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2015 Global Switched Reluctance Drive Industry Report is a professional and in-depth research report on the world's major regional market conditions of the Switched Reluctance Drive industry, focusing on the main regions (North America, Europe and Asia) and the main countries (United States, Germany, Japan and China).

Motion Control Association is now Motion Control & Motor Association (MCMA) after merger with SMMA.

Salvagnini is using distributed servo amplifiers for positioning, instead of keeping drives installed centrally in the control cabinet.

Anderson spent 14 years as president of Rosemount Flow business unit and a two years as president responsible for establishing the Lifecycle Services organization for Emerson Process, Flow Measurement group.

CIMdata projects that in 2015 growth in manufacturing will continue and end-user payments for NC software will increase by 6.7% to $1.88 billion.

By Edward E. Herceg, Alliance Sensors Group Position feedback sensors for hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders have used one of three traditional technologies: Magnetostrictive, Variable Resistance, and Variable Inductance sensors. Here’s a comparison.

April U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $384.81 million, down 8.1% from March’s $418.67 million.

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.