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Fenion is Business Development Manager for motion control products.

iglide L500 material is suitable for continuous operation in high-speed rotation applications under low loads.

Advanced Furniture Testing developed specialised machines for tests that include chair back durability, drop impact and load ease, multi-task furniture, dual arm durability and universal cyclic testing.

AMC’s EtherCAT products consist of panel mount and plug-in servo drives to allow for quick prototyping and ease of system integration.

App accesses gear reducers, servo couplings and linear mounting kits from a smartphone or tablet.

Rockwell’s CompactLogix 5370 controller and three Kinetix 350 EtherNet/IP servo drives are used as the control platform for the new tubing spooler machine.

The linear guidance systems form part of the assembly jigs for the Airbus A350 wings, which are currently being assembled at the Airbus site in Broughton, UK.

By Igor Glikin, Tolomatic Most electromechanical rodless actuators commonly use one of two main drive trains to convert rotary motion of the electrical motor to linear motion of the actuator’s load-carrying device: a power screw drive or a timing belt drive. Here’s how to select drive trains for reliability, efficiency and long service life.

The highest power-rated medium voltage (MV) drives ever used in a reversing roughing mill were commissioned by ABB at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot hot strip mill in South Wales.

Parker Hannifin is sponsoring Victory Motorcycles as they compete in the 2015 Isle of Man TT Zero Challenge on June 10.

March U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $399.83 million, up 30.3% from February’s $306.96 million but down 18.7% when compared with March 2014.

Watzke will be based in Chicago and is responsible for all Lenze operations outside of Europe including the USA, China and India.

The move was driven by the introduction of phase two of the EU’s IE3 efficiency level legislation for electric motors in Europe.

Bill Lydon: I am convinced that collaborative robots are the highest impact automation development to improve manufacturing since the assembly line. If this development follows the cost performance trends of past developments, like PCs, we at the beginning of a new revolution.

Brochure covers PiezoMike high-precision miniaturized opto-mechanical piezo-motor actuators.

Clariant was experiencing issues with its previous DC motor and drive system on an important extrusion machine at its Izmit facility

Literature covers automation system options on injection molding, blow molding, and die casting machines.

Berend Bracht steps down after 24 years with Bosch.

20 page specifications guide covers two series of Crouzet’s DCmind Brushless Motors and gearmotors

Wittenstein will receive the award for its Galaxie product, a high-performance gearhead with independently movable gear teeth.