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New assembly conveyors are designed for transporting fragile medical devices and heavy loads.

Motion Index Drives designed and manufactured a custom 9-inch precision link conveyor for an automotive application.

Sankyo Automation's IC80 precision link conveyor offers high load capacity, long-term accuracy and fast and flexible indexing.

Here’s a look at some of the latest motion control devices.

Business has been good at TL Aerotek Inc., with orders flowing in faster than owner, Tai Le, could fill them. He wanted to keep up with accelerating demand and continue building his business, but he didn’t want to deal with labor uncertainty. Looking for a solution, Tai consulted long-time supplier, Expand Machinery, a family-owned business in Chatsworth, CA, that builds machine tool systems.

SAN DIEGO—Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a next-generation wearable device that enables people to control robots and other machines using everyday gestures.

Read about the CWB chassis from Stelron Components Inc. and other new motion control products in this month’s “New and Noteworthy.”

STADE, Germany—Robots are great tools for manufacturing and assembly processes that require motion, such as cutting, welding, dispensing, sanding and painting. They are less good at machining solid steel or following complex milling paths. That’s because what robots offer in flexibility, they lack in stiffness. 

Automated material handling system replaces forklifts and manual transport.

FORT WAYNE, IN—Automation component manufacturer PHD Inc. has expanded its air-on-demand line with two new products: the Series ERPP pneumatic pump and the Series ERVG vacuum generator.