Over the past few months, countless MISUMI customers have gone above and beyond to find ways they can help battle the COVID-19 pandemic. For many customers, this means shifting their focus to manufacturing equipment that can be used in the ...

Alongside lifting, holding, carrying and placing, pushing and pulling are some of the activities which are most frequently involved whenever people have to move loads manually. These physically strenuous activities are particularly common in a production and logistics environment, and ...

Generally, a collimator is a device that narrows a beam of particles or waves. An Autocollimator uses a collimating lens to measure deflections in optical or mechanical systems. Autocollimators have two popular flavors; Optical and Laser Analyzing. Visual autocollimators use ...

Many industries are feeling the impact of COVID-19 and MISUMI is continuing to do their part to fight COVID-19. In fact, a hospital reached out to MISUMI’s Consumer Goods Business Development Manager on the West Coast, John Hildebrand, with a ...

Small motors can be categorized into motors to obtain power by converting electrical energy to rotational energy, and motors for control where rotational position and velocity are regulated to achieve specific control purposes. The latter is mainly used for automation ...

Whether working from home or needing to put efficiencies in place in your home, here are some tips to help you accomplish anything whether you are an engineer or not. 1.) Duct Tape Everything. Leaky faucet, pipe, keeping your favorite ...

Programmable logic controllers (PLC’s) and human-machine interfaces (HMI) are the cornerstones of modern automation.  These systems serve as the brains of an industrial machine and ensure the various aspects of the machine are running correctly.  Depending on the size of ...

The challenge for mechanical automation systems in the past has been the successful conversion of rotational motion from electric or mechanical motors into useful forms of linear motion.  A breakthrough in this regard, the conveyor belt system represented one of ...

Two of the most popular factory automation (FA) technologies in North America are Ethernet / IP and EtherCAT. Ethernet is Local Area Network (LAN). Standardized Ethernet technology is noted as IEEE802. Each system is a very different protocol to the ...