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Technology continues to grow and as a result, the world is changing around us. Companies are becoming more technology-based and daily lives are being more automated. So the question at hand is:  Are you willing to leap into this automated world and make your home not only more convenient and comfortable but more efficient? You may have seen videos of luxurious homes with automated features that you thought you could only dream about. However, ...

Consumer flight sims are increasing in popularity nowadays. From aviation Geeks to hobbyists and innovators, more and more people are getting into building flight simulators. One such group is the EAA 485 – a group of aviation enthusiasts in Florida who come together often to share their love of flying. John McKiernan, President of EAA 485, reached out to us about the group’s most recent rebuild of a child biplane simulator known as Rusty. “We...

Linear actuators are being popularly used across different industries and for various applications. Innovators are finding different ways to automate their daily work and sometimes we are also surprised by the use of our products in different applications. Over the years we have received information from our customers on applications they’ve built using our actuators, from a DIY Planetarium projector to a Flight simulator.  We’re always pleas...

Linear actuators have been used in several ways, in different industries, and for various applications. Today, they are being used to transform a home to a smart home, giving homeowners the ability to control items in the house such as windows, doors, TV cabinets and much more, with the aim to make things simple and easy. We at Progressive Automations recently received a beautiful project of a towable Tiny Home by New York Based startup, Cubis...

Each year, we receive stories of creative innovations using our actuator products and the year 2018 saw some interesting inventions such as the hidden table lift project in Japanese style, the flight simulator, and the Barbershop success story. Lucky for us it didn’t stop there and 2018 ended on a positive note for our customer in Seattle. Volunteers from Seattle’s top architecture firms, Gelotte Hommas Drivdahl (GHD) Architecture, and Master ...

One of our talented customers from Free Fall Technologies was nice enough to share his custom project with us, built with the help of our products. Free Fall Technologies is a planetarium education company that specializes in making interesting and educational technical systems for the field.  The project is a custom planetarium projector lift that utilizes our FLT-03-2-1 Lifting Column set to raise itself up and down. This is the fourth proje...