INDUSTRY UPDATE


Electronic Control and Electrical Products


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Also Distributors for other manufacturers: • PHOENIX CONTACT, • FINDER Relays, • CHINT Circuit Protection, Wiring Accessories & Control Components


• EATON GMT range of fuses. • SWITCHGEAR SYSTEMS Power Distribution.


All can be found via our Webstore, or contact us at our Works as shown:


COLTER PRODUCTS LTD u 01371-876887 u sales@coltergroup.co.uk u www.coltergroup.net


olter manufacture & supply Electronic Controls, Fuse alarm indication, PLC'S, Relay Interfaces and


WDS Components have got your parts covered….


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or OEMs and end users alike, selecting the right product is crucial. This can require help in many forms


from design, supply and support to achieve the required specification, including a wide product range to choose from and bespoke parts if needed. With many years of engineering and technical support to meet customer design and functional needs WDS Components are the home of standard parts and machine accessories. WDS Components has recently updated and expanded


its vast range of components, standard parts and machine accessories and is presenting them in a new catalogue for 2021. The new catalogue, is user friendly with a range of features to help make part selection quicker and easier, it includes WDS’ complete range along with a wide range of new releases. Including but not limited to parts often required in automation such as conveyor components, zinc alloy axial and angle ball joints. WDS components also has an extensive range of


range of quality clamping levers with more new variants coming in March 2021, and an expanded range of 316 stainless Steel variants coming in April, that will be advertised on the website and available to all customers. WDS also has a new range of Clevis kits launching in


March, available to select and view on line with 3D images and drawings. The majority of components and parts are designed and


manufactured in-house, utilising high tech lights out production. On-site manufacture means 98% of the product range is available and in stock. Crucially, this means short lead times for the customer with flexible delivery options. A free copy of the new catalogue can be requested by visiting wdscomponents.com or call us on 0333 043 5443


WDS Components Limited u 0333 043 5443 u wdscomponents.com


Make complex motion profiles simple


testing tasks that require rapid, simultaneous motion in multiple degrees of freedom. They offer a practical and user-friendly alternative to stacking individual stages together, which are more complicated to control and have inherently higher errors; each stage has its own errors, and these add up, compounding any problems. In contrast, hexapods have a parallel-kinematic structure, with six drives acting together on a single moving platform to provide rapid, precise movement and positioning. This allows alignment and displacement of varying loads in all six degrees of freedom, with just one potential source of errors, helping to minimize deviations. Typical applications of hexapods include the alignment of a lens or other optical component being mounted within a photonics assembly, or shake/stability compensation testing of cameras or other devices.


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exapods are becoming increasingly common for industrial applications, particularly for alignment and


Physik Instrumente (PI) offers a broad portfolio of


hexapods that can be combined with absolute measuring sensors, motion controllers and software to make even the most complicated motion profiles easy to coordinate. The scalability of these hexapod systems enables positioning of loads ranging from a few grams to several tons, in any spatial orientation. Precise positioning can be achieved rapidly and reliably – essential in a 24/7 production environment – and the compact design is ideal where space is frequently at a premium. Effective software control is crucial to implementing


hexapods in an industrial environment, and PI’s advanced digital controllers and user-friendly software are designed to complement the company’s elegant hexapod designs. This ensures easy integration with other software packages – such as Python, C, MATLAB and LabVIEW – and allows direct interfacing with EtherCAT for straightforward connection to CNC controls or PLC


networks. Advanced software features such as virtual pivot points – enabling fully automated rotation around a fixed point in space – further expand the potential applications for hexapod integration, offering reliable and scalable coordination and control without the instability inherent in other positioning technologies. For more information about


the PI’s hexapods, visit https://bit.ly/3jjcMGu


Physik Instrumente (PI) u 01234 756 360 u uk@pi.ws u www.physikinstrumente.co.uk


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