Ten new drive solutions that optimize operation
Channel: Website
Media: Konstruktionspraxis.vogel.de
Date: March 12, 2025
The latest developments in electric drive technology include a software platform, a versatile motion controller, and robust reluctance motors. All of these are designed to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and advance industrial automation.
Six new developments in drive technology
Channel: Website
Media: Konstruktionspraxis.vogel.de
Date: June 19, 2024
We present linear guides made of corrosion-resistant steel, fast linear units, bearings made of plastic and wood fibers, drive systems with high basic safety, couplings for high-speed applications and rack and pinion drives for direct mounting on synchronous servo motors.
Precision in the garden
Channel: Journal
Media: Drive technology – Knowledge creates ideas
Date: November 2023 issue
Using state-of-the-art lifting, rotating and linear technology from drive specialist LinMot, Gardena has succeeded in redefining the precision, speed and sustainability of its production facilities.
An intelligent drainage system makes some things better
Channel: Journal
Media: Beverage industry
Date: Issue October 2023
Are all bottle and can ejection systems technically "fully optimized"? No!
The solution to prevent milk spills
Channel: Journal
Media: LVT – Food Industry
Date: Issue October 2023
Rotary motors for wing-cap closures for milk cartons. 200 million liters of milk and 60 million liters of cream.
Innovation leap in robot grippers
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis.vogel.de
Date: April 25, 2023
By switching from pneumatic cylinders to linear motors, Keller HCW has succeeded in developing a universally applicable robot gripper. The electric direct drives not only ensure the gripper's flexibility.
How a linear actuator ensures safe pharmaceuticals
Channel: Journal
Media: IEE – Industrial Engineering Efficiency
Date: Output 3 / 2023
Counterfeit medicines generate billions in revenue for criminals – and endanger human lives. Hicof's coding machine ensures security. At its core are linear actuators from LinMot.
Beverage industry 4.0
Channel: Journal
Media: Beverages! Technology & Marketing
Date: Output 2 / 2023
Plant-based liquid food products, NOLO (no-and-low-alcohol) drinks, free-from and clean-label smoothies, or molecular coffee made from upcycled materials.
"The flexibility of igus is worth its weight in gold"
Channel: Website
Media: Polydrive
Date: Output 2 / 2022
Lubrication-free and maintenance-free linear bearings, linear technology and energy chains.
The solution for spilled milk
Channel: Journal
Media: Beverage industry
Date: September 2022
200 million liters of milk and 60 million liters of cream – these impressive quantities of liquids are processed annually at Emmi's Mittelland dairy in Suhr. Right in the middle of it all: LinMot's rotary actuators and Wing-Cap closures.
Curbing counterfeit medicines
Channel: Journal
Media: The designer
Date: June 2022
To ensure the security against counterfeiting of pharmaceutical products, a provider of serialization and track & trace solutions has developed a coding machine based on a special slide system. To guarantee precision, acceleration, and traverse speeds, the company opted for linear technology from LinMot for its implementation.
Linear motor as an artificial lung demonstrates the protective effect of masks
Channel: Website
Media: DeviceMed
Date: 28 January 2022
Mouth and nose masks retain aerosols – but not 100 percent. Researchers at OTH Regensburg demonstrated in an experiment that the protective effect of masks can be significantly increased by simple additional measures.
Nothing can go wrong here.
Channel: Journal
Media: The designer
Date: November 2021
We open beverage cartons almost daily using a wing-cap closure. But there's more know-how behind this clever closure with the "wings" than we might expect: During the filling process, rotary motors are used to correctly screw the caps onto the threads and must precisely adhere to a wide variety of process parameters.
Functional safety for industrial linear motors
Channel: Journal
Media: drive technology
Date: November 2021
Until now, machine manufacturers were largely left to their own devices when it came to ensuring functional safety when using dynamic linear motors. Now, for the first time, a complete package is available that significantly simplifies this process for users.
Swiss industrial companies are doing brilliantly, but skilled workers are becoming increasingly difficult to find.
Channel: Newspaper
Media: Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Date: July 29, 2021
The strong results of machine manufacturer Bucher and chemical company Clariant exemplify the excellent performance of Swiss industrial groups. However, labor is becoming dangerously scarce – especially in the USA.
Provides deep insights into the sealing process
Channel: Website
Media: design practice
Date: August 09, 2021
Direct-drive rotary actuators allow for flexible and efficient closure processes. LinMot has now launched such actuators with integrated sensors – offering several advantages.
Linear motor as an artificial lung
Channel: Journal
Media: Beverage Industry
Date: September 2020
Medical face masks can help reduce the spread of the Covid-19 virus. This has been confirmed by systematic and reproducible studies conducted by OTH Regensburg using a lung simulator powered by linear motors from LinMot.
How linear technology is accelerating the packaging industry
Channel: Website
Media: design practice
Date: September 21, 2020
Linear motors are particularly suitable for use in pharmaceutical cleanrooms. For primary packaging manufacturer Neopac, they are indispensable for several reasons.
Linear motor as an artificial lung
Channel: Journal
Media: construction
Date: September 15, 2020
Direct-drive rotary actuators allow for flexible and efficient closure processes. LinMot has now launched such actuators with integrated sensors – offering several advantages.
Perfect fit for every screw
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: 19 November 2019
Direct-drive rotary motors make screwing processes flexible and efficient. If sensors are also integrated, process data can be collected as well.
Flexible and lightning-fast: Pick&Place with direct drive technology
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: 14 November 2018
Direct drives give pick-and-place modules efficiency, precision, and dynamics. The Swiss company Paro AG leverages these advantages to build assembly systems and special-purpose machines that compete in the top league in terms of productivity.
Shorter changeover times, less scrap, lower downtime
Channel: Journal
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: April 18, 2017
Many users desire to combine the advantages of flow-based dosing with those of piston dosing in a rotary filling machine. Tölke, a packaging machine specialist, has now achieved this feat with the use of LinMot linear motors.
New engine family positions dynamically – also as an alternative to pneumatics
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: 15 November 2016
Linmot is expanding its product range of 3-phase linear motors (230 to 480 VAC) for control with Linmot drivers or third-party controllers with the new P10-54 motor family. This product introduces a compact, medium-power tubular linear motor for dynamic positioning tasks or as a replacement for pneumatic systems.
Flexible design of closing processes with lifting-rotary motors
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: 07 November 2016
Sealing processes are significantly more adaptable with linear-rotary motors than with conventional cam disc technology. Tölke, a specialist in packaging machines, has therefore equipped a new high-performance filling and sealing system with linear-rotary motors from Linmot.
Design filling and sealing processes to be flexible and dynamic
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: July 29, 2016
Linear motors allow for significantly more dynamic, precise, and, in particular, flexible filling, closing, and packaging processes than pneumatic cylinders. Chocolat Frey AG has also had this experience.
Film wrapping machine with direct drive technology
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: September 11, 2015
ALPMA's new MultiSAN film wrapping machine packages soft cheese in all formats. Complex modifications or lengthy setup times are no longer required. The machine's high flexibility is also due to the use of state-of-the-art direct drive technology.
Linear motor with integrated drive
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: March 14, 2014
Linmot has introduced the new PSC01 series linear motors with integrated drive.
Linear motors ensure healthy farmed fish
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: February 21, 2014
The VX-8 machine, developed by Skala Maskon, automatically inoculates up to 20.000 fish per hour. This is made possible by an image processing system and LinMot's IP69K-rated stainless steel linear motors.
Freely combine linear and rotational movements
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: 09 January 2014
Linmot's new rotary hub motors allow for freely combinable linear and rotary movements.
Small high-performance linear motors
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: April 13, 2012
NTI's new P02-23Sx80-HP high-performance linear motors deliver almost twice the rated power while having identical dimensions to the standard versions.
Industrial linear motors replace pneumatics
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis vogel.de
Date: August 30, 2010
Industrial linear motors are increasingly replacing pneumatic cylinders. Even for simple point-to-point movements, designers are increasingly turning to electric drives. LinMot explains why the use of industrial linear motors makes financial sense.
New linear motors
Channel: Website
Media: SMM Swiss Machinery Market
Date: 10 December 2009
With the new P01-48×360 linear motor family, LinMot expands the force range of its product portfolio to over 1000N. The LinMot concept has proven itself as an alternative to conventional motors.
NTI: Industrial linear motors as an alternative to pneumatics
Channel: Website
Media: SMM Swiss Machinery Market
Date: 24 November 2009
The company NTI specializes in linear motors (Linmot). As Ernst Blumer (Sales Manager NTI) emphasized to SMM, industrial linear motors are used in dynamic applications.
Products at SPS/IPC/Drives 2008
Channel: Website
Media: SMM Swiss Machinery Market
Date: 24 November 2009
The production of small batch sizes requires simpler and more efficient retooling and adjustment of production equipment. Flexi-Drive drives contribute to this through their additional functions.
Cost reduction in linear motion: Replacing pneumatics with industrial linear motors
Channel: Website
Media: konstruktionspraxis.vogel.de
Date: September 15, 2009
If more than two positions are required, if synchronous operation with a vertical shaft is necessary, or if the dynamics or service life of a pneumatic cylinder is no longer sufficient, the designer resorts to linear direct drives.
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