Compliance questions in actuator procurement usually go wrong in one of two directions. Either a buyer asks a component supplier for something no component supplier can provide —"is this actuator ISO 13849 PLd certified?"— or a buyer acc...

We have already published two head-to-head comparisons: IP66 vs IP54 and IP66 vs IP69K for cleaning robots. This article does something different and, for a warehouse buyer, more useful: it works from your environment to the rating, zone...

Collaborative robots are increasingly used for end-of-line palletising, and they run into the same wall almost immediately: a cobot's vertical reach is shorter than a full pallet stack. The solution is a vertical axis under the robot. Ge...

There is a specific and expensive failure that happens on scissor lift tables: the prototype lifts the load perfectly during testing, then stalls the first time an operator tries to raise it from the fully lowered position with the palle...

Search for actuator guidance on conveyor diverters and you will find distributor category pages, generic"types of linear actuators"articles and — genuinely — patent documents. Almost no manufacturer has published engineering guidance for...