12/17/2024
Safety for industrial equipment, which includes automated material handling equipment in general and conveyors in specific can be a confusing and rather daunting topic. Not complying with safety standards generally provokes word associations in our brains such as “bad”, “dangerous”, and “liability”. This last one often gets the
Read More05/21/2024
We're excited to introduce you to Senergy-Ai-48, a groundbreaking addition to our Senergy-Ai line of motorized drive rollers. This innovative product builds upon the proven reliability of our existing models and takes it to the next level with a powerful 48V DC motor.
Read More05/21/2024
I believe in some ways I was a normal kid growing up - perhaps in other ways, not so much. One of the “normal” things that was more or less universal to kids was an attraction to cool looking sports cars. As a young teenage male; cars were something you could relate to with your buddies even if they had no clue what an odd time signature was on
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Replace Your Pneumatics and AC Drives in Conveyor or Automation Applications - The Pulse Geared Drive (PGD) is a versatile motor drive designed to transform your conveyor and automation applications.
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My musical experience and exposure during the growing up years at least through high school did not include much of The Rolling Stones. That was until I moved into a dorm freshman year at college. The guy next door in the dorm was a Stones and Beatles fanatic and had the largest record collection I had ever seen.
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Continued from Part 2...Dec 26th-Dec 29th: My daughter had to work all week beginning on the 26th, so I was stuck at her apartment with no car and no good idea on what to do. My wife did make it on the 26th and took an Uber from LAX, so then we were both stuck. The all Star Trek channel helped, but it was not really “something to do”.
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Continued from Part 1...Fast Forward to the week Dec. 17th: My poor wife is coughing like Marge Schott’s chain smoking Christmas goose. She tests positive for COVID, I test negative. My wife is known in our neighborhood as the “crazy walking lady”: she gets in her 5 to 10 miles almost every day - winter included.
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Astute followers of this column will remember that I have often given anecdotes and such from a conveyor PLC programmer’s perspective because I spent many years doing that kind of work. As I have heard it said, you write about what you know. Another little detail of this work is that 99% of the time you have to spend multiple days out of town
Read More08/11/2023
With the August heat bearing down on us, I thought it might be nice to think about the holiday season if anything but to provide thoughts of lower temperatures and perhaps snow on the ground. Speaking of the holiday season; I assume that every reader of this column has seen the holiday classic film “A Christmas Story” so many times that all
Read More08/07/2023
We are excited to announce the release of our latest innovation, the Senergy-Ai-48 (48V) Motorized Drive Roller! Built on our industry-leading Senergy technology, this new roller offers unparalleled torque, speed, and acceleration to enhance your material handling operations.
Read More05/10/2023
Much like the migratory creatures of our animal kingdom, those of us in the material handling world make our biennial pilgrimage to Chicago to attend and/or present at the ProMat show. It was different this year because there was no in-person show in 2021, thus whether we admit it to ourselves or not, I believe a lot of us were itching to go to
Read More03/19/2023
Our NSF Certified Wash-Down Rated MDRs and Idlers. Reduce downtime needed to clean and sanitize!
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