Automate's Product Spotlights: From Automation Essentials to Advanced Solutions

Quantum Devices Partners with OEMs to Provide Encoders

Quantum Devices, a U.S.-based encoder manufacturer, designs and manufactures high quality, high performance incremental optical rotary encoders for a range of industries and applications. As seen at the Automate Show, the company partners with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to provide application-specific encoders for servo motors, robotics and many other applications. They can accommodate special design requests and deliver custom solutions that add value to equipment and automation systems. The company also manufactures custom photodiodes with either single or multiple diode structures on a single chip. This configuration is a p-on-n structure and can be used to detect the presence and absence of minute quantities of light. The linearity of this response can range over several orders of magnitude, from 10 picowatt/cm² to several hundred MW/cm².
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Dynatect Manufacturing Inc. Offers Protective Solutions in Automation

Dynatect provides protective solutions in automation—such as automated doors, clutches, cable carriers, manual doors, ball screws, bellows, roll-up doors and machine-door actuators— to leading manufacturers, integrators, distributors and consultants.

Products and services specifically for the manufacturing, welding and metalworking sectors include automated barrier doors and machine safety doors; cable and hose carriers; door actuators for automating CNC machine doors; bellows, covers and machine roof covers; machine pit roll-up covers; ball screw repair; and way cover repair.

The company’s automated machine safety door (pictured) is designed to be an effective solution for increasing productivity and industrial safety. The high-speed door isolates hazardous operations from personnel, equipment and materials, but it allows for easy access when needed, minimizing cycle times to keep production lines running efficiently.

Beyond its core function as a safety barrier, the AMSD can adapt to various automated processes, functioning as both a secure barrier and an industrial safety curtain. This automated machine door can be equipped with an optional LiDAR scanner, which senses an obstruction approaching the closing door and quickly stops the door to avoid impact, providing an additional layer of safety for workers and equipment.

Comozzi Automation's pneumatic actuation

Camozzi Automation Showcased Pneumatic and Electric Automation Solutions

At Automate 2024, Camozzi Automation showcased its latest innovations designed to help manufacturers optimize productivity, efficiency and safety across their operations. Camozzi offered attendees to explore pneumatic and electric automation solutions by demonstrating a comprehensive portfolio of products, including proportional technology, actuators, grippers and IIoT connectivity solutions.
For applications that require linear and rotary movements, the company offers ISO or non-standardized actuators. All actuators have a modern design and are developed to save space and weight and can have different construction types to satisfy the most critical sectors. The company says it works on both the digitalization of production processes and the creation of real cyber-physical systems to enable the integration of mechanical, electronic and digital elements—constantly improving process performance.
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Nason’s Switches, Cylinders and Transducers Come Standard or Customized

Among a range of components that Nason had on display at its Automate 2024 booth were its CR series stainless steel pneumatic cylinders (pictured). Designed for smooth startup and operation, the cylinders are constructed with low-friction Nitrile seals and factory lubricated with FDA-complaint food-grade PTFE-impregnated grease, the stainless steel cylinders’ precision-machined components and low-friction bearings ensure long life and effortless operation.
The stainless steel in the CR Series is non porous and resistant to corrosion, making them ideal for applications that require strict compliance to purity and quality standards, such as pharmaceutical and food preparation, or areas that need to stand up to punishing elements, like wash-down environments. The company offers automated assembly machines/systems, sensors and sensor integrated systems as well as design, engineering and support services.

KHK Offers a Multitude of Metric Gears

Specializing in metric gearing, KHK USA has been producing its product line since 1935. Brian Dengel, gearing executive at KHK, showed us the metric gears for industrial automation applications at Automate 2024. There were rack and pinions in a range of lengths and pitch as well as spur, bevel and worm gears in an assortment of sizes and configurations on display. The gears are finished with polishing, tempering, surface processing, teeth shape measurement and examination with 3D measurement devices. The company offers free software for gear calculation and gear drafting. With a few known parameters, these programs can help design the best gear geometry for each unique application.