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Okuma names Brad Klippstein Controls Product Specialist
Klippstein holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and previously worked as a supervisor of CNC control and electrical design engineering. -
Konecranes hires Giddings & Lewis specialists
Jim Foust and Tim Ellis have more than 70 years of direct experience with Giddings & Lewis machine tools. -
A Fast Converging Robust Controller Using Adaptive Second Order Sliding Mode
An ISA technical paper proposes an adaptive second order sliding mode controller with a nonlinear sliding surface. -
U.S. Cutting Tool Consumption Down 18.9% in November
The 18.9% decrease is in part due to the record breaking sales in October. -
Manufacturing Technology Orders Up 2.6% in 2014
November U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $378.06 million, down 15.5% from October and down 14.5% when compared with the total of $442.01 million reported for November 2013. -
OpTek Systems uses confocal sensors on highly reflective and diffuse surfaces
OpTek Systems has installed non-contact confocal chromatic sensors from Micro-Epsilon on a number of its laser processing machines to measure the surface finish and groove depth of difficult materials, ranging from highly reflective, mirrored surfaces to dark, diffuse surfaces. -
Hexagon Metrology signs TriMet as rep
TriMet will handle ROMER portable arm coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) in Southern Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. -
Estimation of Region of Attraction for Polynomial Nonlinear Systems
Estimation of Region of Attraction for Polynomial Nonlinear Systems -
Motion Control Market in Midst of Record Year
Global shipments for motion control products grew by nine percent to $2.3 billion in the first nine months of 2014, according to new statistics released by the Motion Control Association. -
Growth Returns for Motion Controls in 2014
After declining for two straight years, revenues from the sales of motion-control products are forecast to grow over 6 percent in 2014 to $12.2 billion according to IHS. -
How Vision Technologies Enable Machines and Robots to Adapt to Evolving Manufacturing Line Circumstances
Advances in digital integrated circuits are now paving the way for the proliferation of vision into diverse mainstream automated manufacturing platforms. Cost-effective vision processors with depth-di -
Global Adaptive Output Feedback Control for a Class of Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems
The problem of global output feedback control for a class of nonlinear time-delay systems -
U.S. Cutting Tool Consumption Up 9.7% in October
October U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $193.6 million, up 9.7% from September’s total and up 3.3% from October 2013. -
U.S. Cutting Tool Consumption Up 4.6% in September
September U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $176.5 million, up 4.6% from August’s total and up 7.7% from September 2013. -
December Technical Training and Exam Preparation from ISA
December Technical Training and Exam Preparation from ISA -
Building Safety into Metal Forming Machines
By Steve Aamodt, SICK To help prevent injuries and increase productivity for end users, machine builders are incorporating safety into the design of metal forming and bending machines. The old way of thinking, that safety harms productivity, has changed, in large part due to better safety systems. -
Cincinnati appoints Carey Chen President and CEO
He will join the company in early January 2015, succeeding Andrew Jamison who will be retiring. -
ITAMCO offers Apps for Machinists
The apps require iOS6.1 and can be purchased through the Apple App Store in iTunes. They are compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. -
How to Use Workflow to Achieve Business Integration in Manufacturing Operations
Using a workflow-based approach, manufacturing businesses and process industry companies can extend and leverage existing purpose-based systems, expose new functionality that was too complex to captur -
Have You Had a Good Automation Industry Laugh Today?
Humor can provide insights by opening the mind to the strange but true aspects of the industrial automation profession. Successful humor can cause a smile before you realize the full nature of the sit
