaniesrepresentthebestandbrightest,and theyreflectthecontinuedvision,integrity,and creativityoftheirdesign(andmanufacturing) engineers.Ithinkthemostnoteworthyaspectof thisrecognitionisthatyou,ourreaders,areable toselectthewinningengineersandcompanies withthevotesyoucastthroughouttheyear.I urgeyoutogotowww.designworldonline.com andvotefortheoutstandingleadersinour industryduring2023.

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Able

Electropolishing

QUALITY, EXPERTISE AND INNOVATION

As the largest electropolishing specialist in the United States, Able Electropolishing has spent six decades at the forefront of innovation in electropolishing to eliminate defects and improve the surface finish of critical metal parts, with microscopically precise and consistent results.

In close collaboration with clients in the aerospace, medical, laboratory, pharmaceutical and food processing industries - among others - Able has developed highly customized processes that produce the most precise, consistent and reliable results for a wide array of critical metal parts, with benefits that include:

• Deburring

• Ultracleaning

• Resistance to Bacterial Growth

• Microfinishing

• Fatigue Life Improvement

• Improved Corrosion Resistance

www.ableelectropolishing.com

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Prototyping Collaboration Puts Finishing Expertise to Work at the Start

And while we play a vital role as the “last step” in the process for many critical metal parts, we also use our metal finishing expertise to improve parts from the start by consulting in the design and prototyping stage. Our “Finish First” methodology helps clients avoid design flaws that can trap debris and liquids and impede the ability to create the highest quality surface finish.

Commitment to Our Customers

Our commitment to our clients’ success drives our work toward continuous innovation, down to the customization of our processes for each part, including on-site tooling, custom racking, custom chemical formulation and prototyping runs conducted on full production equipment. We treat every single job as the critically important step that it is and our roster of clients worldwide shows the level of trust that we have earned over six decades of providing state-ofthe-art solutions and unmatched customer service.

The Able Difference

We’ve earned the trust of engineers and manufacturers in some of the most challenging industries in the world. That takes more than innovation and state-of-theart processes. It also means an attention to deadlines, efficiency, reliability and a tradition of continuous improvement. Our clients depend on us for jobs with no room for error. You can too.

ACCUMOLD

Accumold began in a rented garage in 1985. Our primary focus was and still is on very small micro-sized plastic parts and components that other companies can’t produce. The original Micro-Molder® was designed to help manufacture parts with minimal waste and short cycle times for electronic component manufacturing. Although there have been many innovations over the years the basic principals have remained the same and so has our commitment to micro-injection molding technologies.

Today the company now focuses on industries that require fast turn around and complex parts for high tech industries such as Micro Electronics, Micro Optics, and Medical, as well as new emerging markets and technologies.

Our founders established high standards of quality when the company began. These standards still exist today! We still have many of the original customers that entrusted their most valuable parts production to us. We believe this is due to our professional management staff, expert tool makers, and our top notch production team.

1711 S.E. Oralabor Road

Ankeny, IA 50021

Phone: 1-515-964-5741

FAX: 1-515-964-5742

www.accu-mold.com

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Micro-Mold®

These minute parts are often measured in microns and are no bigger than 0.5 cubic inches; they typically weigh less than a gram. In addition to their size, these parts have very tight tolerances and must be molded efficiently and precisely — time and time again.

Accumold builds specialized molding machines for this unique capability. The machines are engineered to handle volumes from prototypes to millions per year while maintaining consistent, precise tolerances that are unique in the industry. The specialized tooling and molding for micro-sized components are only available at Accumold.

Small Parts

Not every micro-molded application requires microscopic parts, but many require demanding geometry and tight tolerances on a slightly larger scale. Micro-features — incorporating very small features on a normalsized part up to about 3 inches in diameter — are another of Accumold’s capabilities.

Lead Frame / Insert Molding

Insert micro-molding involves molding in or around a wide variety of materials such as plastic, ceramic, glass, fabrics, film or foil. This type of over-molding can be achieved

on either the Micro-Mold® or Small Mold platforms with the same high-precision output. The process can be operator loaded or our Automation Team can build a custom loading system for highvolume applications.

Facilities

Accumold is an ISO 13485, 9001 and 14001 certified company with a state of-the-art, 130,000 square foot production plant. The Accumold facilities are located near Des Moines, IA, in the heart of the Midwest. The building is climate controlled and includes six 100K clean rooms and three 10K clean rooms for micro-electronics and medical applications.

ACE Controls

ACE Controls Inc. is a leading innovator in deceleration and motion control technology and products. For over 50 years, ACE Controls has provided superior deceleration products to meet the needs and demands of the aerospace, automotive, robotic, material handling, medical, packaging, machine tool, lumber, steel, amusement, defense and many more industries.

ACE Controls consistently provides industry leadership with cost-effective world class products to decelerate loads, prevent impact damage, dampen noise, increase cycle speeds and improve product performance.

ACE Controls pioneered the use of one piece / closed end body construction and inner pressure chambers in its range of products, all of which, greatly reduce the chance of sudden failure or machine damage when overloaded. ACE continues to be recognized as industry’s preferred brand of industrial shock absorbers offering one of the broadest ranges of models, sizes, energy absorption and weight capacity applications. Leadership doesn’t stop there….Ace has also established a reputation as a world leader in quality.

Contact Us:

PH: 800-521-3320

email: shocks@acecontrols.com

Visit Our WebSIte: www.acecontrols.com

ACE on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/user/ acecontrolsglobal

You can obtain application, installation information, our product catalog, CAD / Sizing files and distributor information from our website.

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ACE Deceleration & Vibration Technology

Your partner for industrial shock absorbers, gas springs and vibration controls

Our products help to make your production processes faster, more efficient, quieter, lighter, safer and more sustainable.

Tools for Engineers

We focus on developing tools and applications to help engineers be faster and more efficient. Our on-line sizing programs for hydraulic shocks and gas springs collect key application data and deliver the right solution for you. Download CAD files, print out installation drawings and even add products directly to your shopping cart.

Automation Control

Optimum tuning for any design

ACE universal damping solutions convert kinetic energy in to heat. This makes machines faster, quieter, more durable, lighter and therefore more competitive and profitable. Here you will find the perfect selection of machine elements, which turn damaging forces into harmless heat. These solutions from ACE smoothly decelerate moving loads.

Motion Control

Custom control of hand forces

The ACE products in this segment enhance the quality of any type of movement. Anyone who wants to raise or lower loads, regulate the feed of an object to the precise millimeter or gently decelerate rotating or linear movements will find the right solution here. ACE delivers industry leading quality. Our innovative solutions correspond with stringent requirements for ergonomics and individuality, including custom pressurized gas springs.

Vibration Control

Isolate unwanted vibrations

This ACE product group includes innovative solutions to provide customers with the best assistance in isolation technology and vibration isolation. These machine elements are also distinguished by their light design and wide variety. The product range extends from extremely low frequency isolating pneumatic leveling mounts to ready-to-install rubbermetal isolators and damping pads. With this portfolio, ACE is capable of offering you customized vibration isolation for almost any application.

Safety Products Protection for all machine designs under any condition

This ACE product group provides emergency braking to safely slow down moving loads and reduce damaging forces. Although the safety shock absorbers, TUBUS elastomer bumpers and clamping elements differ so much in design, every single ACE component provides the best protection for your machine. They demonstrate their main advantages in emergency stop situations and, based on the protection they provide, are very cost-effective.

Value Added Engineering

It starts with ACE’s application engineers working with customers developing new methods, applications and products to meet customer’s challenges today and for future requirements. The engineering teams focus on developing cost effective, continuous improvement world class products utilizing the latest in CAD, 3D system design, structural analysis and simulation software. The Adina software system of finite element analysis (FEA) allows ACE engineers to address issues in structural, thermal and fluid flow analysis.

Automation Control

Vibration Control

Motion Control Safety Products

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ACS Motion Control

High-Performance OEM Motion Controller and Drive Solutions

Since 1985, original equipment manufacturers in semiconductor, electronics assembly, laser processing, flat panel display, biomedical, and other high-tech industries have trusted ACS Motion Control to provide motion control system solutions that improve machine accuracy and throughput and minimize time to market.

With headquarters in Israel, subsidiaries in the United States, Germany, Korea, and China, and a global network of distributors and partners, ACS is structured to meet the needs of OEMs operating globally. Since 2017, ACS is a proud member of the Physik Instrumente (PI) Group.

www.acsmotioncontrol.com

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ACS Motion Control strives to create the smartest motion control solutions through long-term partnerships that make life-changing innovations possible.

ACS’ global team of high-performance motion control experts takes pride in developing products, features, and solutions in partnership with its customers. To create, provide, and support these solutions, ACS draws from a unique mix of core competencies:

- Real-time motion application programming and simulation

- Multi-axis servo control algorithms

- Multi-axis motion profile generation

- EtherCAT-based control networks

- Host application programming and libraries

- High-precision power amplifiers

- Advanced application and support engineering

Three product series, which all use a common set of configuration and development tools, offer solutions for different types of high-performance OEM motion control applications:

- SPiiPlus Platform

- ECM Series

- IDM Series

ACS continually develops new products and capabilities to address the needs of next-generation high-tech machines and enable the life-changing technologies of tomorrow.

2023 Actuonix

Micro Linear Actuators and Servos

Our unique line of micro linear actuators and linear servos are ideal for a wide variety of OEM applications. From Aerospace to automotive, robotics and medical devices, we provide cost-effective linear motion solutions for your products. We offer our actuators with a variety of control options, stroke lengths and gearing options to suit your needs.

Actuonix Motion Devices

Unit 201-1753 Sean Heights Saanichton, BC

Canada V8M 0B3

Phone & Fax: +1 (206) 347-9684

Toll Free: +1 (888) 225-9198

Email: sales@actuonix.com

www.actuonix.com

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Actuonix offers a complete range of micro linear actuators, linear servos and track actuators to meet the specifications of almost any project. Our line of products features more than 160 unique models, each one designed and tested in our Canadian facility. New models are always being developed and added to our lineup.

We strive to be a leader in linear motion engineering by not only constantly expanding our product lineup, but continually improving on our existing products. We pride ourselves on rigorous product testing and quality control that has helped establish us as not only a leader in the linear motion marketplace, but a trusted supplier to many OEM brands.

In addition, we support the next generation of engineers through a variety of programs including our Engineering Scholarship Program, our First Robotics Sponsorship Program, student discounts and project sponsorships

Automation24 is the premier online supplier for industrial automation components offering a well-rounded selection of products and solutions from sensor to control cabinet.

Automation24 has been developing a continuously growing range of items from brand name manufacturers and offers them to their valued customers at the best prices.

Throughout 2022 a variety of new items were added to the continuously growing product portfolio:

Safety light curtains for reliable user protection from Datalogic

High-quality process control and monitoring solutions from Beijer Electronics

Cutting-edge industrial IoT solutions from IXON Cloud

Innovative data loggers and process displays from Lascar Electronics

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Automation24 Inc.

3600 Horizon Dr Ste 110 King of Prussia, PA 19406

Contact:

800-250-6772 (toll-free) mail@automation24.com www.automation24.com

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FAST DELIVERY AND FREE APPLICATION SUPPORT

By having our own on-site warehouse here in the US and consistent availability of products, items that are shown as available according to the real-time inventory update on our webshop will be shipped the same working day. Need it tomorrow? No Problem! Expedited delivery services are also available.

To make your purchase with us as pleasant and easy as possible, we place great emphasis on a comprehensive online service. We offer an in-shop search capability, and a filter function which separates products based on technical characteristics to simplify selection. In addition, we have a product comparison function and provide comprehensive product information. You will find answers to frequently asked questions in our FAQ section, but should you have any further questions, our outstanding Technical Customer Service Engineers are at your disposal Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. EST via phone, live chat, email, or fax. They are available to assist with product selection and provide support for your application before, during and after your order.

AEROTECH

Aerotech is the global precision motion control and automation industry leader. With standard and custom products, controllers, systems and subsystems, Aerotech is the only company offering solutions for every motion challenge.

We provide:

• Controller software and hardware;

• Servo and stepper motors;

• Positioning mechanics and robotics using servo, stepper, and galvanometer drive technologies;

• Motion subsystems and integrated system solutions.

Our products support research and industrial organizations worldwide. Aerotech solutions enable manufacturing, testing and inspection processes on a micrometer and nanometer scale for the best-known technology companies in industries such as aerospace, consumer electronics and medical devices.

Ph: 412-963-7470

Email: sales@aerotech.com aerotech.com

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AEROTECH: LEADERSHIP IN ENGINEERING

Aerotech has been growing and thriving for more than 50 years, and our engineering and production teams use that experience and expertise to solve the most complex precision motion control challenges. Our deep understanding of specific applications allows us to recommend the ideal solution for each customer, whether it is a standard or custom-engineered product, subsystem or integrated system.

We take a holistic approach to designing motion control solutions. Our mechanical, electrical, software and applications engineers work collaboratively, researching and developing precision motion and automation products for global market leaders. This ensures all of our technologies work together seamlessly.

A global company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA., our sales, support and facilities stretch all over the world. From standard positioning technologies, control systems and light manipulation to custom-designed automation systems, our products support research and industrial organizations worldwide. Aerotech solutions enable manufacturing, testing and inspection processes on a micrometer and nanometer scale for the world’s bestknown technology companies in industries such as aerospace, consumer electronics, laser processing, medical device manufacturing, optics & photonics, semiconductor and more.

ALA Industries Limited

ALA Industries Limited was founded in 1993 as a Manufacturer’s Representative. ALA is a top-tier hydraulic equipment supplier. Its original focus was the Latin American market. ALA was Manufacturer’s Representative for international companies such as US Tsubaki, one of the largest manufacturers in the world of industrial, automotive, roller, and specialty chains, as well as Asahi Seiko, a major Japanese manufacturer of mounted ball bearings. ALA is currently responsible for the sales of Yuken, GRH, Vivoil, Tandy, and HOF Hydraulics. ALA services over 100 value-added distributors across the USA, Canada, and Central America with a complete line of industrial and mobile hydraulics. Our distributors are independent contractors engaged in “value-added engineering.” ALA Industries Limited is based out of Portage, Indiana, USA.

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ALA Industries Limited

3410 Delta Dr, Portage, IN 46368

(219) 762-2059

alaindustrieslimited.com

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ALA Industries Limited is a leader in engineering. Leadership in engineering can be seen through teamwork not only within ALA Industries but with our manufacturing companies that we represent. We aim to create a seamless flow from our manufacturers to our distributors. The combined effort of all affiliated companies help ALA to better ourselves and provide excellent service and products. We focus on delivering outstanding communication, accountability, and transparency with all companies that we work along. ALA Industries is a leader in engineering due to the goal and ability to create and maintain long-term relationships with our distributors and the manufacturers that we

represent. ALA provides a prestigious product line throughout the Americas that aids the maximization of the end users hydraulic systems. The overall goal of ALA Industries Limited is to focus our time and energy not only on the success of our products, but also to be able to acknowledge areas of improvement and fix them within a timely manner. ALA Industries also seeks to expand their product market to help sustainability efforts, such as pitch control valves for wind turbines. Within ALA Industries, our employees are dedicated, dependable, and respectful to their fellow employees and clients. Overall, ALA Industries Limited has positioned itself as a leader in engineering due to their ability to have open communication with clients alongside providing premier products.

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All Motion, Inc.

AllMotion Inc. develops and manufactures miniature high-performance stepper and servo drives for the medical, scientific, optical and general automation markets. Their mission is to create superior, ultra-compact motion control solutions that reduce costs and readily integrate into OEM instrumentation designs across a wide range of industries. R&D efforts are centered on core competencies of small form factor components that deliver precise positioning control and ease of use.

AllMotion provides off-the-shelf motion control devices and custom solutions based on their EZStepper and EZServo motor driver technology. Their servo motor controllers and brushless DC motor controllers feature quadrature encoder feedback, and are programmable to allow standalone operation. Based in Union City, California, the company has proven leadership in miniature motion control, with a full line of intelligent driver/ controllers.

All Motion, Inc.

30097 Ahern Avenue

Union City, California 94587

Sales Office - 510.471.4000

Technical Support - 408.460.1345

Fax - 408.358.4781

Email - support@allmotion.com

www.allmotion.com

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AllMotion introduces the next generation of Servo Drive and Control for 2021. The drive circuit is now Torque Vector controlled for smooth motor operation. The control side still provides ease of operation allowing the rapid implementation of servo motor solutions in products requiring automation.

Big Power in a Small Package

The Drive measures just 2.25” square and is 0.9” high. The fully intelligent servo motor Driver + Controller can deliver better than 20 amps of current into a 3 phase servo motor. Voltage input can range from 12 to 50 Volts. Four inputs for home and limits as well as general purpose inputs are standard. There is also a high power output for solenoids or brakes. No hall sensors are required and encoder feedback has options for single ended or differential inputs.

New ways to Communicate

The new Servo Drive also has CAN and Ethernet hardware interfaces to allow the integration of the drives into applications requiring these types of communications. Protocols such as CAN-OPEN and EtherCATTM can be run on the high speed processor expanding the possible applications of this next generation Driver + Controller.

Tried and True

For users already familiar with the AllMotion product line, the drive also incorporates the tried and true communications protocol that allows users to be up and running in no time.

The Commands are intuitive and simple. For example, the command A10000 will move the servo motor to Absolute position 10000. (This communications protocol is compatible with devices that use the Cavro DT or OEM protocol.)

The Servo is also capable of stand-alone operation with no connection to a PC.

It can be set to execute a preset string of commands upon power up (i.e., only power is required in this mode). The Commands include nested loops and execution halt pending a switch closure, which is useful in stand-alone applications.

The Servo Motor Controller will typically work with any motor that is 4” or smaller (size 34 or smaller). Starter Kits enable a first time user to make Servo Motors move intelligently in less than half an hour.

For more information, contact Sales@ AllMotion.com or call us at 510-471-4000.

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Altech Corporation

Altech Corp. – Automation & Control Components

Serving automation and control industries since 1984, Altech’s products meet UL and international standards and all are RoHS and REACH compliant. Altech’s commitment to quality has been recognized since May 27, 1999 when they were awarded the prestigious honor of ISO 9001 certification and maintains a ISO 9001:2000 certification today.

Product lines include miniature circuit breakers, busbars, DCUPS devices, digital panel meters, terminal blocks, enclosures, contactors, many types of relays including safety relays, motor disconnect switches, strain reliefs, receptacles, foot switches, push buttons and pilot lights. Many other products are also available.

35 Royal Road

Flemington, NJ 08822

United States

Phone: 1-908-806-9400

Email: info@altehcorp.com

www.altechcorp.com

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Altech Corporation is an established USA supplier of components and devices used in industrial control, instrumentation and automation. It is an ISO 9001:2000 certified manufacturer and distributor of electrical, electronic and electromechanical components.

Altech provides many services. This begins with its product managers, providing technical support and partner with customers in design assistance, ensuring the best solutions. The Customer Service Department ensures that customers are informed with complete order information. The versatile assembly department provides manufacturing, value added or customization services to expedite delivery. The marketing department has been highly recognized for its catalogs, advertising and website, while the sales department motivates over 25 manufacturer representative companies throughout North America, ensuring product information is complete.

The product line includes miniature circuit breakers, busbars, DC-UPS devices, panel meters, terminal blocks, contactors, motor discon¬nect switches, pin & sleeves, receptacles, foot switches, many types of relays, push buttons & pilot lights. Also available are metal detection systems, ferrules, marking & engraving systems, fuses, power distribution blocks, tubing, liquid tight strain reliefs, timers, test & measurement, LED panel lights, thermostats, panel filters, tower lights & wire ducts. Altech’s products meet UL and many international standards and all are RoHS compliant.

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AMETEK Programmable Power

Powering Success Globally

Located in San Diego, CA, AMETEK

Programmable Power designs, manufactures and markets precision AC and DC programmable power supplies, electronic loads, and application specific power subsystems, as well as advanced testing solutions for customers requiring & valuing differentiated power products and services.

AMETEK Programmable Power manufactures one of the industries’ broadest portfolios of programmable power products under the well known and respected Sorensen, Elgar, and California Instruments brands. VTI Instruments further broadens the portfolio with over 25 years of experience in test and measurement, and is recognized as an industry leading brand with a reputation of providing reliable data, first time, every time.

AMETEK Programmable Power

9250 Brown Deer Road San Diego, CA 92121

www.programmablepower.com

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AMETEK Programmable Power specializes in developing highly differentiated power and testing equipment for the world’s leading markets. What separates AMETEK Programmable Power from others is the ability to work closely with customers to develop specialized equipment to meet their specific requirements. With a customer focused mindset AMETEK Programmable Power also brings decades of experience to developing next-level power and testing equipment solutions. With that extensive experience and a proven track record in a wide variety of markets, AMETEK Programmable Power has the unique capability to help their customers succeed with the broadest range of systems in the market.

AMETEK Programmable Power’s products serve a wide range of stimulus (T&M) and process power needs in applications including semiconductor fabrication, commercial and defense ATE, oil exploration, solar array and battery string simulation, avionics, general R&D and EMC compliance testing.

Asterion DC ASA and ASM Series: Enhanced 3-Channel Programmable Power Supply

Sequoia and Tahoe Series: Precision Programmable AC and DC Sources

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Automation

Direct

Process Controllers, Analog I/O, HMI

Discrete/Machine Control Strategies

PLC, Motion Control, Logic and Programming Software, Discrete I/O, Sensors, HMI

Sensors

Safety Strategies

Process, Machine, Emergency Shutdown

Energy Management

Variable Frequency Drives

Motors, Motion Control Power Supplies

A well-recognized name in the industrial automation market, AutomationDirect provides quality products with FREE award-winning in-house sales and technical support. AutomationDirect provides customers with quick order and delivery through an online store and toll-free number. Prices on most products are well below the industry average and a 30day money-back guarantee is offered on nearly all items. With tens of thousands of part listings, new products include the LS Electric Servo Systems, CLICK PLUS PLCs, Norgren Excelon Air Prep Components and much more. These products represent many years of design and development by AutomationDirect’s own engineering team as well as their strategic partners. The company also offers motors, sensors, pushbuttons, enclosures, circuit protection and more.

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The state-of-the-art headquarters facility near Atlanta is designed throughout for maximum performance. Orders for in-stock items can be taken as late as 6 p.m. EST and be shipped for immediate delivery.

The company provides online tutorial videos through their web store at www. automationdirect.com as well as their YouTube channel. A Customer Forum provides peer support on technical and application questions.

AutomationDirect’s customer support team has been rated top-notch by its customers. For 15 years straight, the Tech Support team was voted by readers of Control Design magazine as best in service and support for various products. And, their own customer surveys consistently rank the company’s service as better than other suppliers.

For an in-depth look at products offered, visit: www.automationdirect.com.

2023

Leadership in Engineering

Banner Engineering designs and manufactures industrial automation products including sensors, smart IIoT and industrial wireless technologies, LED lights and indicators, measurement devices, machine safety equipment, as well as barcode scanners and machine vision. A high-quality, reliable Banner product is installed somewhere around the world every two seconds. Headquartered in Minneapolis since 1966, Banner is an industry leader with more than 10,000 products, operations on five continents, and a world-wide team of more than 5,500 employees and partners. Our dedication to innovation and personable service makes Banner a trusted source of smart automation technologies to customers around the globe.

Banner Engineering

9714 Tenth Avenue N. Minneapolis, MN, 55441

Phone: 1-888-3-SENSOR

Email: info@bannerengineering.com

www.bannerengineering.com

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Problem-Solving Specialists

From Fortune 500 manufacturing companies to disruptive startups with leading-edge production, Banner is solving industry problems through automation technology. Our innovative solutions— including Snap Signal, In-Series Diagnostics, and Pro Series advanced indication—are designed and built to set up easily and operate reliably, increasing productivity and operational efficiency.

Smart Automation Experts

As companies work to minimize downtime and cut costs while improving efficiency and quality, Banner helps them get more out of their equipment. From new installations to unlocking valuable data from existing devices via IIoT-enabling Snap Signal overlay networks, Banner’s innovative IIoT solutions provide manufacturing insights and visualization anytime, anywhere.

Leading Across the Globe

Highly trained Banner specialists and staff help customers around the world solve tough applications and advance their manufacturing. Through face-to-face and virtual interaction with customers, we bring smart, high-quality products and solutions along with personal, attentive service to industries everywhere.

Quality and Service with Integrity

We are committed to developing new and innovative technologies, delivering products of the highest quality, fulfilling the needs of each customer, and operating with accountability and integrity. These commitments continue to guide and define Banner as a company.

BAYCABLE Interconnect Solutions

Our specialty is working with clients to design application specific solutions to complex interconnection problems that are solved by our capability to manufacture custom cable, coil cords, molded cable assemblies and electromechanical sub-assemblies in Fremont, California and Sonora, Mexico.

SPECIALTIES:

• Silicone and Thermoplastic Molding and Extrusion

• In House Cable Manufacturing

• In House Mold Tooling

• Very Fine Wire Termination

• Custom Connector Design

MARKETS:

• Medical

• Industrial

• Automotive

• Audio

Bay Associates Wire Technologies

46840 Lakeview Blvd

Fremont, CA 94538

Tel: 510-933-3800

Email: bayinfo@baycable.com

www.baycable.com

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BAYCABLE is vertically integrated and can offer a wide range of manufacturing capabilities including custom cable constructions, full turnkey cable assembly and molding services, component customization, specialized testing, and in house mold tool manufacturing.

BAYCABLE delivers unparalleled engineering expertise “an integrated solutions partner” that can help skillfully create the optimal interconnect system for your application.

Early design collaboration with our Silicon Valley based engineering group takes you from concept through pre-production into the initial production runs quickly, and we provide medium to higher volume production by transferring production to our plant in Sonora, Mexico. Both manufacturing locations are ISO Registered.

BAYCABLE has a long legacy of delivering high performance reliable interconnect solutions to our customers.

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Beckhoff Automation

Adaptive Automation Offers Unrivaled Flexibility

Beckhoff Automation is a global provider of open automation systems based on advanced PC Control technology. The “New Automation Technology” philosophy at Beckhoff represents universal and open automation solutions used in a wide spectrum of hightech applications around the world. These applications range from control of machines and robots, to Internet of Things (IoT) systems, to category-defining mechatronics solutions and much more. The world headquarters of Beckhoff Automation is in Verl, Germany while the U.S. headquarters office is in Savage, Minn. (Minneapolis area).

Beckhoff Automation LLC

13130 Dakota Ave

Savage, MN 55378

www.beckhoff.com

A breakthrough in adaptive mechatronics technology, the XPlanar flying motion solution delivers unrivaled flexibility and throughput in part, product and package handling. The highly adaptive system uses planar motor tiles as a base to levitate passive movers that can fly at speeds of 2 m/s and up to 1 g acceleration. Path planning and collision avoidance software produce extremely efficient and maintenancefree motion control for complex assembly, packaging, inspection and material handling applications. Anti-sloshing functionality in TwinCAT 3 software optimizes XPlanar’s

transport capabilities in applications involving liquids, such as filling of beverages, cosmetics and other goods. XPlanar offers wear-free movement and the ability to cover planar motor tiles with stainless steel, glass or other hygienic surfaces.

Beckhoff has also expanded the highly adaptive eXtended Transport System (XTS) portfolio recently with new hardware and software enhancements. With No Cable Technology (NCT), the XTS can provide contactless power supply and synchronous real-time data communication directly to its movers. This solution enables individual movers to serve as mobile handling and processing stations, essentially turning the intelligent transport system into a powerful, highly flexible multi-robot system.

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Beswick Engineering Co. Inc.

THE BESWICK ADVANTAGE:

Beswick offers the broadest line of miniature pneumatics in the fluid power industry. Providing reliable, high quality pressure regulators, valves, quick disconnects & fittings coupled with direct engineering support has been our mission since the company’s founding.

If you don’t find what you are looking for from our expansive on-line offerings, we are willing to work with you to develop a custom, or modified product. Even if you have never ordered a product from us, our applications engineers will provide technical assistance to ensure you find the right solution for your project. Once you order, our experienced staff will continue to support you and ensure your success.

To access our product line and to keep up to date with new product offerings visit www.beswick.com.

Beswick Engineering Co. Inc.

284 Ocean Road

Greenland, NH 03840

Telephone: +1 603.433.1188

Fax: +1 603.433.3313

E-mail: techsupport@beswick.com www.beswick.com

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Experience and Innovation:

Innovative Beswick pressure regulators, valves and quick disconnects have been the top performing solution in the fluid power industry for more than 59 years. Engineers specify Beswick products when failure is not an option. With almost six decades of experience in engineering and manufacturing, we are confident that our products will provide long life, space savings and leak-tight connections. Contact Beswick when you need a highperformance product supported by an experienced engineering team.

Pressure Regulators:

Patented Beswick diaphragm and piston style regulators provide outstanding performance in a miniature, light-weight package. Each pressure regulator model is offered with a wide range of options.

Valves:

Beswick award winning valves provide the best performance while saving a considerable amount of space and weight.

Fittings and Quick Disconnects: Our fitting and quick disconnect products are offered in stainless steel and brass. Fittings are designed with our proprietary captured face seal and line contact barb for leak-tight connections.

Custom Design:

Industry:

Whether you manufacture medical devices, build satellites, or are a hobbyist you want a product that will perform well and meet the demands of your application. Beswick fluid power products will satisfy your stringent design requirements. Our products are found in a wide range of industries including medical, analytical instrumentation, aerospace, defense, dental equipment, ink jet printing, laboratory, packaging, semiconductor, robotics, lasers, hydrogen fuel cells and robotics to name a few.

We sell thousands of standard products factory direct to our customer base and offer hundreds of special and custom products. If you can’t find the miniature fitting you are looking for, let us help by customizing it for you.

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binder USA

Circular & Power Connectors and Custom Cordsets

The binder group is a familyowned leading global manufacturer of circular connectors, custom cordsets, and LED lights. binder products are used around the world in industrial environments for factory automation, process control, and medical technology applications. For 55 year defined by technical innovation and traditional values, the binder name is synonymous with the highest standards of quality and reliability.

binder group has a total of 2,000 employees between headquarters in Neckarsulm, Germany and subsidiaries in the United States, Singapore, China, Sweden, France, England, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

binder USA

3903 Calle Tecate Camarillo, CA 93012

www.binder-usa.com

Industry Experts

Our solution and application orientation differentiates us from our competitors and contributes to progress in growing and developing industries. We are not only experts in manufacturing circular connectors, custom cordsets, and LED lights, but also experts in the customized development, design, and automated manufacturing of custom connections according to customer specifications. Our products are used around the world in industrial environments for factory automation, process control, and medical technology applications.

Large product selection

Our selection of circular connectors ranges from miniature connectors to multipin power connectors. With a range of 5,000 catalog items, 3,000 designs and 500 customized parts, we can supply exactly the suitable product for nearly every industrial electronics application.

Reliability, quality, responsibility

binder is a traditional company characterized by values that stand for absolute reliability. Our daily operations are thereby governed by quality and backed by UL listed products and various ISO certifications, including ISO 9001, 14001 and 13485 certificated for medical applications. We take responsibility for our employees and respect the environmental resources. Openness and honesty form the basis of everything we do, every single day.

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BishopWisecarver

Bishop-Wisecarver makes designing and delivering complex linear and rotary assemblies easy while reducing labor, costs and inventory requirements. Through the integration of mechanical, electrical, software, control and systems design engineering expertise, we continue to provide a single point of service that results in: custom designs, increased efficiencies and accelerated time to market.

Bishop-Wisecarver develops innovative motion solutions that are expertly designed and delivered to perform from a company you can trust. Leveraging over 70 years of experience, we’ve earned the reputation of providing unmatched quality, reliability, service and engineering support for every stage of a customer’s design cycle. No matter your application, volume shipment requirements or extreme environmental conditions, BishopWisecarver listens to your specific needs. Then we design innovative solutions enabling you to finalize projects from concept to completion quickly, easily, and cost effectively. Our customers consider us a valued partner that helps solve even their toughest problems with unmatched commitment. How can we help you today?

See the difference our unique Signature Experience program brings to customers.

Bishop-Wisecarver

2104 Martin Way Pittsburg, CA 94565 Tel: (925) 439-8272

www.bwc.com

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BISHOP-WISECARVER:

Expertly Designed, Delivered to Perform

Founded as a custom machine builder 71 years ago and built through two generations of family ownership, Bishop-Wisecarver (BW) has maintained some of the longest-lasting partnerships in packaging automation.

Our customers know they can trust the reliability of our motion systems - but the trust doesn’t end there. Packaging OEMs and integrators trust the motion experts at BW for custom products, subassemblies, kits, and design support. What’s more, our customer service is rated among the best in the automation industry.

The result? BW collaborates with our customers to create differentiated packaging machines that lead the market.

You may be designing a transfer system for multi-stage filling, an orbital wrapper, a moving scanner assembly, or any number of projects requiring high throughput automation. If ease of assembly, low maintenance, and the ability to endure dust, cutting debris, and high duty cycles is important to your equipment, BW can help!

Our Signature Experience™ process promises our customers:

• That our technology and designs will be the right fit for your application.

• We assess and document your specific needs, to guarantee alignment with how you define project success.

• We can customize your solution - even for a single unit.

• We communicate through all stages of your order, from beginning to after installation.

• We have met or exceeded your definition of success on your project through a post installation follow-up meeting.

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Bodine Electric Company

Bodine stocks over 1,400 fractional HP gearmotors, motors and speed controls. From automated guided vehicles in state-of-the-art distribution centers, explosion-proof pumps in hazardous locations to outdoor battery- and solarpowered equipment, Bodine drives today’s critical industrial technologies.

For stock products or custom solutions, Bodine has the right solution for your design.

Bodine Corporate Office (Engineering, Sales/Mktg Depts)

201 Northfield Road Northfield, IL 60093 USA

Manufacturing Plant and Main Warehouse

19225 Kapp Drive Peosta, IA 52068-9547 USA

Contact Info:

Tel: 773-478-3515

Contact: Customer Service Team

Email: info@bodine-electric.com

Web: www.bodine-electric.com

GEARMOTORS FOR A WIDE RANGE OF INDUSTRIES AND APPLICATIONS

Quality in Motion since 1905

Bodine Electric’s Northfield, Illinois location (20 miles north of Chicago) is home to their control manufacturing, engineering and R&D departments, as well as their sales and marketing departments. Gearmotor and motor manufacturing, CNC machining, winding and assembly operations are located in Peosta, Iowa, U.S.A. Bodine’s quality management system is certified to ISO 9001.

Driving our Customer’s Success

Bodine gearmotors are designed for demanding industrial and commercial applications such as medical devices, scientific and laboratory equipment, labeling equipment, printing and packaging equipment, conveyors, factory automation, explosion-proof gearmotors for the oil & gas industry, and low-voltage gearmotor solutions for AGV/AMRs and other mobile equipment.

Largest Selection of Standard Products

Bodine manufactures variable speed and fixed speed AC induction, brushless DC, and permanent magnet DC gearmotors and motors. We offer parallel shaft, planetary, right angle, hollow shaft, hypoid and gearmotors for hazardous locations (CI/D1 & CI/D2). Motor power ranges from 1/200 HP up to ¾ HP (560 Watts), and rated torque up to 1535 lb-in (173 Nm).

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Boker’s Inc.

Boker’s, Inc., is a woman-owned, AS 9100:2016 and ISO 9001:2015 certified manufacturer of precision stampings, washers, spacers and shims.

To request a complimentary copy of the company’s 2023 Stampings & Washers Catalog and a 2023 Scheduling Calendar with Metric Conversion Chart, contact Boker’s at:

Phone: 612-729-9365

TOLL-FREE: 800-927-4377 (in the US & Canada) 3104 Snelling Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55406-1937 bokers.com

With over 100 years of experience, Boker’s has earned the reputation as a stamping leader. They deliver precision stampings in a complete range of sizes: flat blanking and piercings up to 12” x 12” (flat) with thicknesses from .005” to .190” (varies by material) and draws up to 3” deep and 8” in diameter.

With numerous inside diameters, thicknesses and over 2,000 commonly specified and hard-to-find material options— including various types of steel, aluminum, brass, copper, nickel silver, plus non-metallic materials such as PTFE, polyester, fiber and nylon— whatever your requirements, if it can be stamped, Boker’s can turn it into the part you need.

Boker’s also delivers a wide selection of standard and non-standard washers, spacers and shims. With over 32,000 stock tools, and outside diameters of .080” to 5.140” along with a variety of inside diameters, you have millions of flat washer possibilities.

All stampings, washers, spacers and shims are available in short, medium and long runs with a 100-piece minimum.

Boker’s also offers 3D printing for prototyping, complete Statistical Process Control (S.P.C.) capability, in-house tooling, and “Dock-to-Stock” and “Just-in-Time” programs.

Since 1919, customers in nearly every industry across the globe have trusted Boker’s to provide quality components, world-class service and FAST DELIVERY.

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Cadence, Inc.

The business now known as Cadence, Inc. began in 1985 as Specialty Blades in an old creamery building located in downtown Staunton, Virginia. Founded by engineer Martin Lightsey, Specialty Blades addressed the needs of companies who required high performance, razor sharp custommade cutting blades.

Now with more than 35 years in business, over 85 engineers on staff, and numerous capabilities under our belt, we continue to create new manufacturing technologies and invest in highly technical solutions to make critical metal components, complex subassemblies, and finished devices as a single, turnkey manufacturing partner for medical, aerospace, automotive, and industrial OEMs worldwide.

Cadence, Inc.

9 Technology Drive Staunton, VA 24401

USA

Tel: 800.252.3371

Fax: 540.248.4400

Mail: sales@cadenceinc.com

www.cadenceinc.com

Dedicated to Making Mission Critical Products

Cadence is a contract manufacturing partner ranked among the top companies providing outsourced design and manufacturing solutions for medical, life science, and industrial applications. We use integrated and advanced technologies while offering complete services that range from design through manufacturing and full supply chain management.

Our engineering and new product development teams develop expanded capabilities enabling us to provide complete solutions for your new products. Our broad set of core capabilities are competitive and differentiated in the marketplace. Unlike most contract manufacturers, Cadence offers significant custom manufacturing expertise, making new products a reality.

We hope Cadence becomes your partner of choice when you are looking for the right solution for a new, successful product.

We are proud to be ISO 13485 certified and are FDA registered.

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Canfield Connector

Canfield Connector develops and manufactures a wide range of interconnection devices such as DIN and Deutsch type connectors, M8 and M12 electrical connectors, angle, tilt, and magnetic proximity sensors, electronic timers, specialty electronic devices.

We are an ISO 9001 certified company that takes pride in American craftsmanship, commitment to superior quality, and long-lasting product performance.

Each and every Canfield Connector product, is produced here in the United states.

Building and strengthening relationships with our customers is one of our main goals. We strive to improve every area of our business while continuing to deliver exceptional customer service.

Our ability to provide custom engineered solutions keeps our customers coming back. Our engineering and sales staff will work with you to design, fabricate, test, and ship your custom product using the highest quality standards backed by our ISO 9001 design certification.

Our customer’s ability to succeed is our top priority.

Canfield Connector

8510 Foxwood Court

Youngstown, Ohio 44514

Phone: 330-758-8299

Toll Free: 800-554-5071

Email: customerservice@canfieldconnector.com

Website: www.canfieldconnector.com

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Magnetic Proximity Sensors

Canfield Connector’s proximity sensors cover a full range of applications including NEMA 6 designs, hazardous location versions and fully customizable configurations.

GT Products

Canfield Connector, a manufacturer of highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions, features its GatorMate line of products. The 2-, 3- and 4-pin GT Series of rugged, connectors are fully molded, eliminating the need to purchase expensive crimping tools and reducing labor required to assemble former field-wire versions. With the addition of the 5JGT DIN to Deutsch adapter, any solenoid valve DIN connection can easily convert to Deutsch-style connection.

The rugged GT Series is an all-in-one molded connector assembly proven to work in the harshest environments with an IP67 rating resistant to dust, vibration, shock, and moisture. The connectors are over molded to enhance connection performance and ensure

Our magnetic sensor portfolio includes reed, electronic, and hall effect sensors. Various mounting options include tie-rod mounting, clamp mounting, dovetail slots and grooves. They have been specifically designed to fit the most popular cylinders in the market. Additional options include MOV surge suppression, LED indicator lighting, M8/M12 quick connect options, shielded cables.

that high stress or vibration will not cause unintentional disconnection.

Each GT Connector can be highly customized to include various media compatibility or highflex, special use, or high-temperature cable. An optional LED indicator light and MOV or diode surge protection are also available.

M8 & M12 Connectors

Canfield Connector is known for it’s robust connections with an American twist, and the CANFast brand of M8 and M12 electrical connectors are no exception.

This family of robust, molded electrical connectors are specified by those needing a sure connection to valves, sensors, or automation of all types.

Available in all industry styles, the CANFast brand is made in the USA to strict quality standards.

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Canon U.S.A., Inc.

Precision Designs “MOVE”

Our compact DC motors, developed in 1962, for use in Canon 8-mm movie cameras, have been further refined for use in audiovisual devices, single-lens reflex cameras, office equipment, and other applications. The scope of application for these motors has continued to expand, and they can now be found in product categories subject to high demand, including camera lenses, laser printers, large format printers, industrial machinery, analysis equipment, cash machines and medical devices.

Today, Canon USA uses that advanced technology to propose customized solutions to meet all kinds of customer needs. Our flexibility in design, allows us to work closely with each customer to provide the exact solution required, be it simple or complex.

Canon U.S.A., Inc.

3300 North First Street San Jose, CA 95134

https://www.usa.canon.com/ business/industrial/dc-motors

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Our product lines include brushless DC servo motors, brushless motors, coreless motors, frameless motors and linear ultrasonic piezo motors as well as optional equipment such as gears and encoders. In addition, our simulation technologies enable us to offer actuator units and other essential parts to meet the needs of a wide range of customers.

Energy-efficient small motors have the advantage of consuming little power, which makes them the popular choice of industries worldwide. By offering the unique ability to customize our products, we remain committed to meeting customer needs.

Brushless DC Servo Motors: Achieves Best-in-Class torque and compactness BLDC, compared with other Canon motors. Applications include Gantry Robots, SCARA Robots, and Surgical Robots etc.

Frameless Motors: Canon’s frameless motors are lightweight and highperformance in compact size. These built-in type frameless motors enable space-saving installation and flexibility in mechanical design. Size, voltage, speed, shaft type and rotor type can be customized based on a customer’s request.

Linear Ultrasonic Piezo Motors: Canon’s linear ultrasonic piezo motors are compact, quiet and accurate for linear positioning applications. Canon has been using this technology for driving focus lens in camera products. Applications include Medical, Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and Optical devices.

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Carlo Gavazzi

Founded in 1931, CARLO GAVAZZI is a multinational electronics group active in the design, manufacture and marketing of electronic and electrical components for industrial automation and building automation.

With several ISO9001 and ISO14001 certified manufacturing and R&D facilities throughout Europe and Asia, and dozens of sales offices spanning the globe, you are assured that product support, service, and inventory are only a phone call, email or mouse click away. CARLO GAVAZZI products are developed and manufactured in full compliance with the most important standard regulations, such as UL and CSA.

Typical customers are original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of packaging machines, injection molding (plastics) machines, agriculture machines, food and beverage production, conveying and materials handling equipment, door and entrance control systems, parking guidance systems, elevators and escalators as well as heating, ventilation and air conditioning devices. System integrators and distributors are typically the channels we utilize to reach the market.

750 Hastings Lane

Buffalo Grove, Illinois

60089-6904

847 465-6100 : Phone 847 465-7373 : Fax www.gavazzionline.com

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Our comprehensive range of products includes:

SENSORS:

Capacitive/Inductive Proximity Sensors and Photoelectric Sensors (with and without IO-Link), IO-Link Masters, IO-Link Smart Configurator, Motion/Presence Sensors, Level Sensors, Magnetic Switches, Limit Switches, and Safety Interlocks

SWITCHES:

Solid State Relays, Solid State Contactors, Electromechanical Contactors, Definite Purpose Contactors, Overloads, Manual Motor Starters, Miniature Circuit Breakers, Soft Starters, Switching Power Supplies, Electromechanical Relays, Push Buttons, and Pilot Lights

CONTROLS:

Energy Meters & Gateways, Current, Voltage & 3-Phase Monitoring Relays, Current Transformers, Timers, Digital Panel Meters, Dupline Field & Installation Bus, and DuplineSafe Mining Monitoring & Safety System

Product Categories:

• Electrical and Electronics

• Motion Control

• Networks and Fieldbuses

• Switches and Sensors

• Test and Measurement

CC-LINK IE Industrial Ethernet Networking

CC-Link Partner Association - Americas

500 Corporate Woods Parkway Vernon Hills, IL 60061 USA

(847) 478-2647

info@cclinkamerica.org

am.cc-link.org

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CC-Link is a family of industrial open technology automation networks that process control, information & diagnostics to provide efficient, integrated factory-wide industrial and process automation. The family provides IIoT Ready high speed, deterministic communication seamlessly linking a wide assortment of multi-vendor automation devices. The ‘Family of CC-Link Networks’ is ideally suited for machine automation, cell or process control in a wide variety of industries. The CC-Link family includes fieldbus and safety networks – CC-Link & CC-Link Safety; the general-purpose industrial Ethernet network – CC-Link IE Field Basic; the most advanced Industrial Ethernet networks – CC-Link IE Control & CC-Link IE Field – and the latest cutting-edge network CC-Link IE TSN.

The CC-Link family of industrial open-technology integrated automation networks are IIoT Ready:

CC-Link IE TSN – A next generation network based on the current CC-Link IE with the adoption of Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) technology. CC-Link IE TSN provides flexible IIoT system construction along with reduced downtime by using GP Ethernet diagnostic tools compliant with SNMP. CC-Link IE TSN can offer a best in class motion control operation with cycle times better than 31.25µs. For product developers, CC-Link IE TSN provides a diversification of development methods – both hardware and software.

CC-Link IE Field – IIoT Ready 1 Gigabit Industrial Ethernet network linking field level devices to controllers. CC-Link IE Field provides the bandwidth necessary for all of your IIoT requirements while maintaining absolute deterministic communications. CC-Link IE Field provides a secure industrial Ethernet network via its token-based architecture. CC-Link IE Field is IEC approved for safety communications and can provide integrated motion control functions all on a single Industrial Ethernet network.

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CC-Link IE Field Basic – Software based, open-technology general-purpose Industrial Ethernet network. CC-Link IE Field Basic is a cyclic network that provides a cost effective and easy to use industrial Ethernet network for small-scale equipment not requiring high-speed control. CC-Link IE Field Basic is easy to use with a low cost software development cycle.

CC-Link – Open-technology fieldbus network providing complete deterministic behavior & cost effectiveness, flexibility and ease of use. Fully compatible CC-Link Safety is IEC/ISO approved for safety communications and meets or exceeds industry safety network standards.

Why choose CC-Link IE? Primary reason is that CC-Link IE TSN is the only released TSN compatible network on the market and that CC-Link IE Field is cost effective, flexible, highperformance as well as easy to install and use.

CC-Link IE is an industry leader with Gigabit Ethernet networking. If that’s not enough; CC-Link is a market leader in Asia, the fastest growing market in the world. There are almost 24 million installed nodes & over 1800 CC-Link compatible products on the market. Many export oriented American manufacturers are incorporating CC-Link IE compatibility because of its strength and market leadership in Asia.

Are you ready for Industry 4.0 – CC Link IE is!

CGI, Inc.

Since 1967, CGI has consistently been providing for its customers exceptional craftsmanship and outstanding customer service. This unwavering commitment is what makes CGI the reliable choice for precision components and subassemblies. Our capabilities in precision manufacturing feature a careful blend of cutting edge technology and worldrenowned reliability. We’ve earned our superb reputation for partnering with our customers, bringing comprehensive technical knowledge, manufacturing expertise, high quality, and a “can-do” attitude to each unique application. Yet, perhaps most important is our commitment to providing your design and engineering team with a seamless connection to our manufacturing capabilities. We are able to provide our customers with an engineering team that is talented, knowledgeable and eager to help. We can turn-key your concept from the prototype stage all the way through to full production. With CGI you can count on us to provide the highest levels of manufacturing excellence and expertise while delivering it with the customer service you deserve. Our goal is to be the most trusted and reliable partner in your supply chain. CGI continues in its commitment to provide the latest technology with innovative new products while consistently investing in state-ofthe-art manufacturing, inspection, and assembly equipment. Our vertically integrated manufacturing facility is broad in its capabilities and features high end machinery aimed at providing excellent quality and rapid turnaround.

CGI, Inc.

3400 Arrowhead Drive Carson City, NV 89706 Tel: 775.882.3422

Toll free: 1.800.568.GEAR (4327)

www.cgimotion.com

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CGI serves a wide array of industries including medical, robotics, aerospace, defense, semiconductor and industrial automation. Their core business is manufacturing precision motion control solutions. CGI’s diverse customer base and wide range of applications have earned them a reputation for quality, reliability, and flexibility.

One of CGI’s distinct competitive advantages is the ability to provide their customers with an engineering team that is knowledgeable and easy to work with. Customers enjoy a winning attitude that takes your ideas and collaborates with your team to develop them into finished products.

CGI is certified to ISO9001, ISO13485 and AS9100 quality management systems. Their unique quality control environment is weaved into the fabric of their manufacturing facility. CGI works daily with customers who demand both precision and rapid turnarounds. CGI is always willing to go above and beyond to meet these needs.

Advanced Products for Robotics and Automation

Chieftek (cpc)

Largest miniature-guides supplier in the world

Chieftek Precision USA of Chieftek Precision Co. Ltd. (cpc) is a manufacturer of complete linearmotion mechatronic solutions, including profile linear guides, linear motors, compact linear stages, servo drivers, XYZ tables, and gantry systems for automation machine tools and robotic industries. With distribution centers in California, cpc provides rapid and first-rate service to American customers — offering German quality with Taiwanese flexibility, prompt delivery, and competitive pricing.

www.chieftek.com

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Chieftek Precision USA of Chieftek Precision Co. Ltd. (cpc) supplies linear guides, direct-drive tables, linear motors, feedback components, and servo drives backed by a team of managers, engineers, and technicians dedicated to the R&D and manufacture of top-quality linear-motion components.

Chieftek MR Series linear guides excel in precision measurement and inspection applications; ARC guides are widely used in machine tools; HRC and ERC guides complete heavily loaded axes; and RR linear guides with roller bearings deliver top performance in general motion designs.

Chieftek P Series ironless linear motors have the highest thrust density and efficiency of their kind. C Series iron-core linear motors deliver high thrust with low cogging. For users familiar with belt and ballscrew-driven systems, Chieftek packages its linear motors into CLS/CLMS compact linear stages that integrate linear motor, guide, and positioning.

Engineers can also source servo drives from Chieftek. The Will1 Series features high power density, easy-to-use autotuning, and advanced features to let machine builders create breakthrough products. The low-voltage Chieftek Will1-D accepts 48-Vdc input to 30 A continuous. It features an ultra-small size and high power density — and is suitable for AGVs, drones, and robot applications; Will1-B drives support all standard encoder formats.

Most recently, Chieftek introduced the UF-30-09 ultra miniature linear-motor stage. With thickness to 9 mm and acceleration to 3.5 g, the stage excels in electronics assembly (SMT), medical pipetting, and other multi-head applications where space is limited.

CIT Relay & Switch

Our dedication makes the difference.

Circuit Interruption Technology, Inc. has expanded our product offering with the acquisition of Picker Components.

CIT Relay & Switch manufactures electromechanical relays and switches, while Picker Components manufactures electromechanical and solid-state relays. Wherever opportunities arise, CIT works to provide customers the best product for the application and the most compelling support experience. Two quality manufacturers rolled into one for continued growth of CIT/Picker through paramount service, selection, quality, and value – we strive to be the best.

CIT Relay & Switch

20550 Commerce Blvd Rogers, MN 55374 www.citrelay.com

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Electro-Mechanical Relays

CIT Relay & Switch offers electromechanical automotive and UL approved relays, including latching relays, for use in applications ranging from golf carts, cars and trucks to automated machine tools and production lines to any application requiring quick, reliable operation.

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The combination of CIT Relay & Switch and Picker has generated value for our customers through a large choice of tailored solutions, a global network of services, and expanded engineering expertise. It has magnified our value with a wide breath of product while at the same time extracting synergies.

CIT places the customer first. We work directly with customers from simple to complicated projects, tailoring custom solutions and designs. Our technical, engineering, and customer support personnel are well-trained and can help with your design selection requirements. With a stateof-the-art test lab, CIT can address custom or standard test requirements under a variety of conditions to validate your application. From small to large projects, we are here to help with all our customers’ testing and design needs.

Solid-State Relays

Picker Components offers solid-state and signal relays with superior performance. Offering similar function as the CIT Relay & Switch electro-mechanical relays, our solid-state relays do not have any moving components, thus exponentially increasing the long-term reliability.

Electro-Mechanical Switches

CIT Relay & Switch has the right switch no matter your switching needs. From tactile, toggle, and rocker switches up to IP67 antivandal switches and everything in between, our product line is among the largest in the industry.

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Clippard

Clippard Precision Fluid Control Products & Solutions

Clippard provides thousands of standard and special precision flow control products to design engineers and manufacturers around the world. Clippard’s expertise is not limited to providing over 5,000 standard products, but also offers a unique advantage by providing custom products and value added assemblies for hundreds of applications.

Products include:

• Electronic Pressure Controls

• Electronic valves, standard and proportional isolation

• PTFE and PEEK Isolation valves and pneumatic or electronic pinch valves

• Precision flow controls

• 7, 8, 10 and 15 mm electronic valves

• Fittings and

• Value-added custom assemblies

• Special components and systems designed for customer’s OEM applications

For over 75 years Clippard has been manufacturing and providing products and solutions to design engineers and manufacturers in a wide variety of industries including drug dispensing, laboratory equipment, medical devices, material handling, analytical, chemical analysis, sampling, life science/biotech, genetic research, gas chromatography, spectrometry, DNA synthesizing, blood analyzing, printing, diagnostic equipment, fermentation, packaging, water treatment and more.

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Miniature Pneumatic Products & Solutions

Web

Visit www.clippard.com to find complete product information, engineering drawings, technical specifications, full color photos, CAD files, order information, literature downloads, helpful calculators, technical assistance, distributor information and more.

Quality

Quality remains a primary feature of every product Clippard produces. This is achieved through the excellence in manufacturing practices and craftsmanship that has continued throughout the years. The high standards set by Leonard Clippard, in company relationships with customers, distributors, suppliers and employees continue to be upheld. The company motto, “Quality People, Quality Products”, emphasizes the important role every employee plays in maintaining the company’s reputation.

Catalog

Clippard offers a full-line catalog which contains over 5,000 standard products. Call today for a free copy.

Applications

Today, Clippard pneumatic control devices are used virtually everywhere for control, interface, sensing, logic and actuation functions. For medical, analytical, laboratory, diagnostic and other related applications, Clippard manufacturers precision components including oxygen clean, analytical and proportional valves, PTFE and PEEK isolation and pinch valves, precision regulators, manifolds and more. Custom products and assemblies for specific applications are also welcomed.

Distributors

Clippard products are sold through a worldwide distributor network that offers products plus design engineering expertise.

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CMT

Custom Machine & Tool Co., Inc. (CMT) has been a US manufacturer of timing pulleys, drive systems and components for the power transmission and motion control markets since 1964.

CMT’s product offering includes: standard and made-to-order precision timing pulleys in all metric and inch tooth profiles; timing pulley bar stock, backed by our 72-hour shipping guarantee; and a full complement of matching timing belts and flanges.

CMT developed and patented a keyless hub-to-shaft connection system, allowing for precise component positioning and tight runout control on demanding applications. The new system, the Concentric Maxi Torque, offers superior features and benefits compared to other connection methods such as keyways, set screws, pins, clamp collars and other locking devices.

Custom Machine & Tool Co., Inc.

301 Winter Street Hanover, MA 02339

Phone: 781-924-1003 or 800-355-5949

Fax: 781-924-5154 or 800-355-4490

e-mail: info@cmtco.com www.cmtco.com

Perfection in Motion

Concentric Maxi Torque

Innovative. Designed and developed specifically to suit the hub-to-shaft connection needs of small shafts and drive components in the power transmission and motion control markets. This patented keyless hub-to-shaft connection system enables customers to easily phase, install, adjust and remove drive componenets, all while offering precise component positioning.

Concentric. With radial runout less than .001/.26mm as assembled, the Concentric Maxi Torque system enables customers to attain higher drive speeds, reducing unwanted vibration and maintain concentricity, offering a superior connection solution.

Reliable. The mechanical shrink fit accomplished by the Concentric Maxi Torque system provides torque capacity which far exceeds that of two set screws arranged perpendicular to the shaft, offering the most reliable connection in the industry.

Economical. The compact design eliminates the need for the extended hubs used to accommodate set screws, allowing motion system engineers to design drives which are lighter and use less space. The shaft damage and added expense of shaft modification often associated with the use of set screws or pins is eliminated.

Versatile. Manufacturerd for synchronous belt drives in standard inch and metric pitches, for shaft sizes ranging from .118 in. (3mm) to 1.1875 in. (30mm). Other drive systems, including gears, sprockets, etc. using the Concentric Maxi Torque will be quoted upon request.

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Coilcraft

Headquartered outside of Chicago in Cary, Illinois, Coilcraft is a leading global supplier of magnetic components including high performance RF chip inductors, power magnetics and EMI filters. In addition to a large selection of standard components, we also design and manufacture custom magnetics to meet your exact electrical requirements.

Engineers and buyers consider Coilcraft a preferred supplier because of our reputation for quality, reliable delivery, engineering support and the superior performance of our products. In independent surveys, engineers consistently rank Coilcraft the number one magnetics company they would recommend to a friend.

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Product Line

• Wirewound chip inductors as small as 01005 sizethe smallest in the world!

• Low profile, high current SMD power inductors

• EMI/RFI filters

• Wideband RF transformers

• Planar transformers and inductors

• RFID transponder coils

• Power over Ethernet transformers

• High reliability magnetics and testing services via Coilcraft Critical Products & Services

Engineering Support

• The most comprehensive website in the magnetics industry

• MAGProTM Design Tools: the world’s leading engineering aids for inductor analysis and selection

• Liberal free sample policy with same day shipping

• Designer’s Kits containing samples of all component values in a product family

• S-parameters and SPICE models for most surface mount product families

Student Support

• Free product samples for student design projects and complete RF and Power Magnetics Kits for ECE instructional labs

• Lab posters and selection guides

• Broad range of technical resources and easy-to-use design tools @ www.coilcraft.com/students

Coilcraft is a preferred supplier of RF chip inductors, power magnetics and filters

Powerful online design tools make product selection and analysis easy

Coilcraft supports students and educators with free product samples, lab kits and technical resources

Leadership in Engineering

Components Corporation

Components Corporation is the global leader in the design, manufacture and engineering of innovative precision printed circuit test points, wireform interconnect and testing solutions, printed circuit card edge connectors, preform jumpers and hardware, and battery contacts.

We remain committed to solving the industry’s most demanding wireform interconnect and testing challenges with highquality and innovative products for the broadest range of mission-critical applications. Our industrial, military and commercial customer base has come to rely on Components Corporation to ensure the excellence and economy of products regardless of the quantity required. Our products are marketed through a worldwide network of sales representatives and distributors.

866-426-6726 www. componentscorp.com

Components Corporation: Redefining Innovation in Interconnect Solutions

At Components Corporation we design, manufacture and engineer a standard line of innovative PCB test points, card edge connectors, preform jumpers, and battery contacts.

But if a standard product doesn’t suit your design requirements, take advantage of our innovative custom wireform services for the right solution to your most challenging interconnect applications.

Our advanced skills in the custom wireform manufacturing of precision alloy materials to strict specifications has resulted in a variety of specialized wireform products for the electronics packaging industry worldwide.

Given basic requirements or dimensions, Components Corporation will deliver an economical, perfectly-functioning part that’s compatible with the parameters of our machinery. A unique feature of both our custom wireform and standard products is their ability to function in a broad range of conditions. Our products are ROHS and REACH compliant.

Our In-house capabilities allow us to custom manufacture wireform interconnect products such as connector contacts, spring contacts, test points, terminals, jumpers, retaining clips, ground clips and shielding contacts for any board application. With roots as an R & D company we’ve earned our “no failure” reputation by solving a range of stringent design challenges.

Components Corporation is committed to supplying the products that suit your requirements, and we provide product samples upon request. A strong team concept and the ability to anticipate the changing needs of our customers with innovative solutions has positioned Components Corporation as a leader in custom wireform manufacturing. Contact us for more information!

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COMSOL, Inc.

COMSOL is a global provider of simulation software for product design and research to technical enterprises, research labs, and universities. Its COMSOL Multiphysics® product is an integrated software environment for creating physics-based models and simulation applications. A particular strength is its ability to account for coupled or multiphysics phenomena. Add-on products expand the simulation platform for electromagnetics, structural, acoustics, fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical applications. Interfacing tools enable the integration of COMSOL Multiphysics® simulations with all major technical computing and CAD tools on the CAE market. Simulation experts rely on COMSOL Compiler™ and COMSOL Server™ to deploy applications to their design teams, manufacturing departments, test laboratories, and customers throughout the world.

COMSOL, Inc.

100 District Avenue Burlington, MA 01803 USA

Phone: +1-781-273-3322

Fax: +1-781-273-6603

E-mail: info@comsol.com

www.comsol.com

Multiphysics simulation brings new opportunities to product design. Companies are using the COMSOL Multiphysics software to drive innovation and expand their use of simulation in many technologies, such as vehicle electrification, renewable energy, medtech, electronics, power grids, and process engineering. COMSOL Multiphysics® provides a platform that integrates multiphysics modeling capabilities with application design and simulation data management.

The Application Builder allows for the creation of specialized applications (apps) built on top of multiphysics models. Apps simplify the running of simulations, while expanding upon the information provided by the underlying models. They are designed in ways that focus simulations toward specific engineering uses. Apps can be distributed to anyone the app designer chooses as compiled executable files, using COMSOL Compiler™, or through an app management tool called COMSOL Server™.

The Model Manager further enhances collaboration across teams by allowing version-controlled work to be performed by multiple engineers on individual models or apps, stored efficiently on a local or remote database.

www.comsol.com

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An electric motor simulated using COMSOL Multiphysics®. Design engineers can optimize and predict the performance of motor designs prior to building prototypes.

Simulation of the wind load on a sports car’s side door and mirror using the fluid–structure interaction capabilities of COMSOL Multiphysics®

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Control Techniques

WE MAKE MOTION EASY

Control Techniques, a Nidec brand, is a challenger with a big name in the drives industry. Our AC, DC, and Servo drives are the hidden heroes behind machines created by innovative engineers. Applications from 1/8 HP to 4,000+ HP are supported.

We pride ourselves on designing easy-to-use products to drive complex motor control applications, supporting you through our network of Drive Centers, Distributors, and Integrator Partners around the world. We are drive obsessed, and our ambition pushes us to be the go-to expert for motor controls. 5 Million+ installed units, 1,000+ OEM customers, and 1,400+ employees.

Control Techniques

12095 NW 39th Street

Coral Springs, FL 33065

United States

www.controltechniques.us

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Control Techniques is the global drives specialist with a long entrepreneurial history. Control Techniques and Nidec have opened a state of the art manufacturing facility in Monterrey, Mexico. This supports our strategic objective for growth, with the ability to manufacture our products in regional locations across the globe.

The 129,000 square foot facility houses Control Techniques and KB Electronics drive manufacturing with plenty of space to grow our North American capacity into the future.

When your focus is pumping applications, we have the right product for you and the team to back you up. Our range of VFD Pump Control Solutions includes Commander C200, Pump Drive F600 (IP20 and IP65 models), wall mount & free-standing packages.

Revolutionize the way you interface with your AC drive with the award-winning Commander S Micro AC Drive and the Marshal NFC App. Commander S provides a cost-effective solution for installations that require plug & play convenience out of the box.

Embedded Intelligence – Precision motor control combined & embedded intelligence provide cost effective, compact drive-based motion & machine control.

Technology you can rely on – Robust design and the highest build quality ensure the enduring reliability.

Open Design Architecture – Based on an open design architecture, our drives easily integrate with all primary communication protocols in any system.

Global Reach, Local Support – Highly experienced, locally based application engineers support our drive technology.

Outstanding Performance – 50 years of drive development has resulted in a suite of best-in-class motor controls.

Leadership in Engineering

Cornell Dubilier

Delivering the Right Solutions Energizing Ideas

You can count on us to provide the most optimal solution and insight for your engineering design. You will also find we specialize in critical applications. From fighter jets to radar systems, welders to wind turbines, we deliver the highest quality capacitors with easy access to our knowledgeable and helpful tech support team.

As the largest power capacitor company in North America, we offer one of the world’s largest selection of aluminum electrolytic capacitors, mica capacitors, AC film capacitors, and DC film capacitors. We’re also the only U.S. manufacturer of high-quality mica caps.

Cornell Dubilier

140 Technology Place Liberty, South Carolina 29657

www.cde.com

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Pioneers in Innovation

Driven by American ingenuity, we are advancing capacitor technology for new applications and fueling recent innovations. The expansion of our line of Flatpack aluminum electrolytic capacitors now includes a high vibration package designed to handle up to 80g’s.

Leadership in Engineering

CS Hyde Company

CS Hyde Company supplies high performance materials used in most major industries. We are a custom converter of: Pressure Sensitive Adhesive Tapes, Films, Fabrics, Silicone, Rubber, Belting and Threads. Our unique capabilities include: Laminating Adhesives, Die Cutting Parts, Slitting, Sheeting, and Print & Bar-Code Packaging. We stock a variety of different products including: Teflon® Fluoropolymer, Kapton®, UHMW, PEEK™, Mylar® , FEP & PFA, Ultem®, Kevlar®, Silicone products, and many more.

We are the perfect source for both the small and large customer. We offer little to no minimums and competitive prices. We also can provide samples to help identify the right material for your application. Technical assistance and data sheets also available!

CS Hyde Company

39655 N IL Route 83

Lake Villa, IL 60046 USA

Phone: 1 (800) 461-4161

Email: sales@cshyde.com

Contact: Arik Barrera

Phone: 1 (800) 461-4161 ext. 0513

www.cshyde.com

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CS Hyde Company is always changing and adapting to suit you, the customer.

We take the initiative to work on your project along with you, offering suggestions and our product knowledge wherever it may be useful. We enjoy learning new things and our team is always looking for a new challenge. We believe it is a necessity to take the time to give you our support.

With the benefit of an automated control system, our precision slitting machine can cut rolls of material to standard and custom sizes. We support 1-1/2”, 3, and 6 inch cores, and can cut material as large as 60 inches WIDE while maintaining tight tolerances throughout.

We also have the capability to die-cut pieces of material using a variety of different methods. Whatever your company needs, we have something to suit your specific application. CS Hyde Company is proud to offer the capability to cut custom shapes to a very tight tolerance. If you only need a few pieces of a complex shape, ask about our rapid prototyping capabilities, which allow for small runs, with no tooling charges, and ultra-fast turnaround times.

In addition, we can cold laminate an adhesive of your choice to a variety of materials, and utilize the superior product line that 3M has to offer to ensure the best performance out of your CS Hyde order.

Whether it’s Teflon Tape, Silicone Foam, Kevlar thread, or Mylar film, we have what your company needs to keep running smoothly. Call one of our representatives today to help find the product your specific application requires.

We are open from 8am to 5pm on week days, call us today for a quote or email sales@cshyde.com. You can also order on-line at our website, www.cshyde.com.

Del-Tron Precision, Inc.

Del-Tron Precision, Inc. was founded in order to serve the needs of automated equipment manufacturers for innovative, high quality and reasonably priced anti-friction linear bearings.

After 38 years, we remain firmly focused on that original premise. Although we currently offer one of the broadest product ranges in the industry, we still concentrate on our greatest strength, which is to offer components which provide a reliable mechanical interface for modern industrial equipment.

Hundreds of thousands of Del-Tron slides, positioning stages, ball and lead screw actuators and other linear motion devices have been incorporated into medical diagnostic and other equipment, semiconductor processing equipment, assembly systems, scientific instruments and many other products.

Del-Tron Precision, Inc.

5 Trowbridge Dr.

P.O. Box 505

Bethel, CT 06801

Phone: 1.800.245.5013

www.deltron.com

Leader in Engineering

Del-Tron Precision’s linear motion slides are known throughout the industry for their very low friction and smooth operation. We offer hundreds of different types of linear motion slides, some that are not readily available from any other source. If your application calls for a space-saving design with a smaller footprint for sub-miniature devices requiring precision miniature motion, we offer a wide range of options and you’ll find them at a competitive price.

Best of all, we offer customized solutions to solve even the toughest design challenges. If you want to change the finish, the shape, or have holes placed at different intervals in a linear motion slide, Del-Tron Precision specializes in modifications. We are always eager to collaborate with you to create a linear motion slide that fits your exacting requirements. If you need help with drawings, solid models are available for all of our parts.

If you have engineering questions or concerns let one of our knowledgeable engineers provide you with immediate technical assistance to enable you to find work-arounds so you can design and develop unique out-of-the-box solutions which utilize our customized or standard slides. In fact, we expect you’ll experience a level of responsiveness you just won’t see elsewhere. You’ll find we’re nimble and always ready to help in any way we can, offering personalized attention that’s unparalleled in the industry.

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DieQua Corporation is a manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of gearboxes, gearheads, speed reducers, shaft connecting components and screw jack systems. Products are available for general power transmission and precise motion control requirements. We strive to be an extension of our customer’s engineering team by working closely with them to identify goals and help select the optimal solution to meet the performance needs of their machine designs. For over 30 years, DieQua has established and maintained exclusive partnerships with European manufacturers to offer a variety of premium quality mechanical drive technologies to the North American market. These include bevel, helical, planetary, worm and hypoid gearbox designs in both inline and right angle configurations. Cycloidal reducers, shaft couplings, torque limiters and screw jack lifting systems are also part of our program.

As automated processes increase in most industries, many gearbox technologies can cross over from typical power transmission to solve motion control applications. With a vast array of gear products to choose from, along with the experience and expertise to know when, where and how to apply them, DieQua is in a unique position to offer multiple options to machine design engineers and motion system integrators.

So, whether you have one or several gear drive requirements, for standard or customized designs, DieQua Corporation is your one stop shop for gearbox selection, integration assistance and superior customer service.

180 Covington Drive Bloomingdale, IL 60108 630.980.1133

www.diequa.com

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Motion Control

Planetary and Bevel Gearheads

Offered in three precision levels, these gearheads are available in inline and right angle configurations with square or round bodies. Features include low backlash, output shafts or rotary flanges, and sizes from 42mm-220 mm.

Power Transmission

Precision Worm Gearheads

This versatile gearhead offers 3 levels of backlash from 10 to below 1 arc minute. Shaft, hollow bore and robot flange output options are available on sizes with center distances from 35-200 mm.

Worm Speed Reducers

Premium design features, including a unique flexible input interface that accommodates NEMA or IEC motor misalignment while eliminating fretting corrosion, provide superior performance and reliability.

Helical Gearmotors & Reducers

These rugged gearmotors and reducers come in inline helical or right angle helical bevel designs. Input options include integral motors from 1/4 to 60 HP and flanges for NEMA or IEC motors.

High Torque Series Gearheads

These economical right angle helical gearheads are available with capacities up to 14,000 Nm, appropriate for some of the largest servo driven applications. A variety of output shaft options provide connection design versatility.

Spiral Bevel Gearboxes

These low backlash bevel boxes come in 8 sizes with a wide range of ratios and shaft configurations, including hollow bores. In addition to a variety of options, design modifications and complete special designs are offered.

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Digi-Key – Global Electronics Distribution Leader

Global electronics distributor

Digi-Key Electronics offers more than 13.4 million electronic components and automation products from over 2,300 quality name-brand manufacturers. The company’s reputation extends worldwide as the provider of the widest selection of electronic components in the industry, ready for immediate shipment. With products available in both design and production quantities, Digi-Key is the best resource for designers and buyers alike.

Beyond the products that drive technology innovation, Digi-Key also supports design engineers and procurement professionals with a wealth of digital solutions and tools to make their jobs more efficient. Learn more at www.digikey.com

Leadership in Engineering

Digi-Key Electronics

701 Brooks Avenue South

Thief River Falls, MN 56701 USA

Web: www.digikey.com

Email: sales@digikey.com

Phone: 800-344-4539

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Broad product availability distinguishes Digi-Key from other electronic component distributors. New products are added every day in a continuous effort to offer the full range of electronic components and automation products required by customers. Digi-Key’s Marketplace gives customers access to even more products and services, benefiting applications such as industrial automation, test and measurement, IoT solutions, and virtually all things related to technology innovation.

Digi-Key opened its brand new 2.2 million square foot Product Distribution Center expansion in Thief River Falls, Minnesota this year, which will enable the company to broaden inventory even further to meet the current and future demands of customers. It will also empower the company to search out new and innovative technologies and products from both existing and new supplier partners.

Digi-Key provides numerous Supply Chain solutions, including eProcurement options, bonded inventory and just-in-time shipping. The website is updated regularly with new features in response to customer feedback and industry needs.

Digi-Key continues to invest in customers, by creating more robust and predictive web search functionality and increased automation in the Digi-Key warehouse. They have also invested in innovations including cut tape printing, providing more products and services within the ecosystem and expanding the Digi-Key Marketplace, providing customers around the world with even more reason to make Digi-Key their first stop in the design process.

Digi-Key provides the best possible service to customers, 24/7/365 by phone, email or chat. From prototype to production, Digi-Key has the resources and products to enable the world’s ideas!

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Dodge Industrial, Inc.

Dodge: The Diamond Standard

Dodge Industrial, Inc.–an RBC Bearings company–is a leading manufacturer of mounted bearings, enclosed gearing, and power transmission components. With a rich history spanning over 140 years, Dodge is a trusted name known worldwide for its ongoing development of innovations and advanced technologies that help manufacturers improve output, decrease downtime, and monitor systems for safety, efficiency, and peak performance. Manufactured in US-based plants, Dodge products are designed to withstand the most rugged environments and meet the most stringent specifications across a broad range of industries.

Dodge Products:

• Mounted bearings

• Enclosed gearing

• Conveyor components

• Belted drives

• Couplings

• Bushings, hubs, and collars

Dodge Industrial, Inc.

1061 Holland Road Simpsonville, SC 29681

+1 864 297 4800

www.dodgeindustrial.com

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At Dodge, our engineering experience and an expansive portfolio of products are designed to meet the unique needs of the many industries and markets we serve across the globe including OEMs, packaging, food and beverage, grain, and mining and aggregates. Our expertise starts in R&D where we create cutting-edge equipment and technology and extends to the field where our engineering experts address challenges and continuously improve efficiencies for our customers.

With each innovation, we strive to improve efficiency, effectiveness, safety, or a combination of these key attributes. One of our newest product introductions addresses a major safety issue for manufacturers by providing a shaft guard for Torque-Arm reducers that protects employees from injuries. Another example of an innovation is one that addresses efficiency and effectiveness of food processing. Our enclosed Food Safe bearings–the first IP69-rated–feature a patented lubrication protection system and superior coating

to improve cleanability and maximize life in applications requiring high pressure and corrosive washdowns, saving money with less downtime and replacement bearings.

We’re committed to providing products that are safe and reliable, and we do this by using the highest-quality components combined with innovative designs and a diverse offering of features and configurations to meet wide-ranging needs and specifications. With many patented technologies and systems, Dodge products deliver industryleading performance and save time and money through extended product life, maximum uptime, and lower maintenance requirements.

2023 Dorner

Transforming Conveyor Automation

At Dorner, our mission is to Transform Conveyor Automation by providing cutting edge solutions with best-in-class support. It’s that commitment and history of proven excellence that has made the Dorner Brand a recognized leader in product handling for over 55 years.

With our complete line of customizable stainless steel and aluminum conveyor automation systems, Dorner can provide solutions for almost any conveyor need.

To keep up to date with what is happening at Dorner, visit our website at: www.dornerconveyors.com

DORNER

975 Cottonwood Ave

P.O. Box 20 Hartland, WI 53029 USA

INSIDE THE USA

TEL: 800.397.8664

OUTSIDE THE USA

TEL: 262.367.7600

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Dorner’s conveyors are designed to move product to the exact location, at the exact time and in the exact position it needs to be for the next phase of the production line. With benefits such as industry best product transfers and in-house belting capabilities, Dorner is leading the market in precision conveyance. This extremely accurate product control allows Dorner conveyors to easily integrate with robots, workers and equipment.

Using Dorner’s Online Configurator, you can design and engineer simple or complex conveyors to meet your needs in minutes. The industry leading tool delivers a complete 3D CAD assembly model for instant validation of fit.

Engineered Solutions

Dorner’s Engineered Solutions Group is transforming product handling with innovative solutions designed to solve customers’ unique needs. We can provide systems for applications such as accumulation, indexing, positioning, product flow and much more.

With a custom-designed conveyor system in place, products are built faster, services are delivered quicker, and profits are increased with the help of highly specialized engineering technology.

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Dynatect Manufacturing, Inc.

Dynatect manufactures dynamic protection to safeguard equipment and people with purpose-built products for 25 major industries across 6,500 global customers.

Our mission critical products include bellows, way covers, cable carriers, roll-up doors, ball screws, slip clutches, molded urethane, and molded rubber.

Based in Wisconsin, Dynatect has 9 facilities throughout United States, Mexico, China and Germany.

Our team of 50+ engineers have developed 370K+ unique designs of protective solutions for cutting edge applications. Dynatect makes our customers successful by drawing on our deep and broad experience to provide reliable solutions.

Dynatect Manufacturing, Inc.

2300 S. Calhoun Rd.

New Berlin, WI 53151 USA

Phone: +1 (800) 298-2066

Email: sales@dynatect.com

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Over 75 Years of Product Innovation and Customization

Dynatect invests in new product development, with 12 new products introduced since 2017, such as patented long travel cable carriers and automated, roll-up machine safety doors. Dynatect partners with customers to tailor solutions, whether you need just one piece or thousands. As Dynatect prepares for the next 75 years, we continue to focus on bringing reliable engineered solutions to complex and specialty applications. We look forward to an opportunity to work with you along the way.

Mechanical Motion Control and Equipment Protection

• Precision ground ball screws are manufactured based on your needs, not a catalog. With full design flexibility to optimize life, load, and speed, Dynatect specializes in long screw lengths, diameters from 16mm to 150mm, and lead accuracy of +/- 0.0005”/ft. cumulative.

• Mechanical & pneumatic slip clutches provide torque or tension control, indexing, and mechanical overload protection with capacities from 0.5 to 1000 lb-in.

• Bellows & way covers protect precision motion components such as ball screws and linear actuators.

• Cable carriers guide and protect cables and hoses while the equipment in motion, preventing entanglement, and improving operator safety.

• Automated roll-up doors for machine safety & laser protection, separating hazardous processes from operators with a physical barrier and safety sensors.

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Eagle Stainless Tube & Fabrication, Inc.

Delivering stainless steel, high nickel alloy components to customers in the medical, aerospace and industrial industries. Stainless steel is a commonly used material in applications ranging from medical instruments, chemical storage, transportation of liquid and gasses and other industrial applications.

Just as not all stainless steel grades are created equal, neither are stainless steel tubing suppliers. As an experienced stainless steel tubing supplier, Eagle can provide guidance about both standard and custom options. Since 1982 Eagle has been offering custom and off the shelf sizes and grades and a variety of custom fabrications capabilities. ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 quality management certifications in place since 1998.

Phone: 800-528-8650

Fax: 800-520-1954

www.eagletube.com

There are nearly 60 grades of stainless steel, type 304 accounts for nearly 50% of all stainless steel used followed by type 316.

• Distribution. Eagle ships products from inventory, including tubing, bar stock, hollow bar, wire. Stocking both seamless and welded tubing.

• Precision Cut-to-length. Cutting and deburring hypodermic, fractional, metric tubing, and pipe.

• Custom-fabricated components. Working to customer specifications and specializing in Bending, CNC and EDM/ ECG machining and Laser machining.

Cut-to-length tubing – Eagle’s facilities enable cutting and deburring 1 ½ “ diameter tubing in quantities from a single piece to millions of pieces. Burr free production. Removing burrs creates a smoother, more functional durable metal part.

Bending– Stainless steel can be bent in multiple directions and angles without excessive distortion, wrinkling or fracturing. Things to keep in mind when bending are the bend radius, yield strength, material thickness and if it is welded or seamless.

End forming – Ensuring repeatability for proper mating of flare and end-reduced tubes. Closed-end tubes are spun closed and welded shut in various end configurations including round, flat or pointe. Advantages to end forming tubes is an enhanced tube strength, connectivity improvements and increased sealing capabilities.

ISO 9001 • ISO 13485

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CNC Machining– can result in improved accuracy, increased production speeds, enhanced safety, increased efficiency, and cost savings

Thoughts of tubing may offer circular images. Tubing comes in many shapes, sizes and thicknesses. Round, oval, rectangular or square, stainless steel tubing is versatile and popular. Formed components are ideal for uses in surgical devices, heat exchangers, instrumentation and handling equipment.

ElectroCraft, Inc.

The ElectroCraft RapidPower Enhanced series (RPE series) is an innovative, new brushless DC (BLDC) motor design that combines performance, flexibility and affordability, offering original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) the perfect platform for a wide range of motion applications.

This level of configurability for BLDCs enables the RPE series to be quickly acquired and adapted into an application, shortening the design cycle for a faster time-tomarket.

ElectroCraft Inc

2 Marin Way #3

Stratham, NH 03885

https://www.electrocraft.com/

Cutting Edge Performance

ElectroCraft’s BLDCs integrate rare Earth magnets and an eight-pole encapsulated core design to provide:

• High torque density (continuous torque ratings: 0.1 Nm to 2.5 Nm)

• Peak torques up to 300% of continuous ratings for short-time operation

• Wide speed ranges (continuous rated speeds of 6,000+ RPM)

• Low cogging torque provides ultra-smooth motion

• Excellent thermal characteristics

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Size, efficiency, cost and performance are four factors that guide the selection of a motor. Combining wide speed ranges and high torque density in the RPE series allows users to find a motor that meets the speed/ torque requirements of their application while enabling a small form-factor solution.

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Encoder Products Company

Your responsive experts in motion control

At Encoder Products Company, we strive to serve you with expert service, quality products, and fast delivery. EPC specializes in encoders for motion feedback in industrial automation applications such as:

• Packaging, printing, & labeling

• Vision systems

• Material handling

• Motor feedback

• Autonomous vehicles & robots

• and more

We offer an industry-leading warranty on our products. And because we manufacture our Accu-Coder, AccuCoderPro, and Tru-Trac encoders in Idaho, USA, you’ll get your encoders fast.

Encoder Products Company

464276 Highway 95 South Sagle, Idaho 83860

PH: 1-800-366-5412

www.encoder.com

EPC has been a leading designer and manufacturer of motion sensing devices since 1969. We understand that each industrial automation application is different, and you need encoders that fit the requirements of your applications. That’s why our encoders are highly configurable, offering a wide array of shaft or bore sizes, output types, connector types, mounting options, and resolutions up to 65,536 CPR.

EPC offers:

• Tru-Trac linear measurement solutions – an integrated encoder, measuring wheel, and pivot arm in one compact unit

• Draw wire units with wire lengths up to 42.5 meters

• Programmable encoders

• Magnetic multi-turn absolute encoders that operate in the absence of power without gear trains or batteries

• Incremental rotary encoders in a range of shaft, thru-bore, and blind hollow bore packages

• Robust mechanical housings for harsh operating environments, with stainless steel and corrosionresistant options

• Magnetic encoder modules with sealing to IP69K

• Temperature ranges from -40° C to 120° C

• Competitor cross referencing and drop-in ready Direct Replacement encoders

• Engineering services for your custom motion feedback needs

EPC is ISO 9001:2015 certified, and we design, manufacture, and assemble most of our encoders and accessories at our corporate headquarters in Idaho, USA. When you call EPC, you’ll talk to engineers and encoder experts who can help you find the right motion feedback for your application. Contact us today.

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EXAIR

EXAIR manufactures Intelligent Compressed Air® products that provide innovative ways to blowoff, dry, cool, vacuum, convey, lift, and eliminate static electricity. Since 1983, EXAIR products have been engineered to improve the overall efficiency of a wide range of industrial processes. Their staff of qualified application engineers is familiar with a wide variety of manufacturing processes and offer help to individuals trying to find the best solution to their problems. With the world’s largest selection of engineered, intelligent compressed air products we offer the widest variety of material and sizes to match your requirements. Download 3D models, CAD drawings and installation manuals from our website’s knowledge base.

EXAIR

11510 Goldcoast Dr. Cincinnati, OH 45249-1621

Phone: (800) 903-9247

Fax: (513) 671-3363

E-mail: techelp@exair.com

https://exair.co/58_dwleader

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Super Air Knife Replaces Noisy Blowers

EXAIR’s Super Air Knife™ delivers a uniform, high volume, high velocity sheet of air for blowoff, cooling and drying applications. Energy use is 1/3 that of typical blowoffs, comparable to a blower without the costly downtime and maintenance. Noise is 69 dBA at high pressure of 80 PSIG. Air knives are CE compliant and available in one piece construction up to 108” (2743mm).

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Gen4 Static Control Products

EXAIR offers a wide range of static eliminators. Our newest static eliminators include the Intellistat® Ion Air Gun and the Intellistat® Ion Air Nozzle. They are rated Class 5 for clean rooms and controlled environments per ISO 146441. Our complete line of static eliminators includes Gen4® Super Ion Air Knives, Ion Air Guns, Super Ion Air Wipes, Ion Air Cannons and Ionizing Bars. This product line is available from stock and includes products requiring compressed air or not requiring air. When static is a problem, EXAIR has the solution.

Highly Efficient Air Nozzles

EXAIR’s engineered air nozzles are the most efficient air nozzles available and can help optimize compressed air efficiency, especially when replacing homemade or commercial air nozzles. Return on investment for EXAIR’s engineered air nozzles is generally weeks, not months or years. An enormous range of nozzles are available from a tiny M4 x 0.5 thread to a large 1-1/4 NPT which produce a gentle puff or a massive blast of air.

EXAIR products are made in Cincinnati, OH and can be modified (special lengths, materials and sizes) to suit specific application requirements.

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FABCO-AIR, Inc.

A Leader in Pneumatic Technology for Over 60 Years

Who is Fabco-Air? For over 60 years, we’ve provided best-in-class pneumatic products, solutions and support for many industries, from automotive to semiconductor manufacturing. In addition to our Original Pancake® cylinder, we design and deliver linear slides, actuators, air preparation units and valves — all with short lead times on both custom and off-the-shelf units.

Why Fabco-Air is a Leader in Engineering. In a market full of pneumatic actuator suppliers, we differentiate our products through our people. Our organization of more than 120 employees — from the shop floor to the front office — strives to meet our customers’ needs. Whether we’re identifying an interchange product to remedy a downtime situation, guiding you to the right pneumatic component, or designing a custom solution to fit your unique needs, the Fabco-Air team is well-equipped to help you overcome any challenge. In addition to having the proven, high-quality pneumatic products you need, the people behind our products — with an average tenure of over 24 years — will keep you coming back.

FABCO-AIR, Inc.

3716 N.E. 49th Avenue Gainesville, FL 32609 Tel: 352.373.3578 Fax: 352.375.8024 service@fabco-air.com www.fabco-air.com

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At Fabco-Air, we help our customers build the best possible machines. We produce compact pneumatic components that deliver high forces, as well as high-quality grippers, valves, sensors, slides and actuators. We service a wide range of markets, including food and beverage, packaging, electronics, semiconductor manufacturing, warehouse and logistics, medical, automotive and printing.

Custom solutions. Over 50 percent of the components we manufacture are special items designed to solve unique application problems. Many tailor-made products are variants of our standard models, ensuring we can deliver them quickly.

Made in the U.S. Our production facility in Gainesville, Florida lets us quickly respond to and meet ever-changing market needs, while our wide range of domestic stocking distributors and over 10 international distributors keep lead times short.

Online tools. Our online configuration and CAD tools lets users select products to configure from the ground up, option by option. Our experts are also always available to provide support, and we excel at creating custom specials for hard-to-satisfy requirements.

Interchangeable. We manufacture interchangeable components that meet NFPA and ISO standards, making the replacement and upgrade processes fast and easy.

Comprehensive product range. Featured products include:

• Pancake® II Direct Interchange Air Cylinders, featuring durability, long life and short strokes for space-limited applications.

• NFPA and OEM-NFPA FCQN Interchangeable Cylinders, which can replace other manufacturers’ NFPA units for greater design freedom.

• F-Series Direct Interchange Actuators for light duty, space-constrained applications.

• Multi-Power® Cylinders, which deliver forces comparable to low-pressure hydraulics.

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FAULHABER MICROMO

As the exclusive provider of FAULHABER products for North America, FAULHABER MICROMO creates value through advanced design and engineering services.

We’re proud to offer the broadest range of high precision, high performance products for micro motion applications in the medical market.

FAULHABER brings together the highest quality motion technologies and valueadded services in North America plus global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing to deliver the best micro motion solutions. FAULHABER partners with customers to deliver quality, innovative solutions faster and better every time. Contact our team today.

FAULHABER MICROMO is your full service, value added outsourcing partner:

• ISO 9001 and 13485 certification

• Custom design and complete clean room subassembly

• Express prototyping

• Machining center

• State-of-the-art testing laboratory

• Energy-efficient solutions and enhanced product life

FAULHABER’s benchmark contributions with motion solutions are a part of many leading products and applications in markets such as Medical Devices, Robotics and Automation, Optics and Photonics, Aerospace, Defense and Instrumentation.

FAULHABER MICROMO

14881 Evergreen Ave. Clearwater, FL 33762 (800) 807-9166

www.faulhaber.com

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A SOLUTION FOR EVERY MOTION APPLICATION

EXCELLENCE IN MICRO MOTION SOLUTIONS

Since 1961, FAULHABER MICROMO is the trusted partner of OEMs for micro motion solutions and subassemblies. As the industry leader with micro motors, encoder technology as well as design customization, we bring together valueadded services and cutting-edge technologies from around the world through high efficiency, high performance rotary and linear offerings, such as brushed, brushless, stepper, thin-profile DC, piezoelectric and linear motors.

YOUR SOLUTION, OPTIMIZED

FAULHABER MICROMO creates value through advanced design and engineering services:

• Precision Actuation Systems

• Design and Integration Components

• Drive and Control Integration

• Performance and Cost Optimization

QUALITY LEADERSHIP

FAULHABER MICROMO is ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 certified as well as RoHS compliant. With the FAULHABER Group’s ISO 14001 certification, FAULHABER MICROMO provides the highest quality standards for the design, development and manufacturing of fractional horsepower drive systems for diverse markets.

TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP

Decades ago, Dr. Faulhaber patented the first self-supporting, ironless, skew-wound rotor coil, and the FAULHABER Group motor technologies grew from this revolutionary patented system. The system centers on winding hollow, low-inertia moving coils for maximum power and efficiency in the smallest physical spaces. By remaining close to the company’s engineering roots, FAULHABER MICROMO is the premier provider of micro motion control systems.

FAULHABER’s product line includes fractional horsepower

DC coreless motors, brushless DC motors, stepper motors, piezo motors, linear servo motors, gearboxes, encoders, fail-safe brakes, speed and motion controllers, micromechanical systems, and custom subassemblies that incorporate these products for integration into OEM devices.

IT’S ALL HERE IN NORTH AMERICA

From concept to delivery, FAULHABER MICROMO (Clearwater, FL) provides it all. With on-site machining and assembly facilities, a versatile standard product line, an Advanced Engineering Group, and over 5,000 special executions, customization is our strength. FAULHABER MICROMO’s operations include a state-of-theart CNC machining center, a 12,000 ft² clean room assembly operation (class 100,000 capable), and a design, R & D and engineering testing center. All application work is carried out by in-house engineering staff. FAULHABER MICROMO’s engineering team partners with customers for the design, specification and after sales support of industry leading motion control products. “Advanced online tools, such as the FDST (FAULHABER Drives Selection Tool) used for evaluating and selecting a variety of product configurations and performance options, combined with our easy online store, OEM engineers can easily and quickly purchase compact motion systems day or night. Plus, with our localized inventory, many products can be delivered in three days or less to meet immediate design and testing requirements.

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FESTO

Festo is a leading global manufacturer of pneumatic and electromechanical systems, components and controls for process control and factory automation solutions, with more than 61 national headquarters serving over 175 countries.

Why Festo is a Leader in Engineering

With 50 years of innovation in the United States and over 95 years globally, Festo has continuously elevated the state of manufacturing with innovations and optimized motion control solutions that deliver higher performing, more profitable automated manufacturing and processing equipment. Our dedication to the advancement of automation extends beyond technology to the education of current and future automation and robotic designers with simulation tools, teaching programs, and on-site services.

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Phone: 800.99.FESTO (800.993.3786)

Fax: 800.96.FESTO (800.963.3786)

E-mail: customer.service.us@festo.com

www.festo.us

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Festo US has become known as an innovative and preferred supplier of pneumatics and electromechanical automation solutions through its 50 years of working with U.S. partners.

A leading organization helping to improve customer productivity, Festo US has made significant investments in its U.S. infrastructure, from people to resources. In 2016, the company opened the Festo Regional Service Center in Mason, Ohio. The service center lowers customer inventory requirements by stocking components and ensuring prompt shipment. The facility houses the Festo Customer Solutions Center for custom solutions.

that meet 80% of all application needs. The core range simplifies ordering, lowers the cost and time of product acquisition, and improves the uptime of systems through global availability of always-in-stock core parts.

With a range of 30,000 products, including Fabco-Air inch-based pneumatic cylinders, Festo supports the most complex automation and production requirements across multiple industries, including medical testing and diagnostics, providing smart automation solutions from a single source. Within this line are Festo’s “core range” of affordable pneumatic and electromechanical products

Digitalization is a core competency of Festo. The online catalog, engineering productivity tools, component-based digitalization capabilities, and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives are all integral to the company’s digital transformation capabilities on behalf of customers.

Festo Didactic Learning Systems, the worldleading provider of equipment and solutions for technical education, creates hands-on technical training systems and digital and blended learning solutions to help train the next generation of workers. Didactic Learning Systems training can be on location or time-andlocation independent.

President, Digital, Robotics, and Enabling Technology Stryker

CEO, Chairman Boston Scientific

CEO Moon Surgical

CEO, Chairman, President Becton Dickinson

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FluiDyne Fluid Power

FluiDyne Fluid Power is located in Fraser, Michigan. We provide highquality, fully-tested and technically supported hydraulic pumps, motors and valves to the fluid power industry. We are known for our outstanding customer service and responsiveness. With our large scale inventory and streamline shop, most of our products ship within one day.

FluiDyne is an ISO 9001:2008 company and has over a 30 year history of supply and service to the sales channels, repair shops and OEM’s using hydraulic components.

For more information:

31915 Groesbeck Hwy

Fraser, MI 48026

Phone:

586.296.7200

800.842.5377

www.fluidynefp.com

Call, email, chat … we’re ready to help!

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Why we are your leader:

Do you have an old obsolete pump that you need to replace? Can’t find it anywhere? FluiDyne’s knowledgeable engineers have the ability to cross over and retro fit old obsolete units to newer more ready available units. All you have to do is give us the model code number and we will take it from there! FluiDyne maintains full “form, fit and function” interchangeability, which allows for a “soft conversion” from existing brands.

Our engineers provide in-depth application and technical support needed on some applications and units. We provide CAD downloads in a wide range of engineering design formats. Our engineering support is available and accessible.

Here at FluiDyne, we understand that our customers need their units with a quick lead time. Did you know that FluiDyne’s low speed, high torque motors are interchangeable with popular manufacturers, like Charlynn, Eaton, White, Ross, Parker, TRW, Prince, Young Power Tech, Dynamic and Danfoss? We can cross reference it with a FluiDyne comparable part.It is the same form, fit and function. You no longer have to wait several weeks to receive your motor with a manufacture. We can ship it to you same day!

Call us today and put our engineers to the test!

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GAM Enterprises, Inc.

GAM, a U.S. company, is your complete source for robotic and servo gear reducers, rack & pinion systems, servo couplings, linear mounting kits, and other precision mechanical drive solutions used in automation technology.

With one of the largest product offerings in the motion control industry as well as the engineering expertise and manufacturing capabilities to develop customized solutions, GAM can help with your application.

U.S. manufacturing, being flexible to meet the needs of customer requests, and great service are what set us apart from the rest.

GAM can.

GAM Enterprises, Inc.

Corporate Headquarters

801 E Business Center Drive

Mount Prospect, IL 60056

Toll Free: 888-GAM-7117

Phone: 847-649-2500

Fax: 847-649-2501

For more information about GAM or any of our products, please visit www.gamweb.com

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Expand your design possibilities with GAM gearboxes

GAM’s product offering is among the broadest in the industry including robotic gearboxes, servo-gearboxes, precision spiral bevel gearboxes, rack and pinion, servo-couplings, linear mounting kits, and other specialized mechanical drive systems.

One of our greatest strengths is our ability to modify standard designs, provide completely customized solutions, and integrate product assemblies to meet your specific requirements. Collaborate with GAM to design the best solution to your application. And, because of our flexible manufacturing, we can cost-effectively produce small batches of customized product in short lead-times.

ROBOTIC GEARBOXES

• GPL zero-backlash planetary maintains lifetime high precision ≤0.1 arcmin

• GCL cycloidal supplied with integral pre-stage

• GSL strain wave with harmonic gearing for high precision in a small gearbox

SERVO GEAR REDUCERS

• Low backlash in-line and right-angle gearboxes

• Wide range of sizes and gear ratios available with quick delivery

PRECISION RACK & PINION

• Helical gearing for quiet operation

• Pair with GAM gearboxes for optimized linear systems

COUPLINGS

• Zero-backlash bellows and elastomer couplings machined to order with same day shipping

• Distance couplings that can span lengths of 20ft

MOTOR MOUNT KITS

• Customized mounting solutions simplify connecting gear reducers or motors to linear actuators

• Include adapter plates, coupling, and hardware with quick delivery

SPECIALS

• Complete custom designs

• Special features

• Integrated assemblies

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Harmonic Drive® is the Global Leader in High Precision Motion Control. Harmonic Drive designs and manufactures a diverse selection of standard and custom engineered servo actuators, gearheads and gear component sets. State of the art manufacturing facilities in the US, Japan and Germany enable us to serve the needs of our customers, providing high quality and reliable support and service around the globe. Sales offices are located throughout the world to serve our customers. Our sales offices are staffed with degreed engineers, working to provide the optimal solution for your Motion Control needs. Harmonic Drive’s mission is to provide motion control solutions that give our customers a competitive advantage.

Simplify. Innovative, Compact Actuators with Integrated Servo Drives.

Beverly,

United States

www.harmonicdrive.net

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Harmonic Drive’s Family of Integrated Actuators incorporate Harmonic Drive® gear reducers and have the servo drive built into the actuator itself, eliminating the need for an external drive which greatly simplifies cabling. These actuators feature CANopen® communication and only require a single four conductor cable. Up to 127 actuators can be controlled on a single bus. A wide range of integrated actuators extend from the tiny RSF-5B (measuring just 20mm square) to the new, powerful SHA -32 (146 mm diameter) which delivers up to 484 Nm of torque. The FHA and the SHA integrated actuators have dual absolute encoders measuring both the motor position as well as the position of the output of the actuator. Configurable I/O is also available for additional functionality controlled through the CAN bus.

With over 60 years of experience, Harmonic Drive continues to develop enabling technologies and products to meet the needs of an evolving motion control market. Our high-precision, zero-backlash Harmonic Drive® actuators and gears have, and continue to, fulfill critical roles in demanding motion control applications.

42 Dunham Ridge

MA 01915

Compact RSF-5, RSA-8 and FHA Mini Actuators with Integrated Servo Drives Harmonic Drive is a registered trademark of Harmonic Drive LLC. CANopen is a registered trademark of CAN in Automation.

Harwin Inc.

Over the course of eight decades, Harwin has supported engineering innovation on the global stage - with customers in the space, avionics, autosport, oil/gas, medical, defense, e-mobility, factory automation and smart agriculture sectors all benefitting from use of its advanced solutions.

Contact Harwin, Inc.

7B Raymond Ave, Unit 11, Salem, NH 03079 USA

www.harwin.com

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Building on its long heritage, the company continues evolving and improving the value proposition for its customers. Harwin has just introduced three newly define categories for its product portfolio. These are:

The HRi category - which incorporates all the high-reliability (Hi-Rel) connectors that the company produces. These deliver elevated levels of performance while still being exceptionally rugged. This means that they can be deployed in the most challenging of working environments. Its multi-award-winning Gecko connectors can be specified in situations where there are acute size and weight limitations, enabling customers SWaP requirements to be met. Datamate connectors can address applications that call for high contact numbers, while the Kona connectors can handle high currents within a compact form factor. The Mix-Tek connector options enable significant space savings to be realized, by combining data transmission and power delivery capabilities.

The BBi category - consisting of Harwin board-to-board connectors targeted at industrial deployment. The durable, small footprint, high contact density Archer Kontrol series is complemented by the Archer .5 and Archer .8 mezzanine connectors which support high-speed operation in space-constrained application settings.

The EZi category - this features the company’s extensive selection of board-level hardware and accessories. As well as easy to implement EMI/ RFI shielding cans, there are a variety of spacers, spring contacts, cable clips, jumper links and coin cell battery holders.

Harwin has dedicated application engineering and technical support staff to assist customers, advising on which products will be best for scenarios, resulting in systems with real differentiation. The company’s US production facility (situated in New Hampshire) produces custom cable assembly solutions, with even very small unit quantities being addressed; and there is complete flexibility in terms of length, configuration, etc. This always assures superior quality. Harwin fulfills the needs of the avionics industry thanks to its main production site (located in Portsmouth, UK) which has full AS9100D accreditation.

The company is constantly investing in the latest capital equipment, with machinery being replaced every five years by state-of-the-art models. The company also focusses resources on developing its own automated assembly systems. To accelerate new product introduction (NPI) activity, Harwin opened a new R&D center in 2019. The company has also established its own academy for training young engineers.

In addition to all this, Harwin can offer a robust supply chain. This is done through strong relationships with a world-class network of franchised distributors including Mouser, TTI, Digi-Key and Newark. Customers can benefit from rapid stock availability across all the company’s product lines.

More information on Harwin and its products can be found at: www.harwin.com

HAWE Hydraulik

Based in Huntersville, North Carolina, HAWE Hydraulik is an ISO 9001:2015 certified international supplier of sophisticated modular hydraulic components and systems. HAWE offer sales and application engineering services for the custom design of modular hydraulic solutions, an extensive local inventory, and after-sales support, including product training, troubleshooting, and on-site service. HAWE develops solutions for mobile hydraulics, industrial hydraulics and the oilfield market place.

Solutions for a World Under Pressure

Twenty-five years ago, North America was introduced to HAWE Hydraulik through its American subsidiary, HAWE Hydraulics. Today, many of America’s most rugged industries rely on 70 plus years of HAWE’s dependable German engineering and experience to help them build equipment with extremely robust hydraulic systems.

HAWE Hydraulik

13020 Jamesburg Road, Suite A Huntersville, NC 28078 Phone: (704) 509-1599

sales@HAWEHydraulics.com hawe.com

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SYSTEC (System Technology) Solutions

Give us your specifications and we’ll give you a perfectly customized hydraulic solution. At HAWE, we are interested in your ideas and needs, as well as understanding the demands placed on your machinery. This enables us to provide you with a completely innovated and fully tested turnkey solution.

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Tough as Steel

Because all HAWE pressurized components are made of steel, they have the highest power density with the smallest footprint when compared with similar products. Hydraulic components made of steel have greater durability in intermediate pressure applications, but are designed to handle pressures up to 10,000 psi. Our components and systems are designed for low leakage and, in some cases, are leak free for a more reliable and efficient use of the energy required to operate the machinery.

Flexible Modular Systems

HAWE’s broad and varied product line is designed with a modular approach, where components can be combined to create any number of systems and solutions. An essential component of our flexibility is in the development of our own state-of-theart electronics. These devices increase the number of applications and expand the system’s capacity as easy as plug-and-play.

At Your Service

HAWE Hydraulik knows the value of the machinery you build. That’s why we add value with our sales and application engineers, who are available to assist you with the custom design of your modular hydraulic solution. Once that is decided, the HAWE service team follows through with quick responses from concept to completion, and beyond.

HEIDENHAIN

Enabling Motion Control Technology from HEIDENHAIN

HEIDENHAIN develops and manufactures linear and angle encoders, rotary encoders, digital readouts, and numerical controls for demanding positioning tasks. HEIDENHAIN products are used primarily in high-precision machine tools as well as in plants for the production and processing of electronic components.

With our extensive experience and know-how in the development and manufacture of measuring devices and numerical controls, we create the groundwork for the automation of tomorrow’s plants and production machines.

HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION

333 East State Parkway

Schaumburg, IL 60173

United States

http://www.heidenhain.us

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Since 1889 we have maintained a continuous drive to provide technically superior products. In combination with reliability, closeness to the customer and a practice-oriented frame of mind form the basis of HEIDENHAIN’s efforts. HEIDENHAIN has always sought a dialog with science and research on the one hand and with users and customers on the other. Our competence in the area of linear and angular metrology is reflected by a large number of customized solutions for users. These include the measuring and test equipment developed and built for many of the world’s standards laboratories and the angular encoders for various telescopes and satellite receiving antennas. The products in the standard HEIDENHAIN product program naturally profit from the knowledge gained in such projects.

The requirement for highest achievable quality refers not only to the final products, but also to all activities in our company. The high HEIDENHAIN quality standard has been confirmed by certification according to ISO 9001.

But quality isn’t everything. HEIDENHAIN also sets standards in environmental protection. Long life cycles and products designed for recycling on the one hand and resource conservation and the sparing use of energy on the other are prerequisites for environmental certification according to ISO 14001. Validation according to EMAS also affirms HEIDENHAIN’s sustained development efforts toward products that are lastingly economical, ecological and socially compatible.

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HELUKABEL USA

Industrial Automation Cable System Solutions

HELUKABEL USA, based near Chicago IL, is a global cable system solutions provider specializing in the production of cables, wires, cable assemblies, robotic dress packs, and drag chains. Our electrical solutions consistently and reliably bring power and transmit data to our customer’s applications in various automation-focused industries including machine building, automotive manufacturing, material handling, food and beverage, wood, pulp, and paper processing, oil and gas, and robotics.

Our extensive product line includes bulk or pre-assembled flexible and continuous-flex control cables, data/ network/bus cables, VFD/servo cables, single conductors, fiber optic, and multi-norm cables with domestic and international electrical approvals.

HELUKABEL USA, Inc.

1201 Wesemann Drive West Dundee, IL 60118

T: (847) 930-5118

sales@helukabel.com

www.helukabel.com

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It may not be noticeable from the outside, but inside millions of high-performance industrial systems around the world, you’ll find cables, wires and accessories from HELUKABEL. This should come as no surprise because throughout our company’s 40-year history, we’ve steadily acquired expertise and in-depth knowledge across many industries and key technologies. But recently we’ve made significant investments in our infrastructure to evolve into more than just a cable manufacturer. Our capabilities now include complete electrical system solutions.

With the acquisition of the companies EKD Systems and Sangel Systemtechnik, which have both been active on the market for many years, the HELUKABEL Group is now offering OEM and customer-specific cable assemblies and drag chains. This is in addition to our existing competencies in designing and manufacturing robotic dress packs, as well as cable storage and cutting systems. Our goal is to provide targeted support for different industries with customized, complete solutions that suit their unique applications.

With a 70,000 sq. ft. warehouse near Chicago, IL and backed by a fully automated logistics center in Germany, we can serve the North American market on a just-in-time basis. Whether customers want just a coil of cable, a package of glands or a pre-loaded, plug-andplay cable sub-assembly, they come to us for our system solution capabilities.

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Hilscher

Hilscher is a global specialist in network connectivity solutions for device makers, OEMs, system integrators, and end-user manufacturers. Founded in 1986 and with locations worldwide, Hilscher’s communications products span single-chip ASICS, embedded modules, PC cards, gateways, proxies, protocol converters, and IIoT solutions.

Hilscher

2525 Cabot Drive, Suite 200

Lisle, IL 60532

Telephone: 630-505-5301

E-mail: tinfo@hilscher.us www.hilscher.com

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At the heart of every product is Hilscher’s own netX network controller ASIC. netX is a game-changer because it allows “best-in-class” network choice for any application. The netX-based solutions support industrial communications protocols, including Fieldbuses (DeviceNet, Modbus, CC-Link, PROFIBUS, and more); Real-Time Ethernets (EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, PROFINET, Modbus TCP, CC-Link IE, POWERLINK, Sercos III and TSN) and IIoT protocols (OPC UA and MQTT), with universal Master and/or Slave connections.

For device makers and OEMs, netX chips and embedded solutions allow any industrial communications protocols to be designed into your products with builtin security, using one chip family and a common set of software tools. This helps “future-proof” your designs while minimizing costs and development time.

The network pain for end-users and system integrators is how to interconnect all the different automation networks found across their manufacturing facilities. Hilscher’s netX- based products for these challenges include gateways, proxies, PC cards, and supporting software stacks that make it easy to connect one network to another for improved dataflow.

Hilscher’s netFIELD portfolio is a platform for simplifying IIoT deployment. It includes sensorEDGE devices and gateways; netFIELD Edge Gateways; netFIELD Cloud, with a Software-as-a-Service Platform and Portal; and netFIELD Applications to configure and connect to automation protocols and commercial clouds.

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HUNGER HYDRAULICS

Hunger Hydraulics is the leader in custom hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic solutions. Since 1945, Hunger has been providing hydraulic solutions to customers worldwide and has proven quality in the most demanding applications. From small to large, we have cylinders to meet your needs.

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Hunger Hydraulics USA, located in NW OHIO since 1981, provides extensive manufacturing and repair of complete hydraulic cylinder solutions. Through the latest technology, conscientious design, precise workmanship and decades of experience, Hunger Hydraulics USA delivers high quality products across North America.

HUNGER HYDRAULICS USA

63 Dixie Highway

P.O. Box 37

Rossford, Ohio 43460 USA

Tel: +1-419-666-4510

Toll Free: +1-800-248-9232

Fax: +1-419-666-9834

info@hunger-hydraulics.com

www.hunger-hydraulics.com

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The Hunger Group, more than 75 years of manufacturing experience in:

• Large, custom hydraulic cylinders (up to 85ft/30m long and 13ft/4m in diameter)

• Seals and bearing elements

• Hydraulic power packs

• Rotary distributors

• Rotary actuators

• Spherical bearings

• Honing stones and tooling

With our experience and expertise, we have produced the world’s largest hydraulic cylinders weighing in at over 260 tons. Manufacturing facilities located in Germany, India and for over 40 years in the USA, and with offices in Brazil, China, France, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland and the UK - Hunger can fulfill your needs across the globe.

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igus® develops industry-leading plastic plain, spherical, and ball bearings, linear bearings and guides, cable carrier systems, and guaranteed continuous-flex cables.

Our engineered polymer blends are comprised of base materials for wear resistance, reinforcing fibers for high forces, and solid lubricants that eliminate the need for external oil and grease. In addition to being dryrunning, our tribologically-optimized polymer blends are maintenance-free, lighter than metal, and resistant to dirt, dust and chemicals.

igus works with all customers to find the best, most cost-effective solution for all applications via online chat, phone, email, or on site. Online tools and lifetime calculation, cable assembly, custom component manufacturing, prototyping, and testing is available.

To contact igus® call 800.521.2747

email sales@igus.com visit www.igus.com

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Plastics For Longer Life®

igus® has been manufacturing engineered plastics for more than 50 years and develops each of the plastic materials and all technology behind its products. A family developed and owned company, igus is committed to using its innovative materials to develop creative solutions and exceed customer expectations while delivering fast, accurate service.

Our business is centered around four main product lines that focus on the idea of “motion plastics:” energy chain systems®, chainflex® continuous-flex cables, iglide® self-lubricating bearings, and drylin® linear bearings and guides. We extensively test our products under realworld conditions inside our 41,000-square-foot test laboratory in Germany. Data from these tests are compiled into online tools and service life calculators to help customers specify the best material and part for their specific application. With over 28,000 products available from stock in our Rhode Island warehouse, we are able to ship up to 97 percent of orders within 24 hours.

Our team of sales engineers is available from 8 AM to 5 PM, coast to coast, with a dedicated team of technical sales experts located across North America for quick onsite assistance or installation and engineering services. We also offer complimentary online CAD files and extensive free product samples.

In addition to providing customers with reliable, high-performance products and superior customer service, igus also believes in the importance of fostering the mechanical design ideas of students. Through our YES (Young Engineers Support) Program, igus donates free products to robotic competitions, schools, and hundreds of thousands of students worldwide.

iglide® injection molded and 3D printed parts are available in over 50 different high-performance materials. Each offers low wear, maintenance-free operation with no external lubrication needed. Other special qualifications, such as high heat resistance, low moisture absorption, and FDA compliance, are also available.

drylin® linear slides are engineered to slide instead of roll, ensuring quieter and smoother operation. They’re lightweight and designed with dry-running components that are corrosionresistant and maintenance-free. drylin® belt-driven and screwdriven actuators are designed with maintenance-free plastic bearing liners, ensuring longlasting, reliable operation.

energy chain systems® are equipped with interior separators to prevent cables from getting tangled. For strain relief, cables are tightly clamped and can be easily released for replacement. We offer chains in various sizes, chains for complex, threedimensional movements, and sensors to detect wear (smart plastics). Pre-assembled systems are also available.

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InduSol America

Your partner in preventing machine downtime

InduSol America is a leading provider of industrial automation solutions in North America, with over 20 years of experience in the industry. As the North American arm of German-based Indu-Sol GmbH, we offer a range of services and products to help our clients reduce emergency downtime, increase profits, and improve overall efficiency

Whether you need tools or support with new plant IOT network planning or modernization, diagnostic troubleshooting, and OT network monitoring, our team of skilled engineers and technicians are here to help you get the best protection and valuable insights for your automation network.

InduSol America LLC

980 Birmingham Rd. #721

Alpharetta, GA 30004

+1.678.880.6910

info@indusolamerica.com

www.indusolamerica.com

World-Class-Manufacturing companies around the world use

Preventing network and bus problems from occurring is crucial for the smooth operation of any industrial or automation system.

Our Solutions are available for:

• PROFIBUS

• ASi

• PROFINET

• DeviceNet

• EtherNet/IP

• CANbus

• EtherCAT

• EMC

All communication systems are subject to aging and various factors such as wear and tear on connectors and cables, corrosion, firmware versions, high data traffic, switch capability issues and changes in electrical installations can contribute to this process.

By using the right diagnostic tools and paying attention to even small deviations in normal operation, it is possible to identify potential issues before they cause costly shutdowns.

This proactive approach helps systems age correctly and avoid undesirable disruptions to your operation.

Typical use cases:

• OT Network planning

• Consulting

• Commissioning

• Acceptance tests

• Troubleshooting

• Permanent Network monitoring

• Condition monitoring

• Predictive maintenance

• Training

At InduSol America, we are dedicated to giving our customers peace of mind by providing reliable and effective solutions that keep their operations running smoothly.

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INTECH Power-Core

Founded in 1983, Intech specializes in the design and manufacture of lubrication-free, lightweight gears, guide rollers, and iCam® cam followers. All made from INTECH Power-Core™ and other engineered polymers.

By enabling machines to run virtually maintenance-free, at higher speeds and with less downtime, INTECH Power-Core components continually open new areas where highperformance plastics can replace noisy, wear-susceptible metals.

INTECH customers benefit from our extensive experience in designing with plastics, combined with a proven engineering approach that empowers fast, problem-free motion. INTECH serves both the OEM and maintenance markets. We design innovative components with superior performance to adroitly handle your most demanding motion applications.

Phone: 201 767 8066 www.intechpower.com

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INTECH Power-Core™ components require no lubrication. They are corrosion resistant, do not swell in moisture, absorb shock and vibration, and reduce wear, noise, and inertia vs. conventional metal or plastic components.

In addition, INTECH Power-Core components put an end to metal-to-metal wear on steel or aluminum. So, no more metal particle contamination occurs. The need to caseharden and grind contact surfaces is eliminated. And no central lubrication system is required.

Today INTECH is a leader in the engineering and design of precision-machined Power-Core gears, guide rollers, and cam followers.

The expected life of INTECH’s innovative gears with integral metal core can be calculated. The outer plastic layer of the gear is attached to an inner metal core in an inseparable bond, even at high temperatures. The metal hub ensures higher torque transmission and secure attachment to the shaft. The core also helps reduce thermal expansion in the plastic outer portion of the gear by up to 50%. Reduced thermal expansion and dimensional stability in moisture allow machining of high AGMA, 10+, class gears. The inner core is available in carbon or stainless steel. And also in aluminum for corrosive or low-inertia applications.

Physical properties of INTECH Power-Core™ enable our components to satisfy demands for higher machine speeds, greater reliability, and lower maintenance. Intech engineers analyze stress and other key factors to accurately predict expected useful gear life and durability in your applications.

To date, more than 25,000 Intech PowerCore gears have been sold worldwide for use in a wide range of applications. These include medical equipment, packaging, food processing, clean room automation, paper converting, aerospace, architectural, robotics, manufacturing, and many others.

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Interpower® Group of Companies

Since 1975, Interpower® has made it easy for electrical equipment manufacturers to design and manufacture equipment for export. We offer country-specific power cords, cord sets, power inlets and outlets, and other components that exceed the standards of the global agencies that approve them. Interpower makes it easy for customers to design, build, and maintain products for worldwide markets.

Products include:

• North American & international power cords & cord sets

• North American & international plugs, sockets, & connectors

• North American & international cable

• Terminal blocks

• Power entry modules with both North American & international approvals

• North American & international socket strips

• Accessory Power Strips, Jumper & power cord sets

• North American & international hospital-grade cords

Interpower offers its digital publications Connections and InfoPower at www.interpower.com

• Guide to Worldwide Plugs & Socket Patterns

• IEC 60320 Appliance & Interconnection Couplers

• International Testing Agencies

• Ingress Protection (IP) Chart

• Metric Conversion Guide

• UL & CSA Cord Classifications

• International “Harmonized” Cable Recommendations

• North American Cable Types

• NEMA Nomenclature Guide

• Conductor-coding Coding Chart

• North American Non-Locking NEMA Configurations

Interpower’s reputation relies on manufacturing best-in-class electrical products complemented by worldclass customer service.

Interpower® Group of Companies

100 Interpower Avenue Oskaloosa, IA 52577 https://www.interpower.com

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• IEC North American & International Cord Sets

Interpower value-added services:

• No minimum order or dollar requirements

• Same day shipping on in-stock items

• Locked-in prices with blanket/scheduled orders

• Free evaluation samples (when available)

• Assembly services

• Specialized labeling & packaging

• World-class customer service

Enidine Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of standard and custom energy absorption and vibration isolation solutions since 1966. Our products can be found throughout the global marketplace within the industrial, aerospace, defense and rail industries. Product ranges include seismic dampers, small and large shock absorbers, rate controls, air springs, wire rope isolators, heavy industry buffers and emergency stops. Enidine is widely recognized as the preferred source for energy absorption and vibration isolation products.

If you are unsure whether an Enidine product will meet your application requirements, please contact us toll free at 800-852-8508.

www.enidine.com

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Custom Engineering

Enidine engineers focus on solving complex application challenges worldwide. Our experts are experienced, knowledgeable and responsive partners, assisting customers through each step in the design process. Whether it is automated storage and retrieval systems in warehouses or the hostile environments of glass and steel manufacturing, we offer the widest range of standard and custom energy absorption and vibration isolation products that demand the highest level of quality with superior service and support.

Quality Products

Industrial shock absorber technology is a proven method of safeguarding critical equipment and operations from sudden or constant impacts across a wide range of industrial applications. At Enidine, we are constantly improving our product offerings to meet the demands of our customers who serve many different end markets. Our products enable our customers to maximize efficiency and output of their equipment, allowing them to be leaders in their respective industries.

Our vibration isolation products offer customers the ability to control destructive noise and vibration that can damage sensitive equipment and components. Enidine wire rope isolators provide multi-axis control of movement and can be used in harsh environments. Our unique Eni-Vibe technology allows us to measure noise and vibration inputs directly on customer equipment. This ensures the most complete and accurate solution for a specific application and takes the guesswork out of product selection.

Service & Support

Our customers choose Enidine over the competition because our products give them a lifetime of exemplary performance and service. We guarantee our components and workmanship for the life of the product. All products are manufactured in-house with lean manufacturing processes and testing capabilities, giving you fast reliable service to meet your critical application needs.

Enidine continually strives to provide the widest selection of highly engineered shock and vibration isolation products in the global marketplace today. We bring our customers the most cost-effective products with more features, greater performance and improved ease of use. Our customers stay with us because of our global reach, superior service and focused commitment to their business success.

To learn more about our extensive energy absorption and vibration isolation products, visit our website at www.enidine.com and be sure to check out our video library at: https://www.enidine.com/videos

HELPING ENGINEERS SUCCEED

JW Winco, Inc., A Ganter Company, is a leading supplier of Standard Industrial Machine Components and Assembly Hardware that also specializes in offering value-added services to engineers. Standard parts are extremely versatile in their application and therefore can offer great opportunities. An increased use of standard parts greatly reduces the costs of product development and in turn, provides the engineer with more time to devote on larger project requirements. The engineers can concentrate on the actual machine or equipment design, as standard parts can costeffectively be procured externally. The wheel does not have to be reinvented, and the creativity in developing can be the focus again.

JW Winco offers catalogs or digital part libraries that users can access quickly. Along with an extensive selection of high-quality parts, JW Winco strives to make an engineer’s job easier. The company’s mobile-responsive website at www.jwwinco.com is dedicated to providing the customer with modern navigation and usability that also allows visitors to see product availability. Features include filtering capabilities to find products faster and easier, the ability to build and price parts to easily create the standard part required for the design, and free CAD download in all common 2D and 3D CAD formats. Customers can not only check product availability and pricing online, they can set up an account or make a purchase easily 24/7 with a credit card. JW Winco prides itself on its knowledgeable technical sales associates who provide assistance with products and applications. Customer service is a top priority. To provide customers with complete solutions, JW Winco also offers secondary machining, special kit packaging, and bar coding.

For more information, visit www.jwwinco.com, call 800-877-8351, fax 800-472-0670, or email sales@jwwinco.com.

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Multiple-joint hinges

Multiple-joint hinges, also known as concealed hinges, are a new type of hinge for the construction sector. Mounted inside the housing to save space and protect against vandalism, they allow opening angles of up to 180° on flaps, hatches and doors. This ensures that the inside of the housing is optimally accessible.

The concealed hinges are available in aluminum or stainless steel, each with three different opening angels (90°, 120° and 180°). The multiple-joint hinges can be adjusted in three planes with complementary spacer plates and plates with tapped holes or threaded studs.

https://www.jwwinco.com/en-us/products/3.3-Hinging-latching-locking-of-doorsand-covers/Concealed-Hinges

Detectable Plastic

When it comes to preventing costly recalls, some food and pharmaceutical processors will need detectable materials for their packaging, preparation, or processing equipment. Standard plastic materials often cannot be identified by metal and X-ray detection equipment, which presents a contamination risk. To help prevent such instances, Winco offers standard parts with materials that are easy to detect visually and with metal detectors.

https://www.jwwinco.com/en-us/standard-parts-made-of-detectable-plastics

Pneumatic toggle clamps

Pneumatically operated toggle clamps in a new design correspond to manually operated toggle clamps in terms of design and dimensions. Due to the knee lever principle, the clamp remains closed even after a loss of compressed air.

The new toggle clamps have a permanent magnet integrated into the piston that enables detection of the end position by means of the sensor GN 3380.

https://www.jwwinco.com/en-us/products/2.4Tensioning-with-clamping-mechanisms/Pneumatically-operated-clamps

John Evans’ Sons, Inc.

John Evans’ Sons, is the international leader in the design and manufacturing of constant force springs, constant force spring assemblies and precision specialty springs for motion control requirements for the aerospace industry.

We are a trusted spring designer and supplier, as evident by our commitment to manufacturing excellence. All of our products align with strict quality standards. We are ISO 9001, AS9100 certified and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) registered.

John Evans’ Sons, Inc.

1 Spring Ave. Lansdale, PA 19446

www.springcompany.com

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Our custom design and precision manufacturing capability are supported by a complete machine shop staffed by a professional crew of toolmakers who utilize Dessault Systemes Solid Works for design, and Charmilles EDMs for tool and die production. This allows us to build, maintain, and repair all tools utilized in our production areas. We design and build many of our own high speed, automated, spring manufacturing machines. This “on-site” capability further reduces cost and lead time for our customers.

Major aerospace and defense corporations have recognized our quality manufacturing. Kaman Aerospace has presented our company with its top award for outstanding quality and on-time delivery by a component vendor to a major defense contractor.

Some of our most notable projects include:

• Airborne FLIR camera mounting

• Sub-launch Tomahawk cruise missile

• Aircraft door counterbalance mechanisms

• Suspension components for the Mars rovers Curiosity and Perseverance.

With respect to motion control applications, we offer several counterbalance options to assist/enhance articulated instruments and assemblies. Many aerospace equipment

designers utilize our:

• Constant force springs

• Spiral torsion springs

• Power springs

• Compression springs

• Extension springs

• Helical torsion springs

• Wire forms

Constant Force Springs

• Constant load

• Smooth range of motion

• Minimal starting force

Helical Vibration Isolators

• Maintenance free

• Three axes protection (compression, shear and roll)

• Optimal performance in extreme temperature and corrosive environments

We provide impeccable service from start to finish and set the standard for world-class precision spring products.

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KEB America

Industrial Automation Solutions Provider

KEB America is a wholly owned subsidiary of KEB Automation

KG, a global provider of complete automation system solutions headquartered in Barntrup, Germany. KEB America manufactures, assembles, supports, and services its suite of Germanengineered controls, drives, motors, brakes, and clutches at its ISO 9001:2015 certified 150,000 sq. ft. facility in Minnesota.

KEB’s application-focused products range from commissioning and programming software, industrial PCs, industrial routers, I/O, VFDs, integral gearmotors, and more. Machine builders in Canada, Mexico, and the United States leverage KEB products in the elevator, medical, packaging, and plastics industries.

KEB America, Inc.

5100 Valley Industrial Blvd S Shakopee, MN 55379

www.kebamerica.com

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KEB America manufactures industrial automation products using the highest quality materials, assembles products to specific specs, and services and supports the North American market with an experienced team of solution experts.

Automation & Control

KEB offers a control products suite that includes HMI, logic controllers and embedded control, routers, IPCs, and I/O.

COMBIVIS Studio provides an all-in-one environment for programming KEB drives, controls, and I/O. It features HMI design, remote connection, safety configuration, project management, and more.

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Drives

KEB’s Variable Frequency Drives are configurable to fit many applications. The F5 is available up to 1,200hp and includes safety options, heatsinks, encoder interfaces, and communication ports. The T6 Auxiliary Inverter is a modular and scalable multi-inverter system for auxiliary components in commercial vehicle applications.

KEB also offers servo drives, multi-axis drives, open-loop drives, and line regen units.

Motors & Gearing

KEB offers AC and servo motors with/ without integrated gearing. High-efficiency gearmotors (helical bevel, inline, worm, parallel offset, or planetary gears) in various sizes and configurations are available for reliable machine performance.

Brakes & Clutches

Spring-applied or permanent magnet brakes work with other KEB products to create a complete system solution. They feature a robust design with options like micro switches, hand releases, and noise-reduced designs.

Keller America Inc.

Keller is a world -leading manufacturer of level and pressure measurement instrumentation with products ranging from OEM pressure sensors to wireless pressure transmitters. Headquartered in Switzerland, Keller is built on a tradition of inspired design and fine craftsmanship. And, with subsidiaries in 11 countries and representation in 24 more, Keller can provide global sales and support around the world. Keller products are built to streamline your product development, reduce R&D costs, and shorten times to market.

Keller America Inc

351 Bell King Road

Newport News, VIRGINIA 23606

United States

http://www.kelleramerica.com

Contact:

Chris Lilly (757) 596-6680 sales@kelleramerica.com

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Global Pressure Instrumentation Experts

Keller is one of the original designers of the piezoresistive silicon pressure measurement technology and has been building upon that idea for over 40 years. As the last privatelyheld major pressure instrumentation manufacturer to be privately-held, Keller has the freedom and flexibility to create new smart and capable instruments to meet the growing needs of product designers around the world.

Keller pressure instrumentation has been used in aerospace, automotive, environmental, food an beverage, automation, water & wastewater, oil & gas, inventory management, processing, chemical, medical, and pharmaceutical industries and the list grows with each new

Keller works directly with our customers to identify and build the ideal pressure measurement instrument for their application. Keller can also provide existing products in various stages of completion to better accommodate the implementation process by the design engineers and systems integrators.

Combine our passion and innovation with your creativity. Contact Keller today to create the ideal pressure measurement solution for your product design.

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QUALITY INTERCONNECT COMPONENTS AND ELECTRONIC HARWARE

Leading–edge technology and precision manufacturing have defined Keystone’s performance as a world-class manufacturer of precision, electronic interconnect components and hardware since 1950.

Keystone Manufactures precision stampings and specializes in progressive dies, four slides, wire forming, in-die tapping, and high-speed blanking. Assembly procedures include eyeleting, riveting, staking, swaging, inserting, crimping and screw insertion to assemble components into finished products.

Our Product Design Guide M70 features products for OEM Designers and Engineers who create/develop state-of-the-art electronic products/instruments/systems. Our Custom Manufacturing Division provides modifications and custom fabrications and is fully integrated with in-house, precision tool and die shop that utilizes the latest CAD/ CAM and 3D modeling software to provide close tolerance Stamping, Machining and Assembly services.

Keystone is ISO 9001:2015 certified and RoHS/REACH compliant with USA headquarters and offices in Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. Visit our website for our Dynamic Catalog of Products or to request our New Product Design Guide M70

Keystone Electronics Corp.

55 South Denton Avenue New Hyde Park, NY 11040 Phone: (800) 221-5510 or (516) 328-7500 Email: kec@keyelco.com

www.keyelco.com

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Battery Clips, Contacts, Holders & Retainers

Advances in portable electronics and LithiumIon battery technology demand dependable battery connections. Keystone leads the way with a vast range of reliable, high-quality, costeffective products for most battery types.

Fuse Clips & Holders

Fuse connectivity products for Electronics, Datacom, Telecom, Automotive and Solar use. Keystone offers Surface Mount, ThruHole and Rivet Mount products for Cylindrical, Automotive and Subminiature fuses.

Test Points & Terminals

Low profile and limited board space drive today’s PCB connectivity designs. Keystone is the right fit with UL Recognized Quick-fit Male and Female PCB terminals, Snap-on, Snap-Fit and PCB Screw Terminals as well as SMT and THM Test points and Jumpers and more.

Spacers, Standoffs/Supports

Diverse insulated and non-insulated spacers and standoffs are available in a wide range of lengths, thread sizes, hole sizes, mounting styles & materials. Choose from English or Metric type products for your PCB, panel and mounting applications.

Pins, Plugs, Jacks & Sockets

Keystone’s USB 2.0, 3.0 & 3.1 Jacks & Plugs, Micro Pins/Jacks, Banana and Phono Plugs & Jacks are designed for use in the latest Mobile & Computer Electronics, Home Theatre, Test Gear and Industrial Interconnects.

Multipurpose and Panel Hardware

Check out the diverse selection of Panel and Mounting hardware Keystone is well known for. Fan Filters & Guards, LED Lens Caps, Holders & Spacer Mounts, Jack Screws and Connector Hardware, Instrumentation Handles, Cable Clamps, Knobs and more.

KHK USA

KHK USA is the factory direct distributor of KHK (Kohara Gear) products in North America.

With over 26,000 configurations of stock metric gears available, KHK USA offers the broadest selection of gears designed for use in industrial automation applications including packaging equipment, gantry systems, robotics, and conveyor systems.

www.khkgears.us

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KHK USA supplies the world renowned brand of KHK gears to all of North America. With over 80 years of manufacturing expertise, KHK is the brand of gears designers have come to rely on for their vast number of configurations, their diversity of materials and the expertise in production that leads to a durable, reliable product that is consistently available from stock.

The KHK USA website details all of the product technical specifications, provides free 3D CAD models for download and includes a 24/7 shopping cart function. With over 26,000 metric spur gears, helical gears, internal ring gears, gear racks, straight, spiral & zerol tooth miter gears, straight, spiral, zerol & hypoid bevel gears, screw gears, worms & wormwheels, ratchets & pawls, gear couplings, gearboxes, involute splines & bushings, and educational gear knockdown kits, KHK USA is able to offer a stock gear that meets almost every application.

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KNF Neuberger

KNF Neuberger is an independent family-owned company comprised of 24 global locations dedicated to providing tailor-made solutions with diaphragm, solenoid, swing piston and boxer pump technologies.

We have solved thousands of design challenges for a variety of application tasks, including: fluid supply, liquid waste handling, washing, recirculation, and metering/dosing; aspiration, degassing/debubbling, chamber evacuation, and vacuum roughing/backing; gas transfer and pneumatics.

KNF’s broad applications and systems experience stretches across a diverse set of industries, including medical device and diagnostics, environmental/industrial hygiene, laboratory equipment, reprographics, security and defense, semiconductor, energy, various process industries, and more.

KNF Neuberger

Phone: 609-890-8600

Email: knfusa@knf.com Web: www.knf.com

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KNF is a technology leader with over 300 patents and a solid reputation for providing innovative, high performance, reliable pumps. Drawing on our expertise in various fields of engineering, from mechanics, materials, and fluidics to electronics and software, KNF strives to find the smartest solutions for every application – not just for today but innovated over time to continuously serve evolving needs.

One size doesn’t fit all. We collaborate closely with our customers throughout the entire development process – from the initial idea to the final result – to create the best solution for each specific application while balancing required performance, product lifetime, and cost.

By understanding customers’ applications and specifications, KNF engineers strive to optimize not only our pump, but to also assist customers in optimizing their overall system. Our job is to fit the pump to your application – not the application to a pump. In fact, customers often send us problematic systems for testing. Whether the issue is related to the pump or other system components, we’ll provide a full report with analysis and recommendations.

Whatever the challenge, KNF is ready to bring a deep bench of engineering, fluidics, and applications expertise to your next project.

Koford Engineering

Koford Engineering, LLC

1441 Dorsey Road

Winchester, OH 45697

(937) 695-1275

mail@koford.com

www.koford.com

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Koford Engineering manufactures high performance hall and sensorless brushless housed and frameless motors for demanding applications along with matching drives.

Brushless Motors

Best in industry efficiency and power density slotless brushless motors with speeds up to 200,000 rpm, housed and frameless, efficiency up to 94%, 240°C insulation, zero cog, ceramic hybrid bearings, autoclavable surgical tool motors, motors for aerospace and space applications, machine tool spindles, high vacuum motors, UAV servo motors, underwater UAV thruster motors. Sinusoidal back emf for zero torque ripple when used with Sinusoidal drives for precision motion control. Hollow shaft motors. Air bearing motors for long life high speed applications. Motor sizes from 16mm up to 129mm. Output power to 1600 watts. Planetary gearbox with nitrided alloy steel gears and needle bearings and encoders are also offered as options. Matching digital sensorless and hall sensor drives are available. Integral electronics are also offered. All Koford products and manufactured in USA.

Generators

High performance generators and matching generator boards for applications from 5 watts up to 500 watts. High speed and efficiency. Starter/ generator drives for gas turbine and micro jet applications.

Kollmorgen

Engineer the Exceptional

Kollmorgen has more than 100 years of motion experience, proven in the industry’s highest-performing, most reliable motors, drives, linear actuators, AGV control solutions and automation platforms. We deliver breakthrough solutions that are unmatched in performance, reliability and ease of use, giving machine builders an irrefutable marketplace advantage.

Kollmorgen offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of commercial offthe-shelf motion control products. With more than a million standard products, we can take your custom motion system from initial concept through design and into volume production in a surprisingly short time. Kollmorgen’s technically experienced staff and structured development processes help you meet your most difficult motion challenges and advance your marketplace competitive position.

Kollmorgen

203 West Rock Road Radford, VA 24141

United States

www.kollmorgen.com

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If You Can Think It, We’ll Help You Build It

We believe in the power of motion and automation to create a better world. From improving industrial safety to advancing economic opportunity, from maintaining the health of a warming planet to restoring the wellbeing of a newly diagnosed patient, enterprises around the world are seeking smarter, simpler and more powerful solutions. With Kollmorgen as a partner, engineers are changing how solar energy is created. How agriculture is harvested. How new worlds are explored, from deep oceans to deep space. Forward-thinking designers are improving healthcare and giving the disabled new capabilities. They’re helping denser populations live comfortably together on a finite planet. Your calling is to solve problems and make a meaningful difference. We’ll help you create more ambitious machines, vehicles and robots. Delivering more capable motion. Engineering with more confidence. Bringing exceptional new possibilities to the world.

The Kollmorgen Difference

Kollmorgen solves the world’s toughest motion and automation challenges, freeing engineers to design more ambitious machines, vehicles and robots that redefine what’s possible.

Our servo motion systems provide unrivaled power density, torque, responsiveness, efficiency and control in a more compact footprint, delivering the performance that makes exceptional machines. We believe you should never have to fit your machine to an available motion system. Instead, we design motion systems to fit your machine.

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Comprehensive product lines.

Kollmorgen delivers the industry’s highestperforming, most reliable motors, drives, linear actuators, AGV control solutions and automation platforms, with over a million standard and easily modifiable products to meet virtually any motion challenge. We offer the industry’s broadest portfolio of commercial off-the-shelf motion control products. More than a million standard products are ready for production and delivery wherever in the world you operate. All of our designs originate with our deep technical understanding and hands-on experience for each industry we serve. Kollmorgen offers manufacturing facilities, distributors and engineering expertise in all major regions around the world, so you can bring a better machine to market faster and keep it profitable for decades to come.

More than 100 years of technology and business leadership. More than 1 million AKM motors deployed. More than 30,000 vehicles placed into operation, engineered by more than 70 partners using our NDC automation and navigation technology. These results and more establish Kollmorgen as the leader— providing the innovations, resources, stability and commitment you need in a lasting partnership.

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KYOCERA AVX

KYOCERA AVX is a leading global manufacturer of advanced electronic components engineered to accelerate technological innovation and build a better future. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyocera Corporation structured to capitalize on shared resources and technical expertise, KYOCERA AVX has an expansive global footprint comprised of several dozen research, development, and manufacturing facilities spanning more than 15 countries and staffed with talented personnel dedicated to innovation, component quality, customer service, and enabling a brighter future through technology.

KYOCERA AVX designs, develops, manufactures, and supplies advanced capacitors, antennas, interconnects, circuit protection and timing devices, sensors, controls, filters, fuses, diodes, resistors, couplers, and inductors optimized for employment in the international 5G, IoT, aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, medical, and military markets.

KYOCERA AVX

Fountain Inn

South Carolina USA

www.kyocera-avx.com

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KYOCERA AVX is a leading global manufacturer of advanced electronic components engineered to accelerate technological innovation and build a better future.

KYOCERA AVX manufactures leading-edge antennas, resistors, inductors, filters, connectors, fuses, sense/control modules and capacitors. Capacitor types range from ultrathin to traditional Multi-Layer Ceramic, MnO2 / Polymer / Wet Tantalum, Wet / Polymer / Hybrid Aluminum Electrolytic, Film, to Low-Resistance Electric Double-Layer Capacitors (EDLC/ SuperCapacitors). These state-of-the-art components and modules are produced with the help of extensive modeling, 3D analysis, and crossfunctional teams, which combine materials, mechanical, and electrical engineering knowledge across manufacturing platforms.

Physical & environmental testing is used to define part capabilities and includes accelerated life testing at high voltage and extreme temperatures, shock, vibration, and humidity. Additionally, impedance spectroscopy (using low frequencies reaching the MilliHertz range) helps us understand electrical and chemical processes related to contact resistance, energy storage, and lifetime performance.

Electromagnetic testing capabilities range from far-field/half 3D anechoic chambers measuring from 600 MHz – 6 GHz, to a fully self-contained anechoic millimeter wave measurement system that tests wireless devices from 18 to 110GHz. In addition, traditional 2D and 3D destructive (cross-sectioning) and non-destructive (x-ray, acoustic microscopy) test capabilities are combined with FTIR, Raman, fluorescence, and electron microscopy to precisely characterize device structure and composition.

For more information, visit www.kyocera-avx.com

2023

LEMO®, founded in Switzerland in 1946, took its name from the company founder, engineer Léon Mouttet. Originally a manufacturer of contacts in noble and rare metals, the company took a major step forward in 1957 with the introduction of the push-pull selflatching connector.

In 1984 LEMO purchased REDEL and LEMO then began marketing plastic connectors to the medical market. Today LEMO’s largest market in the USA is medical and continues to grow. Due to the high demand and increased sales for cable assemblies, LEMO purchased Northwire, Inc., a wire and cable manufacturer, in the Summer of 2014, to complete the solution.

LEMO USA, INC.

635 Park Court, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 USA

Tel: 707-206-3700

Mail: info-us@lemo.com www.lemo.com

NORTHWIRE, INC.

110 Prospect Way Osceola, WI 54020 | USA

Tel: (800) 468-1516

Mail: CableInfo_Northwire@lemo.com www.northwire.com

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LEMO® is the leader in designing and manufacturing precision custom interconnect solutions. High-quality LEMO Push-Pull connectors and Northwire Custom Cables are used in a wide range of challenging applications such as Medical, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Aerospace, Defense, Space, Information Systems, and Test & Measurement.

Why LEMO

• Standard/Custom Design for Applications such as Pulsed Field Ablation

• Disposables

• Touch Proof

• Steam Sterilizable

• 3 High Voltage configurations (2, 5 & 8 contacts)

• IEC 60601 compliant

• Temperature range -50°C to 170°C

• Lightweight and compact design for space savings

• Push-Pull quick and secure locking

• Water-resistant IP66 available

Northwire, Inc. celebrates 50 years as an innovator in custom wire and cable manufacturing and interconnectivity solutions for medical device/life science, robotics, industrial, off-road heavy equipment, aerospace, defense, test & measurement applications, and more.

Why NORTHWIRE

• Quality custom cable solutions for Electrophysiology, Mapping, and Ablation; Surgical Robotics (RAS); Laparoscopic Surgery; Electro Surgery; Patient Monitoring

• BioCompatic® Silicone Alternative USP Class VI medical cable

• Design engineers help you navigate complex regulatory requirements and select the right cable materials and components for your exact end application

• Quality Management System certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 13485

Lenze

Lenze is a global manufacturer of electrical and mechanical drives, motion control and automation technology. We are a leading provider of automation solutions to the following industries: material handling and logistics, industrial equipment, consumer goods packaging, robotics, and commercial pumps/fans.

With a global network of engineers, sales representatives, and manufacturing facilities, Lenze is well-positioned to meet the motion control needs of customers worldwide. Lenze Americas, a subsidiary of Lenze SE of Germany, is headquartered in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

Lenze Americas can be found online at www.lenze.com

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A comprehensive automation platform – scalable for your machine.

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As a global specialist in Motion Centric Automation, Lenze works with its customers to create high-quality mechatronic products and packages; powerful systems consisting of hardware and software for machine automation; as well as digitalization services in areas such as big data management, cloud or mobile solutions, and software for the Internet of Things (IoT).

Engineering made easy

In order to deliver the ideal solution for your machine tasks, Lenze advises and supports you through all five phases of the engineering process:

• Developing ideas

• Drafting concepts

• Implementing solutions

• Manufacturing machines

• Ensuring productivity

Simply choose only the engineering services that suit your project. Our sales and application engineers are at your side to lend their expertise to any situation. From helping you choose the best drive components to full engineering services, we always work with you to develop the optimum solution for your machine requirements.

L-force Engineering

In the future, key challenges will lie in the areas of cost efficiency, time-savings and quality improvements. Faster project planning and commissioning, improved performance and increased flexibility in production are expected. Therefore, new ideas are needed for the machines of the future.

Lenze has risen to this challenge and can offer you an innovative family of drive and automation products, as well as a comprehensive portfolio of mechatronic solutions and engineering software tools.

For more than 75 years, drive and automation systems have been our core competence. We take an integrated approach to projects and help get the best from your machines and systems.

“The best machines and production facilities around the world use Lenze.”

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LinMot USA, Inc.

LinMot is a global manufacturer of high-quality, tubular style linear motors and linear motor system components. They focus on the development, production and distribution of linear direct drives for use in industrial environments.

Founded in 1993 as an independent business unit of the Sulzer Group, LinMot has been in operation since 2000 as an independent company.

LinMot headquarters is located in Spreitenbach Switzerland, near Zurich. LinMot USA Inc. assists customers with new and existing applications in North and South America.

LinMot USA , Inc.

Lake Geneva, WI 53147

linmot.com

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LinMot offers its customers a sophisticated direct drive linear motor system that can be easily integrated into all leading control systems. A high degree of standardization, delivery from stock, and a knowledgeable worldwide distribution network ensure immediate availability and excellent customer support. Our highly efficient direct drive linear motor system solutions make a major contribution to the overall resource conservation effort. Currently, over 2000 different drive and motor combinations are readily available from stock.

Our new linear SM01/SM02 Guide Modules offer a stainless steel linear guide solution made for challenging environments including the food and pharmaceutical industries. The guide shafts are hardened stainless steel with high corrosion resistance, 1.4404/AISI 316L, and use FDA approved polymer bearings with built in solid lubricant for maintenance free operation. Hard chrome plated shafts with stainless linear ball bearings using food grade lubricant, NSF H1, are also available. This option allows higher load capacity, longer strokes, and increased guiding accuracy. Easily assembled into multi axis pick and place or gantry systems for washdown applications.

Our FM and EM Guide modules have a wide range of stroke and force capabilities suitable for a wide variety of applications with a simplified part number system for easy ordering. Rigid and precise with an extremely high load bearing capacity. Long stroke lengths up to 2m with high dynamic response. High mechanical compatibility with other LinMot products, and a long service life with easy load installation.

LinMot’s linear rotary motors excel in capping and assembly applications. LinMot’s PR02 linear rotary motors are available with options for a MagSpring, force sensor, and torque sensor. This design is integrated within a slim hygienic housing. This design allows for easy cleaning and seamless integration and is particularly attractive to pharmaceutical and precision product assembly customers.

Our completely encapsulated, laser-welded, stainless steel motors with an IP69K rating make LinMot well-suited for the pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries in washdown environments. Additionally, when an application calls for protection against explosive gas or combustible dusts, LinMot continues to provide solutions that ensure safe operation.

LinMot’s linear direct drive motor technology is a high quality standard machine design element ready for your next project. We offer highly efficient environment friendly solutions and a network of trained support personnel across the nation that will assist in making sure your system gets up and running smoothly!

Main Manufacturing Products, Inc.

MAIN MANUFACTURING

PRODUCTS, INC. has manufactured and distributed hydraulic flanges to SAE J518, ISO 6162, ISO 6164, JIS, and other flange standards for over 50 years. MAIN also manufactures and/or sells flange adapters, SAE split flanges, manifolds, subplates, special hydraulic connectors and other components. A twenty-first century manufacturing facility, located in Grand Blanc, Michigan, allows MAIN to control quality and helps assure On-Time Delivery of both standard and special parts.

WHY USE MAIN MANUFACTURING?

EXPERIENCE & QUALITY - comes from over 60 years of experience, our employees’ dedication to quality, and a well equipped and picky QC department.

AVAILABILITY - and on time delivery comes from our over 4 million-dollar inventory of standard flanges, special flanges, and other components (7500+ different items) and a quick turnaround of non-stock items.

Main Manufacturing Products, Inc.

3181 Tri-Park Drive

Grand Blanc, MI 48439

www.mainmfg.com

ASSISTANCE - experts are available to HELP YOU and review your orders. MAIN’s engineers are part of the SAE, NFPA, and ISO committees.

EFFICIENCY - was designed into our “State-of-the-Art” 48,000-sq.ft. US manufacturing facility. We can handle both small and large special requests quickly.

WE ARE HERE TO HELP.

Orders and inquiries are reviewed by engineers. Each week MAIN’s order review system discovers many customer typos, mismatched descriptions, mismatched parts, and other problems. This saves time, money, and embarrassment. MAIN’s engineers sit on several SAE and NFPA committees, have been US experts to ISO committees, and are involved in writing the standards. These same people are available to help customers with a difficult connection or piping situation.

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Master Bond

Master Bond formulates cutting edge adhesives, sealants, coatings and potting/encapsulation systems utilizing advanced technology for challenging applications.

High Performance Adhesives, Sealants & Coatings

Our expansive line of epoxies, silicones, UV curable and LED curable compounds can be customized to meet a myriad of property requirements including:

• High/low temperature resistance

• Electrical conductivity/insulation

• Thermal conductivity

• High/low viscosity

• Flexibility and toughness

• Chemical resistance

• Optical clarity

Developed to withstand harsh environmental conditions, our products feature superior long-term durability. They are used in a variety of industries and are designed to meet stringent industry standards and are certified for:

• NASA low outgassing

• USP Class VI

• FDA CFR 175.300 & FDA CFR 175.105

• UL 94V-0 & UL 94V-1

• ISO 10993-5

• and more

Outstanding Customer Support

Master Bond makes customer support a fundamental priority in the adhesive selection process. Our technical specialists have decades of experience and will work with you, one-on-one, throughout the design, prototyping and manufacturing stages of your application.

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HELPING ENGINEERS MEET SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

EP3HTS-TC: Highly Thermally Conductive, NASA Low Outgassing Epoxy

EP3HTS-TC is a one part epoxy well suited for automatic dispensing equipment or manual syringes and can be applied without any tailing. It is primarily formulated for use as a die attach and special purpose bonding material. It utilizes a non-sintering silver technology to provide ultra-high heat transfer capability.

Supreme 70CN: Toughened Epoxy Derived from Sustainable Ingredients

Supreme 70CN is a two part epoxy adhesive formulated using a natural, renewable and sustainable ingredient. This moderate viscosity unfilled epoxy is black in color and can be utilized for bonding, sealing, coating and potting. It passes NASA low outgassing specifications, has a high glass transition temperature, and a high tensile strength.

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Keep informed of the latest developments in adhesive technology. Get the answers you need from top industry experts.

White Papers

Master bond offers an easy to read collection of white papers that provide concise answers and solutions to difficult issues.

Case Studies

Case studies provide specific examples of Master Bond adhesives used by research institutions, universities, and national laboratories.

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maxon drives set the world in motion.

maxon combines electric motors, gears and DC motor controls into high-precision, intelligent drive systems that can be custom-made to fit the specific needs of customer applications. maxon helps provide innovative solutions at competitive prices for numerous applications in various markets, such as industrial automation, medical, robotics and aerospace.

maxon precision motors, inc.

125 Dever Drive

Taunton, MA 02780

T: 508-677-0520

Email: info.us@maxongroup.com

www.maxongroup.us

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Offering solutions that fit your customized needs

At maxon, we focus on comprehensive solutions optimized through a diversified product range and client consultation.

maxon manufactures small, high-quality brush and brushless DC motors ranging in size from 4 mm to 90 mm. maxon’s rhombic wound ironless rotor motors provide exceptionally high efficiency, low EMI emissions, fast acceleration, no preferred rotor position, torque constants and long service life. The drive components are assembled and designed according to your individual needs. Our modular system includes planetary, spur and special gearheads as well as encoders and control electronics.

With over 60 years of experience, hightech innovations and superior product quality, maxon is the reliable partner in drive technology. Individual, customized drive solutions are our greatest strength.

maxon X drives

Extremely powerful drives that are easily configured online. Customers can fit the drives with specific mechanical and electrical components specific to their application needs. It is possible to customize the shaft lengths, winding types, ball bearings and much more. When combined together with maxon encoders and planetary gearheads, you form a high-precision, robust drive system ideal for any application requiring a compact, powerful, quiet and strong drive system. In addition, detailed product data may be viewed immediately online and 3D CAD data for the configuration is available for downloading.

Visit xdrives.maxongroup.us.

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METCASE

Standard and Custom Made Enclosures

METCASE specializes in the design and manufacture of aluminum enclosures for electronics equipment. The extensive range includes modern and versatile instrument enclosures for desktop, portable and wall mounted systems. The range also includes 19” rack cases in 1U to 6U sizes. The company can also modify its enclosures with non-standard sizes, machined cutouts, custom colors and finishes, digital printing, and much more. Fully finished enclosures are supplied ready for mounting the customer’s components. Full technical information, including 3D drawings, is available on the METCASE website.

METCASE ENCLOSURES

Abele Business Park

3000 Old Pond Road

Bridgeville, PA 15017 Tel: (800) 965-9872

www.metcaseusa.com

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METCASE manufactures modern enclosures for electronics and 19 inch equipment. Customized or fully bespoke enclosures can be supplied to customer specifications. The range includes the following popular types:

19 Inch Enclosures

Modern and highly versatile 19 inch enclosures for rack mounted electronics equipment. The program includes 19” rack mount cases (1U to 6U) and desktop miniracks for 19” subracks, chassis and front panels (3U to 6U). Standard features include fixed or removable front panels, ventilation slots, PCB mounting rails and pillars and ergonomic front handles. The desktop cases can also be ordered with a bail arm.

Instrument Enclosures

METCASE manufactures an extensive range of instrument enclosures for table-top and portable applications. The enclosures include many useful design features. A large range of sizes and styles is available painted in light gray, anthracite or black. Standard features include anodized aluminum front panels, PCB guide rails and mounting pillars, handles and bail arms, ventilation slots, tilt feet and non-slip feet.

Customizing Service

All METCASE enclosures are designed with customizing in mind. 3D models are available to help designers integrate their electronic components. METCASE customizing options include CNC punching and drilling, digital printing, custom colors and finishes and much more. METCASE can also manufacture fully bespoke enclosures and sheet metal components.

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Midwest Motion Products, Inc.

Midwest Motion Products, Inc. (MMP), is an established Motion Control Equipment Provider, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Howard Lake, MN. A Leader in Rapid Prototyping of High-Quality Motion Control Solutions, MMP specializes in cost-effective standard DC Gearmotor, Motors, Controls, and ancillary equipment.

Known world-wide for our “Lightning-Fast” delivery capabilities, you can have a Standard Planetary or Right Angled DC Gearmotor BUILT and SHIPPED, often on the very same day you call. Offering Brushed and Brushless designs, with winding voltages ranging from 12 VDC to 120 VDC, we can deliver your “Robust & Reliable” samples within DAYS, instead of weeks, or even months.

MMP’s 100+ years of combined motion control industry experience helps our customers with the crucial aspects of design, and optimization of a final solution. In addition, our mechanical design services support product design development and assemblies that fit our customer’s expectations. We will work directly with you from conception to manufacturing of your products and will always provide knowledgeable & courteous customer service.

There are no minimum order quantity requirements, & visitors to our website can identify a performance-optimized solution within just a few clicks, using our unique & very popular “Solution Finder” program.

Midwest Motion Products, Inc.

1000 Industries Circle Howard Lake, MN. USA 55349 Ph. 320-490-7060 sales@midwestmotion.com www.midwestmotion.com

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SERVICES OFFERED:

PROTOTYPING:

• Exact Standards

• Flexible development process

ENGINEERING DESIGNS & DATA:

• Magtrol Dynamometers

• DataQ Testing Software

3-D CAD MODELS:

• 2017 SolidWorks Software

• CAD model files (.Step, SLDPRT and Parasolid file types)

• 8,000+ Released DC Gearmotor Designs

• Time Tested and Proven Reliability

• High Volume Capacity

• Shipping Thousands of units per year

• Lightning-Fast Delivery

• Huge On-Hand Inventory

• Cost-Effective Solutions

• Gearmotors BUILT in USA

PRODUCTS OFFERED:

• Complete Planetary Gearmotor Solutions

• Right Angled Gearmotors

• STOCK Gear Ratios from 3:1 to 2076:1

• Brushed & Brushless Designs

• Input voltage range from 12-120V DC

• Integral Failsafe Brakes

• Integral Optical Encoders

• Analog Tachometers

• PWM Motor Speed Controls

• DC Servo Amplifiers

• Economical DC Linear Actuators

• AC to DC Power Supplies

• Ultra-Quiet (Delrin) Gearmotors

We invite you to experience our Award-Winning Quality & Award-Winning Delivery Performance today!

2023

Miki Pulley

A World-Class brand.

Miki Pulley established its business roots by providing variable speed belt drives to the burgeoning Asian machine industry several decades ago. Over time, our product line has evolved to serve many more facets of motion control. With offices, production facilities, and partner companies spanning the globe, our Customer Service and Engineering expertise are positioned at the forefront of our industry.

We collaborate with Design Engineers to identify the most efficient, cost effective solutions for their rotary motion control and mechatronic applications.

We offer electromagnetic clutches and brakes for a variety of motion control applications. Additionally, we offer high performance servo couplings, jaw & spider style couplings, and high-speed metal disc couplings. Keyless shaft locking devices also bring a very simple, but important element to our product offering. We also offer downloadable 3D CAD models on our user-friendly website.

Miki Pulley US

13200 Sixth Ave. N Plymouth, MN 55441-5509 800.533.1731

www.mikipulley-us.com

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PRODUCT LINE INCLUDES:

• Electro-Magnetic Brakes

• Electro-Magnetic Clutches

• High Performance Shaft Couplings

• Keyless Shaft Locking Devices

BXW BRAKE:

This unique, low profile design is 2/3 the thickness of other brakes that Miki offers.

BXR-LE BRAKE: Provides highly responsive braking and holding power while minimizing battery usage for AGV applications.

ALS MACHINED COUPLING:

Offering high torque and response with a shore hardness of 97 these couplings are available with clamping hubs or set-screw hubs for a wide variety of applications.

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Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.

Streamline operations, lower costs, and increase agility with advanced technology solutions.

Our strength comes from the fact that we’re a single-source provider of game-changing technologies. We design and manufacture every core automation technology, including controllers, visualization systems, drives, motion systems and industrial robots.

Mitsubishi Electric, among the top automation suppliers globally, offers manufacturers, machine builders, and system integrators the most advanced and reliable automation solutions for improving performance, lowering total cost of ownership, and enhancing competitiveness. We offer a complete product portfolio from controllers and visualization solutions, drives and motion control, to robotics, allowing us to create uniquely innovative and integrated solutions on one platform for highest quality performance.

Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc.

500 Corporate Woods Parkway Vernon Hills, Illinois 60061 847-478-2100

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Controllers: Our controller lineup is one of the most flexible in the industry. It is supported by one common programming software and an array of networking technologies to enable seamless connection to other products on the plant floor.

Drives and Motion: Our drive products range from stand-alone and PLC-based servo amplifiers and motion controllers providing tight single and multi-axis motion control, to a comprehensive line of VFDs engineered for high-performance and energy efficiency. In addition to performance, we focus on forward migration for easy upgrade to gain from new technology as products evolve.

Time Sensitive Networking: The integrated and open CC-Link IE TSN gigabit network offers time-sensitive networking (TSN) technology, enabling real-time data collection from the shop floor to IT systems.

SCADA Software: Our advanced visualization technology has high availability, centralized configuration and ability to connect to most industry standard communication protocols make it easy to view and control factory operations and analyze data in new ways.

Industrial/Collaborative Robots: Our robotic line focuses on high-repeatability, high-speed applications with small to medium payloads, as well as specialized applications. Get seamless connectivity with our controllers to integrate and innovate more efficiently. Our robots are among the fastest and most accurate in their class.

mkNorth America

mk North America, Inc. believes in offering not only a better product, but also a better solution. We are driven by the desire to help ensure our customers’ sucesses in all of their business endeavors.

mk North America, Inc.

105 Highland Park Drive

Bloomfield, CT 06002 USA

Phone: (860) 769-5500

Email: info@mknorthamerica.com

https://www.mknorthamerica.com

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Since 1988, mk North America, Inc. has been engineering and manufacturing a wide range of factory automation solutions including conveyor systems, flexible chain conveyors, pallethandling conveyor systems as well as guards, carts and so much more.

mk offers what no other conveyor or t-slot aluminum extrusion manufacturers offers –complete compatibility between conveyors, guards, workstations and more. mk’s conveyors are build out of mk’s very own t-slot aluminum extrusion, which means the conveyors can be easily modified, accept accessories, and adapt as your needs change. mk’s conveyor offerings include:

• Belt Conveyors – cleated and flat, as well as horizontal, incline, gooseneck and curved

• Plastic Modular Belt Conveyors – cleated and flat, as well as horizontal, incline, gooseneck and curved

• Timing Belt Conveyors – for precision indexing with or without belt attachments, in single lane and multi-lane for product or pallet handling

• Chain Conveyors – including accumulating roller chain, roller chain, and attachment chain, also available in adjustable width options

• Flexible Flat Top Chain Conveyors – for conveying in three-dimensional space as well as vertically and side gripping, these conveyors are also ideal for small pallet and puck handling

• Pallet-Handling Conveyor Systems – for streamlining and optimizing production lines, featuring vertical transfer units, lift and locates, lift and rotates and precision locating modules

• Specialty Conveyors – when a standard conveyor solution doesn’t fit the criteria, mk is able to develop a custom conveyor that will meet and exceed your expectations.

• T-Slot Aluminum Extrusion – sold in raw stock, cut to order, ideal for guards, workstations, carts, machine bases and planning boards

When you work with mk North America you are working with a leader in mechanical industrial automation equipment. mk is there with you every step of the way from concept through delivery and beyond. mk will work with you to ensure that we deliver not only a better product, but also a better solution for your unique application.

2023 MOCAP

409 Parkway Drive Park Hills, MO 63601

Phone: 800-633-6775

314-543-4000

FAX: 314-543-4111

www.mocap.com

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MOCAP is the Industry Leader in the manufacturing of quality Dip Molded, Injection Molded and Extruded Plastic & Rubber products for virtually every market.

We offer extensive lines of Caps, Plugs, Grips, Tubing & Tapes commonly used as Components, Masking & Protection for Pumps, Valves, Fittings, Threads, Tubes, Pipes & Filters. MOCAP stocks a wide assortment of Vinyl Caps, Plugs and Grips along with numerous styles of Polyethylene Caps and Plugs for immediate shipment. Also included are many styles of Threaded and Non-Threaded Caps and Plugs, a variety of paper caps and plugs, as well as several families of pipe and flange protection.

Most items are in stock and available for immediate shipment in box, mini-pack and micro-pack quantities. Free Samples are also available for testing.

Murrelektronik, Inc.

Cables, Wiring & Connectors

I/O Modules

Power Supplies

Safety, Machine Safety, Process

Murrelektronik, Inc.

1327 Northbrook Parkway

Suwanee, GA, 30024 • USA

Phone: 770/497-9292

Fax: 770/497-9391

Email: 2info@murrinc.com murrinc.com

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Murrelektronik is your system partner: From the control cabinet via the interface, active or passive into the field. We have a widely diversified product range and can supply you with well thought-out solutions that are made to fit your industrial automation applications - from a single source.

Murrelektronik’s U.S. office, production facility and warehouse are located in the suburbs of Atlanta, GA. Our team is customer oriented and we strive to give our customers the very best in product, price, delivery and service. Backed up by a skilled technical support team and a distribution network across the

country, we can provide detailed product and application advice from concept to completion. Our success has been based on innovative products, a highly-developed market and customer orientation, effective logistics, teamwork and quality products.

As a Murrelektronik customer, you are our main focus. Our “stay connected” claim has emerged from this philosophy. It underlines the fact that we consistently orient ourselves to market requirements with regard to products, performance, price, quality, logistics and service. We throw a great deal of innovation and flexibility into the mix to create an orientation that is supported by a cooperative management culture, flat hierarchies and short decision-making routes. Murrelektronik is a globally operating company. With more than 2700 employees around the world, your contact is never far away.

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Nason

Located in Upstate South Carolina, Nason operates a 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility that is home to a team of expert design engineers and customer service specialists with decades of combined experience. After more than 70 years, Nason is now a proven leader in spaceefficient electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic components.

Nason’s switches, compact cylinders and transducers have set a new industry standard for quality, efficiency and flexibility — yet their biggest point of pride is their commitment to taking on new challenges for their customers, big and small. They are always willing to create exactly what a customer needs.

Nason

1307 S. Highway 11 Walhalla, SC 29691

Phone: 800-229-4955

Phone: 864-638-9521

Fax: 864-638-7903

Email: nassales@nasonptc.com

www.nasoncylinders.com

At Nason, we consider ourselves leaders in engineering because we come at things with a smarter approach: our customers’. We start with real questions, not pre-packaged answers. What is the ideal solution for our customers’ applications? What would work best for them? Once we understand exactly what they need, we get to work designing and engineering the perfect component.

Our components are the most compact, space-efficient designs available — so instead of building around an unwieldy component, our smaller footprint gives you more room to work with.

All Nason components are precision-manufactured with an unmatched attention to detail. A perfectly concentric bore. Extended product life. That’s the Nason difference — components that work harder longer, saving our customers time and money.

Our customers can forget designing around a standardized component. With Nason, they get the precise specifications they need — putting them in control and guaranteeing that the final product fits the application.

Not only are Nason components a better value based on initial purchase price, they continue to deliver cost savings over the product’s entire life cycle.

For every application, Nason can provide a solution. At our core, Nason is about solving problems for our customers. Our team of experts is committed to working with them — listening to their specific needs, then developing the right solution for them.

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NB Corporation of America

Since 1939, NB has been the leading manufacturer of high quality linear motion products in Japan. Our growth can be attributed to unique product designs and attention to detail. NB Linear Systems are designed to minimize size and weight while providing superior performance in high-precision equipment. All products are low friction with low noise and are available as total systems or as individual components.

Downloadable CAD drawings of all slide guides, ball splines, round shaft bush products, crossedroller products, gonio ways, STUDROLLER™ and slide tables, as well as off-the-shelf case hardened tapped and threaded shafts are available from our website and the “NB Linear” mobile app.

NB Corporation of America

930 Muirfield Drive Hanover Park, IL 60133

www.nbcorporation.com

A Slide Way That Ends Slippage

This crossed-roller linear bearing is perfect for motion control applications with extremely fast acceleration and deceleration (at dimensions ranging from 30-600mm lengths, 2-12 mm rollers, endurance is 150 million cycles), NB’s new NV type STUDROLLER™ with stainless steel Anti-Creep Cage Technology guarantees zero slippage.

NB, by placing studs in the center roller and machining a corresponding depressions in the rail, has produced a retainer that never slips – in any position. (Patent Pending)

In addition load capacities are increased 1.4 to 2.3 times over the standard nonstudded type.

Roller-to-rail contact area is extended 42 to 58 percent while the number of rollers is increased 20 to 55 percent. STUDROLLER™, lowers component costs and allows more compact designs.

The NB STUDROLLER™ is also ideal for use in special environments that are highly corrosive, high temperature or vacuums. View the video at: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=2-s4X1oXbps&t=18s

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NBK America

With more than 450 years of history in Japan, the NBK brand has always stood for the design, manufacturing and sale of products based upon the needs of the time. Now, focusing on growth in the North American market, the company has incorporated NBK America LLC showing commitment to long-term institutional success and develop products tailored for the local market.

NBK primarily develops, manufactures and sells Miniature Couplings, Specialty Screws, Machine Elements and Clampers.

NBK products are used in advanced industries, such as manufacturing equipment for semiconductors, robotics, machine tools, medical devices and many more.

NBK America LLC

307 East Church Road, Suite 7

King of Prussia, PA, 19406

Ph: 484-685-7500

Fax: 484-685-7600

Email: info.us@nbk1560.com

www.nbk1560.com

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Continuing to innovate & create new value for our customers is embedded in NBK culture

NBK’s historic past has allowed it to provide new value to customers by constantly renewing itself. The NBK brand stands for strong design, precise manufacturing and sales of products based upon the needs of its customers.

NBK provides high-precision, high-performance specialty screws and machinery components for all. As companies grow in North America, NBK grows too helping businesses advance and implement remarkable developments in the semiconductor, flat panel display, LED, robotics, solar cell, and biotechnology industries in addition to many more. Furthermore, NBK supports the world’s machine tool and CNC industries with the widest selection of motion control couplings available. Institutional commitment to employees, customers and the government are fundamental to NBK, as demonstrated by its MITI award-winning Seki Garden Factory in Japan. NBK is proud of its heritage and will continue to create value through products appropriate to society

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New England Tubing Technologies

Custom Medical Extrusions

Incorporated in 2001, New England Tubing Technologies occupies a 14,000 square foot state-ofthe-art controlled environment manufacturing facility in the beautiful White Mountains of New Hampshire. Partnering directly with the world’s leading medical electronics and device manufacturers, we design custom braid or spiral reinforced tubing, lined catheter shafts, and hybrid tubing built to exacting specifications.

New England Tubing Technologies

132 North Main Street

Lisbon, NH 03585

United States

www.newenglandtubing.com

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Working directly with clients in the medical electronics and device industries, as well as with other custom industrial and commercial projects, we design and manufacture custom braid or spiral reinforced tubing, lined catheter shafts, multi-durometer and multi-lumen tubing, hybrid tubing configurations, as well as medical braid. Building on the decades of extrusion and wireprocessing experience of our parent company, New England Wire Technologies, New England Tubing is advancing innovation in thin-wall, tight tolerance tubing, reinforcing, bonding layers of thermoplastic to fluoropolymer, and braiding all types of round and flat wire.

Our team of design engineers work personally with each customer to develop innovative, one-of-a-kind tubing solutions and custom OEM components from their specifications or to meet unique performance characteristic requirements.

We also offer a wide range of value-added and postprocessing services—tipping, hubbing, flaring, Parylene coating, centerless grinding, and cut to length options. Through true vertical integration of manufacturing processes, New England Tubing Technologies is able to offer customers everything from rapid prototyping services and small quantity orders to full production and value-added services. Let us help you dream beyond today’s technology and achieve the impossible!

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New England Wire Technologies

New England Wire Technologies is a privately held company with an employee stock ownership program. For 125 years, we have manufactured the most technologically advanced wire and cable in the industry. Our 400,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility, located in Lisbon, NH, houses manufacturing, R&D, quality/testing, tooling/machine fabrication and office space. With almost 400 employees, we operate 3 shifts per day, five days a week. As an ISO9001 registered company, we specialize in technical cable solutions, short lead times, and unparalleled customer service.

New England Wire Technologies

130 North Main Street Lisbon, NH 03585

www.newenglandwire.com

Founded in 1898 in response to the birth of the communication age, today New England Wire is advancing innovation in several industries including medical device and electronics, aerospace, defense, robotics/automation, power generation, and alternative energy. Our capabilities include custom Litz wire, miniature, micro-miniature, single and multiconductor cables, low-noise, high temperature, coaxial and hybrid cables. Since the 1960’s, we have provided cabling and insulating services to the superconductor industry where our products are integrated into most of the major accelerator projects, ore separator magnets, NMR magnets, and superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) magnets.

Through our creative design and development expertise, our engineering staff specializes in product development, concurrent engineering, design for manufacturability, and quick-turn prototyping. Our on-site manufacturing processes include wire drawing, plating, braiding, cabling, insulating, and extrusion services. And, since all of our proprietary equipment and tooling is designed and built in-house, we have complete control while also offering quick modifications when needed. Through true vertical integration of the manufacturing processes, our customers’ design-tomarket curve is the shortest in the industry.

New England Wire Technologies is committed to being the premier custom cable manufacturer of choice for customers in existing and emerging worldwide specialty cable markets. We help our customers dream beyond today’s technology and achieve the impossible!

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Nitto Kohki USA

Nitto Kohki USA, Inc. designs, develops, engineers, and continuously improves high quality air compressors and vacuum pumps for applications like medical devices, laboratory equipment, applied robotics and environmental sensing equipment.

Nitto Kohki’s unique linear free piston design has one moving part per pump— the piston. The result is a pump with exceptionally reliable performance in tough medical applications. The linear free piston concept enables Nitto Kohki pumps to be smaller and lighter than conventional aerators, allowing designers greater flexibility in system design.

Nitto Kohki USA, Inc.

46 Chancellor Drive Roselle, IL 60172

www.nittokohki.com

Nitto Kohki leads through exceptional product design and execution, with pumps that meet the rigorous demands of today's medical device industry.

Nitto Kohki pumps feature a unique, patent-awarded linear-motor-driven free piston system that is globally proven in the medical device, instrumentation, and other critical industries. This unique design theory eliminates the wear components typically found in conventional air compressors and vacuum pumps, such as crank shafts, connecting rods and ball bearings. The only moving part is the piston! Also eliminated is the need for any lubrication. Fewer parts translate into fewer problems.

WHY DESIGNERS CHOOSE NITTO KOHKI

• Exceptionally reliable performance for critical applications

• World class manufacturing expertise ensures consistent product quality

• Clean, simple design maximizes performance, minimizes maintenance — adding value over the integrated product lifecycle.

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NORD DRIVESYSTEMS

NORD DRIVESYSTEMS designs and manufactures gear boxes, electric motors, and electronic control products for hundreds of industries worldwide with modular designs that deliver more than 20,000,000 standard configurations.

NORD DRIVESYSTEMS

800 NORD Drive

Waunakee, WI 53597 Tel. 888.314.6673 info.us@nord.com

www.nord.com

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NORD offers:

• Unmatched product versatility

• Fast, reliable sales and support

• Direct access to our engineering team

• myNORD customer tools to configure, price, quote, and track your orders online

• Easy online spare parts ordering

• 24/7/365 emergency breakdown service

IE5+ Synchronous Motors – NORD’s IE5+ PMS motors are engineered to achieve high efficiency over partial speeds and loads. The fan cooled TEFC design is ideal for applications where ventilation is required while the TENV model is built for wash-down applications. IE5+ motors provide a constant torque over a wide range of speeds which significantly reduces number of variants and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). NORD’s IE5+ motors are available in a DuoDrive design, where the motor and gear unit are integrated into a single-frame, single-stage helical gear unit housing. Additional surface protection options are available including IP69K or nsd tupH Sealed Surface Conversion System.

NORDAC ON/ON+ Variable Frequency

Drives – Developed to meet the special requirements of horizontal conveyor technology, as well as for interaction with NORD’s new IE5+ synchronous motors (NORDAC ON+). These motor- or wallmounted VFDs are characterized by an integrated Ethernet interface, full Plug-andPlay capabilities, and a very compact design.

NORDAC PRO SK 500P Variable Frequency Drives – Highly configurable cabinet VFDs with 5 frames sizes to accommodate a wide range of applications. Includes Bluetooth connectivity, an SD memory card for storage and transfer of parameters, firmware, and operating data, as well as a USB interface for easy parameterization. Use of the latest technology and components gives these VFDs an extremely small footprint, allowing for fast, space-saving installations.

Condition Monitoring for Predictive

Maintenance – Optimize operational safety and efficiency with NORD’s condition monitoring solutions. This integrated VFD analog/digital sensor functionality captures real or near-real time system status data and analyzes it to detect issues preventing costly downtime. It also allows for proactive maintenance, reduces overall service and material costs, and increases system availability.

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Norgren

Norgren is a world leader in motion control and fluid technology with a proven track record of creating innovative engineering solutions.

Whether it’s improving the speed, productivity, reliability, and efficiency of equipment; generating significant energy and cost savings; or lowering total cost of ownership across industries, Norgren’s solutions are designed to help customers pursue progress, achieve new goals, and overcome problems. Norgren offers technical excellence and a true collaborative approach to help organizations forge a better world through breakthrough engineering.

Norgren

5400 S Delaware St. Littleton, CO 80120

LittletonCustomerService@imi-precision.com (800) 514-0129

www.norgren.com

Why Norgren is a Leader in Engineering

Norgren has a proud history of success and innovation in engineering solutions, dating back to 1927. The same focus on innovation and excellence that helped found our company continues to drive us forward, with world-class products that improve performance and productivity.

We play an active role in industry sectors that contribute to the quality and success of everyday life, such as factory automation and packaging, the life sciences, and the rail and commercial vehicle industries. As these industries face increasingly complex challenges, Norgren provides fresh thinking and new approaches to successfully tackle fundamental issues. Some of our areas of expertise include:

Food and beverage - From handling 40 bar air for PET bottle blowing, to aggressive solvents in ink jet printing; from wash-down chemicals to lime scale-free coffee machines, we have an impressive track record of helping the world’s largest food companies improve efficiency, save energy and optimize performance.

Material handling - Efficient and productive press operation begins with the seamless integration of part motion, die structure and finger tooling. We offer a multistep system that coordinates process, die, and finger designs to optimize efficiency and throughput.

Industry 4.0 - As part of a portfolio of highquality products that complete the entire pneumatic circuit, Norgren offers smart components with IO-Link capabilities. Digitally connected Excelon® Plus air preparation, VR Series valve manifolds, actuators, sensors, and switches allow manufacturers to collect more data on operations, improving efficiency and optimizing productivity while reducing machine downtime.

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Novotechnik is a manufacturer and global supplier of linear and rotary position sensors based on innovative potentiometric, Hall-effect, magnetostrictive and inductive measurement principles.

The company was founded in 1949 and is part of the Siedle Group. Customers routinely benefit from our experience gained from our long-term focus on position sensing products.

Our application-proven sensors include premium position sensing solutions for customer applications requiring high precision and time-proven reliability under harsh conditions.

Novotechnik develops a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art position sensors with numerous standard options and custom enhancements. All sensors are rigorously tested to meet customers’ needs and application requirements while adhering to international standards. Novotechnik is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and IATF 16949:2016.

Dedicated local engineers provide technical support to assist with the seamless and cost-effective integration of position sensor systems into a wide variety of automation, agriculture, automotive, marine, robotics, medical and other applications.

Novotechnik U.S., Inc.

155 Northboro Road

Southborough, MA 01772

Toll free: 800-667-7492

Ph: 508-485-2244

www.novotechnik.com

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Many Novotechnik angle and position sensor are integral parts of complex industrial feedback loop controls. To meet rising safety demands selected Novotechnik sensors are available in redundant versions, have diagnostics built in and are suitable for safety-relevant applications according to ISO 13849.

Non-contact rotary angle sensors utilize the NovoHall™ Hall-Effect for measurements without shafts or couplings to measure without mechanical wear and through solid or nonsolid materials. A magnetic marker attaches to an application´s rotating part and a sensing part with NovoHall technology detects the field orientation and converts the detected angle into an analog or digital output signal. One of six product families this technology is used in is the RFC4800 Series and enables up to 14-bit resolution and repeatability of 0.1° or better. The high temperature rating of -40°C to +120°C and high seal rating of IP69 are key specifications that express the long-term robustness of this low profile sensor.

nVent HOFFMAN

We connect and protect critical controls/systems.

nVent is a global company specializing in electrical connection and protection solutions, with more than 8,800 employees in 80 locations around the world. Our global manufacturing footprint and high quality, competitive range of both IEC and NEMA electrical enclosures provide us with a unique opportunity to provide tailored solutions to customers around the world.

nVent HOFFMAN

2100 Hoffman Way

Anoka, Minnesota 55303

https://hoffman.nvent.com/

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nVent HOFFMAN connects and protects critical controls and systems around the world while ensuring maximum productivity, and making it easy to do business with us.

For more than 75 years, customers have relied on nVent HOFFMAN to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio. Pairing with panel shop automation solutions with newly announced Design to Manufacturing Software, our high-quality NEMA and IEC enclosure and cooling offerings are suitable for a vast range of verticals and applications. Whether it is Commercial Construction, Data Networking Solutions, Industrial Automation, Energy or Critical Infrastructure, our local sales and product specialists are here for you to ensure your critical controls, components, and your business are protected.

Innovation is part of our DNA. We strive to do our utmost to develop products and support that ensure that our customers remain competitive while boosting productivity and the bottom line. Key product development drivers include: fast assembly, optimum protection, and appealing design. These all contribute to delivering optimum enclosures that meet customers’ exact requirements. Furthermore, nVent HOFFMAN products are developed in world-class testing facilities and are rigorously tested for dust infiltration, thermal cycling, corrosion, vibration resistance, and many other standards to ensure optimal performance and protection.

Being easy to do business means providing customers with the right digital tools to guide them through the variety of solutions. It also means providing online tools and information on our websites that help customers in their engineering work.

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Ohio Fabricators Company

STOCK AND CUSTOM FILTRATION SOLUTIONS TODAY!

Since 1945, Ohio Fabricators Company (OFCO) has been a leader in custom-manufactured filters, strainers, diffusers, breathers and screens for a wide variety of industries. In addition to custom manufacturing, it also stocks many standard products for immediate delivery, as well as parts and materials for rapid assembly of custom orders.

OFCO’s strengths are its ability to deliver high-quality engineered products, all manufactured at its Central Ohio plant. Nobody beats OFCO’s delivery times.

Ohio Fabricators Company

111 North 14th Street

Coshocton, OH 43812

United States

(888) 354-0291

https://ohfab.com/

Consistent quality and unparalleled delivery times

Manufacturing custom hydraulic strainers, breathers, and screens in Central Ohio with a veteran workforce and friendly service helped us grow quickly. As time went on, we became well known for our custom-built filtration products.

Our customers rely on us to meet their exacting specs and rapid delivery times. Our entire operation is now focused on providing customcreated products that exceed expectations and pass our stringent quality requirements. Our knowledge in raw materials and innovative production techniques allow us to provide solutions for many industries.

Our Central Ohio location allows us to ship our products with unparalleled speed, while our competitors are sourcing materials and finished goods overseas. Our veteran workforce delivers solutions that consistently meet critical specifications. Our quality management system is ISO 9001:2015 certified.

OFCO began in 1945 by manufacturing filters for airplane motors in support of the war effort. Though much has changed since then, the company’s commitment to third-party audited quality management, exceptional turnaround times and the highest level of customer service has sustained our legacy and kept customers coming back.

Over the years we’ve grown our capabilities to support a wide range of manufacturers, distributors and end users.

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Ogura Industrial Corp.

Ogura Industrial Corp has demonstrated its leadership in providing motion control solutions and is currently the world’s largest manufacturer of electromagnetic clutches and brakes.

In order to meet customized needs of today and tomorrow, we have continued investment in manufacturing technologies and latest design principles.

We are ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, and IATF 16949:2016.

We have 14 manufacturing plants worldwide capable of producing 30 million clutches/year.

Our current product portfolio includes 3000+ clutch and brake designs meeting torque requirements ranging from 0.01 in-oz to 25,000 ft-lb.

We welcome the opportunity to put our manufacturing and engineering skills to work for you.

Ogura Industrial Corp

100 Randolph Rd Somerset, NJ 08873

Phone: (732) 271-7361

Visit us at www.ogura-clutch.com

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AUTOMOTIVE

Ogura supplies roughly 1/3 of automotive compressor clutches throughout the world. This high volume production base gives Ogura an edge in other high volume electromechanical components and clutches for:

• Sliding doors and locking mechanisms

• Transfer cases, power transfer units, and electro magnetic locking differentials

• Liquid heat generators, powertrain components, and more

CONSTRUCTION & OUTDOOR POWER EQUIPMENT

Ogura electric PTO clutch designs have proven reliability through millions of installations. We supply a significant portion of the world’s consumer/commercial turf market. Our mobile pump clutches allow auxiliary engine components to be disconnected when not in use, reducing power consumption, extending component life and providing better fuel economy for:

• Mowers, tractors, stump grinders, trenchers

• Ag applications (spreaders, seeders, harvesters)

• Pumps (hydraulic, water, vacuum)

INDUSTRIAL

Electromagnetic clutches and brakes are used in any rotational application where motion needs to be controlled. Holding brakes are commonly used for servo motors and robotics and where safety is important. Microclutches are used on paper handling and office automation equipment. Single face friction, multiple disk, tooth, magnetic particle, hysteresis and permanent magnet units are used to control motion and provide safety for:

• Robotics and warehouse automation

• Medical equipment

• Factory automation and processing equipment

• Paper handling for copiers and printers

• Electric wheel drive brakes

SPECIALTY

Ogura produces specialty products like superchargers (air blowers) and special motor sports clutches and brakes. Our superchargers have very high efficiency versus traditional roots blowers. They are helping to reduce engine horsepowers, lower emissions and are increasingly being used in fuel cell requirements to control both air and hydrogen. Because of Ogura’s high quality production, we are also certified to produce aircraft components under ISOJIS Q9100.

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OKW Enclosures, Inc.

Award-Winning Electronic Enclosures

OKW Enclosures, Inc. is a specialist manufacturer of enclosures for OEM electronics. The company’s extensive and award winning program includes pocket-size, handheld, desktop, portable, wall mount and DIN rail enclosures, plus accessories and a large range of tuning knobs.

OKW also offers a comprehensive customizing service which can supply the enclosures fully finished with all the modifications necessary for mounting the customer’s components. Options include CNC machining, custom colors and materials, digital printing and much more.

Free samples are available for evaluation.

OKW Enclosures, Inc.

Abele Business Park

3000 Old Pond Road Bridgeville, PA 15017

United States

Tel: (800) 965-9872

www.okwenclosures.com

OKW manufactures advanced enclosures for today’s electronics equipment.

The enclosures can be supplied fully customized to customer specifications.

The range includes the following popular versions:

Handheld Enclosures

Modern and ergonomically designed enclosures for mobile electronics used both indoors and outside. Standard features include recessed tops for locating membrane keypads, battery compartments for AAA, AA and 9V cells, integrated cable glands, infra-red versions, sealing kits up to IP 65, desk stations for charging and wall holders for storing. Many of these enclosures can also be used as wearable devices with the optional wrist/hand straps, belt/pocket clips and lanyards.

Instrument Enclosures

Stylish high quality enclosures for table-top and portable electronic instruments. Large range of designs in plastic or aluminum with removable front panels or sloping front sections. Options include aluminum or plastic front panels recessed for membrane keypads, ventilation slots, battery compartments, bail arms or integrated handles and non-slip feet.

Wall Mount Enclosures

Advanced wall mount enclosures for indoor and outdoor electronics equipment. Stylish and modern design sets these enclosures apart from the norm. Standard features include hidden fixing screws for a clean and tamper-proof assembly, recessed top for a membrane keypad, standard ingress protection up to IP 67 ( NEMA 4X) and hinged solid or transparent lids.

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OMS Motion, Inc.

Proven Motion Control Excellence

OMS Motion, Inc. operated as Oregon Micro Systems, a privately owned corporation, until the mid-90’s when the company was acquired by a public company with a focus on powered medical devices. OMS operated as a division of the public company, supporting the powered medical devices while maintaining the motion control business. Then in early 2017 OMS separated from the public company, regaining a renewed focus on the motion control business.

OMS Motion Inc. has been successfully producing motion controls for over 40 years. Originally founded in the early 80’s as Oregon Micro Systems, OMS developed patented technology that provides advantages in the motion control industry. The core products include multi-axis controllers up to 10-axes, fully coordinated and synchronized, as well as single-axis integrated drive/controllers. OMS Motion has the experience, proven reliability, and performance that has gained the confidence of engineers and scientists worldwide.

OMS Motion, Inc.

15201 NW Greenbrier Pkwy

Suite B1

Beaverton, Oregon 97006

www.OMSmotion.com

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OMS Motion’s products are designed to be easy to commission while providing superior performance. Through the use of advanced components, OMS is able to avoid the overhead of an OS and produce very effective results. Because of this, OMS products have found success in markets around the world including semi-conductor equipment, lab automation and life science instruments, factory automation, large-and small-scale research facilities/projects, astronomy research and others.

Currently there are OMS products in use around the world, on every continent and several countries, supporting mission critical applications. The company’s strong commitment to their customers success has manifested the support of some individual product applications for more than 25 years, which is no easy task. OMS Motion firmly believes in doing the right thing, which is a testament to how they have realized over 40-years of continued success.

By leveraging the power and flexibility of a cloud-native architecture, Onshape has redefined the product development industry. Onshape’s ability to run in any web-browser, independent of hardware and operating systems, enabled new opportunities to work across geographic boundaries.

In today’s digital era, companies have to accelerate their innovation process to stay competitive. Onshape empowers engineers to innovate in real-time and collaborate with various stakeholders simultaneously - from anywhere, anytime, on any device.

PTC

121 Seaport Blvd. Boston, MA 02210

www.onshape.com

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Onshape is the only cloud-native product development platform, combining full-featured computer-aided design (CAD), integrated product data management (PDM), and enterprise analytics in a single system. With advanced simultaneous collaboration, Onshape allows engineers to develop products on-demand and collaborate in real time – without being tethered to a machine or a device.

Onshape was acquired by PTC in 2019 and is the fastest-growing CAD system in the world, growing at seven times the average rate of the CAD market. Onshape diminishes security risks, reduces overall cost and accelerates time to market. With a community of over 3 million global users, numerous industries rely on Onshape, such as consumer goods, industrial equipment, robotics, and medical technology.

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Opto 22

Opto 22: Your Edge in Digital Transformation

For nearly 50 years, OEMs, machine builders, system integrators, and IT and operations personnel have looked to Opto 22 for innovative automation products at an affordable price.

Heard of OPC? We co-wrote the spec as one of the founding members. Ethernet I/O? That was us. PACs? Us again.

We still embed these tools and more in the industrial control and IIoT products we design and manufacture today. Our groov EPIC® edge programmable industrial controllers and groov RIO™ edge I/O run on standard Ethernet networks and offer multiple OPC UA Server options. And their standards-based IT protocols and cybersecurity features meet your needs for industrial data.

Opto 22 products are deployed in applications worldwide through our network of distributors and system integrators.

Opto 22

43044 Business Park Drive

Temecula, CA 92590

United States

1-800-321-6786

www.opto22.com

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Opto 22’s groov® family of industrial edge controllers and I/O is designed from the ground up with integrated control, connectivity, and cybersecurity tools to help you connect automation, enterprise, and cloud data.

• Securely access, monitor, and maintain your systems at remote locations or customer sites

• Collect, process, and publish operational and energy data backed by fault-tolerant storage and store-and-forward capability

• Develop real-time control programs in a language you know: ladder logic, function block diagram, flowcharts, Python, C/C++, and more

• Build dynamic operator HMI screens for embedded or external touchscreens, mobile devices, and browsers

• Replace costly, high-maintenance Windows PCs for HMI, OPC, and data processing with Linux-based industrial processors

• Secure existing PLCs, traditional I/O, and standalone equipment, then integrate it with databases, business systems, and cloud services

Built on decades of field-proven experience, groov products offer lifetime guarantees on solid-state I/O, UL Hazardous Locations approval, ATEX compliance, and a wide -20 to 70 °C operating temperature range.

Count on free pre-sales engineering help and product support, too. All Opto 22 products are developed, manufactured, and supported in the U.S.A.

With nearly 50 years as a trusted automation manufacturer, we understand your projects and speak your protocols. Contact our engineers today.

Let the engineers at Opto 22 help with your digital transformation.

Oriental Motor USA

Innovative Motion Control Solutions Since 1885

Founded in Japan in 1885, Oriental Motor has been developing fractional horsepower precision motors and electronic circuits for motion control as part of the Oriental Motor Total Service experience to meet the demands of today’s global market. Oriental Motor offers an extensive product line-up of 50,000 different products that provide a motion control solution for the most unique application. For over a century we have concentrated on technological advancement and product design improvement. This emphasis is evident in the breadth of sophisticated devices that we market today.

Oriental Motor USA

570 Alaska Ave. Torrance, CA 90503

www.orientalmotor.com

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Since our success in standardizing compact motors, we have been developing products to accommodate all kinds of motion requirements. The current demand for robots that can replace repetitive tasks is increasing. As a result, there has been more interest in designing robots to do this work while incorporating requirements to make robots smaller. The AZ Series family of products from Oriental Motor is a compact Hybrid Control System with a built-in mechanical sensor that allows for the configuration of a battery-free absolute system. The newly released Compact Driver, with a weight of just 39 g (1.4 oz.) works with a variety of AlphaStep AZ Series, DC input absolute stepper motors and actuators. This driver can be controlled using RS-485 communication and daisy chained to maximize design, space and improve installation time. The Compact Driver is also designed to be close to the motor, making it ideal for robotic application.

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OTTO Engineering

OTTO is a vertically integrated manufacturer that produces a full line of switches, operator controls and custom solutions that perform in some of the toughest applications including industrial, construction, agricultural, medical, material handling, military and aerospace sectors. OTTO is recognized worldwide for enhanced performance and innovative products, specializing in a broad range of switches and operator control grips including joysticks with Hall Effect technology, J1939, CAN and PWM communication protocols. We are ISO 9001:2000 certified and maintain the highest quality standards. Located in Carpentersville, Illinois, OTTO has been in business since 1961.

OTTO Engineering

2 E Main St Carpentersville, Illinois 60110

https://www.otto-controls.com/

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For a company to be a leader in engineering, the company must be innovative and versatile in their problem-solving capabilities.

For over 60 years, OTTO Engineering has accomplished this by being a vertically integrated company. Our teams design, test and produce OTTO products all in one location to ensure quality in all OTTO products. This allows OTTO to have control over every aspect of the product. When it comes to customized samples for customers, OTTO’s engineers have the capability to create the sample entirely inhouse.

From the design stage, our engineers work with customers to create their ideal product. When it comes time to produce the sample, whether the product is created by OTTO’s production team or engineering via 3D printers, the engineers workclosely with our machinist to produce the best possible product. Once the sample is produced, it goes to OTTO’s test lab to verify it passes industries specific requirements, such as commercial heavy equipment or aviation and military.

OTTO overall is ISO14001 and ISO9001 certified, along with the OTTO Test lab being ISO 17025 certified. When it comes to quality and repair certifications, OTTO is AS9100, EASA Part 145 and 14 CFR 145 certified. Being able to test products in-house, it saves customers time when designing and creating their custom products.

At OTTO, testing does not stop after the product is finalized. Every OTTO product order is tested to ensure 100% continuity before shipping to our customers.

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P-DUKE Technology

Medical power leader

P-DUKE Technology

P-DUKE was founded in 1992, manufacturing based in Taiwan, is fully devoted in research & development, production that provides complete sales, technical service of DC/ DC converters and AC/DC power supply also custom power solution. Specializes in particular sectors such as medical and railway applications where require high standard and attention on safety the most. Main Business is over Europe, America, and pacific Asia. Accumulating abundant experience within 30 years, has opened up product awareness becoming an important role in the global market.

P-DUKE Technology Co.,Ltd.

No.36,22nd Rd.,Taichung

Industrial park

Taichung 40850

Taiwan

www.pduke.com

P-DUKE USA

California

(909) 598-5000

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P-DUKE offer broad range of medical power products. Including 1-60W DC to DC converter for CF type devices and 15-450W AC to DC power supply for B/ BF type devices in compact design. The manufacturing facilities are acquired ISO 9001 manufacturing, ISO 13485 quality and 14971 risk Management System certification for medical device. Offering high IEC/EN 60601-1/ ES 60601-1 medical certificated reliable power supplies.

The products own many design and manufacturing process patents, always bringing the latest technology which won the Innovation Award of TAITRONICS and good reputation in the industry.

Parvalux

Leading Manufacturer of Geared Motor Solutions

Parvalux Electric Motors is a leading global manufacturer of geared motor solutions, chosen by manufacturers to power hundreds of diverse applications. We have over 70 years’ experience designing and manufacturing the perfect combination of motor and gearbox to match our customers’ applications and we offer thousands of standard AC, PMDC and BLDC electric motor options. Parvalux products are found in hundreds of applications, globally but we are particularly recognized for our work within the healthcare, leisure, mobility, transport and a diverse range of industrial applications.

Parvalux, a maxon company 125 Dever Drive Taunton, MA 02780 sales.us@parvalux.com www.parvalux.com

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Parvalux gearmotors for a wide range of industries and applications

< PMDC Motors

Parvalux manufactures an extensive range of Permanent Magnet DC (PMDC) motors; standard, semi-custom and fully-custom permanent magnet DC motor designs. Combined with our in-house manufactured gearboxes, Parvalux PMDC motors are suitable for a vast range of applications in a range of industries from mobility and patient care to industrial and leisure products.

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Brushless DC Electric Motors > Parvalux offers a vast range of brushless DC motors, available as a BLDC motor only or with a choice of gearbox units, making them suitable for a wide range of applications.

Our brushless DC motors deliver an array of benefits, ensuring your products deliver the highest possible performance throughout their lifetime:

• High Torque at Low Speeds

• Durability and Ease of Maintenance

• Precise Motion Control

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A large selection of AC electric and gear motors with excellent properties that make them easy to deploy and ideal for numerous applications:

• Power range of 8 Watts to 1 kW

• Single and three phase AC motors

• Parvalux and IEC Frames

• Asynchronous and synchronous single and two speed AC motors

• IE2 and IE3 versions

• Die cast zinc alloy, aluminium and cast iron housing material options

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PBC Linear

A leader in the engineering, manufacturing, and assembly of a wide range of linear motion products, along with custom engineering services. Our core line of linear components includes bearings, shafting, rail assemblies, and cam roller sliders. Building on this strong foundation, we have created a sophisticated family of products that includes lead screws and motor lead screw assemblies, actuators, cartesian robotics, and mechatronics assemblies.

The story of PBC Linear begins with an innovative and patented solution in bearing design, the Frelon®-lined plain bearing. That successful bearing design is now part of a larger family of products related to linear motion technologies, with many of them manufactured at our headquarters in Roscoe, Illinois USA. Dedicated engineers at PBC Linear can work with industry professionals to produce prototypes, pilots, and small production runs, helping to bring customer ideas to market.

To learn more about career possibilities at PBC Linear, visit pbclinear.com.

PBC Linear

6402 E. Rockton Road

Roscoe, Illinois 61073 USA

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COMPONENTS

MECHATRONICS

For applications small to extra-large.

Linear Bearings and Shafting

Roller Bearings and Linear Guideways

Linear Guide Systems

FACTORY AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS

In response to growing demands on manufacturing, PBC Linear has launched their Factory of the Future program, offering new automation tools and workforce up-skilling.

Plain Bearing Linear Guideways Flexible

Customers can effectively implement collaborative automation systems to increase safety, flexibility, and productivity.

Find automation solutions on the Applied Cobotics product page at pbclinear.com.

WIDE RANGE OF APPLICATIONS

PBC Linear manufactures a full range of highperformance linear motion solutions for a wide array of applications ranging from IoT-capable systems, to pickand-place assemblies and lab automation equipment, to extra-large, heavy-duty lift systems used in industrial manufacturing.

Precision Lead Screws

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Pepperl+Fuchs

A Leader in Industrial Sensor Technology

As a leader in industrial sensor technology and a pioneer in electrical explosion protection, Pepperl+Fuchs has been developing components and solutions for over 70 years.

Above all, our goal is to provide the perfect solutions for our customers’ applications. Not only do we share our passion for automation with our customers—but we also share our indepth expertise and experience. Pepperl+Fuchs is re-envisioning tried-and-trusted technologies and developing innovations that pave the way for networked production and communication that transcends your company’s boundaries. Our innovation, your competitive advantage.

For decades, Pepperl+Fuchs has been developing and distributing industrial sensors and sensor systems with the highest quality standards for use in automation technology. Our diverse product portfolio provides sensors for standard applications as well as customized solutions, so our customers always receive the ideal sensor system for their specific requirements.

Our product portfolio of industrial sensors for factory automation is characterized by a high degree of innovation. It consists of inductive, photoelectric, capacitive, magnetic, and ultrasonic sensors.

Additionally, we offer powerful components such as rotary encoders, positioning and identification systems (RFID, Data Matrix, Barcode), ASInterface, as well as suitable accessories. Industrial vision systems and sensors – one of the key sensor technologies of the future – are also part of our portfolio.

Our full range of IO-Link sensors rounds off the comprehensive product range and paves the way for Industry 4.0 technology.

Pepperl+Fuchs

1600 Enterprise Parkway Twinsburg, OH 44087

www.pepperl-fuchs.com

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State-of-the-art technologies and a global sales and production network make Pepperl+Fuchs the ideal partner for a wide variety of global industries. These include markets such as automotive, material handling, packaging, print and paper, doors, gates, and elevator construction, process equipment, mobile equipment, and renewable energy.

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Performance Motion Devices, Inc.

Performance Motion Devices, Inc. is a world leader in motion control technology for life sciences, robotics, and industrial automation. PMD delivers a broad range of advanced electronic motion control products including integrated circuits, digital amplifiers, digital drives, and boards to a worldwide customer base. With over 6.5 million motors controlled by PMD solutions, they distribute products to manufacturer’s and OEMs around the globe.

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DELIVERING WORLD-CLASS MOTION CONTROL PRODUCTS SINCE 1992

Performance Motion Devices, Inc.

(PMD) is a world leader in motion control technology for life sciences, robotics, and industrial automation. PMD delivers a broad range of advanced electronic motion control products including integrated circuits, digital amplifiers, digital drives, and boards. With over 6.5 million motors controlled, PMD distributes products to manufacturers and OEMs around the globe.

PMD’s unique motion control products excel at Brushless DC, DC Brush, and step motor control. These controllers provide profile generation, servo loop closure, advanced commutation and current control, and much more. With PMD’s Developer Kits and C-Motion programming language you’ll be tuning your system and building your application in no time.

Performance Motion Devices, Inc. is an ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 certified company.

MAKE EVERY MOVE COUNT

PMD helps engineers solve their toughest motion control challenges. Discover how PMD’s world-class motion control solutions increase performance, improve reliability, and help get your products to market faster.

• High-performance motion control ICs, modules, and boards

development tools

• A single common motion language for all products

PMD’s motto, Motion Control At Its Core, reflects its uniquely powerful strategy of placing motion control ICs at the core of all of their products so that they speak one common motion language.

NEW ULTRA-COMPACT MOTION CONTROLLER

Meet the new PCB-mountable intelligent drive that provides advanced motion control features, flexible network connectivity, and advanced power amplification.

• Fully Programmable

• S-curve Profiling

• 1 KW+ Power Output

• Supports Brushless DC, DC Brush, and step motors

Visit www.pmdcorp.com/nseries to learn more.

Permco

Permco is a leading manufacturer of high-pressure hydraulic gear/vane pumps and motors, flow dividers, intensifiers, and accessories. Available in a wide variety of sizes and configurations to suit your application needs. Permco offers the highest quality product possible to our wide customer base of OEMs and distributors. Because we understand that our success depends on the success of our customers, we are committed to reducing customers’ costs and increasing the simplicity of doing business with us.

PERMCO, INC.

1500 Frost Road

P.O. Box 2068

Streetsboro, OH 44241

Toll Free: 1-800-626-2801

Phone: 330-626-2801

Fax: 330-626-2805

www.permco.com

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As a leading manufacturer of precisionengineered fluid power products, Permco understands innovation isn’t always about reinventing the wheel but reconfiguring existing products to fit specific customer requirements. It’s about improving service, product training, and support so that customers can maintain their investments effectively and reap long-lasting benefits. It’s also about looking inward at production processes, suppliers, employee development, and management to ensure that customers receive the highest quality, cost-effective products to build their machines and systems.

The Perfection Manufacturing Company was founded in 1964 to design and manufacture replacement parts for the mining industry. Renamed Permco 4 years later, the familyowned business developed a wide array of replacement hydraulic parts and eventually

expanded its manufacturing capabilities to include cast iron parts and the resulting complete units. Today we maintain our focus on customer service and continue a decadeslong tradition of developing fluid power systems that meet our customers’ specific needs. Permco’s product offering now includes gear and vane pumps/motors, flow dividers, intensifiers, and a variety of accessories and components. As we move forward, we will continue to rely on the fundamental strength of our product design and continue to surpass industry standards with engineering modifications that will enable them to work quieter and at higher pressures and speeds. Permco’s commitment to customer service and innovation in not only manufacturing, but in the education of the next generation of industry executives, will ensure the company’s continued growth as an industry leader.

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PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

In-house engineered solutions for 5+ decades

PI designs and manufactures precision motion and automation systems in the USA, Europe, and Asia. Leading the world as the first and largest manufacturer of nanopositioning products based on piezo motor designs, PI is also leading the field of high precision hexapod 6-axis parallel-positioners, automatic photonics alignment systems and multi-axis precision automation systems based on linear motor technology and / or air bearings.

Other technologies include piezo transducers, fast steering mirrors, motion controllers for laser processing, and magnetic levitation systems.

Founded more than 50 years ago at a Quantum Optics lab, PI has grown into a business of 1,400+ employees in 15 countries and $250 million in global sales.

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

16 Albert Street Auburn, MA 01501

www.pi-usa.us

Founded in 1970 and ISO 9001 certified since 1994, PI runs R&D, engineering, and production centers on 3 continents.

Multi-Axis Automation and Air Bearing Systems: Floating on a cushion of air, linear, rotary, and spherical air bearing stages deliver extremely precise, vibration-free motion, extreme geometric performance and repeatability, a highly constant velocity, and zero wear of mechanical components – ideal for high-end industrial inspection and manufacturing operations, such as optical metrology, flat panel display, precision scanning, and cleanroom applications.

Parallel, Serial Kinematics Positioners: In 1990, PI began designing the world’s largest selection of parallel positioners (hexapod Stewart platforms) for sub-micron precision optical alignment applications in large scale astronomical telescopes. Over the years, many applications – alignment of fibers, medical apparatus, aerospace components, laser diodes, automotive components – have benefited from the flexibility and versatility of micro-motion hexapod robots.

Piezo Technology: Piezoelectric solid-state drives provide many benefits over traditional stepper and servo motors for medical, automotive, semiconductors and aerospace applications including unlimited resolution, very high stiffness and force, extremely fast response, and no energy required to hold a position, even with heavy loads. NASA engineers confirmed the outstanding quality when testing PI actuators for the Mars Rover, observing zero failures after 100 billion cycles.

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Pilz Automation Safety, L.P.

Leading in automation technology

Our components, systems and services support you in the automation of your plants and machinery worldwide. Driven by our vision of “The Spirit of Safety”, we use our passion and our knowledge to offer you the best possible automation solutions. We are automation specialists committed to safety!

Our innovative and proven product and service solutions will help you reach your automation safety goal! Our products and systems range from sensor technology to control and drive technology, and our services that cover the entire machine lifecycle, including training.

Your projects are in safe hands!

Pilz Automaton Safety, L.P. 7150 Commerce Blvd.

Canton, MI 48187

Tel: +1 (734) 354-0272

info@pilzusa.com

www.pilz.us

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Pilz is a technology leader in safe automation technology; consistently developing a role as a total solutions supplier with solutions for safety, automation, and industrial security technology. The objective of Pilz is to automate plant and machinery in such a way that the safety of human, machine and environment is always guaranteed. Pilz is represented by 42 subsidiaries and branches on all continents.

Products and solutions for complete automation

Pilz offers complete automation solutions based around its core skill of safety –from sensor technology to control and actuator technology. The product range also includes corresponding software tools, diagnostic and visualization systems as well as services. Thus, complete system solutions emerge. Complete also means that our solutions consist both of automation, safety, and security solutions.

Pilz solutions can be used in all areas of mechanical engineering, from packaging and automotive to robot applications and even wind energy, to name just a few. These solutions guarantee that systems run safely at airports, that theatre scenery moves smoothly, and funiculars or roller coasters travel safely.

We inspire by our innovative strength Innovation traditionally plays an important role at Pilz. We have set standards and made industrial history with our products, such as the first E-STOP relay PNOZ.

Innovative strength is our driving force. Pilz was and continues to be a pioneer for the automation of the future. At Pilz, competencies and capacities in development and production are always built on a sustainable basis. Our strategy is to seize innovative ideas and make them marketready and suitable for industry. For more information on Pilz, please visit www.pilz.us

Pivot Point

Pivot Point is a designer and manufacturer of Non-Threaded Fasteners (i.e. clevis pins, cotter pins, quick-release pins and devices, wire rope cable assemblies, etc…) Our product line comprises fastening solutions that range from off-the-shelf fastening commodities to highly engineered custom assemblies.

The vast majority of our product is designed and manufactured in our 50,000 ft2 facility in Hustisford, WI where we perform cold forming, screw machining, and various secondary operations including high-volume drilling, wire rope cable assembly, staking/detenting, CNC machining, bending, and more. Pivot Point is a third-generation family-owned manufacturer. Learn more at www.pivotpins.com

Pivot Point, Inc.

PO Box 488

761 Industrial Lane

Hustisford, WI 53034

Phone: (800) 222-2231

Fax: (920) 349-3253

Email: mail@pivotpins.com

Leadership in Engineering

Pivot Point’s leadership in the field of Non-Threaded Fasteners has led to patents being awarded for a number of our solutions:

The SLIC PinTM: “SLIC” stands for “Self-Locking Implanted Cotter” – a spring loaded plunger embedded in a pin to act as an automatic cotter. One of our flagship products, this design has increased speed, efficiency, and safety across thousands of applications. U.S. PAT 6,872,039 & 7,147,420

The Bow-Tie Locking CotterTM: An intuitive design which locks on in a zero-tension position. Anti-vibratory.

The Auto-Lock Safety Pull Pin: A self-locking pull pin which features a plunger that locks in the forward position – will not disengage unless the ring is pulled. U.S. PAT

8,821,061

The Rue Ring Locking CotterTM: Surrounds the shaft and locks on. Anti-vibratory Incredibly secure.

The “U-Lock” Nylon LanyardTM: Injection molded replacement for more expensive steel tethers – snaps closed on itself for light duty tethering.

In addition to these proprietary designs, Pivot Point boasts a high level of customization across our products. Whether it’s customizing a ball lock pin for dust/grit resistance, tool activation, or tamper-proof applications, tailoring spring forces in our ball detent pins or ball plungers to provide the right product “feel”, or attaching custom stamped brackets to a wire rope cable assembly, our in-house Product Design team think outside-the-box to develop solutions for our customers.

Behind our product lines, our custom automated manufacturing equipment allows us to achieve peak efficiency and compete with less elegant overseas solutions - because price still matters.

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Pyramid, Inc.

About Pyramid Incorporated

PYRATHANE® (a combination of the words PYRAmid and ureTHANE) is our registered trade name for the polyurethane (also known as urethane) elastomer used in the manufacture of our endless stretch belts. Pyrathane® belts are used in a wide variety of low and fractional horsepower drive applications as well as transport devices for film, currency, small parts and many other items that need to be moved. Our belts are often used to replace O-rings which, while designed to be seals, are sometimes used as drive belts.

Pyramid Inc.

522 N 9th Ave E Newton, IA 50208-0200

sales@pyramidbelts.com www.pyramidbelts.com

At Pyramid, we believe our continued success is directly linked to our company’s stated goal of “Unquestionable High Quality Products made with Efficiency by a Team of Satisfied Employees.” What this means to you, our valued customers, is that QUALITY has been and always will be our highest priority.

We pledge to produce the highest quality polyurethane belts and cord to your specifications, efficiently and at competitive prices. We will respond to your needs with outstanding service, including a turnaround time that is exceptional. If you are currently a Pyramid customer, thank you for your business. If you’re looking for a quality supplier, give us a try. We’re ready to demonstrate that we deserve your business.

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R+W Coupling Technology

Engineering and manufacturing of precision flexible shaft couplings for motion control and power transmission applications, with a wide variety of designs for torsional rigidity, vibration damping, and overload protection. Whether for micro motors or 10 megawatt drives, couplings are customizable for most applications, while many standard models ship from stock. Configurable CAD models are available in a large number of file formats online.

With a philosophy of meeting customer requirements from concept to production, R+W has supplied many thousands of custom coupling designs, creating a wealth of knowledge about the technical requirements associated with a wide variety of industries and applications. Constant new product development takes place in house, in addition to intensive collaboration with universities and engineering firms, keeping R+W at the forefront of technical development and product innovation in its field. Over the past 30 years this has resulted in a position of market leadership for metal bellows couplings, and global availability for all of its precision couplings and torque limiters.

R+W

America

845 W Hawthorne Ln West Chicago, IL 60185

630-521-9911

info@rw-america.com

www.rw-america.com

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New in 2023, R+W America will be startingup assembly operations in its new facility in West Chicago, Illinois. With meticulous planning going back more than a year, the new bellows coupling production operations will be unique outside of Europe, supporting local manufacturing and making its core precision coupling products more readily available to the engineering community. This move will put R+W into a much better position to serve its growing customer base into the future, with additional products slated to be added to the program in the coming months. Stay tuned for more news to come!

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RAM Industries Inc.

RAM Industries Hydraulic Cylinder Custom Solutions

RAM’s expertise involves establishing a close technical rapport with every client to share ideas and gather critical information regarding cylinder fit and performance requirements.

RAM has extensive experience working with purchasers, engineers, manufacturing and maintenance teams, and entrepreneurs developing new product innovations that require custom cylinders.

RAM serves a diverse range of OEM clients in construction, oil & gas, mining, forestry, transportation, industrial equipment and agricultural industries across North America.

The RAM team offers ongoing engineering support, R&D consultation, prototyping services, and state of the art testing capabilities.

Join the growing number of companies that trust and rely on RAM!

RAM Industries Inc.

1-877-799-1005

www.ramindustries.com

RAM Industries Inc. was established in 1973 with a focus on hydraulic cylinders. Today, 50 years and 5 factory expansions later, custom cylinder design and manufacturing remains at the core of RAM’s operations!

RAM offers OEMs a wide range of standard or custom product designs, including:

• Single and Double Acting Cylinders

• Single and Double Acting Multi Stage Telescoping Cylinders

• Re-phasing Cylinder Sets

• Position Sensor (Smart) Cylinders

• Heavy Duty Construction Cylinders

• Stabilizing Cylinders

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give your equipment a distinct advantage! RAM is well-versed

Buying custom built hydraulic cylinders gives OEMs increased design flexibility and options compared to off-the-shelf offerings. Our sales and engineering experts work with your team to determine the exact fit and function cylinder requirements that will give your equipment a distinct advantage! RAM is well-versed in cylinder componentry, design and manufacturing methods, as well as the latest technologies in materials to ensure your cylinders function exactly as required.

Customized cylinder options include:

• Mounting Configurations

• Leading Edge Seal Technologies

• External Guards for Ports, Hoses and Oil Lines

• Bolt-in Glands

• Position Sensor Technology

• Replaceable Bushings and Bearings

• Integrated Valves such as Relief, Counterbalance, PO Check

• Custom Color Paint Finishes

Choosing a custom engineered hydraulic cylinder solution will give your equipment the leading edge!

Contact RAM Industries Today!

Renishaw is a global, high precision metrology and healthcare technology group. We design, develop and deliver solutions and systems that provide unparalleled precision, control and reliability.

Our metrology products help manufacturers to maximize production output, to significantly reduce the time taken to produce and inspect components, and to keep their machines running reliably. In the fields of industrial automation and motion systems, our position measurement and calibration systems allow builders to manufacture highly accurate and reliable products.

We are also a world leader in the field of additive manufacturing (also referred to as metal 3D printing), where we design and produce industrial machines which ‘print’ parts from metal powder. From transport to agriculture, electronics to healthcare, our breakthrough technology transforms product performance.

Renishaw Inc

1001 Wesemann Drive

West Dundee, IL 60118 USA

Phone: (847) 286-9953

Fax: (847) 286-9974

Email: usa@renishaw.com

URL: www.renishaw.com

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Renishaw offers a comprehensive range of advanced encoders used by OEMs around the world for exact positioning, highest reliability, and superior performance-to-cost value. A variety of different encoder technologies provide machine designers with proven solutions to difficult applications. All are engineered to deliver non-contact, friction-free operation, exceptional ease of installation, space savings, and application flexibility.

Optical encoders:

Our robust and high-performance linear and rotary position encoders measure using a finely graduated scale and compact optoelectronic read head that converts motion relative to the scale into position date. Renishaw optical linear and rotary encoders bring high-performance, speed and reliability to thousands of tough industrial applications. Robust metal scales avoid the fragility of glass scale encoders, while unique non-contact read heads eliminate the bulk hysteresis and wear with traditional encoders.

The QUANTiC™ encoder series integrates Renishaw’s filtering optics design and interpolation technology to create a high performance, super-compact, digital all-in-one incremental optical encoder. QUANTiC encoders are easy to install with exceptionally wide installation and running tolerance, along with built-in installation and calibration functions.

The FORTiS-S FS encoder series is a next generation linear enclosed absolute encoder for use in harsh environments, such as machine tools. The position measurement over the encoder’s long life is ensured by a range of innovative design features: industry-proven position measurement, superior sealing, easy and quick installation, non-contact, class leading vibration resistance, and functional safety.

Linear encoders:

Use flexible, self-adhesive, cut-to-length metal scales, a Renishaw innovation white patented optics filter out effects from scratches, dust, or dirt. Rotary encoders feature a steel ring with an engraved scale that direct mounts on shafts, eliminating coupling losses, oscillation, and hysteresis eras. A broad range of optical encoders lets designers tailor accuracy and sub-divisional error (SDOE) to application needs.

Based on Renishaw’s industry-proven absolute technology, the EVOLUTE™ encoder series is a true-absolute non-contact linear optical encoder with a 50 μm scale period, bringing superb installation tolerances and greater dirt immunity for applications that demand not only the highest operational integrity, but where fast installation is critical.

Magnetic encoders: RLS rotary and linear magnetic encoders— produced in Slovenia by RLS d.o.o., a Renishaw affiliate — are ideal for dirty, wet and extreme temperature environments. IP68 is a “norm” for this range of encoders. Low cost, compact size and design simplicity have won use in a wide range of industries. Non-contact solid-state design— essentially a chip and magnet —eliminates seals, bearings and moving parts for lifetime reliability.

Rotary encoders beat glass disk encoders in affordability, reliability, thermal range, shock and vibration resistance, dirt immunity, compactness, and speed. They provide class-leading performance, industry’s first 13-bit capacity. Available in component, modular and packaged shaft-style models, rotary encoders offer up to 8,192-count resolution, accuracy to 0.4°, speeds over 50,000 rpm, and extreme thermal range from -40°C to 125°C. LM10 linear magnetic encoders continue Renishaw’s cut-and-stick application simplicity with a self –adhesive, magnetic metal scale. The encoders offer “down to” 1 μm resolution at 8 m/sec. travel, -20°C to 85°C operation, and 100-meter range.

Miniature encoders:

The ATOM™ DX encoder series is Renishaw’s smallest incremental optical encoder with digital output direct from the read head, providing positional feedback, onboard interpolation, and filtering optics all in a miniature package.

ATOM DX builds on the market proven optical system of the ATOM™ encoder platform and integrates Renishaw’s high-performance interpolation technology, reducing system size and removing the need for additional adaptors and interfaces. ATOM DX is suitable for the most space constrained applications where performance cannot be compromised.

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ROLEC Enclosures, Inc.

Advanced Enclosures and Suspension Arm Systems

ROLEC manufactures a huge range of designer industrial enclosures for electronics and electrical equipment. The enclosures are sealed to IP 65, IP 66, IP 67 and IP 69K for indoor and outdoor applications. ROLEC enclosures stand out from the norm with their advanced modern designs which include many unique features. The enclosures are manufactured in diecast aluminum, stainless steel, GRP, LURAN, ABS and PC. ROLEC also manufactures HMI enclosures and suspension arm systems. All enclosures can be supplied fully customized to customer requirements. Samples are available for your evaluation.

ROLEC ENCLOSURES INC

Abele Business Park

3000 Old Pond Road

Bridgeville, PA 15017

www.rolec-usa.com

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ROLEC manufactures innovative enclosures and suspension arm systems for industrial electronics. The enclosures can be supplied fully customized to customer specifications.

The range includes the following popular versions:

Diecast Aluminum Enclosures

Modern and ergonomically designed diecast enclosures in a huge range of industry standard sizes. Unique round, rectangular and square styles. ROLEC designer features include recessed lids for membrane keypads, front plates or labels, clip-on lid trims which hide all of the fixing screws and integrated hinges. PCBs, terminal rails and cable glands can be easily fitted. The housings are sealed to IP 66, IP 67 and IP 69K for indoor and outdoor use. The enclosures can be mounted without opening the lid, so the electronics are protected during installation.

Plastic Enclosures

ROLEC manufactures a comprehensive range of modern and highly versatile plastic enclosures. These are manufactured in GRP, ABS, and UV-stable LURAN ASA. The enclosures are sealed to IP 65, IP 66 and IP 67 and have flammability ratings up to UL 94 V-0. ROLEC designer features include recessed lids for membrane keypads and labels. Pole/mast mounts are also available for outdoor applications.

HMI Enclosures and Suspension Arms

ROLEC manufactures a range of modern HMI/display panel enclosures and suspension arm systems for machine control applications. The enclosures will accept standard displays from manufacturers such as Siemens, B&R and Beckhoff.

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Rota Engineering Ltd.

Rota Engineering is an innovative, quality-driven company which specializes in the design and manufacture of Position

Transducers: Internal & External Linear Transducers, Fluid Level & Temperature Transducers (Fuel/ Hydraulic/Chemical tanks), Radial Transducers and Position Switches

Specifically for the mobile hydraulic cylinder market we design the smallest, most robust linear transducers to position control / monitor hydraulic cylinders. In addition to internal sensors, Rota has a patent applied for technology where the sensor can be mounted externally which is designed for double rod steering cylinders and longer stroke cylinders

For more information, visit www.rota-eng.com

Rota Engineering Ltd.

Wellington Street

Bury

Manchester

BL8 2BD

United Kingdom

US Phone: 972-359-1041

UK Phone: +44 (0) 161 764 0424

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Rota’s External Transducer can be seen mounted on top of the double rod combine steering cylinder.

Rota transducers are used throughout the world in some of the harshest environments, in the construction and agricultural industries, oil and gas - both subsea and topside, in tunnelling and mining industries, where they are subject to both physical abuse and exposure to dust, salt water etc.

Rota’s Linear Transducers used for monitoring crane outrigger / stabilizers

Leadership in Engineering

Rotor Clip

Rotor Clip is a globally recognized manufacturer of high-quality retaining rings, spiral rings, wave springs and hose clamps. Companies across a broad range of industries rely on Rotor Clip products, value-added services and expertise to build reliable and safe equipment for virtually any application.

Rotor Clip operates in the US, UK, Germany, China, and the Czech Republic - providing worldwide service to its customers. Recognized worldwide, Rotor Clip has received numerous quality awards from major OEMs, automotive manufacturers, and distributors. Rotor Clip also produces its products under IATF 16949, ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 14001, ISO 13485, and TISAX standards.

Rotor Clip

187 Davidson Ave Somerset, New Jersey 08873

www.rotorclip.com

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We not only manufacture quality products, but offer a wide range of parts in different sizes, finishes and styles. Our products are made in the USA and EU including retaining rings, spiral rings, wave springs and hose clamps.

Wave Springs - Rotor Clip manufactures the largest range of Wave Springs in the market. We have the capability to make Wave Springs from .118” to 25” O.D.

Spiral Rings - Spiral Rings are axially installed into machined grooves in housings/bores or on shafts to retain assemblies. They provide 360° contact with the groove and offer more clearance than a tapered section ring. Made from .118” to 25” O.D.

Tapered Section Retaining Rings – Inch, DIN, ANSI metric, and JIS retaining rings to world standards. We make over 50 different styles, and well over 1000 part numbers.

Hose Clamps - Perfect fit every time, uniform hose pressure, and a lower cost and weight leaving more budget room.

Custom Material and Finish Options - We can produce these parts in Carbon Steel, Stainless Steels Alloys, Beryllium Copper, Phosphor Bronze, and Specialty Steel Alloys. We also have several finishing options to withstand almost any condition: including many RoHS and REACH compliant options.

Ruland Manufacturing

Carefully made collars & couplings since 1937

Ruland Manufacturing, founded in 1937, is a stable and growing familyowned domestic manufacturer of shaft collars, rigid couplings, and motion control couplings. We are a culturally diverse company with 70 employees in our Massachusetts factory representing more than ten countries. Ruland has a sales and marketing offices in Berlin, Germany to locally support customers in Europe. Our internal teams consist of operations/ manufacturing, marketing, sales, customer service, engineering, and accounting working together to exceed customer expectations. We contribute to our community through our donation of time and parts to the FIRST Robotics Competition. Our vision is to be a 100-year-old successfully run family business.

Ruland Manufacturing

6 Hayes Memorial Dr Marlborough, MA 01752

https://www.ruland.com/

Why Partner with Ruland?

• Family owned company that prioritizes servicing customers.

• Average lead time under 3 days and over 97% on-time delivery.

• Proprietary processes developed over 85 years to ensure precise fit, finish, and holding power.

• Easy to use website that gives you access to 3D CAD, full product specifications, install videos, and more.

• Phone, live chat, and video chat available through the website are fully staffed by application specialists.

• Over 100,000 standard shaft collar, shaft coupling, universal joint, and machine components to choose from.

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Sager Electronics

Distributing Confidence since

1887

Sager Electronics, a wholly owned subsidiary of TTI Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. company, is a North American distributor of Interconnect, Power, and Electromechanical products and custom solutions provider. Grounded in 135 years of innovation and service, Sager Electronics provides customers and suppliers a unique combination of operational excellence and innovative business solutions. Sager has always been identified for its strong IP&E offering and its branded line card of interconnect and electromechanical components as well as personalized services such as bonded inventory, VMI, BOM quoting, credit, and more.

Sager Electronics

19 Leona Drive Middleborough, MA 02346

www.sager.com

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A growing presence in the power supply market, in 2015 Sager launched Sager Power Systems, a specialized group dedicated to design intense power supply products. Since its launch, the company has made three key acquisitions in support of its power systems strategy, enhancing its offering, expertise, and distribution capabilities as well as its ability to offer modular and custom design solutions. In 2017, Sager expanded Sager Power Systems to include thermal management products and two short years later further strengthened its custom capabilities through the acquisition of a battery specialist focused on battery packs and assemblies.

Today, Sager offers a dedicated sales force of power systems sales engineers focused on power, thermal management and battery solutions with the added ability to provide traditional distribution services and value-add design. From simple modifications to high complexity design, Sager guides customers through the entire engineering process including design, component sourcing,

prototyping, manufacturing and testing. Sager Power Systems’ in-house team of expert electrical and mechanical engineers and technicians offer engineering and manufacturing – all with faster time to market and higher reliability than a typical custom build.

Sager Electronics operates a national network of field sales representatives and power systems sales engineers, strategically located service centers and distribution facilities across North America, and two custom solution centers.

SCHURTER Components and HMI Innovation

The SCHURTER Group is a globally successful Swiss technology company ensuring clean and safe supply of power, ease of use and sophisticated overall solutions. Known for its innovation, manufacturing and distribution of Circuit Protection, Power Entry Modules, EMC Filters, and Switch Components and HMI Solutions, SCHURTER impresses its customers with agility and excellent product and service quality. Specific market focus is in the areas of medical, automotive, avionics and space, data and communication, energy and the greater industrial market. Committed to customers around the world, directly and through our partner network, SCHURTER’s expertise, financial independence, innovative strength, distinctive corporate culture, and environmental practices sustain SCHURTER into the digital future, together with its partners.

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SCHURTER Components and HMI Innovation

447 Aviation Blvd Santa Rosa, CA 95403 (800) 848-2600

www.schurter.com

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In addition to the distribution of electronic components, SCHURTER Inc located in Santa Rosa, CA now offers in-house manufacturing and design services for projected-capacitive (PCAP) touch screen solutions. We work with you to develop an HMI system that is precisely tailored to your complex application requirements. With targeted advice, knowledge and creativity, we are your perfect partner to design, develop, and produce the best solution for your application.

SCHURTER offers state-of-the-art optical bonding as part of your HMI Touchscreen Solutions. Here are some advantages:

• Best readability

• Improved touch performance

• Increased robustness

• Protection against dirt and dust particles

• Qualified UV stability

• No condensation

• Reduced reflections

• Increased shock and vibration resistance of the touch panel

Commitment to Our Customers

At SCHURTER, success is based on more than just technological achievements. After all, it is the people here who provide the highest degree of product benefit and safety to our customers and, in turn, their customers.

2023 SDP/SI

Setting Ideas Into Motion

Stock Drive Products/Sterling Instrument (SDP/SI) makes it easier for OEMs to get their products to market by designing and delivering precision components and complex drive assemblies while managing costs and inventories. Well known as the one-stopshop, we provide mechanical and electromechanical components, engineering development, precision manufacturing, and problem-solving customized solutions.

Established in 1950, we are a proven partner to the most recognized names in medical, aerospace, defense, and robotics industries providing innovative solutions, world-class quality, and engineering support from concept to completion. We look forward to working with you!

Stock Drive Products/ Sterling Instrument

Web: www.sdp-si.com

Email: sdp-sisupport@sdp-si.com

Phone: 516-328-3300

Toll Free: 800-819-8900

Fax: 516-326-8827

250 Duffy Avenue Hicksville, New York 11801

Leadership in Engineering

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SDP/SI has over 70 years of experience in engineering development and precision manufacturing for a diverse range of industries, including medical, aerospace, robotics, and industrial automation. Combining our engineering expertise in power transmission and motion control applications with a stateof-the-art-manufacturing facility ensures our customers receive components and assemblies that meet their specific needs. SDP/SI is ISO 9001:2015 + AS9100D certified, ITAR, Reach, and RoHS compliant.

Offering a comprehensive selection of mechanical and electromechanical components, SDP/SI products are available with a wide range of standard features for easy integration intended for all applications. Shaftloc® and components featuring the Fairloc® Hub Design are exclusive to SDP/SI and provide added benefits.

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• Timing Belts and Pulleys

• Precision Gears

• Couplings

• Motors

• Gearheads

• Motion Control Products

• Bearings

Beyond standard components, SDP/SI offers significant custom manufacturing capability to set your ideas into motion. Our engineers are always available for engineering and design support and we look forward to helping with your next project.

Visit www.sdp-si.com to find detailed product specifications, custom capabilities, 3D CAD models, product literature, and quality certifications. Check out our Engineering Resources for useful calculations, gear design, timing belt and pulley design, and helpful calculators.

2023

SEW-EURODRIVE

About SEW-EURODRIVE Engineering excellence and customer responsiveness distinguish

SEW-EURODRIVE, a leading manufacturer of integrated power transmission and motion control systems.

SEW-EURODRIVE solutions set the global standard for high performance and rugged reliability in the toughest operating conditions. With its global headquarters in Germany, the privately held company currently employs more than 18,000 employees with a presence in 52 countries. U.S. operations include a state-of-the-art manufacturing center, five assembly plants, more than 63 technical sales offices and hundreds of distributors.

SEW-EURODRIVE . . . Driving the world.

SEW-EURODRIVE, Inc.

220 Finch Rd.

Wellford, SC 29385

Phone: (864) 439-7537

Fax: (864) 439-7830

Email: cslyman@seweurodrive.com

www.seweurodrive.com

Leadership in Engineering

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As a world leader in drive technology and a pioneer in drive-based automation, SEW-EURODRIVE has established a reputation for quickly solving the most difficult power transmission and motion control challenges. Since introducing the combined gearmotor in 1931, we have been bringing the best in drive technology to our customers worldwide.

More than just gearmotors

SEW-EURODRIVE offers much more than just components. We offer the expertise and expanded line of control components and software to drive them. Our team of automation experts understand the latest technology and can solve even the most complex motion control challenges.

Being a single-source automation partner radically sets us apart from others. Our team of automation engineers provides the expertise, project planning, software, commissioning, and worldwide support for your most challenging motion control projects. They can serve as a valuable extension of your engineering team, reducing the stress and demanding workload. Our experts provide a solution of perfectly matched SEW components that have been designed to work together seamlessly.

Product Innovation

MOVI-C Automation Platform

In addition to engineering excellence, SEW-EURODRIVE is also known for innovative new products. Our MOVI-C® modular automation system is a flexible one-software, one-hardware automation platform that combines fully

integrated drive components, control electronics and automation software – all from a single source. The key to the MOVI-C platform is that each of those components is designed to work together perfectly.

The MOVI-C platform utilizes the latest automation technologies – from AC motors and gear units to ultra-efficient permanent magnet servomotors, control electronics, and software. Machine builders will appreciate the seamless integration and prebuilt software modules tailored to the customer’s application.

MOVIGEAR® for decentralized drive installations

MOVIGEAR is the all-in-one mechatronic drive system that combines the gear unit, IE4 motor, and electronics in one compact unit. Recent updates include fully integrated Ethernet/IP communications and digital motor integration. Advanced single-cable technology carries power, feedback information, and control signals along a single hybrid cable between decentralized devices.

FLEXIBILITY

Our products are based on a unique system of modular components that can be assembled in literally millions of different configurations. So, every drive solution is custom built to our customer’s exact specifications. Our five regional assembly centers in the U.S. stock millions of dollars of our modular inventory for quick delivery of drive solutions and spare parts.

SEW-EURODRIVE…Driving the World

SEW-EURODRIVE brings the best in drive and automation technology to our customers worldwide.

Siemens Industry, Inc.

Factory Automation Division

Transforming the

everyday, for a better tomorrow

Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people. In fiscal 2022, which ended on September 30, 2022, Siemens Group USA generated revenue of $18.6 billion and employs approximately 45,000 people serving customers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

Siemens is proud to play a part in shaping the world we live in today. Since 1847, we have turned great inventions into innovative technologies and risen to the challenges of our time – transforming everyday life for billions of people all over the world to create a sustainable future for generations to come.

The combination of an all-in-one engineering approach, integrated security and safety technologies, communication standards, and data intelligence delivers quantifiable benefits across the entire value chain. This paves the way to a more resilient and sustainable future with digital transformation being the engine for growth and prosperity for years to come.

For almost 30 years, Siemens has pioneered the integration of automation and the digitalization of industry. The

demands on modern machines and plants are more pressing in all industries. The challenge is to collect, understand and effectively utilize the infinite amounts of data that are generated. Automation will continue to change global industry in the decades to come. For the last 175 years, Siemens has stood for transforming the everyday, for a better tomorrow - and we’re ready for the next 175.

Siemens is embarking on the next generation of solutions to guide businesses toward becoming the digital enterprises of tomorrow. Explore topics around standardization of automation, efficient engineering, OT/IT integration and simulation. Take a Tour: https://sie.ag/3EpreL2

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SIKO - Sensors and Positioning Systems

Today SIKO sums up five decades of experience in length, angle and speed measurement technology. Building upon this core competence, SIKO develops and manufactures groundbreaking products for automation and drive engineering. The highest demands of our industrial and machine engineering customers lead to quality, precision and functionality of our products and services.

SIKO is certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001 : 2015. Sustainable resource management is a matter of course for us.

SIKO Products Inc.

2155 Bishop Circle E Dexter, MI 48130

(734) 426-3476 sales.us@siko-global.com www.siko-global.com

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The SIKO product portfolio includes a total of 5 product lines:

These cover high-quality measuring technology (measuring devices and sensors for length measurement, angle measurement, speed measurement and rotational speed measurement) as well as positioning systems for industry and mechanical engineering. We offer solutions for a wide range of different measuring tasks and applications – with a constant focus on the requisite accuracy in recording measurement values.

Working on your behalf or together with you, we develop sensor systems for recording measurement values. The primary focus here is often on reducing setup times and optimizing manufacturing and production.

OEM customers, projects and special solutions or the delivery of spare parts directly to the end user: all of our customers are important to us!

• Digital position indicators (position indicators / position displays) adjustment knobs and hand wheels (PositionLine)

• Rotary encoders / encoders / incremental encoders, geared potentiometers and electronic displays (RotoLine)

• Wire-actuated encoders / wire-actuated sensors (LinearLine)

• Actuator drives / actuators (DriveLine)

• Magnetic measuring systems – magnetic band and sensors, absolute or incremental (MagLine)

5 product lines - A broad range of products for most diverse measurement jobs

Leadership in Engineering

Smart Products USA, Inc.

Check Valves, Pumps, & More

Smart Products USA designs and manufactures check and pressure relief valves, liquid and air pumps, and related components. Products are compact, customizable, and provide accurate, reliable flow control in advanced, low pressure, low flow systems. Customers work closely with us to determine the right components based on liquids/gasses used, application environment, and intended shelf life. We also provide additional services such as special testing, hot melt gluing, and other value-added solutions to meet specified exacting requirements.

An ISO 9001:2015 Certified Company.

Smart Products USA, Inc.

644 Fanning Fields Road Mills River, NC 28759

United States

Tel: (828) 595-8107

Toll Free: (800) 338-0404

Email: sales@smartproducts.com

www.smartproducts.com

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At Smart Products USA, nothing is off the shelf. Customers work directly with our Product & Application Specialists to build their own exclusive check / pressure relief valve solutions. Ideal for liquid or gas applications in any industry, our valves are fully customizable by 43+ sizes and styles, 9+ plastics, 7+ o-rings, and opening pressure ranges from 0.09 – 20 PSI. Options include cartridge, barbed, NPT, side seal, flanged, Luer, and more. Depending on valve model chosen, the following materials are available:

• Plastics: Polypropylene, Nylon, Acrylic, Acetal, PVDF (Kynar), Polycarbonate, Ultem®, ABS, and Radel®

• O-rings: Buna-N, EPDM, Viton®, Silicone, Fluorosilicone, Aflas®, and Kalrez®

Beyond cartridge valves, customers can further customize with our popular modular end fitting options. Modular valves allow you to mix and match sizes and styles or use the same configuration for both inlet and outlet. Options by series include:

• Series 300: Barbed sizes 1/16”, 3/32”, 1/8”, 3/16”, 1/4”, 5/16”, 3/8”, and 1/2”. NPT sizes in 1/4” and 1/8”. Additional styles in foot/ filtering, manual relief, and smooth stem

• Series 500: Barbed sizes 1/16” and 1/8”. Male Luer and Female Luer Lock

• Series 200: NPT sizes 1/8” and 1/4”. Plus, a Metric M10 option

In addition to valves, we also offer customizable liquid and air pumps. Our Series 3000 Liquid Pumps feature builtin check valves. They run wet or dry and feature a single diaphragm, positive displacement design.

We provide a precise and quality product for every customer.

Leadership in Engineering

SMC Corporation of America

SMC offers technology in pneumatic components such as actuators; cylinders; directional control valves; airline preparation equipment; chillers and dryers; vacuum components; static elimination products; fittings and tubing; electric actuators; grippers; pressure switches high purity chemical valves and fittings as well as process gas equipment.

SMC Corporation of America

10100 SMC Boulevard

Noblesville, IN 46060

www.smcusa.com

Automation is changing rapidly due to the continual demand for increased sophistication and simplification placed on its various components. Thus, the Research and Development groups at SMC are directed towards keeping up with this trend. Smaller, faster, multi-functional components are a high priority as are the application of electronics and sensing to pneumatics and other devices.

With SMC, you get the innovation of over 130 engineers driving performance up and cost-of-ownership down.

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SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS - Moving Beyond the Desktop

SOLIDWORKS is a word synonymous with design, but today the company does so much more; design is just one part of turning ideas into reality. While SOLIDWORKS remains the industry leader in CAD, it must constantly be forward-thinking, always investigating what new technologies offer the most potential to improve how products are developed. The company—much like our customers—must continuously innovate and improve what it offers its customers.

SOLIDWORKS now delivers solutions in myriad of ways so users can adopt the tools that are best suited for the unique needs of their businesses. SOLIDWORKS users can now choose between solutions that run on the desktop, are cloud-connected or pure cloud tools.

For the latest news, information, or an online demonstration, visit our Web site:

DS SOLIDWORKS

175 Wyman Street Waltham, MA 02451

www.solidworks.com or call 1-800-693-9000 (outside of North America, call +1-781-810-5011).

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The 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio of tools was designed specifically for people who use SOLIDWORKS today. These tools provide users with capabilities that exceed what was possible on the desktop alone, such as AI, Generative Design, Sub-D modeling, advanced, multi-axis CNC toolpath creation, advanced nonlinear simulation, advanced data management, and High-Performance Computing (HPC). The backbone of these tools is the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. What makes the 3DEXPERIENCE platform different from other platforms is it’s the only purpose-built business platform for product development.

This platform approach improves efficiencies and workflows, and enables everyone in your organization to have access to a single source of truth. This digital continuity spans the entire lifecycle of the product. And, once your SOLIDWORKS data is saved on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, all your data is automatically managed in a structured environment.

By connecting all of your teams in one unified environment and providing access to real-time data, they can innovate, collaborate, and make critical, data-driven decisions faster than ever. As a result, rapid design and engineering iterations can take place with less physical prototyping needed to finalize product development and manufacturing.

It also means customers get products faster, resulting in higher customer retention and lower overhead costs so you can focus on what matters most: creating that next competition-crushing, new product.

Sorbothane Inc.

40 Plus Years of Proven Shock, Vibration & Noise Reducing Solutions

Sorbothane, Inc. serves widely varied market segments with Standard and Custom Engineered components.

MARKETS SERVED

TRANSPORTATION SHIPPING & LOGISTICS

• Sorbothane® Safeguards Precious Cargo

PRECISION LABORATORY EQUIPMENT

• Sorbothane® Isolates Disruptive Vibration

MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES

• Sorbothane® Attenuates Impact Shock & Isolates Vibration

CONSUMER & COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS

• Sorbothane® Damps Unwanted Vibration & Noise

INDUSTRIAL & MANUFACTURING

EQUIPMENT

• Sorbothane® Extends Equipment Life

AEROSPACE & AERONAUTICAL

• Sorbothane® Protects Critical Components

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

• Sorbothane® Protects Performance

SPORTING GOODS & FITNESS

• Sorbothane® Protects, Cushions & Comforts

Sorbothane, Inc. is located in Kent, Ohio and operates 10 specialized pouring machines. With 64,000 square feet of manufacturing space and supply support systems in place, the Sorbothane team stands ready to meet any production need. Sorbothane, Inc. has an engineering design staff that specializes in shock and vibration solutions plus an in-house testing and quality assurance lab.

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Sorbothane® is a proprietary viscoelastic material that has been specified by engineers worldwide for over three decades. Sorbothane® is a highly damped polymeric solid that “flows” like a liquid under load. Its superior damping and isolation properties have been scientifically and real-world proven. Sorbothane® is ideal for engineering design applications requiring shock absorption, vibration isolation and acoustic damping. Produced in a durometer range from 25 to 85 - Shore 00 scale Sorbothane® is considered a super soft polyurethane.

Unique applications call for innovative solutions. Standard Sorbothane® parts and custom engineered solutions are available to meet individual product objectives.

STANDARD Sorbothane® PRODUCTS Sorbothane, Inc. offers an extensive line of standard Sorbothane parts.

These standard products have been developed over 40 years and are selected for their specific shock absorbing and vibration isolating applications.

The Sorbothane® Standard Products Guide is available at www.sorbothane.com or by contacting Sorbothane, Inc. directly.

CUSTOM

Unique applications call for very innovative solutions. Our engineering team will help design the custom Sorbothane® component perfect for your individual product specifications. Since 1982, Sorbothane, Inc. has engineered individualized shock and vibration solutions for numerous and diverse markets.

Our goal is to protect the performance and integrity of your product.

For over 40 years Sorbothane, Inc. has been - and will continue to be - the innovative and trusted choice of engineers worldwide for developing materials and components that isolate vibration, attenuate shock and damp unwanted noise.

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Super Swivels®

Established in 1986, Super Swivels® provides superior products for a large variety of hydraulic uses. We design and manufacture heavy-duty, leak free, live swivels at a competitive price and outstanding performance.

A heat treating process and patented design enables higher working pressure ratings. Our large inventory provides exceptional service and delivery times. Custom design, engineering and adaptation fulfill demanding hydraulic needs.

Super Swivels® are available in wide range of materials, plating, and seal options for many applications including; hose reels, sprayers, heavy machinery, automatic car washes, trucks, drilling, wheel motors, robotics, railroads, and mining, to mention a few.

For more information, visit www.superswivels.com

Super Swivels

7917 Beech Street NE Minneapolis, Minnesota USA 55432-1762

Phone: 763-784-5531

Fax: 763-784-7423

Email: sales@superswivels.com

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Hydraulics is the cornerstone of modern automation and power. Without hydraulics heavy lifting, moving repetitive motions would be at the mercy of huge motors limiting the ability to get the job done.

Super Swivels® are heavy-duty, leak free, live swivels for many applications, a few of which include; hose reels, sprayers, heavy machinery, automatic car washes, trucks, drilling, wheel motors, robotics, railroads, and mining. These swivels are engineered for simplified connections, allowing direct connections to hose lines doing away with adapters.

Super Swivels live swivel action reduces risk of hose twisting and kinking even in 90 angel connections. This simplification reduces the complication of hose line connections so less hose is required, reducing space needs. The increased hose movement allowed by Super Swivels’ superior design reduces system rigidity and helps to absorb system impulses. Less hydraulic line congestion, reduced hose kinking, lower risk of shock damage and twisting which means lower maintenance costs and less downtime.

By engineering the best heavy-duty and compact live swivel designs Super Swivels allows manufactures to create the most efficient and smallest products possible. The same design and reliability features allow for the most efficient aftermarket modifications and repairs.

Super Swivels has been an engineering leader in the hydraulics industry for nearly 30 years and looks to maintaining that leadership role in designing and producing superior patented live hydraulic swivels.

Technosoft

Technosoft is a leading motion control technology company specialized in the development, design and manufacture of motion control products and custom motion systems.

Technosoft is distinguished in its focus on innovative design based on the latest control technology, which has culminated in the design of MotionChip™ – a dedicated DSP solution for motion control that is embedded today in a broad range of intelligent servo drive products. Technosoft is committed to bringing compact, flexible, cost-effective solutions to a large variety of motion applications ranging from medical, textile, robotics to factory automation.

The modular concept of dedicated OEM solutions

Besides the standard product lines, Technosoft’s emphasis on modularity at both hardware and software levels allowing us to create highly flexible and adaptable dedicated solutions that can be easily and rapidly prototyped to meet specific OEM needs. Clients from various industries have effectively utilized Technosoft motor and control expertise in the fast realization of dedicated solutions for high demanding environments.

We to provide our customers:

• Intelligent drives

• Intelligent motors

• Custom solutions

Our field of expertise covers:

• Digital motion control

• Solutions for decentralized application with various field busses (CANopen, Ethernet, EtehrCAT)

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TECHNOSOFT is a leading motion control technology company specialized in the development, design and manufacture of motion control products and custom motion systems.

For over 25 years, TECHNOSOFT has been helping customers enjoy commercial success in various field of industry. This experience has matured into the continuous improvement of the performance and robustness of our products.

Motion Control Solutions

TECHNOSOFT has pioneered the intelligent drive as a cost-effective solution in many motion control applications. Embedding a motion controller and a drive into a single unit, an intelligent drive can perform many of the tasks that are traditionally assigned to a central unit.

Customers from various industries requiring a wide range of motion control products and systems for specialized applications have effectively utilized TECHNOSOFT’s expertise in the following application fields:

• Medical: laboratory, automation, life support devices

• Packaging: intelligent solutions for distributed control

• Textile: yarn feeder, high dynamic controls

• Robotics: robots and cobots,grippers, automated guided vechicles (AGVs), warehuse automation

• Machine tools: electronic screw drivers and nut runners

• Semiconductor industry: wafer handling and processing

• Aerospace/avionics/ruggedized solutions

Benefits of TECHNOSOFT Motion Technology

• All in one: controller and drive in a single unit

• One for all: same drive for DC, stepper, brushless and linear motor

• Intelligent motors with integrated motion controller and absolute position center

• Advanced motion control profiles supporting EtherCAT, Ethernet, CANopen and TMLCAN Protocols.

Functional safety

STO inputs with safety integrity level SIL3/Cat3/PLe

Encoders capabilities

Incremental,1Vpp Sin/Cos, SSI, BISS-C, EnDat 2.2, Digital Halls, Analog Halls, Tacho, Sensorless, Panasonic, TAMAGAWA, Nikon, Sanyo Denki

Telemecanique Sensors

Simply easy!

Founded over 90 years ago, Telemecanique Sensors specializes in sensors and sensor-related technology.

Telemecanique Sensors is a global player, present in more than 20 countries, with products distributed worldwide through a broad network of partners.

As a global leader in the sensors business, we help our customers select the right technology to get the best performance and reliability from their machines.

Focused on 3 core values –Simplicity, Proximity and Expertise – we have become experts in factory automation sensors as well as specialists in demanding applications, making our customers’ lives “simply easy!”

Telemecanique Sensors

1875 Founders Dr Dayton, Ohio 45420

United States

https://tesensors.com/global/en

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Leading in Ultrasonic Detection

The new XXW54 Wide Beam Ultrasonic Sensor from Telemecanique Sensors is the latest advancement in wide area Ultrasonic detection! It can be easily integrated into CAN or Industrial networks and easily configured with the FREE available XX Software.

Our Ultrasonic XX software allows easy set up and customization of the XX configurable ultrasonic sensors range. Basic and advanced parameters such as operating mode, window area, hysteresis, and echo options can be adjusted to fit specific applications. Download a free copy of the XX configuration software here and start exploring its capabilities!

Temposonics

Temposonics (formerly MTS Sensors) is recognized as an industry leader in sensing technologies and solutions. These sensors and transmitters permit high precision and dynamic position and/or speed measurement in state-ofthe-art automation and safety-relevant systems. With a versatile and everincreasing product portfolio and a focus on superior regional support, Temposonics cooperates closely with customers, to optimize performance and reduce downtimes.

Outstanding quality associated with practical expertise ensures that customers achieve utmost productivity and success. Continuous research, development, and production of sensor systems constantly enable new solutions for measuring tasks in the industrial, mobile hydraulics as well as process technology fields.

Since April 2021, the company Temposonics is part of Amphenol Corporation (NYSE: APH). Amphenol is one of the largest manufacturers of interconnect products in the world. The company designs, manufactures and markets electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors, coaxial and flat-ribbon cable, and interconnect systems. As a sensor solutions manufacturer, Temposonics matches the portfolio of the group of companies that are all part of Amphenol, enabling customers to benefit from an extended, complementary product selection.

www.temposonics.com

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ABSOLUTE, LINEAR POSITION SENSORS

You deserve extraordinary solutions – we respond with an extensive range of measuring stroke options, simultaneous measurement of multiple magnets, smart electronic designs with built-in diagnostics, innovative housing concepts and a wide variety of controller interfaces. Our robust Temposonics designs guarantee maximum reliability, highprecision position measurements and long-term operation even in the harshest environments. Compatible with a wide range of controllers with advanced outputs such as EtherNet/IP and SSI. Combine the sensor with our new TempoGate sensor gateway to provide Industry 4.0 diagnostic data separate from the motion control position data channel.”

YOUR CHALLENGE OUR SOLUTION

We address your exact design and performance needs – with multiple mechanical and output options.

INTEGRATION

Temposonics E Series provides IO-Link serial based bi-directional communication that enables consistent communication between sensors and the controller.

SAFETY IN MIND

The ET Sensors offer hazardous area approval combined with high temperature rating. T-Series sensors are optimized for safe use in settings where there is potential for exposure to flames and caustic substances, as well as the possibility of explosive atmospheres.

The Lee Company

Founded in 1948, The Lee Company is a manufacturer of miniature fluid control components for aerospace hydraulic and fuel systems, automated liquid handling in medical and scientific instrumentation, medical disposable applications, oil exploration and production, automotive and offhighway equipment, machine tools, high performance motorsports, and other industries worldwide. The Lee Company employs over 1,000 people and occupies over 1 million square feet of modern manufacturing and office space at its headquarters in Westbrook and Essex, Connecticut.

The Lee Company’s sales offices, staffed by degreed sales engineers, are located throughout the United States and Europe, and the company’s distribution network spans the entire globe.

2 Pettipaug Road, P.O. Box 424 Westbrook, CT 06498

Phone: 860-399-6281

Toll Free: 800-533-7584

www.theleeco.com

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For 75 years, The Lee Company has been an industry leader in precision fluid control. Under the premise of economically solving problems where existing hardware is either not immediately available, or is too cumbersome, The Lee Company continues to redefine miniature fluidics through innovation. Products include miniature solenoid valves, high-speed micro-dispense valves, nozzles, pumps, custom manifold systems, inert tubing, Lee Plug® expansion plugs, check valves, shuttle valves, pressure relief valves, directional flow controls, safety screen filters, flow restrictors, and associated fluid handling components.

Quality at The Lee Company is a company-wide, management driven commitment. With heavy investments in facilities, people, and state-of-theart equipment, the company is able to perform all machining, assembly, and testing in-house. Every component is tested prior to shipment to ensure the highest levels of reliability and repeatability. This commitment to end-to-end quality control ensures that Lee products will consistently meet and exceed the performance demands of mission-critical applications.

The Lee Company’s unique capabilities in miniaturization and engineering expertise (one of every 7 employees is a graduate engineer) keep the company at the forefront of fluid flow technology, and enable it to work effectively with customers to solve difficult fluid control problems.

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ENGINEERING MAKES THE DIFFERENCE.

As the pioneer of the linear motion system and the patent innovator of Caged Technology, THK continues to be the preferred world leader in re-circulating, ball linear motion guide technology. When engineers select THK as their motion control partner, they get the benefit of THK’s industry leading Global Engineering Team of Linear Motion Experts.

Caged Technology offers these specific benefits:

1. Quiet Operation that Minimizes Metal Contact. Collision noise between balls is eliminated by the ball cage resulting in quiet operation.

2. Orderly Ball Movement. Since the balls are held by the ball cage in the form of a belt, they are aligned uniformly and move in a circulating manner.There is no skewing of the balls, while sudden variations in friction are also eliminated, allowing for stable movement.

3. Original Cage Structure Exhibiting Excellent High-Speed Performance. The use of ball cages eliminates generation of heat caused by friction between balls resulting in excellent high-speed performance.

4. Grease Holding Structure (Consecutive Grease Pockets) for Long-Term, Maintenance-Free Operation, and Long Service Life. Grease Pockets are provided consecutively over the entire ball circulation path to constantly lubricate the balls enabling long-term,maintenance-free operation, and Long Service Life.

200 E. Commerce Drive, Schaumburg, IL 60173 Phone: 800-763-5459, 847-310-1111 e-mail: marketing@thk.com website: www.thk.com.

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Compact Ball Screw SDAN-V

The Model SDAN-V is a compact precision ball screw with an external nut. New technology is utilized inside the ball screw nut to achieve an ideal ball circulation structure with smoother rotational motion. The double nut system provides for high rigidity. THK offers 7 screw shaft diameters from 32 to 63 and lead sizes 5 mm to 40 mm for 47 possible combinations.

symmetrical movements with a single motor. Two drive systems are combined into a single package for a compact overall design. The Type KR-RL handles loads in all four directions (radial, reverse-radial, and horizontal), making it possible to install in any mounting orientation. It is optimal for end effectors of robot arms that move freely.

Type HDR LM Guide

Our new Type HDR LM Guide offers a rigid design that is suitable for single rail applications. It enables single-axis tables to be compact and lightweight. The ball raceways of the Type HDR are positioned on the sides of the LM rail, making it difficult for foreign materials to reach them. This LM Guide is ideal for applications where a constant MC moment will be applied. The HDR offers an improved dust-proofing plate cover easily be applied to rails up to over 5 m long.

OMNIedge SYSTEM PROVIDES PREDICTIVE MAINENANCE DETECTION FOR LINEAR MOTION COMPONENTS

The OMNIedge sensors are simply installed on existing components for convenient and easy remote monitoring of components. Data is securely collected and analyzed to provide status alerts. By monitoring and predicting maintenance or component degredation, the OMNIedge prevents production delays caused by unexpected machine downtime.

Type KR-RL Actuator

Our new Type KR-RL Actuator features a driving element that uses right/left threads and enables

Backlash-Free and High Accuracy Circular Motion

THK’s four-way equal load Type HCR Curved LM Guide provides backlash-free and high accuracy circular motion. It features four rows of raceways precision-ground on an LM rail and an LM block. LM blocks are arranged at the load points, allowing for large circular motion of 5m or greater and the capability of receiving loads in all directions. Multiple LM blocks can individually move on the same rail.

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TLX Technologies

Custom Electromagnetic Solutions

TLX Technologies is leading the charge in designing and manufacturing custom electromagnetic solutions. We use proportional, high-speed, high-temperature, and latching technologies to custom design solenoids, actuators, and valves. We can also integrate smart functionality into our products to provide data collection, diagnostics, and IoT communication at the component level.

Our team is highly experienced in electromagnetic and electromechanical design and holds multiple patents, making TLX a leading innovator in a variety of industries such as fire protection, on-highway, off-highway, powersports, and industrial.

To speak with a member of our technical team about your application’s requirements, visit tlxtech.com.

TLX Technologies

N27 W23727 Paul Road

Pewaukee, WI 53072

www.tlxtech.com

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For almost 25 years, TLX Technologies has been developing high-quality solutions that optimize the capabilities of new and existing systems.

Many applications need solutions that will minimize power consumption. TLX Technologies recognizes that latching solenoid technology can provide the energyefficient solutions that OEMs are looking for.

Latching solenoids are ideal for applications where high cycle rates are not needed. They can maintain a commanded position without drawing any power and only use a short pulse of power to change state. Additionally, they do not produce the excessive heat that is often associated with constant current solenoids.

TLX has applied latching solenoid technology to develop the discrete proportional valve system (DPV)—an energy-efficient alternative to conventional proportional control valves. The DPV draws very little power, achieves zero hysteresis, and is capable of a true zero-flow state.

Always on the cutting edge of innovation, TLX Technologies’ products are up to 25% smaller than competing designs, minimize overall power consumption, and can withstand harsh environments (as required by the application).

Thanks to critical capabilities such as 3D CAD design, in-house testing, and electromagnetic and fluid dynamic analysis, TLX Technologies seamlessly partners with design teams to develop solutions built to meet their specific needs.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

Your Partner for Sealing Technology

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of precision seals, bearings, and custom-molded polymer components, offering a wide range of patented product designs and proprietary materials for static and dynamic sealing applications in aerospace, automotive, chemical transportation, energy and renewables, fluid power, robotics, food, beverage and water, and other segments.

With 10 R&D centers, 41 manufacturing facilities and 61 Customer Solution Centers worldwide, Trelleborg offers customers the strength of a global supplier combined with the service and support of a local partner, an unrivaled product range, and a portfolio of established brands and ServicePLUS value chain solutions.

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Trelleborg Sealing Solutions

2509 Bremer Road

Fort Wayne, Indiana 46803

United States

www.trelleborg.com/en/seals

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Trelleborg experts collaborate with customers to design, engineer, and manufacture seals to meet specific application requirements. Whether starting with a customer specification, supporting with testing and qualification to get a product to market, or developing solutions to enhance manufacturing and supply chain processes, Trelleborg helps customers find the best solutions to their most challenging projects. Their material, product, and application expertise effectively provides customer teams with additional engineering resources. Trelleborg’s ServicePLUS program offers customers a wide range of value-added services to simplify workflow in every part of their value chain, from engineering to manufacturing, procurement to aftermarket. Trelleborg provides physical, environmental, and chemical testing, Finite Element Analysis to reduce prototyping loops and Root Cause Analysis to determine product failure modes. Trelleborg’s self-service tools and apps are designed to solve engineers’ sealing related queries, with information ranging from material compatibility to installation instructions.

Additionally, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions gained International Automotive Task Force (IATF) Certification to perform subassembly work for automotive manufacturing customers and Tier 1 suppliers at its ServicePLUS Centers located in Menomonee Falls, WI, Vancouver, WA, and Ontario, CA, as well as at the Logistics Center in Fort Wayne, IN. These newly certified sites join Trelleborg’s 17 other IATF certified ServicePLUS and manufacturing locations in the Americas and Europe. With the acquisition of Minnesota Rubber & Plastics, Trelleborg adds five additional IATF certified facilities in North America and China.

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Trim-Lok, Inc.

Trim-Lok, Inc. is a well-respected and recognized manufacturer of top quality extruded plastic and rubber trims and seals. Trim-Lok provides competitively priced and innovative trim and seal solutions, along with unmatched superior service, making them a leader in the industry.

In the late 1960’s owner Gary Whitener began work on a new and innovative plastic trim used to trim the edges on motorcycle helmets. His proprietary process slit, stamped and coined steel or aluminum, extruded that metal inside a flexible PVC plastic and then roll formed the part into the Trim-Lok Edge Trim part that is commonly used in nearly every industry and still sold today!

Trim-Lok continues to push engineering limits and lead innovation within our industry with several patented parts, including our all-in-one “living hinge” SnapIn Seal for RV slide-out units that combines a flap seal and bulb seal into one uniquely designed part. After installation the bulb “snaps” into place eliminating the need for additional labor and parts. Trim-Lok’s “living hinge” has translated into other Trim-Lok designs and other patent pending designs.

888-TRIM-LOK (874-6565)

www.trimlok.com

info@trimlok.com

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Trim-Lok product lines are easily customized by edge gap and bulb size requirements, as well as glue and tape options, or customers can rely on a team of highly skilled engineers to design and manufacture a custom part for their application. Their team brings high caliber mechanical design, excellent materials knowledge and strong manufacturing expertise when providing custom trim and seal solutions. Several Rubber Seal products are UL certified, and Trim-Lok is IATF 16949 and ISO 9001 certified for automotive supply assuring their customers that parts will be made to specification, on-time, with 100% traceability.

Trim-Lok is able to provide ultimate flexibility in design specializing in single and multi-material profiles and specializes in numerous rubber and plastic materials including:

RUBBER

• EPDM - dense and closed cellular sponge

• Nitrile (BUNA-N) - dense

• Nitrile PVC (N/PVC) - sponge

• Neoprene - sponge and dense

• Silicone - sponge and dense

PLASTIC

• TPE, TPO, TPR, TPU, TPV

• PVC (flame resistant)

• PVC (flexible and rigid)

• Polyethylene (HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE)

• Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS)

• Polypropylene

• Polycarbonate

Trim-Lok’s mission is “To be the leader and trusted supplier of choice for innovative trim and seal solutions!”

Trim-Lok continuously goes above and beyond each customer service request to deliver a full service solution and offers engineering design and development using the latest in 3D CAD and FEA software, reverse engineering as required, state of the art rapid prototyping, internal lab testing, materials consulting, onsite fit trials of first articles and more!

It is that hands-on approach and attention to detail making certain that each part matches the customers’ requirements, and our unmatched ontime delivery, fair pricing and highly skilled employees that has ensured Trim-Lok’s steady growth!

Trim-Lok, Inc. manufactures hundreds of in-stock and off-the-shelf Edge Trims, Trim-Seals, Rubber Seals, Gaskets and other plastic and rubber profiles that can be found in nearly every industry including heavy equipment, machinery, automotive aftermarket, RV, HVAC, and more.

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U.S. Tsubaki Power Transmission, LLC

Tsubakimoto Chain Company was founded in 1917 in Japan and began manufacturing roller chain in 1923. Today, Tsubaki chain is marketed in over 70 countries and sales exceed $700 million globally. U.S. Tsubaki, a subsidiary of Tsubakimoto Chain Company, was founded in 1971. U.S. Tsubaki’s corporate headquarters and main distribution warehouse are just outside of Chicago in Wheeling, IL and it has full manufacturing facilities in Holyoke, MA and Sandusky, OH. In addition to this it has service centers strategically located in Rialto, CA; Houston, TX; Atlanta, GA; Philadelphia, PA; and Anoka, MN.

The TSUBAKI name is synonymous with excellence in quality, dependability and customer service. An intense focus on research and development, along with continuously modernized production facilities, has resulted in Tsubaki meeting the ever changing needs of the marketplace.

As a part of this vast, international network of corporate and industrial resources, Tsubaki offers its customers the finest state-of-the-art power transmission products available in the world. And Tsubaki is well positioned to meet the challenges of the 21st century as we strive to be the “Best Value” supplier in the industry.

Our global presence affords us unprecedented opportunities to market advanced new products and technologies, and to utilize the intellectual assets we have from some of the brightest minds in business and engineering from around the world. This combined with our continuous improvement of quality and processes, has Tsubaki poised for lasting growth. Not only now, but well into the future.

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Tsubaki offers some of the most versatile power transmission products on the market.

Tsubaki Roller Chain innovations have yielded popular problem solvers such as selfLambda® series chain, the new Titan® Series chain for extended wear life, corrosion resistant Neptune® chain, fatigue resistant Super Chains, and rugged Energy Series® oilfield chains. Attachment chains used for conveying a variety of products are also available in a range of configurations.

Tsubaki’s Engineering Class Chains are manufactured with high-performance base materials to ensure increased wear life and are designed specifically to meet the demanding needs of a vast array of industries. Specialty engineering class chains include, Iron Hawk™ Series shuttle car chains, WORKHORSE™ elevator chains, and Sealed Joint chain options, all designed to prolong wear life under rigorous operating conditions.

Tsubaki Sprockets are built from top-grade, heat-treated carbon steel and precision manufactured to offer long wear life and meet the highest quality standards. Alloy and stainless steel sprockets are also available for extra corrosion resistance and food-grade applications. Tsubaki sprockets can also be fitted with the SMART TOOTH® option which includes their patented wear indicator technology, which notifies the user when the sprockets need to be replaced.

Tsubaki’s Power Transmission Component Products consist of belts, cam clutches, actuators, dampers, overload protection options and reducers. These Tsubaki products are focused on protecting your application and getting the most out of it. Specialized engineers can assist you by creating solutions for your specific application needs.

Tsubaki KabelSchlepp® Cable & Hose Carrier Products come in a wide variety of options including high-grade stainless steel, solid plastic cable carriers and hybrid cable carriers with aluminum stays and plastic sidebands. They are available in standard sizes or can be tailormade to an individual customer’s exact size and application requirements. They offer complete assembly with continuous flex cables and connectors so your application can be up and running right away.

An ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14000 registered company.

U.S. Tsubaki Power Transmission, LLC

301 E. Marquardt Dr. Wheeling, IL 60090 USA

Phone: (847) 459-9500

Toll free: (800) 323-7790

Fax: (847) 459-9515

Veljan

VELJAN is a focused Fluid Power Product Manufacturer with over 50 years of manufacturing experience. Our manufacturing locations in India, Europe and the USA are equipped with state of the art manufacturing machinery supported by ISO processes, inspection and test facilities with R&D groups dedicated to product improvement, development and customised solutions. Over the years, VELJAN has developed a long list of customers as a global supplier of vane products, pressure controls, check valves, and power units. VELJAN was the first company in India to manufacture complete line of pneumatic products and has been successfully providing them to customers since 1965. Veljan’s ADAN motors division has been designing, developing and manufacturing low speed high torque motors, gearboxes and valves since 1968.

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Veljan provides a complete range of hydraulic motors suitable for high speed applications, and low speed high torque applications. Wear compensated high speed motors are capable of operating at RPM’s of up to 6000 RPM and maximum pressures of up to 320 bar without any efficiency drop over time. The high torque variants, functioning on the orbit principle, are available with torques up to 1880 Nm in compact packages. Specialized motors with integrated valving, and customized mounting specifications and sealing arrangements are available for applications such as wheel drives and fan drives.

Veljan offers customers both components and complete turnkey hydraulic power unit systems for applications ranging from steel plants, waste incineration, renewable energy systems and defense and aerospace systems. All components are sourced from Veljan’s component’s divisions which manufacture hydraulic cylinders and motors, hydraulic gear, vane, and piston pumps in fixed and variable displacements with a variety of controls, and hydraulic valves and logic controls which allow near infinite possibilities in designing customized solutions. Veljan also provides pneumatic valves, FRL’s and air cylinders.

WAGO Corporation

WAGO Corporation provides North America with innovative Interconnect, Electronic Interface, and Automation solutions. Headquartered in Germantown, WI, WAGO features state-of-the art manufacturing and 75,000 square feet of storage capacity for 37,000 product locations. Extensive engineering resources, a 25,000+ product portfolio, custom manufacturing, and a global network of dedicated professionals ensure WAGO has the resources and expertise to help you get the job done. To see our capabilities in action, watch the video at www.wago.us/capabilities.

WAGO Corporation

N120 W19129 Freistadt Road

Germantown, WI 53022

1-800-DIN-Rail

www.wago.com/us

info.us@wago.com

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PLC and Remote I/O All in One

The Compact Controller 100 is a small-scale PLC with a wide variety of remote I/O for use in smaller applications. Engineered for OEMs, IIOT digitization projects, and building automation applications, this easy to use device is cost effective for small, but demanding applications. The CC100 uses the latest Codesys 3.5 programming software to utilize the controller’s built-in Web Server to develop HTML 5 visualizations.

The LEVER-Lution Continues

The levers on the 2734 Series MULTI CONNECTION SYSTEM MINI (MCS MINI) provide rapid, reliable connections in the field. In addition to the intuitive lever operation, these connectors come with a versatile locking system, providing an extra layer of safety and protection against mismating. Another benefit is that extra board space is not required, giving this system the edge for device connections such as drive controls.

New Programming Option for WAGO PFC200 Controllers

WAGO is integrating the manufacturer-independent automation software, Codesys 3.5, as a programming option in a set of select PFC200 controllers. This software will help develop control code and visualizations for both simple and complex applications. Codesys 3.5 will allow users access to popular fieldbuses including EtherCat Master, ModBus TCP Master and Server as well at Ethernet/IP Master and Adapter. Built-in security options include role-based permissions and file encryption.

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Weidmüller USA

Weidmüller – Your Solution Partner in Industrial Connectivity

Did you know that Weidmüller has stood for Service, Competence and Reliability since 1850? Or that we are represented in 80 countries all around the world? Be it automotive manufacturing, electricity generation or water management – there’s hardly any industry that can do without electronics and electrical connectivity today. As experienced experts we support our customers and partners around the world with products, solutions and services in the industrial environment of power, signal and data. We are a true partner with extensive knowledge and understanding of its customer and their application, together we set standards in Industrial Connectivity. Let’s Connect.

Weidmüller USA

821 Southlake Blvd. Richmond, Virginia 23236 United States

www.weidmuller.com

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Why Weidmüller - Consulting and engineering for your individual solution

With Weidmüller you can rely on a partner who is very much at home in the industrial environment. Our experienced Connectivity Consulting team delivers a practical impetus rather than just abstract theories.We have experienced engineers in automation and connectivity all over the world that are ready to solve problems you encounter every day in your applications. The challenges of reducing costs and increasing efficiency requires intelligent, individual solutions. Whether it is modified products, pre-fitted mounting rails or complete small cabinets, our application centers provide a highly qualified custom-made engineering and production service.

Our driver is to optimize your efficiency. So, alongside our product offering, we support you with our range of services through all the phases of machine construction. The result of this collaboration is a reduction of up to 30% in cycle times, up to 20% more space in the control cabinet and significant fault reduction.

The control cabinet is the control center for constantly evolving machines and production cells. Through early integration in the planning process, Weidmüller engineering solutions simplify your product development and simplifies your planning process with our engineering software, Weidmüller Configurator.

Whittet-Higgins

Whittet-Higgins Company is a leader in the design, engineering and manufacture of standard and custom retaining devices and installation tools for mechanical power transmission applications. Whittet-Higgins Company products can be found major capital goods markets throughout the world including agriculture, off-road equipment, industrial machinery, military equipment, forestry, mining, power generation, steel production and medical equipment. Standard and custom products include threaded and non-threaded devices, locknuts, lockwashers, mechanical retaining devices, locking collars, shrink discs, rethreading dies, and assembly sockets.

For more information about product offerings, CAD models, and company please visit us at www.whittet-higgins. com or for technical support please contact our staff of mechanical engineers at (401) 728-0700.

Whittet-Higgins Company

33 Higginson Avenue

Central Falls, Rhode Island 02863

Tel: 401-728-0700

Fax: 401-728-0703

Email: info@whittet-higgins.com www.whittet-higgins.com

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whittet-higgins company

• Greatest variety of products to meet users particular needs

• Over 3600 products in stock

• Staff of mechanical engineers to help with your application problem

• 40 years of producing the finest retaining components in our USA facility

• Lot traceability

• 3D CAD models available at www.whittet-higgins.com

• Custom products and prototyping available

• RoHS & DFARS Compliant

• US Department of Defense Qualified Supplier (QSLM)

• Product identification service and reverse engineering

WIN SOURCE ELECTRONICS

WIN THE MOST DIRECT SOURCE FROM ASIA

WIN SOURCE, founded in 1999, the largest electronic components distributor in Asia, offers millions of products from thousands of manufacturers, from obsolete to common-used electronic parts.

Buy directly online, cost reducing, same day shipment at win-source.net online store.

WIN SOURCE ELECTRONICS

15B/D., Hangdu Building, No.1006 Huafu Road, Shenzhen, CN 518000 Shenzhen, Guangdong 518000 China

https://www.win-source.net/

WIN SOURCE is Asia’s first crossborder electronic components online store, relying on Asia’s largest electronic components supply chain, we have the ability and stability to provide you with the components you need, whether they are commonly used or scarce materials. We achieved sales of $389 million in 2021. WIN SOURCE are always consistent since 1999, dedicated to assisting our customers to quickly and accurately find obsolete, end-of-life, hard-to-find parts, and acquire authentic common-useds parts at competitive prices. We have been selected for the 2022 Top Asia Pacific Distributors List. If you want to know more about it you can click here: https://www.sourcetoday.com/rankingsresearch/top-50-electronics-distributors We have built strong and lasting relationships with many of the world’s top 500 companies in the industry, and enjoy a reputation and influence in the industry, so our products and services are backed by a guarantee of quality.

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Yaskawa America, Inc.

Rethink What’s Possible with Yaskawa

Yaskawa is the leading global manufacturer variable frequency drives, servo systems, machine controllers and industrial robots. Our standard products, as well as tailormade solutions, are well known and have a high reputation for outstanding quality and reliability. Rather than accepting the status quo, we invite you to wonder, “What if?” And then we make it possible. Experience is often the difference between solving a problem the right way and settling for “good enough”. Our global expertise is unmatched and unquestioned, with 100+ Years of manufacturing excellence, 30 countries with sales, service, and manufacturing locations, and $4.5 billion in global sales.

Yaskawa America, Inc.

2121 Norman Drive South Waukegan, IL 60085

www.yaskawa.com

We provide both standard products and tailor-made solutions, all backed by proven quality and reliability.

We continuously work to save you money, time, and energy, because we believe your machine can always run faster, smoother and more productively. It’s about making the correct diagnoses, creating the right automation machinery, and implementing it in the best way possible.

Yaskawa AC Servo Systems come to a precise position with a speed and consistency that is unmatched in the industry. Connect our rotary, linear, and direct drive motors to an advanced Yaskawa machine controller to achieve SINGULAR CONTROL: the ability to manage robots, servos and drives with a single controller and familiar IEC 61131-3 programming.

Yaskawa offers a variety of low and medium voltage AC drives that support every application in the industrial plant, offering size and performance options from fractional HP to 16,000 HP.

Our latest variable frequency drives provide simple motor setup with highly flexible network communications, embedded functional safety, no-power programming, and easy-to-use tools featuring mobile device connectivity with our DriveWizard® mobile app.

Over 500,000 Yaskawa Robots are at work worldwide, with 150+ models to choose from and the strength of decades of application expertise.

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Yates Industries, Inc.

Your Cylinder Source for over 50+ Years!

Yates Industries is a manufacturer and rebuilder of hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders of world-class value. Established as a fluid power distributor in 1972, Yates has evolved into a state-of-the-art company with four locations and 335,000+ sq. ft. of manufacturing and repair space. Going strong for over 50 years; we proudly serve all industries from agriculture, aerospace, and defense to construction and steel. Our goal has always been to offer our customers the utmost in quality, service, and reliability.

Yates Industries, Inc.

23050 Industrial Dr. E. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080

586.778.7680 ph 586.778.6565 fax sales@yatesind.com

Yates Cylinders Alabama

55 Refreshment Place Decatur, AL 35601

Phone: (256) 351-8081

Fax: (256) 351-8571

alsales@yatesind.com

Yates Cylinders Georgia

7750 The Bluffs Austell, GA 30168

Phone: (678) 355-2240

Fax: (678) 355-2241

gasales@yatesind.com

Yates Cylinders Ohio

550 Bellbrook Ave.

Xenia, OH 45385

Phone: (513) 217-6777

Fax: (513) 217-5777

ohsales@yatesind.com www.yatesind.com

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Yates Industries began with the goal of providing exceptional products with superior customer service. 50+ years later, we have exceeded those goals and have earned the reputation for delivering a superior product that not only lasts but also surpasses its expectations. Yates combines efficient manufacturing with an engaging staff who is devoted to servicing your request 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. We have the means to handle your largest cylinder applications — with the in-house capabilities to turn parts up to 65 inches in diameter and 27 feet in length. With experience creating hundreds of new cylinder designs across three major design platforms, Yates offers over a dozen engineers on staff to help design and manufacture the most comprehensive cylinder supply in the marketplace while also having one of the largest cylinder repair footprints in the United States. Through our dependable and affordable products and passionate service staff, we guarantee that when you think of quality hydraulic cylinders, you think of Yates, YOUR CYLINDER SOURCE.

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Zero-Max

Redefining Innovation & Leadership

For over 70 years, Zero-Max, Inc. has been a leading provider of motion control and power transmission solutions worldwide. With strategic distribution points located throughout the world, Zero-Max can deliver your motion control component solution.

The Zero-Max brand is known throughout the world for its high quality and premium performance. The Zero-Max team is committed to providing best in class service with passion. If the extensive standard product offering doesn’t provide exactly what you need, Zero-Max application specialists can engineer a solution to meet your unique requirements.

Configurable 3D CAD downloads at www.zero-max.com

Zero-Max®

13200 Sixth Avenue North Plymouth, Minnesota 55441-5509

Phone: 763-546-4300

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Servo Motor Couplings & Motion Control Products.

With over 70 years of application experience Zero-Max excels in these areas:

• Customized Solutions

• Experienced Practical Application Advice

• Responsive to our Customers Needs

• Predictable High Quality

• ISO 9001: 2015 Certified

• Fast Delivery

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Zero-Max Primary

Product lines are:

Flexible Shaft Couplings and Torque Limiters for Servomotors, Linear Actuators, Wind Turbines, Printing Presses, Label Printing, Converting Machines, Machine Tools, Test Equipment, Feedback Devices, Packaging Machines, Process Equipment, Dynamometers, and other high performance applications.

Variable Speed Mechanical Drives for Agricultural, Printing, Peristaltic Pumps, Food Processing, Pharmaceutical, Packaging, and many other applications.

Overhung Load Adaptors for Timber Processing, Brush Clearing, Road Construction, Marine, and other rugged applications that need overhung load protection for hydraulic pumps and motors.

Keyless Locking Bushings for Packaging, Processing, Tooling, Automated Assembly, and applications that would benefit from the unique qualities of a keyless locking bushing.

Contact us for more information regarding quality motion control components that can solve your most demanding motion requirements.

Schmersal

The DNA of Safety

Machine safety is a complex topic. Companies are increasingly calling on qualified specialists for support. For Schmersal, safety is in our genes – the company is now managed by the third generation of the Schmersal family. But that’s not the only reason machine safety is part of our DNA: 70+ years of competence and expertise allows us to develop excellent safety solutions for individual plants, for machine builders, and operators.

Schmersal

15 Skyine Drive Hawthorne, New York 10532

www.schmersalusa.com

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Since 1945, Schmersal has been industry leader in the design and manufacture of machine safety products, industrial switches, position sensors, and control accessories for a wide variety of applications. As safety requirements have changed over the years, Schmersal products have evolved as well. We’re constantly adding new innovations to our range of products, such as:

• Electronic safety switches utilizing RFID technology

• Programmable Safety Controllers

• Installation architecture options with plug-in connections.

Schmersal is your one-stop shop for developing safety solutions - combining the building blocks of safety rated components with control systems and software for customized and comprehensive safety systems.

Motivated by the vision of safe working environments and leveraging our vast experience in machine safety systems, Schmersal also offers machine builders and production facilities qualified services related to machine safety in support of our considerable range of safety products and system solutions. Through seminars and training, risk assessments, technical support, consultancy and integration program services we support safety engineers with first-hand specialist knowledge.

SPIR STAR

High Pressure Performance

SPIR STAR specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of thermoplastic high-pressure hoses with spiral steel wire reinforcements, fittings, adapters, valves, and quick disconnects with working pressures up to 60,000 psi to industries with highpressure fluid control needs including the Waterblast, Oil and Gas, Hydraulic, Hydrogen, and Automotive industries.

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HIGH-TECH MADE IN GERMANY

Innovative Solutions, Customer Cooperation:

SPIR STAR, INC –Manufacturing & Design

On the Rut 7

64668 Rimbach-Mitlechtern

Germany

Tel: +49 (0) 6253-9889 0

Email: info@spirstar.de

Web: www.spirstar.de

SPIR STAR, LTD –Distribution (N/S Americas)

10002 Sam Houston Center Dr. Houston, TX 77064

Tel: (281) 664-7800, Toll Free: (800) 890-7827

Email: sales@spirstar.com

Web: www.spirstar.com

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Since 1989, SPIR STAR has specialized in the manufacture of high-pressure fluid control products such as high-pressure hose, fittings, valves, and adapters with working pressures up to 60,000 psi to industries and applications where quality, dependability, and an overall focus on safety is key. SPIR STAR is committed to listening to the industries we serve and understanding the evolving challenges faced in the field when working with high pressure. This cooperation drives product development for both historical product applications in Oil and Gas, Waterjet, Hydraulics, and Automotive sectors as well as new developing markets such as hydrogen fuel technology where our hose products are being used in trucks, trailers, ships, and trains for refueling with gaseous hydrogen.

Quality, Service, and Availability: SPIR STAR uses high quality materials throughout the manufacturing process and holds DIN EN ISO 9001 certifications that guarantees documentation traceability of all processes and materials. At SPIR STAR we offer solutions by providing personal and technical customer service, precision engineered products, significant inventory of standard assemblies for immediate delivery and the expertise to custom make to specification for our valued customers. This philosophy of service, quality, and innovation provides the foundation for our continued success as leaders in the high-pressure fluid control industry.

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