Automation Parts

Enersys Battery Bank Optimises Warehouse Space Co-operative Food Retail Logistics called on Enersys to optimise the warehouse space at its distribution centre in County Durham by minimising the area required for charging warehouse-truck batteries. The solution was to build a three-tier battery bank - with potential to go even higher - served by an electric-powered changing cart. Over 90 per cent of the 2,000+ batteries used across the company's 19 warehouses are Hawker Evolution units. With a gelled electrolyte, Hawker Evolution offers a number of maintenance-free benefits because its sealed units require no topping up and there is no risk of spillage. An efficient valve-regulated re-combination technology reduces gas emissions to an absolute minimum, which makes Evolution suitable for busy food-distribution operations. The best way of minimising the charge-area footprint was to create a bank of multiple tiers to accommodate the batteries on charge. Enersys devised a new versio...

Wittenstein Gearhead Suits Space-Restricted Apps Wittenstein has developed the V-Drive+ Servo Worm Gearhead that meets requirements for resource-efficient servo applications and is predestined for applications where space is restricted. Circumferential backlash has been reduced to a defined minimum by optimising the special concave-profile teeth. The concave teeth also assure consistently high positional accuracy, giving up to 50 per cent more torque. The V-Drive economy series with a circumferential backlash more than 8arc/min is available as an economical alternative to the V-Drive+. This gearhead family is based on the concave-profile tooth principle, which unites high torques with efficiency unrivalled by other worm gearheads, the company said. The V-Drive Economy range is suited to applications requiring less precision.