Capital Equipment

To address the needs of modern industry Bosch Rexroth has launched a strategy for automation that will enable UK machine builders to become more competitive within the global market.

In April 2002 Richard Simon Limited became part of the Premier Tech Group of companies and Richard Simon engineers and personnel were integrated into Chronos Richardson Limited.

The Serapid Rigid Push-Pull Chain Technology has a record of reliability and toughness going back nearly 40 years.

Prior to the installation of an Eimco Water Technologies’ MBR (Membrane Bioreactor), one of the West Country’s foremost independent beef and lamb producers was spending around £100,000 pa on the disposal of its wastewater. A proportion of the 17,000m3 of water used p.a. by Jaspers at its sites in Treburley and Botathan (near Launceston) even included the costly consumption of potable water for low-grade wash-down applications.

Laser Mark Solutions is a new sub-contract laser marking company recently formed by Dominick Watson, offering Laser Marking services across a wide range of products and applications. One of the first and most important decisions, for the Knottingley based company, was the selection of a Laser Marking System.

Designing and building special purpose machines for assembly applications, can be a daunting prospect given the ever increasing demands for speed, reliability and output. The risks of failing to achieve one or more of these objectives, is significantly increased when conventional pneumatically operated devices are used. Pneumatically operated assembly machines require complex control systems and an array of sensors, which in turn are highly susceptible to failure. WEISS has developed the perfect solution to these problems in the Pick-O-Mat, a cam operated assembly system, designed and built upon the WEISS philosophy of providing high performance and cost effective solutions to assembly tasks.

Dual line scan architecture doubles image sensor responsivity without shot noise penalty. Machine vision performance requirements always increase. Over the last decade, feature sizes in applications such as semiconductor wafer inspection have shrunk by a factor of 3.3 in each dimension (~10.8x overall), while wafer areas have grown by a factor of 2.25 (from 200 mm to 300 mm lines) even though wafer throughputs in wafers per hour have remained the same. Measured as the product of speed and resolution, performance has increased by roughly a factor of 25. Nowhere are these demands stronger than in linescan imaging, where integration times are mere microseconds and budget and safety concerns limit the available light.

As new products and production processes are being developed, the use of lasers is often considered and in many cases when compared to alternative technologies the laser is found to be an indispensible tool. This has undoubtedly proven to be the case in the production of Mono and Polycrystalline solar cells.

DILAS is a world leader in the manufacture of high power semiconductor lasers and components, which are now marketed via the Rofin network worldwide. The latest product offering from DILAS, unveiled at the recent Fakuma exhibition in Germany, is a galvo scanner with an integrated pyrometer which can be used with the DILAS COMPACT Series product range.

Automating a process can make a big difference to the cost of the end product. Done correctly it can boost productivity, improve quality and help ensure profitability. However not all manufacturers have the skill or the time to engineer their own automation systems. So it is for customers such as these that linear motion specialist, HepcoMotion®, provides a complete systems design and manufacturing service.