By Katharina Esch Cables are frequently designed with PVC or PUR outer jackets. In addition to those, igus® uses TPE (thermoplastic elastomers) materials. TPE is a very robust material that we use in high-end cables meant for challenging applications....
By Avory Brookins Photo: “201014-N-RG482-0033” by Navy Medicine, licensed under Public Domain Mark 1.0 The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked an increase in demand for UV disinfection robots, which use ultraviolet radiation to kill germs in the air and/or...
By Shizu Yamaguchi So, you want to know what a lead screw pitch is. We’ll dive into that here and define a few additional terms related to lead screws. Pitch The pitch of a...
By Shizu Yamaguchi Introduction If you have made it here, you are likely wondering what a lead screw is. And you may have some questions about pitch, lead, starts and thread types. In this...
By Shizu Yamaguchi Photo: “English: Slew ring bearing” by Dkluscious, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Slew rings have a few different names, including turntable bearings, slewing rings and slewing bearings. The purpose of slewing...
An increasing number of companies are advertising food-safe materials and offering more and more materials for processing and packaging in the food industry. But the public eye is also increasingly focused on the plastics...
By Tim Schneebeck DNV is a classification society that was created in 2013 after the merger of Det Norske Veritas (Norway) and Germanischer Lloyd (Germany). The company assesses ships and offshore structures for safety and...
By Jan Arnoldy For some time now, we’ve seen an upward trend in using hybrid cables for servo drives. Due to this development, we’ve been constantly expanding our range of hybrid cables to better fulfill the...
By Sebastian Bloechl Seat height adjustment in the car is an important component for comfort and safety, yet it is often given little attention by the vehicle owner. One main reason for this is...
By Andreas Muckes Today’s high-frequency-controlled drives and motors, known as Variable Frequency Drives (VFD), are demanding and technically sensitive. The servo cables used for this purpose are therefore not only a means to an...