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Roller Drive and Gap Control with Hollow Shaft Gearbox

Home improvements, especially kitchen renovations, are hot topics in lifestyle TV shows and magazines. The kitchen is considered to be the focal point of most families' home life. A big decision is the type of countertop to install. There are natural materials, laminates, and solid man-made options. DieQua was called upon to help in the design of a machine to manufacture solid countertop material, one of the more popular choices due to its wear and maintenance characteristics. The design was complex but used a concept that is relevant in a variety of extrusion and [...]

By Alex Malamos|2024-07-10T22:52:25-05:00January 4th, 2018|Application Examples|Comments Off

DieQua Builds Over 300 Bikes For Children

This Holiday season, DieQua decided rather than send out Holiday Cards, to instead participate in bike building for Toys for Tots. We had such a wonderful time and together with our friends from WAV Wireless, we touched the lives of over 300 children. Helping a person will not change the world, but it will change the world for that person. From all of us at DieQua, we wish you a joyous season! We will be closed December 22 and December 25 in honor of Christmas. We will also be closed on December [...]

By Alex Malamos|2022-04-06T19:43:03-05:00December 19th, 2017|DieQua News|Comments Off

Quick Connection Improves Efficiency

Short-run printing and automated machining require quick tool changes to achieve customized production in an efficient manner. Two different applications use the same design concept to solve this problem. In the first application, a manufacturer of printing presses was looking for a quick-connect system to speed up cylinder changes. With short-run printing becoming the norm, print cylinder changeover was eating up a lot of production time. In the past, a transfer gear was installed on the cylinder shaft journal. However, because of a gear error, some motion variations were created. The new quick-connect system [...]

By Alex Malamos|2023-05-01T18:09:42-05:00December 14th, 2017|Application Examples|Comments Off

DieQua Technical Institute – December 2017

To further enlighten and educate our distributors on the vast array of potential solutions, DieQua established the DieQua Technical Institute, or DTI. DTI is a two-day training class covering the analytical process of identifying the characteristics of a power transmission or motion control application and selecting the proper gear product to satisfy the requirements. It is held 2-3 times per year, primarily for our distribution partners, but also for our OEM customer design engineers. The DTI starts with a brief introduction followed by a tour of the facility, showing off how motion control and [...]

By Alex Malamos|2018-10-15T16:03:16-05:00December 12th, 2017|Application Examples, DieQua News, Educational|Comments Off

Happy Thanksgiving from DieQua

Happy Thanksgiving! Our company will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, as we give thanks for all of the blessings in our lives. Among those blessings are our customers, and we thank you for doing business with us! We will be closed Thursday the 23rd and Friday the 24th in honor of the holiday. We will be back in the office and ready for business on Monday the 27th. Happy Thanksgiving! We hope to work with you again soon. Your friends at DieQua Corporation.

By Alex Malamos|2018-02-08T09:54:12-06:00November 21st, 2017|DieQua News|Comments Off

The Link Between Design and Speed Control

The tried and true method of synchronizing the speed of multiple stations by linking them mechanically through a gearbox system remains a popular option in machine design. This is still seen in printing presses, conveyors, roll forming and packaging lines, just to name a few examples. A customer of ours recently requested some assistance in designing a conveyor and feed system for a large pipe cutting operation. The long, heavy pipe was to be loaded on a set of rollers that would then move the pipe into a cutting house where it would be sawed [...]

By Alex Malamos|2021-09-10T19:12:00-05:00November 13th, 2017|Application Examples|Comments Off

Leaking Oil Investigation

Gearbox seal leaks are the bane of gearbox users. Since lubrication is the lifeblood of enclosed drives, maintaining oil levels is critical to long life. When oil starts leaking, corrective action is necessary, but what action? What’s going wrong? Actually, the answers can be varied as the gear type used, how it’s mounted, the speed it’s running, and the environment it’s in. We had a user of a competitive worm gear speed reducer give us a call. He had his gearbox mounted with the output shaft horizontal and his quill-mounted motor pointing vertically, below [...]

By Alex Malamos|2023-06-21T13:03:59-05:00November 6th, 2017|Application Examples|Comments Off

Machine Screwed Up (And Down)!

Screw jacks are just one member of the linear motion family, more suitable for relatively low-duty cycles. A customer had a problem we had to troubleshoot that highlighted what not to do. There are two common types of screw jacks. The first type of screw jack is the ball screw jack. They have recirculating balls in the threads that reduce friction, allowing for higher-duty cycles than the other type. The second type is the machine, or acme thread, screw jack that has a sliding action similar to a nut and bolt. This limits [...]

By Alex Malamos|2023-06-12T19:18:11-05:00November 1st, 2017|Application Examples|2 Comments

Mechanical Drive Design For Satellite Dish Positioning

The need for communication and data transfer are growing at a staggering rate. More satellites and more dishes are being put into service on a daily basis to satisfy and utilize the technological advances. While we have written about satellite dish applications before, there has been a recent explosion of inquiries from various companies producing these products in different sizes. The inquiries include large land-based satellite dish positioning drive designs and mobile applications used by the media, government agencies, and the military. In the most recent applications, the requests have been for system [...]

By Alex Malamos|2024-05-08T18:13:52-05:00October 24th, 2017|Application Examples|Comments Off

AHTD Fall 2017 Meeting

The Association of High Technology Distribution held the 2017 Fall convention, in Asheville, NC, held from October 3rd to October 6th, 2017. The AHTD was established to increase the productivity, profitability and market share of their Automation Solution Providers and the manufacturers that supply them products and services. DieQua’s President Meikel Quaas and Motion Products Manager Tom Kahn were in attendance as manufacturer members. The AHTD is an important and influential organization as its distributor members are some of the most competent and professional motion products and system suppliers across the entire continent. [...]

By Alex Malamos|2022-08-25T16:22:45-05:00October 19th, 2017|DieQua News|Comments Off

From Heaven To Earth

Most people think of cables, wires or electronic boxes when they think of communications equipment, but there is also the mechanical element involved when it comes to transmitting data between the ground and the sky. One of our customers sought us out with a number of mechanical requirements for a large, radar dish that was being designed. There wasn’t anything out of the ordinary about this radar engineering design, but it offered an opportunity to provide several of the wide variety of drive components we offer and work with the customer to help [...]

By Alex Malamos|2022-08-18T17:30:05-05:00October 15th, 2017|Application Examples|Comments Off

2017 Fall Sales Meeting

From September 29th to 30th, DieQua Corporation held the 10th annual sales meeting, at their national headquarters in Bloomingdale IL. Approximately 20 sales representatives from the four corners of the United Sates attended to engage in product education, professional development and team building. The event kicked off Thursday evening with a welcome reception at Eaglewood Resort. As the representatives arrived at the resort they were greeted by DieQua’s sales support staff and treated to a light dinner buffet. This atmosphere provided an opportunity for the field personnel to reconnect with the corporate group as [...]

By Alex Malamos|2018-02-08T09:54:14-06:00October 10th, 2017|DieQua News|Comments Off

Roll Call for Gears

Understand the different types of gears and their functions in a gearbox with this handy “Roll Call for Gears” infographic. It covers parallel, intersecting, non-intersecting, and non-parallel axis gears.

By Alex Malamos|2024-01-22T20:07:57-06:00October 2nd, 2017|Educational|Comments Off

DieQua is ISO-Certified!

Congratulations to the entire team at DieQua Corporation for the successful completion of an in-depth set of assessments to achieve the honor of ISO 9001:2015 Certification . ISO 9001:2015 is the most widely recognized and internationally accepted standard for a comprehensive quality management system. What does ISO mean to you? As a customer, you can rely on DieQua to be committed to the continuous improvement of customer satisfaction & quality.

By jeffgibbons|2018-05-08T11:36:47-05:00September 27th, 2017|DieQua News|Comments Off

Reciprocating Motion Without Servos

Shaft-phasing gearboxes can be used for more than just registration and timing applications. In this example, the customer discovered a unique application for shaft-phasing gearboxes, using their dual input gear drive design to achieve reciprocating motion, beyond traditional registration and timing applications. Shaft-phasing gearboxes go by a variety of names - including speed correction drives and timing differentials. The differential moniker came from the original bevel gear designs, with side spider gears, that could be rotated with or against the direction of the main drive gears. This had the effect of speeding up or [...]

By Alex Malamos|2024-07-17T06:16:13-05:00September 26th, 2017|Application Examples|Comments Off

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DieQua Corporation now manufactures or assembles a high percentage of the products we provide. This adds valuable flexibility to provide on time delivery of standard orders as well as prototypes.

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DieQua Corporation can repair any product we supply in our facility, located in Bloomingdale, a suburb of Chicago. Field repairs unfortunately, are not available. We maintain a large parts inventory and factory trained technicians to assure timely turnaround. Failure analysis services are also available on a limited basis.

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DieQua Corporation and our manufacturing partners welcome the opportunity to provide component modifications or complete special designs. We established these capabilities to complement our philosophy of offering the best solution available for your application needs.