Pneumatic actuator

Design Insights: Selecting the Right Pneumatic Actuator; Simulation-Driven Design; A Blitz of Innovations

April 12, 2021
A review of the day’s top trending stories from Machine Design editors.

Select the Right Pneumatic Actuator

An April 13th Machine Design webinar sponsored by Fabco-Air Inc. takes a look at the issues surrounding pneumatic actuators and their design applications. While designers tend to consider only basic functionality, an application may require specific design features to optimize them. The webinar will look at the various standards and form factors to which actuators are designed, as well as some of the technologies that can enhance their functionality or durability in an application.

Simulation-Driven Product Design Ebook

Intelligent Performance Engineering (IPE) is a comprehensive digital thread designed to help industrial machine manufacturers manage the complexities of building the next generation of machines. It’s also the subject of a new Machine Design Ebook sponsored by Siemens. Click link to download the Integrated Performance Engineering Ebook. It will offer a holistic solution to improve reliability and address risk by simulating complete machine operation.

New Innovations in One Blitz

The latest Product Blitz now is available at this link, and it offers the latest new products from Keystone, Carlo Gavazzi, HYDAC, Piab, POSITAL, AutomationDirect and Harmonic Drive LLC. All of these products and others are eligible to be entered in the 2021 IDEA! Awards, which will be presented at the 2021 IDEA! Conference in Cleveland in November. To enter the 2021 IDEA! Awards, go to this link.

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