Industrial Automation and Motion Control Blog | The Knotts Company

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Challenge:

A customer in the medical industry needed an automated way to clean contamination build-up from a sensor eye. They required a compact design that would fit into their machine.

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Manufacturing is a tough environment for machines. The dust, chemicals, and sharp parts found in many manufacturing facilities take their toll on machinery. Often time companies will take the care to maintain and protect the large multi-million dollar machinery in their facilities but forget about keeping up with maintenance on smaller machines, like conveyors. Conveyors serve a variety of functions in the manufacturing process and are invaluable in keeping products moving from one part of the facility to the next. They can be used to move scraps or parts out from underneath or in machines, move parts from one machine to another, and more. During these applications conveyors can incur a lot of wear, especially to their belts.

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For this application, the customer needed to complete a 90 degree transfer without having the product skew. The packages are coming out of a product sealer in batches of three. They are set at a particular width spacing which we matched with specific lane guides on the first conveyor in the system.

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Recently, Dorner had a customer looking to improve the efficiency of their food production line. The product was coming down a conveyor and needed to be placed onto trays which would then go in an oven for baking.

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IAI has listed 7 great benefits of using their ROBO Cylinders below: 

• Benefit
  Use one assembly line to produce a variety of products and achieve higher quality production with a repeatability of ±0.02mm.

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Challenge:

An OEM required rotary motion to open and close a hopper door. The existing vane style rotary actuators used in the application were inadequate for a number of reasons. Vane rotary actuators often leak significantly, have short seal life that requires frequent preventative maintenance, and have a reduced torque output at the beginning of its rotation.

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Is your machine being run at the ideal line pressure? Did you spec the right size cylinder for the job? Is your pneumatic circuit properly balanced or are your actuators being starved of air? IntelliSense® works with you to optimize the performance of your machine.

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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.