Industry Outlook: A Frank Conversation on What’s in the Pipeline at igus
Frank Blase, CEO at igus, discusses the company’s outlook for bringing ease-of-use to product design and machine building processes based on cutting-edge solutions.
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Ticket to Ride: Durable, Lightweight Bike Rack Help Cyclists Hit the Road in Seconds
A design team took cues from industrial component design to develop a bike rack with high-tech, lightweight components, such as lube-free, high-performance plastic bearings.
Hannover Fair update: igus’ Blase looking forward to AI tools for engineers
Members of the media got a sneak peek at the igusGO app at last month’s Hannover Fair, a fascinating new cloud platform that uses artificial intelligence
Design World – March 2023 Special Edition: Trends 2023
igus XYZ gantries offer an economical solution for creating a motion system with up to 3 axes of motion. These system are available with belt driven or lead screw driven slides. They are easy...
Why gantry robots have become an essential automation solution
Read this article in the February 2023 edition of Design World to learn more.
Curious about the different types of industrial robots?
Read this article in the January/February 2023 issue of the Canadian Packaging magazine.
igus Shows its Low-Cost Automation Portfolio
At MD&M West, igus focused on low-cost automation. The company’s Josh Lewis walked through a checkers match between Delta robots in which a gantry system was used to move the play board. Each of the robots...
New Polymers Outperform Metal
The knee-jerk reaction to “plastic” replacement bushings is, “Why’d they sell me this cheap junk?” In reality, many OEM’s are switching from traditional sintered bronze bushings to high-tech polymer bushings to gain significantly better...
Cable Carriers Design Guide
In this free Design Guide, we detail cable carrier subtypes as well as the different designs into which cable carriers integrate. Motion control systems can vary from simple, straightforward single-axis direct-drive systems with little...
Developing a multifunctional, long-arm gripper
Gripper automatically packs manufactured components with three fingers, places them in boxes and places a layer of protective cardboard over them using a vacuum gripper.