The ACS580 all-compatible general-purpose drive provides energy-efficient motor and process control. It supports a variety of motor types, including high-efficiency permanent magnet motors. The wall-mounted drive is available in power ranges from 1 to 350 hp at 460 V in UL Types 1 and 12 enclosures. The UL Type 12 drive has
What is bearing preload? When assembling individual bearing components, the outer race, inner race, balls, and retainer all work together so that there is a controlled amount of internal clearance between the rings and balls. This radial play is necessary for proper operation, however, in most applications, it is also necessary to help re…
Cane Creek, the market-leader in headsets, is now throwing its top cap into the ring of bottom brackets. Designed to complement Cane Creek’s desirable eeWing titanium cranks, the new range of Hellbender bottom brackets takes a fresh approach to sealed bearings which are said to be completely maintenance-free and extremely du
Signing ceremony for an investment agreement aimed at supporting and facilitating autonomous driving in China: Matthias Zink (third from left), CEO Automotive OEM at Schaeffler AG and Hu Zhongxiong, Mayor of Changsha (second from right) during the signing ceremony in the presence of German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and Chinese President L…
LM76 has announced the release of their new line of Radial Ball Bearings featuring ZrO 2 (Zirconia) Ceramic balls. To Complement LM76's broad range of Linear Bearings t
In today’s booming manufacturing environment high machine tool use rates can have an impact on optimum machine tool performance resulting in planned or unplanned repair requirements. IBAG, an innovator and manufacturer of a full range of high-speed spindles, has stepped up its High-speed spindle repair and rebuild
Rail-related parts and components supplier PowerRail, Inc. was recently awarded a multi-year, $1.9 million contract with New Jersey Transit to manufacture new Passenger Car Class F Journal Adapter Boxes. Cooper Bearings, a division of PowerRail, specializes in both new and remanufactured bearings and j
New bottom bracket uses patented SKF MTRX oil-filled polymer Cane Creek’s new Hellbender bottom bracket is built around a set of ‘solid’ SKF bearings that encases the ball bearings within an “oil-filled solid polymer matrix”. This plastic-like polymer makes the bearin
Professor Tim Hosenfeldt, Head of Innovation and Central Technology at Schaeffler AG (right), shows Prime Minister Dr. Ing. Markus Söder at the founding ceremony at the Energie Campus Nuremberg key components for the fuel cell. Free State of Bavaria pushes expansion of hydrogen technology Ceremonial foundation with Prime Minister D
ALIO Industries has introduced the concept of Point Precision which has been adopted by NIST as the future standard methodology of measuring and quantifying motion systems. Point Precision includes all 6 degrees of freedom of errors of each axis in motion, guaranteeing the precision point in the full work envelop. Point Prec
