‘Safety Requirements’
A Manufacturingtalk guide
Start with the news release
Electric forklift for indoor materials handling from
Toyota Material Handling, which we summarised at the time by saying "Toyota Material Handling has launched the 8FBCU range of compact electric forklifts offering capacities of 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0 tonnes, designed for all indoor materials handling applications.".
Several months prior to that,
we featured the news release Rodriguez supplies Kaydon bearings to UK industry from
Rodriguez: "Kaydon bearing product distributor R A Rodriguez is to benefit from the news that the quality systems of two more of Kaydon's US manufacturing facilities have been certified to AS9100B.".
In September 2010, we covered the news from Schunk Intec
- take a look at Toolholder ideal for milling and finishing tasks
which says: "Schunk has launched the Tendo-E Compact designed for tool-holding tasks in high-volume machining applications such as rough milling, finish machining, drilling and reaming.".
Take a look also at the news release from Wildeck, Sensor enhances safety in material handling tasks,
as well as Ishida X-ray inspection enhances quality control from Ishida,
and Samson positioners incorporate ESD function from Samson Controls.
Latest stories...
Robotic tool changer for heavy-duty applications (September 2010)
SAS Automation has introduced a semi-automatic tool changer for the accurate, repeatable mounting of robotic end-of-arm tooling.
Schaeffler bearings help reduce vehicle emissions (September 2010)
The Schaeffler Group has developed rolling bearings for tractors and graders that are said to enable greater drive train efficiency, providing reduced fuel consumption and vehicle emissions.
Virtual-reality system installed at CNH facility (August 2010)
Agricultural and construction equipment company CNH is using an Activewall HD immersive visualisation suite from Virtalis at its facility in Zedelgem, Belgium, to conduct collaborative design reviews.
Roller bearings operate in heavy-duty environments (August 2010)
Schaeffler's X-life E1 spherical roller bearings are ideal for applications such as continuous casting machines used in steel processing, paper mills, wind turbine rotor shafts and vibrating screens.
Weldability-Sif provides gas inspection courses (August 2010)
Weldability-Sif is running a series of two-day gas inspection training courses to help operatives with a basic understanding of the oxy-fuel gas process to become gas equipment inspectors.
Breaking Torque Wrench targets automotive market (August 2010)
Torqueleader has launched the TBN 200 Breaking Torque Wrench for applications in the automotive, aerospace, military and consumer product markets.
Mobile exhibitions on future of process technology (August 2010)
Parker Hannifin, a provider of technologies for motion and control tasks, is to present a series of mobile exhibitions on the future of process instrumentation, touring Europe until December 2010.
CTS system suitable for deep-hole drilling (August 2010)
The new Cyclo Blast coolant-through-spindle (CTS) system from MAG enables owners of Fadal vertical machining centres (VMCs) to maximise machine efficiency and extend tool life.
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