As part of our continuous effort to offer customers new, unique components that add value to our products and consumer applications, UEA now offers magnetic drive, or non-contact rotary encoders,…
An end user of several industrial stretch wrapper machines had an existing 24 and 32-circuit slip ring assembly that needed two additional air passages. The original equipment manufacturer of the…
Rotary unions manufactured by United Equipment Accessories (UEA) go into a wide array of machinery. Each application that we design for is different from the next. While there are usually…
Recently, some of our customers have been asking, “What can be done to reduce the overall height in our S15A series slip rings?” Typically these slip rings are designed to…
Here in the Innovation and Technology department at UEA, we are constantly attempting to challenge the status quo of the slip ring manufacturing industry. One of the biggest challenges we…
Electrical slip rings require ingress protection (IP) based on the personal protection requirements, environmental conditions, and mounting position. What is an IP rating? IP ratings are based on international standard…
Hydraulic systems play a role in various industries, powering heavy machinery and providing precise control in critical applications. Among the essential components of a hydraulic system, the rotary manifold is…
One of the largest electrical slip rings United Equipment Accessories has made stands 55″ tall and is 45″ wide! This custom electrical slip ring features a painted steel enclosure with…
This article originally appeared in North American Clean Energy. March/April 2018 Issue – By Jesse Shearer Engerineering Manager United Equipment Accessories The design and manufacturing of a slip ring component…
Because United Equipment Accessories builds only custom slip ring assemblies there is no simple formula to answer the question “What does a slip ring cost?” Virtually every slip ring assembly…
United Equipment Accessories (UEA) is unique in our comprehensive testing for all our hydraulic swivels before they leave our facility. We do complete testing to ensure that our customers receive…
When a hydraulic swivel is needed, many applications require a custom hydraulic swivel be designed and built. We thought we would take some time to explain how the process of…