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December 21, 2011

Sponsor: Beckhoff

Video: Give Your Control Cabinet Some Breathing Room with Book-sized C69xx IPCs

Give your control cabinet some breathing room with Beckhoff's compact C69xx IPC series. Watch this new video demo about Beckhoff's “library” of book-sized Industrial PCs featuring Intel® Atom™ to Core™2 Duo processors with RAID and PCI expansion options.
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Video Demo: AX5000 EtherCAT® Drives

The AX5000 series is the dynamic EtherCAT® servo drive from Beckhoff Automation. The AX5000 is available with single- or multi-channel variants and is optimized for ultra high performance that’s exceptionally cost-effective.
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Video Demo: CX Family DIN Rail Embedded PCs

Starting under $1,000 with TwinCAT® PLC software and Windows, the Beckhoff CX Family sets new standards for affordable, high performance PAC technology.
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Versatile EL67xx EtherCAT® Terminals Provide Multi-fieldbus Compatibility

EL67xx EtherCAT® terminals from Beckhoff provide a direct interface to EtherCAT I/O nodes for DeviceNet, PROFIBUS, CANopen and more fieldbus devices. The terminals transmit each fieldbus signal's data through the EtherCAT protocol with full availability of each network’s features and functions.
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Powerhouse IPCs with Processors up to Core™2 Quad

The C66xx series IPCs from Beckhoff Automation offers incredibly high processing power for the most demanding automation requirements. The two C66xx versions feature the powerful Intel® Core™2 Duo or Core™2 Quad processors on a Beckhoff ATX motherboard.
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Roller Pinion Gear Steps Up Rotopod Robot Motion

Roller Pinion Gear Steps Up Rotopod Robot Motion

“We were looking for heavy duty gearing with less backlash than the spur gear drive we were using previously,” said Michael Fortier, President of Mikrolar, as they sought to improve their rotopod robots. The former gearing set used a spur gear and a motor, which was subject to backlash and did not provide sufficient precision for some of the more demanding robot applications.

The rotopod consists of parallel link manipulators that use an assembly of struts which provide six degree-of-freedom motion. Rotopods have been used for flight and driving simulators, industrial positioning, joint testing, and bio-medical motion studies.
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		Plastic Hollow Knurled Knobs J.W. Winco, Inc. announced it now offers series GN 7336 Plastic Hollow Knurled Knobs, with steel tapped inserts or threaded studs, in metric sizes. Also available is the new series GN 7336-NI, with inserts or studs of stainless steel. More>>

		One-piece Compressive Board-to-board Connector TE Connectivity introduces a sleek, one-piece compressive board-to-board connector that enables connecting to a gold-plated secondary board by compression of the contacts. More>>

		Liquid Analytical Sensor Wiring Guide Yokogawa Corporation of America announces the release of their New Sensor Wiring Guide, which includes all Yokogawa, designed and supported sensors and analyzers across the entire liquid measurement product line. More>>

EngineeringWatch™

What are Flexible Shaft Couplings?

Couplings join together two shafts as a way of transmitting power from one to the other. They're part of the drivetrain which may include other power transmission components such as lead screws or ballscrews, gearboxes, belts and pulleys or chains. There are two fundamental types of couplings; rigid and flexible.

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