Finding the right components to cover your BOM can be a challenge. Ordering actuators from one brand only to have to purchase linear guides and cables from another can increase project timelines and costs.
Fortunately, MISUMI is home to over 3,000 third-party brands. With access to an assortment of brands, engineers and purchasers can save time and money by having one source for components to meet a project’s needs, from prototype to production.
This month, we’re featuring some new and renowned brands that you can find at MISUMI.com.
PATLITE: Visual and Audible Signaling Devices
Since 1947, PATLITE has offered state-of-the-art equipment for the process and industrial automation industries. Innovative and durable design, backed by years of industry experience and a strong commitment to safety and security, has made PATLITE the world’s best-known manufacturer of visual and audible signaling devices.
As the industry’s signaling needs shift from simple lights and buzzers to smart, network-capable devices, PATLITE has provided an array of products ranging from wireless data-acquisition systems, programmable signal towers, IO-Link and POE-enabled devices, and more.
THK: Linear Motion Products
In 1972, THK became the first company in the world to develop and commercialize the Linear Motion (LM) Guide. THK’s linear motion system enabled rapid improvements in the accuracy, speed, and labor-saving potential for advanced mechatronic instruments.
Bosch Rexroth: Linear Motion Components
Rexroth Ball Rail Systems add more value to manufacturing processes. Ball Rail linear guide systems from Rexroth provide the optimal combination of accuracy, speed, and load-bearing capabilities to ensure precise machine movements and machining processes of all types.
Gates: Rotary Power Transmissions
Global leaders in power transmission products and services across a variety of industries, providing innovation and quality to every product they make. Gates offers solutions inspired by a century of experience, empowering the industry for the next hundred years.
Whether building original equipment or maintaining products in the aftermarket, Gates enables companies in every industry to be more efficient, productive, and profitable.
Ruland: Shaft Collars and Couplings
Established in 1937, Ruland focuses on the design and manufacturing of high performing shaft collars and couplings. All products are carefully manufactured in Marlborough, Massachusetts factory under strict controls using proprietary processes.
Providing products to a wide variety of industries, Ruland attributes its continued success to a tradition of providing quality and value to its customers.
KIPP: Automation Components
KIPP offers clamping technology, standard machine elements, and locating and positioning components among many other products commonly used in automation manufacturing. The company is based in Germany where they manufacture their components.
KIPP has over 100 years of manufacturing and engineering experience and a long history of innovation with diverse solutions and product improvements. KIPP has a subsidiary in Michigan that MISUMI works with which stocks over 20,000 products and they are normally able to get additional products from Germany in about 3 weeks.
Enidine: Mechanical Shock Absorbers and Vibration Isolation
Enidine is a key supplier for MISUMI for Mechanical Shock Absorbers and Vibration Isolation Products. They provide a broad range of shock and vibration isolators which are designed to extend equipment life, improve comfort, and increase safety and reliability.
These products are used across various industries such as packaging and warehouse automation and many industrial environments. Enidine is a go-to brand for products ranging from large bore industrial shock absorbers to miniature industrial shock absorbers, adjustable and non-adjustable industrial shock absorbers, rate controls, wire rope isolators, and air springs (air shock absorbers).
With market focused designs for Automotive Manufacturing, Assembly Line Conveyors, Food and Beverage packaging, Automation Robotics they are a top brand in North America for these products.
CKD: Pneumatic and Fluid Controls
A well-established Japanese manufacture of over 80 years, CKD is committed to helping businesses around the world. Their rich product portfolio features over 500,000 products, which include many different fluid and pneumatic control components.
They are continually enhancing their portfolio by taking advantage of their established automation and liquid control technologies which create the steady flow of products developed to meet the needs of our customers.
AMPG: Screws, Bolts, and More
Established in 1987 and located in Indianapolis, IN, AMPG is the largest stocking manufacturer of Shoulder Screws in the world, focusing on “nonferrous shoulder screws.” MISUMI carries 7,000+ AMPG stocked items on the website to display the best products for our customer base and to cover the most popular items.
The product offering includes but is not limited to Shoulder Bolts, Dowel Pin, Bearing Lock Nuts, Cross Recessed Bolts, Fully-Threaded Bolts & Stud Bolts, Hex Bolts, Hex Socket Button Head Cap Screws, Hex Socket Flat Head Cap Screws, Head Cap Screws, Square Socket Screw, Metal Washer, Dial gage accessories, and Threaded hole transfer punch.
Mitutoyo: Measurement Instruments
Established in 1934 as the first Micrometer company in Japan, Mitutoyo has become a leading worldwide company, offering the world’s largest categories of precision measuring tools and devices. Most of their products are made in Japan, which allows Mitutoyo to maintain its name as a high-quality precision measuring tool brand.
MISUMI offers about 1,2000+ SKUs in precision hand tool categories from Mitutoyo, including but not limited to dial gauges, micrometers, Gauge Blocks, Calipers, and Surface Roughness Testers.
From electrical to hard-to-find Japanese products, MISUMI continuously introduces new brands to our catalog. Click here to view our brand directory.
