HepcoMotion® - The Complete Linear Solution

Whilst some manufacturers choose proprietary handling systems to optimise their production output many others opt for bespoke systems that are dedicated to the needs of a specific application. And this is a field in which HepcoMotion® has considerable expertise. Its exceptionally wide product range provides considerable design flexibility enabling the best linear motion, rotary motion or combined solution to be created.

Increasingly manufacturers are automating processes to assure consistent quality and drive down unit costs. With the focus on maximum machine uptime, the need to stop production for routine re-lubrication of linear motion systems can compromise cost efficiency; so HepcoMotion has developed a solution that is unique in the market. Now available as an option for all its core linear motion products is the HepcoMotion® Bleed Lubrication System.

Such is the breadth of its product offering for the production environment that HepcoMotion® will be taking two stands at this year’s MACH. This is an unprecedented move. The purpose of the first stand is to showcase its advanced linear and rotary motion products and the exhibits will include the company’s new Timing Belt Rings. The second stand focuses on machine building and automation solutions and will feature a further two new products; RapiLok No-Drill Connectors for its Machine Construction System (MCS) and the Linear Measuring Indicator.

HepcoMotion® has the ability to build ring tracks and continuous motion circuits of limitless size and variation. It can call on a wide range of standard products and ring segments to provide this exceptional flexibility and now it is offering its customers another choice to extend the scope of its PRT2 product programme.

World launch of two new products on stand no: T36

Although HepcoMotion® is acknowledged as a world leader in linear motion, visitors to the company’s stand at Southern Manufacturing will be left in no doubt that this British manufacturer is equally competent in continuous motion. Indeed its PRT2 Precision Ring Track offers the system designer the means to create circuits of limitless variety. Elements from this range will form part of the main working exhibit and also a separate system demonstrating a spiral configuration.

PACKTECH 2012, 29th February – 1st March 2012, NEC

HepcoMotion - stand no. D16

Linear product for innovative packaging machinery

Effective automation is an important element in minimising unit costs and assuring quality but there are many applications in the packaging sector where an off-the-shelf solution is not an option. To build the bespoke system the designer needs the supply of reliable components, sub-assemblies and even complete turnkey solutions and this is where linear motion specialist, HepcoMotion®, has considerable strength.

The new Linear Measuring Indicator (LMI) from HepcoMotion® is more than just a precise length measuring system. This easy-to-install, compact product can also be adapted for rotary applications where angular measurement is required. Highly versatile and therefore economical, LMI offers repeatable, precise measurement to improve productivity and reduce rejects in many industrial applications.

Grouping work stations closely together has great merit in minimising material movement and conserving valuable floor space. But it means production flow needs to follow increasingly complex circular and oval paths, not a format that is easily handled by most commercially available linear guide and actuator systems. It is however a great strength of HepcoMotion®. Its vee-bearing based PRT2 precision ring and track system provides a solution that is superior in both its performance and application flexibility.

HepcoMotion® is a highly successful British company that exports its linear motion products across the world. Bearings and other turned parts are critical elements of these systems and to ensure consistent quality and supply, the company makes its own.

There can be few companies that have espoused the National Apprenticeship Scheme as wholeheartedly as linear motion specialist, HepcoMotion®. Year on year it has augmented its skilled workforce with a fresh intake of engineering apprentices and 2011 is no exception in that regard.