Plant & Works Engineering February/March 2023

HART DOOR SYSTEM says it is confident that there are considerable prospects for another successful year for the Speedor brand Doug Hart, chairman, Hart Door Systems says: “Our management team led by Nick Hart as managing director and David Mason as sales director has just delivered a very good year when there has been many uncertainties in the UK economy and wider afield. “In that challenging business environment we have had many successes at home and abroad not just through the Speedor range of high-speed doors but through our range of high quality shutters. Both these leading brands have had additional variants introduced such as Speedor ECO and our Typhoon shutters. “The breadth of offer created by the choice of solutions for industry and commerce has cemented our presence in the UK market and globally. The fundamentals delivered by Hart are quality throughout manufacture to installation as well as service back-up to comply with changing national and international safety standards. “We are also cognisant of Climate Change issues and the need to keep both Hart’s and our clients’ carbon footprints to a minimum by using the latest manufacturing technology to streamline the manufacturing process. Where possible we would use recyclable materials.” Looking more closely at Speedor ECO, this high-speed door complements Hart’s very successful Speedor Storm, Speedor Mini and sub brands such as Speedor Conveyor and Speedor Cleanroom, further strengthening Hart’s overall high-speed door offer. Visit www.pwemag.co.uk for the full release. t | 0191 214 0404 e | sales@hartdoors.com w | www.hartdoors.com Reducing energy consumption in today’s highly competitive industrial environment is likely to be higher on most, if not all of today’s manufacturers’ agendas, especially due to current higher energy costs. With automation playing an increasingly important role in many applications maximising the efficiency of robots will be of significant interest across all manufacturing sectors. Features such as regenerative braking can make a big difference to the efficiency of robots, recovering braking energy and feeding it back into the power grid without the need for additional hardware. Motion control and Robotics specialists YASKAWA has developed an important solution for the recovery of robot braking energy and offers this feature as standard on its larger Motoman robot’s with a payload upwards of 50kg. t | 0330 678 1990 e | jonny.grey@yaskawa.eu. w | www.Yaskawa.co.uk w | www.yaskawa.eu.com/header-meta/ news-events/article/yaskawa-robots-with- regenerative-braking_n18865 Robots with regenerative braking 2023 - a year of opportunity 36 | Plant & Works Engineering www.pwemag.co.uk February/March 2023 Industry Update Improved burner performance RIELLO says its RS and RLS 310 to 610 ranges of burners with electronic cam control are proving increasingly popular with specifiers and end users that want to improve efficiency and reduce environmental impact. Precise positioning of the servomotors afforded by electronic cam control improves air fuel ratio control and reduces heat loss through the flue. Additionally, improved control of boiler temperature with integrated PID (Proportional Integral Derivative) reduces boiler stop/starts, saving energy from purge losses, and maximises the potential for improved burner turndown ratio. Thermal stresses on the boiler are minimised by safe start-up of the plant from cold. A further advantage of electronic cam control is that it avoids the wear and tear that occurs with mechanical cams and linkages over time, thereby improving reliability and avoiding hysteresis. t | 01480 432144 e | info@rielloburners.co.uk w | www.rielloburners.co.uk Leister’s new thermoplastic membrane welders are designed to be so easy to operate that both novices and professionals can produce a perfect weld seam with little introduction or practice. The TWINNY T5 and T7 are digitally controlled with easy-to-operate displays and intuitive user controls. The TWINNY T7 comes equipped with the Leister Quality System (LQS), GPS and WiFi, allowing all welding parameters to be easily stored, shared and recalled, making it possible to carry out flawless and repeatable welds from the start. Simply download the myLeister app to a smartphone or tablet, add your TWINNY T7 and away you go. Developed by Leister, the TWINNY T5 and TWINNY T7 are supplied to the UK by WELWYN TOOL GROUP. Welwyn can supply the full range of Leister plastic welding and industrial process heat equipment. t | 0800 856 0057 e | info@welwyntoolgroup.com w | www.welwyntoolgroup.com Switch on and start welding SICK has unveiled its next-generation family of large- bore hollow-shaft incremental encoders, the SICK DGS80. The company says an innovative design concept has opened up versatile integration possibilities for the DGS80 across wide-ranging industrial automation applications, aided by a radically- streamlined specification process and easy installation. The SICK DGS80 incremental encoder spans a broad range of shaft diameters up to 42mm, all within an extremely compact and rugged IP65-rated 81mm diameter housing. Starting with standard 30mm or 42mm diameter bores, the shaft size can be reduced with a large range of specially-designed insulated collets to ensure a secure connection to the application. SICK’s new large bore hollow-shaft encoder family therefore gives end-users and machine builders the confidence of universal machine compatibility while stocking minimal inventory. w | www.sick.com Next-generation hollow- shaft encoders