Helping to better explain its unique contribution to the world, Parker recently distilled the company’s purpose into nine words: Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow. With this simple expression, Parker has described its purpose as a platform for growth, change, and positive impact to the world.

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Parker Electromechanical & Drives Division’s Extranet tool has historically provided basic information to provide insight into order progress. On the Order Status pages, customers can see the status of their orders. In order to provide more useful information to customers, an enhancement was recently implemented to achieve the following.

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Frameless motors are the ideal solution for machine designs that require high performance in small spaces. Kit motors allow for direct integration with a mechanical transmission device, eliminating parts that add size and complexity. Use of frameless kit motors results in a smaller, more reliable motor package.

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Parker’s Electromechanical & Drives Division North America is pleased to announce the release of our P Series Express Motor options for the OSPE product line. These options provide convenient, configurable standard product offerings to include our P Series servo motors factory installed on all of our OSPE products. 

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Is safety your number-one priority? The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is dedicated to helping companies across the country understand and establish proper safety standards for workers, employers and even temporary workers. They set and enforce safety standards and provide training, outreach, education and assistance.

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Parker offers a wide variety of product and technology instruction, and we have classes coming up that will help broaden your electro- mechanical and drives skills. Training courses are intensive three- to five-day seminars that are held at our locations in Rohnert Park, California, and in Irwin, Pennsylvania. Customized, hands-on training is achieved through application examples, programming assignments, and lab days. Every course includes literature and software.

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Only about one-third of motor-driven motion systems use gearing, even though gearheads benefit size-constrained applications and those running at 1,000 rpm or less. Other advantages of using a gearhead with a servomotor abound.

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The Parker IPS Quick Quote Tool is designed for its users to quickly obtain a price for full or cut pieces of extrusion and even the necessary machining operations. The tool includes macros that allow you to select fasteners with the appropriate accessories that can be used with a particular series of profile. In addition to screws, gussets and plates, and t-nuts, the Quick Quote tool will help you specify panels with the proper dimensions and it includes the services associated with cutting the panels to size.

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