Stories

Legions of comic book fans & Disney movies, pop culture enthusiasts and cosplayers came together at WonderCon 2019 held at the Anaheim convention center. The little sibling of Comicon was very well received this year, and we had the opportunity to support the Wall E builders once again. Soon after the show, we had a chance to catch up with Mike Senna and Michael McMaster, the robotics nerds with an interest in all thing’s robots and Star W...

A big takeaway from being in the actuator industry is when our customers get back to us with innovative ways they’ve used our products. We are always blown away by the projects we receive, and, in this article, we’ve highlighted a few DIY projects using our linear actuators that have caught our eye over the past few years. The Space Saver - Japanese Style Hidden Table lift Minimalism has become quite the fad when it comes to interior design. ...

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 ...

As you probably know by now, we love showing off what our customers can do with our products. This time we have something really impressive to share with you; a customer has taken a pair of our FLT-07 Lifting Column Sets and implemented them into a hidden Japanese style table lift. When we say hidden we mean that this table lift is actually part of the floor, so when it is fully retracted it is completely hidden from view. Then when it is read...

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...