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Add Your Products to Our Inventory + Thousands of Electrical Components In-Stock
Spring into Stock! Add Your Products to Our Inventory + Thousands of Electrical Components Already In-Stock Lakeland carries a variety items in-stock to best support the needs of our customers. These products are available and ready to ship quickly for a hassle-free ordering and delivery process. A few of Lakeland Engineering’s top-selling electrical components include IDEC power supplies, Honeywell MicroSwitches and ASCO solenoid valves. In addition to the thousands of items Lakeland Engineering already has in-stock, [...]
Don’t Let Mechanical Issues Delay your Seed Treating Processes
Industry Spotlight on Agriculture In the Midwest, seed treating is a short but incredibly important season in the agricultural industry. From mechanical issues with equipment start up to conveyor or scale failure, Lakeland Engineering understands how valuable facility uptime is during this critical season. With the strict time constraints placed on seed treaters, it’s important to prepare for possible equipment malfunctions to avoid any downtime. Let an experienced, local Lakeland Engineering account representative assist with [...]
What Type of Cooling Unit Does Your Enclosure and Application Area Require?
Pfannenberg Air to Air Heat Exchangers for Energy-Efficient, Hazardous-Location Approved Enclosure Cooling Pfannenberg’s Filterfans® have evolved into the trusted name for forced convective cooling to circulate and cool the air in your enclosures. Cooling with ambient air, or air outside of the enclosure, is the most economical and energy efficient type of cooling. When are Cooling Units Necessary? If cooling cannot be accomplished by the outside air If the temperature required inside the electrical [...]
ABB ACS580, Schneider Altivar 630 Process Drive & More Featured at SME Mining Show
Lakeland Engineering Equipment Company and Process Measurement Company provide the most complete selection of electrical components and test and measurement equipment in the Midwest. We specialize in providing tailored electrical solutions and ISO/IEC 17025 accredited calibration equipment to customers in the mining and minerals industry. To download our mining and metallurgy line card, click here. Lakeland Products Featured at SME Lakeland showcased a variety of products and services while at the SME Annual Conference [...]
Yaskawa Changes the Game with the U1000 Matrix Drive
Matrix Designed VFDs The Yaskawa U1000 Matrix Drive is a relatively new VFD that was designed as a Clean Power VFD and solution for regenerative power applications. The drive provides low harmonics, with less than 5% iTHD at the input terminals of the VFD and is ideal for a host of industrial applications. The design of the drive obviates the DC bus by using nine bi-directional IGBTs (insulated-gate bipolar transistors) in a matrix arrangement to generate the [...]
Case Study: Acer Engineers Automated Material Feed System with Electrical Components
Acer Engineers Automated Material Feed System Supplied with Electrical Components from Lakeland Engineering Equipment Company How the Ranger Paves the Way for the Truss Industry & Sets the Pace of Production OVERVIEW Acer Inc. was developing their first automated material handling system based on pneumatics/vacuum. They knew there was a need for this type of machinery within the truss industry and Steve Aylsworth, co-owner and leading engineer of Acer, began developing this system with [...]
Optimize Your Control Panel: How to Apply UL 489 and UL 1077 Devices
Understanding How to Apply UL 489 and UL 1077 Devices Do you know the differences between UL 489 and UL 1077? The key to understanding UL 1077 supplementary protection and UL 489 branch protection requirements is to first understand how to identify the products, the applications they can be used for and importance of selecting the correct device in compliance with UL standards. While both types of protection are useful and have similar purposes, each [...]
ASCO 316L Stainless Steel Accessory Valves for Valve Automation
ASCO recently introduced a new range of 316L accessory valves for actuator control applications. The new ASCO 800 Series includes: Quick exhaust valves Flow control valves Check valves Pressure relief valves All ASCO accessory valves are available in 316L stainless steel for superior corrosion resistance. The key features of the new ASCO accessory valves include: Quick exhaust valve The ASCO quick exhaust valve’s high flow design provides faster actuator response time for improved equipment shutdown [...]
New LioN-Power Products
LioN-Power Expands Product Offering to Increase Flexibility and Meet IIoT Demands The Lumberg Automation LioN-Power product line from Belden recently expanded their product line to increase flexibility and greater meet the needs of their customers. LioN-Power has added products with universal digital I/O modules, as well as holistic solutions through new IO-Link system devices. The new LioN-Power products include the LioN-Power DCU 1, 16 DIO; 16DIO version of the LioN-Power multi-protocol I/O modules; and LioN-Power [...]