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Air motor instead of servo motor - simpler and more cost-effective

Our customer is a Czech special machine manufacturer. Its core business is the construction of machines for the automatic capping of bottles and jars in the food industry. In our case, this involved the capping of pickle jars. He approached us with the request to replace the servomotors previously used with PTM radial piston motors. Why PTM air motors? The background to his [...]

Pneumatic motor drives wheelchair

The Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh developed and built a waterproof wheelchair that is powered exclusively by compressed air. The university opted for the air motor from PTM mechatronics GmbH due to its IP68 watertight design. This means that the motor can be completely submerged under water.