Industrial Clutches & Brakes

Clutches and brakes are used to start, stop, or hold loads. ASI offers six different groups of clutch/brake products, along with complementary accessories to meet a broad range of starting, stopping and holding requirements. This product offering includes the following:

• Packaged C-Face – These are clutch and brake module products with NEMA C-face compatible mountings for shaft, foot or motor mounting. Products are available as completely assembled packages or in modular form for customer assembly into clutches, brakes or clutch/brake units.

• Packaged Shaft and Foot Mounted – These are shaft or foot mounted, electric, permanent magnet and magnetic particle clutches and brakes, which are all factory assembled for ease of installation.

• Electrically Released Brakes – ASI offers a variety of electrically released brakes for performing stopping and holding functions in cycling applications as well as emergency situations. Both shaft mounted and NEMA C-face compatible units are available for shaft, foot or motor mounting.

• Basic Clutches & Brakes – Basic clutches and brakes are customer configured and customer assembled to form clutches, brakes, clutch couplings, clutch/brakes, clutch/brake couplings or motor brakes.

• Tension Clutches & Brakes – ASI offers a wide range of clutches and brakes – electric, pneumatic, permanent magnet and magnetic particle units – for light to heavy duty tensioning applications.

• Wrap Spring Clutches & Clutches / Brakes – These are well suited for performing indexing, positioning and backstopping functions.  Wrap Spring  units provide a high torque-to-size ratio and are offered as mechanically or electrically actuated units.