IAI, the world's leading manufacturer of electric cylinders for industrial automation, offers an extremely wide range of actuators in plug & play configurations.
The various electric cylinders differ in size, structure (with in-line or driven motor, the possible presence of an emergency stop brake), the type of screw and guide, any protections and the corresponding degree of resistance to external people (IP) or suitability for use in protected areas (Clean Rooms or environments at risk of explosion), arrangements for anchoring to the rest of the machine and to the body to be moved.
Finally, for the purpose of identifying the most suitable cylinder for each application, the choice of the type of logic with which to manage it remains decisive, and therefore of the control unit capable of operating the motor, reading the encoder (or other) feedback. element, as already seen) as required by the device that supervises the machine (typically a PLC) or, in the simplest cases, autonomously, interfacing directly with an operator by means of buttons or panels. The need to interpolate the motion of the actuator with that of other parts of the machine is also decisive.
Given the huge amount of variants available, correctly identifying the most suitable cylinder for each application is essential.
To chose a robocilinder for an application is important to know: 
- the mass to be translated,
- of the necessary travel,
- the required speeds and accelerations,
- the forces involved (in the direction of motion or transverse),
- the work environment,
· the space available
· the expected life of the equipment.
IAI' huge range translates into a wide series of catalogs that cover tens of thousands of different models, in an attempt to be able to propose the right product for each application (in the context of medium-light loads), attributable to a small series of control units that standardize their management.