DieQua has undergone significant change since its inception in 1980. Throughout the decades, DieQua has evolved, along with the product offerings, to better serve many growth industries more effectively. While DieQua has enjoyed a long history of industrial diversity, the chart below reflects the change, and rapid growth, in Automation being seen world wide.
There is almost nothing better than to get an inquiry from a new prospect that saw one of our advertisements or product announcements or found us somewhere on the web during a normal search. It means our promotions were working, our message was read loud and clear, and there was someone actively looking to use one of our gearboxes, zero-backlash couplings, or screw jacks. It gets better when the prospect has checked out the catalog, done his research, and selected a specific model that he wants to discuss or to get a quotation. Unfortunately, that [...]
With Summer’s heat approaching, it’s time to discuss an extreme environment application. High-temperature engineering solutions are required in many industries. A customer recently came to us with an application for operating a painting fixture. The fixture was to hold aircraft parts for the U.S. Air Force. The basic design called for an inline helical speed reducer that would drive, what amounted to, a rotisserie device that would slowly rotate the part so that all surfaces were easily accessible. While it was relatively a straightforward application, there were some critical caveats. The first was a requirement [...]
Short-run printing and automated machining require solutions for quick tool changes to achieve customized production efficiently. Two different applications use the same design concept to solve this problem. In the first application, a manufacturer of printing presses was looking for a quick-connect device to speed up cylinder changes. With short-run printing becoming the norm, print cylinder changeover was eating up a lot of production time. In the past, a transfer gear was installed on the cylinder shaft journal. However, because of a gear error, some motion variations were created. The new design was to include [...]
Backlash, torsion, and transmission error are all gearbox problems that can contribute to lost motion in a drive system that includes mechanical components. But this doesn’t mean you should eliminate these components, as the mechanical advantages of their use are significant. They just need to be monitored, analyzed and controlled. A customer came to us with a gearbox problem that looked to include lost motion as one of the symptoms. This customer produced a line of packaging assembly machines, one series of which put tops on containers. Their typical drive design wasn’t working on a [...]
From April 16 to April 18, DieQua exhibited at the PACK EXPO 2018 in Philadelphia, PA. This trade show was designed to showcase packaging solutions for consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) and industrial packagers. On average, the show draws 7,000 attendees. This year, DieQua co-exhibited with OEM Industrial. Products showcased included items from both the Motion Control and Power Transmission lines, such as the Rotary Flange Servo Gearhead, as well as Speed Reducers and Cycloidal Units.
Servo systems aren’t the only solution for precision motion control applications. Other gear products can fit the bill when more traditional drive technology is desired. A Real-World Motion Control Problem We recently had a customer inquire about a solution for a motion control problem he had in his production of precision bellows. The design was a continuous process of feeding a substrate that was systematically folded and then cut off into either standard or custom lengths. His problem was that the material length between folds was inconsistent, which affected the proper compression of the bellow. [...]
Have you ever had special gearbox applications where the standard catalog specs just didn’t fulfill the need? Perhaps you had to run too fast or had too much torque, or just not enough space for either? Catalog data is not always relevant. There are a lot of industrial and commercial gearbox applications, and even more in motion control, where comparing catalog performance data just doesn’t provide the correct solution. Why is this? Well, catalog data cannot be calculated for all the potential applications, duty cycles, speed, temperatures, and environments that a particular gearbox may be [...]
DieQua now offers webinars! Learn about best practices, get advice or learn about company's offerings of products! 4 Gearing Technologies in Linear Applications & When To Use Them Thursday, May 10, 2018 - 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Are you aware that a robot output flange is ideal for high tilting capacity? Have you considered a better way to connect your index-table, lever-arm or pinion-gear to your gearbox reducer? Did you know there is an alternative output mating connection aside from a key or clamp connection? DieQua will be presenting 4 different gearing technologies, each reducer [...]
There are many process and manufacturing operations that consist of multiple steps. In many cases, the process is linear like a progressive punch press or an auto assembly line. But just as often it’s circular, like a bottle filling line or a CNC tool holder. For circular applications, the use of rotary tables is often incorporated. In its standard form, a rotary table is a flat round plate mounted on an axial bearing, which is either driven from a central shaft from below or by a pinion driving a bull gear mounted around the outside [...]