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Article: Design for manufacture innovation award: EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEMS SUPPLIERS.
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- The Engineer
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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1st Hoerbiger-Origa's new Interact actuator is a plug-and-play pneumatic drive. The company took two modern trends - fieldbus communications and mechatronics, a fusion of mechanical and electronic technologies - as the driving forces for developing the actuator, which provides design engineers with a completely interactive electro-pneumatic solution.
A modern axis conventionally requires the combination of basic pneumatic cylinder, valves, sensors, controls, tubing, silencers, end of stroke cushions and safety elements. Electronic integration demands expertise in pneumatic, electrical and electronic disciplines. By comparison the Interact drive unit integrates ...