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Draw-wire encoders are a little-known type of measuring system. So they are occasionally taken into consideration when it comes to designing a new solution for industrial applications.
Yet there are a number of good reasons why designers should appreciate their functional characteristics.
In some cases they can be the most effective and reliable answer to their measuring needs. 
• Measuring lengths from 300 mm (0.984 ft), 1 m (3.28 ft), 2 m (6.56 ft), 5 m (16.4 ft),
  10 m (32.8 ft), and longer, up to 50 m (164 ft)
• Any type of encoder can be integrated: incremental, absolute, fieldbus, Ethernet, analogue  
  (including potentiometer), ATEX, special models for individual applications
• Resolution down to 0.01 mm / 10 µm
• Speed up to 10 m per second / 32.8 ft per second

Since its inception Lika Electronic has successfully developed custom encoders that make it easier for the customers to fit the right encoder into non-standard applications. Today Lika has the knowledge, the skill, and the expertise to satisfy specific design and engineering criteria while cutting off time-to-market and production time and cost. At the present time 56% of Lika's yearly turnover is generated by standard products while 44% is generated by custom products.
More than 300 special and custom products are currently active in production.

To support special projects and custom encoder products to be developed in close cooperation with our customers in a targeted manner, we formed Lika Lab. Lika Lab is the R&D business unit with a broad range of capabilities in design, prototype fabrication, and testing, focused on individual customer needs and rapidly evolving market requirements.

Lika Electronic's IX series inclinometers can be equipped with analogue, CANopen, and Modbus interfaces, are rugged and accurate, and always provide reliable measurement of inclination even in critical environments such as in construction vehicles, agricultural machinery, mobile cranes, forklifts, bucket trucks. 

• IXA: 1-axis (0°÷360°) and 2-axis (±10°, ±30°, ±60°) current and voltage analogue inclinometer
• IXAR: redundant analogue version with duplicated electronics
• IXB / IXC: 1-axis (0°÷360°, ±180°) and 2-axis (±5° to ±60°) programmable CANopen inclinometer
• IXM: 1-axis (0°÷360°, ±180°) and 2-axis (±5° to ±60°) programmable Modbus inclinometer
• High resolution down to 0.001°, high accuracy down to ±0.05°
• Rugged housing for reliable operation in harsh environments

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Lika Electronic's RD rotary actuators are designed to automate changeovers and adjustment operations in auxiliary axes. Their configuration including brushless motor, real multiturn absolute encoder, position and torque closed-loop controller, and Ethernet / fieldbus interface eases and speeds up commissioning. 
Available in four models and several power sizes.
• Designed to automate and ease changeovers and adjustments in auxiliary axes
• Four models with specific power rates and features
• All-in-one configuration for cost-effective integration
• Profinet, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, POWERLINK, CANopen, Profibus, MODBUS RTU interfaces

Among the typical application sectors of RD actuators are changeovers in packaging and bottling lines, adjustment operations in multiaxis systems, filling machines, mould changers, mobile stops, replacement of handwheels and position indicators, material handling equipment, bending machines, tool changers, spindle positioning devices, woodworking industry, plastic and paper industry, stone and metal processing industry.

Lika Electronic designs and manufactures a full line-up of rotary optical kit encoders for direct integration into robotic systems (for instance, surgical and diagnostic robots), cobots, robotic joints, servomotors, direct drive torque motors as well as into UAVs/drones, electromedical devices, and a variety of motion control systems.
They are designed in several sizes and shapes and offer a wide Xion of customizable specifications and technologies to fit special requirements. Kit encoders are frameless and bearingless and excel in compact size, low profile, minimum weight.
The optical technology allows them to achieve high resolution and fine accuracy for a very precise and safe control over movement, rotation, and positioning.
Contactless operation reduces machine downtimes and maintenance.

Lika Electronic offers an extensive range of couplings suitable for a variety of automation sectors and in particular for encoders, general-purpose motors, servomotors, stepping motors, and actuators. They are available in several coupling designs (flexible, rigid, disc type, ...) and mechanical features (sizes, bore diameters, materials, treatments, ...) to accommodate different degrees of torque, misalignment, load, precision, and environmental work conditions.
The catalog also includes a rich Xion of couplings for special and unique applications.

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