...by using a belt specifically designed for the lawn and garden application, you can enjoy this awesome season longer without the need to constantly get under your mower to snake that belt around all the pulleys.
The newest product from Rexnord, one of the most trusted names in bearings for nearly a century, is the PT Select line of spherical roller bearing housed units. These units integrate the quality of design you’ve come to expect with the latest in technology to make your job easier.
Check out some great motors from our house brand, IDC Select! These motors are both high quality and a great value. IDC Select offers NEMA design motors manufactured using state of the art equipment, including fully automated winding equipment and a VPI epoxy resin system for windings. They are manufactured in ISO 9001 certified facilities.
They also come with a 3 year warrenty, so you're sure that your new IDC Select motor is of the highest quality.
IDC Select motors come in a variety of frame configurations to meet your demanding needs. This offering includes:
One of my favorite products is the Power Twist belting. This is one of most versatile products we have, and can be a true life-saver. Check out this video and see just how easy is to use. And if you're intregued, come on down to Akron Bearing and we'd be happy to talk more about the benefits. We'll even sell you most sizes per foot so you get what you need and you get it now.
You can have the best bearing in the world, the most advanced lubrication, and the perfect engineering design, but if you are installing your bearings with nothing more than a hammer and strong arm, you're going to be disappointed.
Akron Bearing is proud to introduce a new offering to our already impressive line-up. Now, you can get TM Induction Heaters. TM induction heating has manufactured induction heaters for more
than 25 years. Induction heaters are for heating up bearings, bushings, gears, pulleys and couplings. Through constant innovation and our extensive experience, they are able to offer a technical and reliable product.
Advantages of TM Easy therm induction heaters:
You can also visit their website at www.tminductionheating.com to learn more about their entire portfolio of products.
They also offer an impressive fitting tool kit to help with your installation for a safe, precise and quick mechanical mounting of bearings, bushings, sealing rings and pulleys. This set is usable for fitting more than 230 kind of bearings with a bore from 10 to 50mm The set consist of three special aluminium impact sleeves, 33 synthetic impact-resistant collets and a dead blow hammer, all together in a robust plastic case.
BY CLAIR DAVID URBAIN
“We are considered in the industry as the photo-eye problem solvers,” says Richard Livengood, Telco Sensors’ president of North America.
“Telco has a reputation of being the company with photo eyes on steroids.”
Based in Denmark, Telco Sensors is the leading designer, developer and manufacturer of ultra-reliable, extremely accurate photoelectric sensors, photoelectric amplifiers, light curtains and optical fork sensors in the world. Its products can withstand the effects of the most challenging applications, Livengood says.
“You will find our sensors in applications that have high dust, such as paper plants; high vibration and shock loads, such as lumber mills; high-pressure steam and water for cleaning such as poultry processing facilities; and even your local car wash,” says Livengood.
Livengood says Telco Sensors was established in 1975, building photo eyes that are built quite different from price-sensitive models available. “Our sensors are built with a high-quality sensor that is setin a clear epoxy. Other sensors use a lens to protect the sensor, which can be compared to to ‘granny’s glasses’ and are susceptible to dust, vibration and moisture. With the sensor set in an epoxy resin, the sensor is able to ‘see’ through contaminants that cloud the sightline of other sensors,” he says. All sensors are built in its Denmark plant to very high specifications and go through a triple quality check process before shipping, resulting in a 99.999 percent reliability rate. It results in a long product life. “We are just now getting replacement orders for some sensors installed in the early ‘90s. “We help customers solve problems, and we do that by looking at the production process and its challenges. Any sensor can count, but if the conditions are less than optimal, low-cost sensors will quickly require cleaning, babysitting or replacement.” Production facilities are adamant in keeping their processing equipment secrets to themselves, but Livengood says the North American team of Telco’s technical professionals, who are available through IDC Distributors, can build on that experience to help a wide variety of companies address sensor issues. Here are a few examples of solutions that have dramatically reduced or eliminated downtime to sensor malfunction:
A people-mover manufacturer was able to produce a green energy- rated escalator because Telco sensors accurately identified approaching pedestrians, running the escalator only when people needed it. The intermittent operating design also dramatically reduced maintenance costs.
A poultry processing plant had continual problems as high- pressure steam cleaning knocked out low-cost photo eyes critical in the production process. New Telco sensors, set in epoxy, easily withstood the effects of the high- pressure steam cleaning and greatly reduced maintenance costs and downtime in the plant.
A bakery was having issues with sensors losing alignment and shutting down baking lines. The sensors required realignment three times each shift, slowing production and affecting product quality. Once Telco sensors were installed, the company soon replaced sensors in its other plants to improve their uptime.
“No one calls us with the easy applications,” says Livengood. “We get the calls from facilities with sensor problems that are causing thousands of dollars of downtime. Our sensors are more expensive, but in the scheme of things, the sensor cost isn’t a factor, reducing or eliminating downtime is the driving factor,” he says.
“The reputation of Telco sensor reliability that starts on the manufacturing floor works its way up the OEM supply chain,” says Livengood. “The excellent experiencemanufacturers have had with Telco sensors for replacement gets communicated back to OEMs as they get orders for new equipment. Telco sensors are often specified by the buyer in new equipment purchases,” he says. “We often come in the back door at OEMs with customer requirements or recommendations.”
Customers and distributors of power transmission equipment are often less comfortable around electrical components, so they are less likely to tackle the headaches they can cause. Instead, the problems are addressed with labor-intensive solutions.
“Sensors are really simple, they are just a transmitter and a receiver, doing an on-or-off process check. They are much simpler than programmable drives, for example. The key is that Telco Sensor experts across the country are available to address sensor issues. We have proven that we can solve problems that others can’t,” he says. “Our technical experts will work alongside IDC Distributors, showing customers how Telco sensors are different and better than what they are using. When we show them the difference our sensors can make, they can’t wait to get them installed on their equipment,” he says.
EASY ALIGNMENT
Installing a Telco sensor is as easy as child’s play. Our sensors are easy to align and require no complicated set-ups that guarantee effortless installation every time.
Go to www.telcosensors.com to learn more or contact the Akron Bearing Company.
