Industrial Automation and Motion Control Blog | The Knotts Company

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Are power consumption, coil heating, and extended cycle times, issues in your application? A Latching Solenoid Valve could be your solution.

OPTIMIZATION AND AUTOMATION IN CONVEYOR SYSTEMS

It’s obvious that conveyor systems aren’t what they used to be. In fact, Dorner prides itself on the fact that conveyor systems today are better, faster, and smarter than they were in the past. While the original conveyor system was built to move a product from one location to another, today they go above and beyond that with various sorting, pacing, and magnetic technologies that make conveyor systems easier, safer, and more efficient.

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Proportional valves respond to variations in current applied to the solenoid by delivering a corresponding variable flow output. They are becoming a popular choice for machine and device builders desiring more flexibility in flow or pressure output from a PLC based on the conditions of the machine or making the machine "more flexible for the customers automation needs.”

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Butt splices aren’t the easiest things in the world to handle. The small, circular component designed to join two ends, or butts, of two objects together without overlapping, have been known to slip through fingers when inserting a wire connector while trying to crimp it.

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In a system for performing the alignment of some resin blocks, the ROBO Cylinder was adopted. The company’s products include designer plates to be used on the floor of a house by bonding resin blocks.  Previously, an air cylinder was used, this was changed to ROBO Cylinder which improved the cycle time and reduced the occurrence of Choco-Tei events.

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Defective Products: 10 pieces/day ==> 0/day (Zero)

Production Amount: 1920 pieces/day ==> 5,236 pieces/day

Production Efficiency is Increased by 2.7 times

Personnel Expenses: Cost is Down by $20.000*/year

*Exchange Rate 1 (USD) = 100 (Japanese Yen)

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Portable and stationary devices for medical, analytical and other applications require an extremely low sound and low vibration level of all functional parts. In the past individual adaptions have been created by customers in cooperation with the component manufacturers. Big efforts were necessary to generate a satisfying solution and many different taylored mounting brackets have been developed.

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Challenge:

Prior to contacting Pneumadyne, a dental equipment manufacturer’s circuit was difficult and expensive to assemble. Individual components required a large amount of space in their equipment and numerous cut lengths of tubing connected the components, resulting in several potential leak points.

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Plastic Parison Extrusion Blow Molding

Description

Parison blow molding of intricate plastic bottles and other plastic parts requires air pressure control that is precise, repeatable and rapid responding. Proportion-Air offers electronic closed loop pressure and flow controls that are used to improve processes in the plastics blow molding industry. Once set, the control profile can be saved to a file in the customer’s PLC. Change over to make a different part becomes as easy as pushing a button. The electronic pressure controllers can be factory-tailored to any application requirement. 

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With produce that is harvested for processing, there is often dirt and other debris that goes along for the ride. Dorner's customer for this conveyor hand picks their produce and places them into trays. They needed a way to separate the debris from the product as early in the process as possible.