SMC's MACM contributes to space saving on conveyor lines.  Heavy workpieces can now be aligned and positioned with small cylinders, resulting in compact conveyor lines.

Workpieces can be moved in any direction:  forward/backward, right/left, at an angle, and even rotated (360 degrees).  Ball bearings allow for smooth operation.  Table center has a moveable range of 100mm Max (MACM10-50) with a maximum allowable load weight of 2205 lbs.

Lowering Dew Point to Protect Expensive Automation Equipment

Failure to remove water vapor from factory air can quickly become a costly maintenance headache.

Water vapor and the resulting water condensate are the foremost causes of costly downtime and maintenance, not the more visible culprit of oil or contaminants, which are easily removed with proper filtration.

One of the foremost causes of costly downtime and emergency maintenance is not oil or contaminants, which are easily removed with proper filtration, but water vapor and the resulting condensed water that is trapped in factory compressed air.

A flash based pneumatic valve sizing calculator has been posted under the links section of our website.  This sizing calculator allows you to determine your valve Cv requirement.  Enter your application requirements and the calculator will give you everything you need to determine the correct valve requirement for your application including Cv, cylinder velocity, flow required, extend force, and retract force.  By design, you can easily tweak values to see what changes in variables do to your application requirements.

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Jim Watters (Dr. Vacuum) from Bimba Manufacturing will be visiting Scott Equipment Company on March 17, 18 and 19, 2020.  He will be riding along with our Account Managers and we wanted to give you an opportunity to schedule an appointment to meet Dr. Vaccuum.

The new SMC JSXFA valve series is a high performance pulse valve for reverse jet dust collector applications.  The JSXFA valves have variable port sizes and are available in threaded and compression fitting connections.  The JSXFA valves are designed to reduce air consumption and increase peak pressure.  Designed and built with a heavy elastomer diaphram allows the JSXFA valve to achieve its 10 million cycle life.

SMC offers a range of pressure monitoring devices that can meet the diverse application requirements of your machines.  SMC's collection of sensors and switches have IP ratings as high as IP67, IO-Link capability, and pneumatic or liqued compatibility.  Ease of use has been increased by the use of multi-line, multi-color displays for increased visibility. 

Effective July 13th, 2020 - SMC Noblesville will expand the NCA1 series to include additional NFPA standard rod threads.  All NFPA standard rod ends were not initially released with NCA1 as a standard How to Order option and thus required a Simple Special/RFS for modification.  However, due to increased customer demand over the years and to benchmark the NFPA market offering, we have now standardized the rod thread modifications.

Inventory maintenance is one of the most challenging issues facing machine builders.  Having hundreds of part numbers and multiple variations of the same or very similar parts add to the complexity of inventory maintenance.  Solving issues like this has been a major objective for SMC.

Maintaining the correct number of spare fittings on hand for thread types is complicated.  SMC has developed a unique solution to eliminate thread issues encountered by machine builders.  SMC’s Unifit fittings work on multiple thread types and allow you to stock fewer fittings while ensuring you have the correct fittings available to keep your machines working properly and efficiently.   SMC Unifit one-touch fittings have been designed to thread and seal properly into NPT, NPTF, Rc, R(PT), BSPT, G, or BSPP female threads.

Pneumatic machines can be finicky.  Pneumatic cylinders can sometimes be hard to control, may lunge or even more erratically.  Having the ability to control the speed and operation of your pneumatic actuators is a necessity to keeping your machine operating smoothly and efficiently.  If you can accomplish this, your machines will produce consistent results and last longer due to smooth, consistent, and efficient movement.

Speed controllers (also referred to as flow controls) are small valves used to reduce the flow rate from a pneumatic actuator.   Speed controllers decrease the operational speed of a pneumatic actuator in one direction – opposed to a needle valve that controls air flow in two directions (in and out of the actuator).  The benefit of a speed controller is that it enables the cylinder to have a controlled movement in one direction, but full flow and speed in the opposite direction.