DieQua Podcast

By |2022-06-03T17:43:00-05:00January 28th, 2020|DieQua News, Educational|

When it comes to making something move, whether it be a robot arm, machine head, assembly line or more, you need to get the power from where it is generated to where the movement happens – enter gearboxes. Mike Quaas, President of DieQua, sits down with Chris Mahar, Associate Editor, to talk about the world of automation and how gearboxes are critical to its deployment in this Advanced Manufacturing Now podcast episode. Gearboxes have been around for hundreds or years, but today’s engineers have more choices than ever in how to utilize their power. [...]

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DieQua’s New Partnership with Zimm

By |2022-02-03T13:27:04-06:00January 21st, 2020|DieQua News|

With a gross domestic product of $21 trillion, the USA leads again having the world’s largest economy. To better position themselves in the Central and North American market place, Zimm Screw Jack Systems of Austria and DieQua Corporation in the US have established Zimm USA. Zimm and DieQua have been partners for over 20 years, but with Zimm USA, a whole new focus provides direct sales, support, engineering and complete manufacturing, all in the US through DieQua. In addition to this commitment, Krister Meister, with over 20 years of linear motion and power [...]

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Reduce Down Time with Torque Limiters

By |2022-09-29T15:44:36-05:00January 9th, 2020|Application Examples|

With wood being one of the few renewable resources, its use continues to grow. But the automation of processing the raw material comes with its own challenges. By their very nature, wooden logs are inconsistent in size and density. Although converting tolerances are much larger than metal or plastic components, it's this variation that presents problems in high-speed automated processing. A customer of ours presented us with a problem they were having with their automated de-barking machine. The basic design included a large number of rollers and cutters that sheared the bark off raw [...]

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