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Both companies decided to use the compact and easy to integrate LA12 actuator. The farmer can set the preferred rotation speed for comminuting and mixing the feed. Directly from the driver's cabin of the tractor. This saves time and is an ergonomic and comfortable solution.

This mechanism provides an inexpensive solution that is qualitatively comparable to hydraulics. The robust housing is also dust resistant and can provide a level of protection corresponding to IP66 dynamic and IP69K static.

The Belgian AVR Company has developed harvesting machines for the potato harvest since the second half of the 20th century.

In the past, a great deal of manual labour was required for potato harvesting. Currently, the four-rowed self-propelled Puma 3 harvester from AVR carries out the complete potato harvest with impressive efficiency.

Puma 3 makes use of actuators from LINAK for many different tasks.

"Electric actuators are becoming ever more important", notes Stefan Top, Managing Director of AVR."They are simple to apply and can be easily integrated."

He especially values the functional reliability of LINAK actuators."The actuators have become increasingly more robust in recent years, and this is very important to us."

The machinery is becoming larger, more complex and more efficient.

Planting elements and planting distance must be individually varied when optimising the crop and potato size. The machine's planting elements may be switched on and off individually. The mechanism for this system has been automated by means of two electric adjusting actuators from LINAK. 

They are directly connected to the Miedema control system can be operated from the tractor's touch panel in the cab.

Miedema engineers have made explicit use of electric adjusting actuators in developing row deactivation. Unlike a hydraulic system, integration in the electric control unit is significantly easier and less expensive. In a hydraulic system, two connections must be made. In an electric actuator, only one is needed. 
 

New Holland uses electric actuators in combine harvesters. Alongside ease of integration, there are in particular the multiple options for control that favour an electric actuator. Adjusting, positioning, moving - electric actuators perform a range of tasks in a combine harvester. And, this will certainly increase in the future. Michaël Carpentier, Product Development Manager at New Holland in Zedelgem, Belgium, is convinced of this fact. He and his team investigate the best ways to make a combine harvester even more efficient, environmentally sound and comfortable for the operator. The use of electric actuators is important in this regard. Precise setting of the machinery is especially important for achieving the best possible yields, and precise positioning plays a key role here. LINAK electric actuators LA36 can provide precise positioning. This task is performed considerably better than hydraulic systems in which feedback and positioning require considerable technical complexity. Since feedback on position can be provided as either an analogue or a digital signal, integration into the bus controls can be performed without difficulty. A major application for an electric actuator in a combine harvester involves, for example, a straw distribution system. On request, New Holland combines offer the Opti-Spread straw spreader, which is attached behind the straw chopper. The farmer is able to control the width and direction of straw ejection. Two powerful spreader discs are set with the aid of LINAK actuators LA36.

One long shot in robotics is to make biped humanoids walk in a robust and stable way. If we want robots to help us in our daily life, they have to adapt to a world which fits us, to our world. Walking with two legs, keeping balance and immediately reacting to any obstacle is natural to us, and the places where we live were built according to that. Robots that can walk like humans will be able to gracefully navigate whenever we need them to assist us. Nowadays the state of art of biped robots still has a long road to get there. That is because biped walk for humanoid robots remains a very complex task. Walking robots with two legs are something that very few platforms are able to do, and the arduousness increases if we talk about human-sized robots. PAL Robotics has been able so far to successfully develop three different models of biped humanoid robots that can walk. The most advanced biped humanoid robot at the moment is REEM-C, a 1.65m tall robot that can dynamically walk at 1 Km/h while keeping the balance.

The project adopted around 100 pieces Lantech IPES-3408GSFP industrial PoE managed switches to integrate with hundreds of Sony SNC-VM602R PTZ PoE IP cameras. The cameras are powered by IPES-3408GSFP via 802.3at PoE standard so that the HD video flow and power source can be satisfied with simply one RJ45 cable. 10~15 Lantech switches are connected in ITU ring topology to ensure the network reliability while all the rings are connected with 1000M fibers by RSTP protocol. The interrupt of the surveillance network is not allowed. This network topology not only ensures the high capacity for HD video streaming but also provides the high reliability network for non-stop city surveillance application.

Expressway Lane Control System In South Korea

Gyeongbu Expressway connects Seoul and Busan, the capital and the second largest city of South Korea. The 416 km-length expressway is the second oldest and most heavily travelled expressway in the country. The project is to build up the lane control system in Gyeonggi area by the end of 2013, integrating the LCS control and CCTV cameras.

Ip Based Military Truck Network In Vietnam

As the country that has the highest economic growth rate since 2000, Vietnam is always an assignable Asian country for its unlimited energy. With the highly growing economy, Vietnam's military expenditure is around 2.5% of its 2010 GDP, equivalent to US$2.48 billion. The project is to build up an IP-based network system for Vietnam People's Army’s truck transportation system in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.
 

Project Introduction

As the main means of transport in the city centre, Helsinki tram system delivers up to 54.9 million passengers per year (2009). Being one of the oldest electrified tram networks in the world, the company keeps upgrading its system with the latest IP technology. The weather of Helsinki has extreme differences between seasons, which may over 30°C in summer and lower than -35°C in winter. Thus, the most rugged design is one of the key factors to this project.

When Omar Cardoso, president of industrial engineering company Izda in Brazil, stopped at the Webtec Products stand at the Hanover Fair (1985) more than 25 years ago, little did he know that he was not just going to walk away with a superb piece of digital monitoring equipment, but that this would be the start of an enduring business relationship in which he considers his Webtec colleagues to be personal friends too.