July/August 2019

ABB has announced it has launched Dodge Safety Mount spherical roller bearings with a built-in patented locking mechanism that reduces installation time by up to 75% compared to traditional products. ABB says best suited for bulk material and air handling applications, the new bearing mounts by tightening fasteners instead of using a hammer and other tools. The new system also allows for simple installation and removal from the same side of the bearing, which means only one person is needed for the task. “The new mounting system replaces the blows of a hammer with the tightening of fasteners,” says Jim Madsen, dodge mounted roller bearing product manager, ABB. “It also makes it faster to install large bearings, but more importantly, it makes it safer for the installer.” The company says Safety Mount bearings feature a triple-lip contact seal and corrosion-resistant flinger sealing system which prevents contamination from entering the product during installation and operation. A labyrinth seal option is available for high-speed and high-temperature applications. Dodge Safety Mount bearings are factory sealed and greased, shaft ready out of the box, with no feeler gauges required. They are offered in split cap and single piece housing options in standard SAF, metric SN, Type E, and Imperial housing dimensions in sizes 4-15/16” to 7” (115 mm to 170 mm). t | 01925 741517 e | layla.hewitt@gb.abb.com RUBIX, a European distributor of industrial products and services – and the group behind Brammer Buck and Hickman - has announced it has been ranked 27th in the Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 100. Published on 7 July, the 19th annual Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 100 league table ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the biggest sales. Rubix delivered € 2.3bn of sales in 2018, an increase of 4% year-on-year. Group CEO Martin Thomsen, said: “Our sales growth reflects the hard work and dedication of everyone at Rubix, so I am pleased my colleagues have received this recognition for their efforts. Whether we are helping to keep the bread baking, put planes in the sky or make people feel better, customers rely on us to ensure that the wheels of industry are always turning.” w | www.rubix-group.com SICK has announced it has launched the first 2D LiDAR sensors safety-certified to PL b, specifically designed to plug a gap for lower-risk applications where safety-rated integration is needed in small, low-speed automated guided vehicles and carts, service robots or collaborative robots. The company says the SICK TiM361S and TiM781S 2D LiDAR sensors are economical, lightweight and compact with a safety certification to EN ISO 13849- 1:2015 PL b and can be integrated inconspicuously into low-speed, small or lightweight mobile or stationary applications, following completion of an appropriate risk assessment. They can also be used where secondary safety detection is required to complement higher-rated systems already in place. Using SICK’s patented Safe HDDM+ time-of-flight infra- red scanning technology, with a 270° scanned field of view, the sensors offer exceptional object detection and measurement accuracy. t | 01727 831121 e | andrea.hornby@sick.co.uk. w | https://www.sick.com/gb/en/ Plugging the low-risk safety gap ABACUS water meter type Ec scaled 0 - 99.9 litres in steps of 0.1 litre Top Track 100 Adding a preset quantity of water to a mix has long been carried out using pails or hosepipes this is not very accurate and certainly not consistent. Now, Hertfordshire company AQUAMETER has announced it has developed the ABACUS digital water measuring system for dispensing accurate preset quantities of water straight into mixing vessels, tanks etc. The company says easy to install and simple to use, the ABACUS delivers repeatable results day in, day out, reliably and consistently, thousands of units have been sold worldwide to a whole variety of industries where water is added to powders or granules for mixing purposes - just dial in the batch amount required and press the start button. w | www.aquameter.co.uk Process, Controls & Plant July/August 2019 www.pwemag.co.uk Plant & Works Engineering | 37 A fast response, medium wave infra-red heating system is being used to assist in composite materials thermoforming research at the National Composites Centre. The system is acting to ensure controlled and precise pre-heating of thermoplastic carbon fibre laminates before forming in a press, designed and built by press manufacturers, PJ Hare. A fast response medium wave system from HERAEUS was installed by PJ Hare immediately before their forming press. Blank composite sheet material is now loaded onto a purpose-built carrier and is first shuttled between two 18kW modules. It can then be heated, under plc control, to the required temperature. Heating can be continuous or ramped. Once the heating cycle is completed and the sheet has been held at temperature, it is transferred to the press and moulded to shape. t | 0151 353 2710 e | ian.bartley@heraeus.com Medium wave infra-red heating system Spherical roller bearings cut installation time

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