Improve Power Tool Ergonomics with Nye Grease

More and more OEMs are cutting the cord. Cordless tools improve productivity, but the battery packs these innovations require also add weight that can make the tool hard to handle. When reducing weight, design engineers turn towards light weight plastic designs and/or smaller motors or batteries. While lubricants often enable the use of smaller motors or batteries, the materials in your design should be considered to ensure compatibility. Nye offers lubricants that are compatible with metal and most plastics and elastomers.

Workers are at increased risk for developing injuries like carpal tunnel, hearing loss, and tendonitis if noise and vibration are not reduced. Noise and vibration are often a result of friction between two components. A film of lubricant prevents two moving surfaces from coming in contact to minimize friction and improve the ergonomics of your design.

Workplace injuries are more likely to occur when excessive force is required to actuate triggers, switches, and other power tool controls, but it’s a balancing act. Conversely, a trigger that requires too little force can be accidently actuated and cause injury. Nye offers a line of motion control greases that vary in shear resistance to assist engineers in designing the precise actuation force of the controls.