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Motion Index Drives IncTroy, MI
 
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 RT Series of Rotary Index Drives
 
General Overview
 
The Motion Index Drives RT Series of Rotary Index Drives encompasses a large range of sizes, ranging from our model RT100 up to our RT1250. In addition, special cam-driven devices can be custom made to order for your automation needs. RT Series Rotary Index Drives are offered in a fixed number of stations or as a flexible turntable with a servo motor or standard AC brake motor with encoder. With the addition of Motion's patented NANO Indexer Technology, the RT Series becomes the world's most accurate barrel cam indexers.
 
RT Series index drives are constructed with strength and reliability in mind. Robust design and components ensure this device will maintain precision in intense factory settings.
 
 
Technical benefits for end users:
  • Extremely reliable with long service lives
  • High efficiency mechanical components require less input power
  • Flame hardened cams and cam followers
  • Internal components immersed in oil bath
  • Accuracies of up to ±0.0003" (0.008 mm)
  • Most RT Series models maintenance free
  • Wear-free when used with optional Allen Bradley PLC Controller

 
Options available:
  • Reinforced output flange bearing
  • Custom index and dwell angles
  • User-controlled stations and timing with the Motion Flex line
  • Clean room ready with MEDEX Index Drives
  • Extremely high accuracy applications withNANO Indexer Technology

 
Advantages for designers and machine builders:
  • Oscillating index operation capabilities
  • Easy synchronization of other mechanical devices
  • Large center thru-hole to feed pneumatic, electrical and other lines
  • Can be used in any mounting position

 
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 TT Series of Rotary Index Drives
 
General Overview
 
The Motion Index Drives TT Series of Rotary Index Drives range from the smaller TT075 up to the TT315. Most TT Series index tables have aluminum housing and flame hardened steel cams and cam followers. The TT Series can be manufactured with a fixed number of stations or as a flexible turntable with a servo motor or standard AC brake motor with encoder. The entire line is maintenance free and, with the addition of an Allen Bradley PLC Controller, is completely wear free.
 
 
Technical benefits for end users:
  • Robust construction for long service lives
  • Flame hardened cams and cam followers
  • Internal components immersed in oil bath
  • Maintenance free
  • Wear-free when used with optional Allen Bradley PLC Controller

 
Options available:
  • Reinforced output flange
  • Custom index and dwell angles
  • User-controlled stations and timing with the MOTION Flex line
  • Clean room ready with MEDEX Index Drives
  • Extremely high accuracy applications with NANO Indexer Technology

 
Advantages for designers and machine builders:
  • Easy synchronization of other mechanical devices
  • Open center for mounting equipment
  • Housing machined on all sides for use in any mounting position
  • Oscillating index operation capabilities

 
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 TMF Series flexible rotary tables
 
General Overview
 
The new TMF Series is an innovative new line of 100% flexible rotary tables. These tables are built to maximize the potential of Motion's FLEX technology with a streamlined housing and dial plate to match. The design utilizes the full potential of the constant lead cam currently used in the FLEX tables, translating into increased strength and accuracy.
 
 
Technical benefits for end users:
  • Extremely reliable with long service lives
  • High efficiency mechanical components require less input power
  • Flame hardened cams and cam followers
  • Internal components immersed in oil bath
  • Low profile housing for seamless integration
  • Top access to cam followers
  • Redesigned housing for larger center thru-hole
  • Significantly increased strength as a result of integration of more cam followers

 
Options available:
  • Reinforced output flange bearing
  • User-controlled stations and timing
  • Clean room ready with MEDEX Index Drives

 
Advantages for designers and machine builders:
  • Full range of motion control options
  • Easy synchronization of other mechanical devices
  • Large center thru-hole to feed pneumatic, electrical and other lines
  • Can be used in any mounting position
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 TG SERIES Right Angle Globoidal Index Drives
 
General Overview
 
Right Angle Globoidal Index Drives are ideal for very fast, continuous applications. Right Angle Drives create an intermittent output motion in clockwise, counter-clockwise or oscillating movements. The TG Series comes standard with robust welded steel housing, making the TG Series ideal for intense environments and use. Internal components are also high-quality hardened steel, ensuring the TG Series will be one of the longest-lasting and reliable components in your automation process.
 
 
Technical benefits for end users:
  • Multiple designs available
  • Backlash free
  • Capable of over 1,000 cycles per minute
  • Flame hardened cams and cam followers for higher load capabilities
  • Internal components immersed in oil bath
  • Completely maintenance free
  • Wear-free when used with optional Allen Bradley PLC Controller

 
Options available:
  • Hollow output shafts
  • Available as output shaft or flange
  • User-controlled stations and timing with the MOTION Flex line
  • Clean room ready with MEDEX Index Drives
  • Extremely high accuracy applications with NANO Indexer Technology

 
Advantages for designers and machine builders:
  • Oscillating capabilities are standard
  • Easy synchronization of other mechanical devices
  • Housing machined on all sides for use in any mounting position

 
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 TX Series of Globoidal Index Drives
 
General Overview
 
The TX Series of Globoidal Index Drives is ideal for very fast and continuous applications. All TX Series Globoidal Indexers have aluminum housings and hardened steel components for a long-lasting, corrosion-free product.
 
 
Technical benefits for end users:
  • High precision in dwell
  • Backlash-free output flange
  • Capable of over 1,000 cycles per minute
  • Flame hardened, precision-machined cams and cam followers
  • Clockwise, counter-clockwise or oscillating movement
  • Internal components immersed in oil bath
  • Completely maintenance free
  • Wear-free when used with optional Allen Bradley PLC Controller

 
Options available:
  • Anodized aluminum housing
  • Multiple cam designs
  • Reinforced output flange bearing
  • Custom index and dwell angles
  • User-controlled stations and timing with the MOTION Flex line
  • Clean room ready with MEDEX Index Drives
  • Extremely high accuracy applications with NANO Indexer Technology

 
Advantages for designers and machine builders:
  • Oscillating index operation capabilities are standard
  • Easy synchronization of other mechanical devices
  • Large center thru-hole to feed pneumatic, electrical and other lines
  • Housing machined on all sides for use in any mounting position

 
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 Parallel Shaft Index Drives
 
General Overview
 
The XP Series of Parallel Shaft Index Drives is ideal for high speed applications, indexing a conveyor or controlling pivot arms. Most XP Series Parallel Index Drives have aluminum housings that can be treated to suit any automated environment; disk cams and cam followers are flame hardened for a longer life span.
 
 
Technical benefits for end users:
  • High precision in dwell
  • Backlash-free output flange
  • Conjugate cam design
  • Capable of over 1,000 cycles per minute
  • Flame hardened cams and cam followers
  • Internal components immersed in oil bath
  • Completely maintenance free

 
Options available:
  • Multiple cam designs available
  • Clockwise, counter-clockwise or oscillating index mode of operation
  • Automatic reversing cam
  • Gear motors for special environments (e.g. explosion proof, water proof)
  • Custom shaft sizes
  • Hollow shaft on larger models
  • Custom index and dwell angles
  • Clean room ready with MEDEX Index Drives

 
Advantages for designers and machine builders:
  • Available with dual input and output shafts
  • Oscillating index operation capabilities
  • Easy synchronization of other mechanical devices
  • Housing machined on all sides for use in any mounting position

 
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 TP Series of Parallel Index Drives
 
General Overview
 
The TP Series of Parallel Index Drives is ideal for high-speed applications, indexing a conveyor or controlling pivot arms. Most TP Series Parallel Index Drives have aluminum housings that can be treated to suit any automated environment and flame-hardened internal components to extend the indexer's life. The TP Series has a wide range of versatility; multiple options are available that allow it to fill several roles.
 
 
Technical benefits for end users:
  • High precision in dwell
  • Backlash-free output flange
  • Conjugate cam design
  • Capable of over 1,000 cycles per minute
  • Flame hardened cams and cam followers
  • Internal components immersed in oil bath
  • Completely maintenance free

 
Options available:
  • Multiple cam designs available
  • Clockwise, counter-clockwise or oscillating index mode of operation
  • Gear motors for special environments (e.g. explosion proof, water proof)
  • Custom shaft sizes
  • Hollow shaft on larger models
  • Custom index and dwell angles
  • Clean room ready with MEDEX Index Drives

 
Advantages for designers and machine builders:
  • Available with dual input and output shafts
  • Oscillating index operation capabilities
  • Easy synchronization of other mechanical devices
  • Housing machined on all sides for use in any mounting position

 
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 Trunnion Index Drives
 
General Overview
 
Motion Index Drives' Trunnion Index Drive units utilize our standard RT Series of Rotary Index Drives mounted in a vertical position. Trunnion Index Drives are ideal for moving large masses with smaller units and minimizing your equipment's footprint on the floor. All trunnion units can be ordered with standard or custom frames fully equipped with head and tailstock supports and one-piece base weldments.
 
 
Technical benefits for end users:
  • Long service lives
  • Flame hardened cams and cam followers
  • Requires less power than leading competitors
  • Internal components immersed in oil bath
  • Accuracies of up to 0.023 mm (±0.0009")
  • Cam followers last the unit's entire calculated life
  • Most RT Series models completely maintenance free
  • Completely wear-free when used with optional Allen Bradley PLC Controller

 
Options available:
  • Reinforced output flange
  • Clockwise, counter-clockwise and oscillating index modes of operation
  • Can be ordered as complete assembly with head stock, tail stock and base frame
  • Custom index and dwell angles
  • User-controlled stations and timing with the MOTION Flex line
  • Clean room ready with MEDEX Index Drives
  • Extremely high accuracy applications withNANO Indexer Technology

 
Advantages for designers and machine builders:
  • Oscillating index operation capabilities
  • Easy synchronization of other mechanical devices
  • Large center thru-hole to feed pneumatic, electrical and other lines

 
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 Motion Flex line of Rotary Index Tables
 
General Overview
 
The Motion Index Drives Motion Flex line of Rotary Index Tables encompasses a large range of sizes. Our complete line of RT Series Rotary Index Tables is equipped with a constant lead cam and heavy duty cam followers to achieve high output torques. The Motion Flex line is ideal for the customer who needs the flexibility of controlling an indexer's speed and pattern without compromising on the robust design of a barrel cam driven index unit.
 
 
Technical benefits for end users:
  • User-controlled indexing speed
  • Maintains the strength of a fixed barrel cam in a flexible servo system
  • Constant lead barrel cam with up to 18:1 reduction
  • Pre-loaded cam followers for zero backlash in operation
  • The Motion Flex system's use of a barrel cam makes it stronger than using a servomotor and reducer
  • The Motion Flex line can use either a standard AC motor with encoder or a servomotor:
  • The standard AC motor with encoder is the most cost effective and simplest to set up and still offers extremely high-accuracy indexes (± 0.01 mm at cam follower)
  • The servomotor package requires the use of a low backlash gear reducer and offers extremely high accuracy

 
Options available:
  • Reinforced output flange bearing
  • Custom index and dwell angles
  • Clean room ready with MEDEX Index Drives

 
Advantages for designers and machine builders:
  • Oscillating index operation capabilities
  • Easy synchronization of other mechanical devices
  • Large center thru-hole to feed pneumatic, electrical and other lines
  • Housing machined on all sides for use in any mounting position

 
Get a Quote
 
   
 MEDEX Index Drive
 
General Overview
 
The MEDEX Index Drive is ideal for automating your medical equipment manufacturing line or pharmaceutical automation. Our complete line of indexing equipment can be ordered to exceed all clean room requirements.
 
 
Technical benefits for end users:
  • Utilizes the same reliable and high-quality technologies as our standard line of indexing equipment
  • Meets the requirements for clean room environments
  • Nickel plating on all exposed machined surfaces
  • Medically approved machine oil internally
  • Sealed with medically approved seals
  • Paint and aluminum treatments on the index drive and gear motor

 
Options available:
  • Custom index and dwell angles
  • Specified motors and reducers (TEFC, Motor Coatings, special oil filled reducers)
  • User-controlled stations and timing with the MOTION Flex line
  • Extremely high accuracy applications with NANO Indexer Technology

 
Advantages for designers and machine builders:
  • Oscillating index operation capabilities
  • Easy synchronization of other mechanical devices
  • Large center thru-hole to feed pneumatic, electrical and other lines
  • Housing machined on all sides for use in any mounting position

 
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 NANO Indexers
 
General Overview
 
Motion Index Drives' NANO Index Technology is a series of barrel cam indexers equipped with a specially designed cam to achieve extremely high accuracies. This line is the most accurate series of barrel cam indexers in the world, with accuracies as high as 0.002 mm or 0.0001". NANO Index Technology can be used for any application where extremely high accuracy and repeatability is required, such as electronic device assembly, microchip assembly, circuit board assembly, microscopic movement, laser interfaced applications, 4-color printing applications.
 
 
Technical benefits for end users:
  • NANO Index Technology is applied to our standard line of Rotary Index Drives
  • In-station true accuracy of 0.002 mm (0.0001"), 8 arc seconds or better
  • NANO equipped indexers actively seek dwell
  • Equipped with servo motor
  • This unit can offer nearly 100% accuracy and repeatability

 
Options available:
  • Reinforced output flange
  • Nickel-plated output flange and shafts
  • Special output flange adapters to seal out any contaminants
  • Custom index and dwell angles
  • Clean room ready with MEDEX Index Drives

 
Advantages for designers and machine builders:
  • Oscillating index operation capabilities
  • Easy synchronization of other mechanical devices
  • Large center thru-hole to feed pneumatic, electrical and other lines
  • Housing machined on all sides for use in any mounting position

Get a Quote