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  • Temperature Considerations When Specifying LVDT Linear Position Sensors for Applications

    By Macro Sensors Temperature effects can be significant in certain specific applications such as aircraft, subsea and turbomachinery. That’s why it is is important to know the effects that temperature has on LVDT Sensors.
    By: Macro Sensors
    12 March, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Manufacturing Technology Orders Up and Down in January

    January U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $365.06 million, down 25.2% from December but up 1.3% when compared with the total of $360.31 million reported for January 2013.
    By: Applied Manufacturing Technologies, Inc.
    10 March, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Kollmorgen motors drive Universal Robots

    Universal Robots was able to embed the motors directly into the articulation axes of UR 5 and UR 10 robots without need for additional housings.
    04 March, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • Consecutive Years of Low Growth thwart MV Motor Market

    A 10.4% growth in revenues in 2011 was overshadowed by a return to reality in 2012: the Eurozone continues to emerge from a prolonged recession and the Chinese juggernaut showed signs of slowing late in the year.
    27 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Tolomatic ERD Electric Cylinder Receives USDA Approval

    ERD electric cylinders are IP69K rated with an USDA Accepted Equipment Certification for meat (livestock), poultry, and dairy food processing applications.
    By: Tolomatic
    17 February, 2014 | 1 minute
  • Global Motion Control Shipments down

    Global shipments for motion control products fell by 5% in 2013, according to statistics released by the Motion Control Association (MCA), the industry’s trade group.
    By: MCA Co., Ltd
    13 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Beckhoff Promotes Aurelio Banda to VP of Sales and Marketing

    Prior to his promotion, Banda was a Central Region Manager for Beckhoff in the U.S. Banda will work at the Beckhoff North American headquarters in Savage, Minn.
    By: Beckhoff Automation
    12 February, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • infoteam Software names Siegfried Schülein Business Segment Head

    Schülein has over 30 years' experience in the field of automation technology. He spent the last 25 years working for the Baumüller Nürnberg Group.
    By: infoteam Software AG
    05 February, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Moog publishes Class 5 SmartMotor CANopen Guide

    Manual explains the Moog Animatics Class 5 SmartMotor support for the CANopen protocol.
    By: Animatics Corporation
    03 February, 2014 | 1 minute
  • Festo signs three Distributors

    Festo signed distributors for Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Texas.
    By: Festo Corporation
    31 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Energy Regulations boost sales of High-Priced IE3 Class Motors

    End users are looking to reduce energy consumption and operational costs by replacing old motors with more energy-efficient ones.
    30 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • BEI Kimco tests actuators to 50 million cycles

    BEI Kimco built a permanent life testing station to assess and substantiate actual actuator life cycle capabilities.
    By: BEI Kimco
    28 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Schneider Electric's Integration of Invensys

    By Bill Lydon, Editor With this acquisition, Schneider Electric significantly enhanced its position to serve the process industries and now has a complete portfolio of products to serve the entire industrial and process automation industry. This article highlights a few key aspects of the integration of the two companies.
    By: Schneider Electric
    28 January, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • 2014 Manufacturing Outlook from Siemens CEO

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Helmuth Ludwig, CEO of Siemens Industry Sector USA, provided his views on the 2014 manufacturing outlook and other industry topics, including the first live display of an assembly line at the Auto Show in Detroit, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first assembly line.
    By: SIEMENS, SIEMENS
    27 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Electromate releases BlackBerry App for Motion Control

    App is for any novice or experienced engineer who uses motion control products in their industrial automation machinery.
    By: Electromate Inc.
    27 January, 2014 | 1 minute
  • Global Motor market to reach $120.68 billion by 2019

    Transparency Market Research says the electric motor market is highly fragmented and the top five players accounted for less than 15% of the revenue share in 2012.
    22 January, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Texas A&M University receives motor research grant

    The Electric Motor Education and Research Foundation (EMERF) gave Texas A&M $15,000 to study "Design of Ferrite Assisted Synchronous Reluctance Motor (Fa-SynRM) with Aluminum Conductors in Stator."
    20 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Weiss rotary indexing tables automate recyclable binding system

    Kugler-Womako in Germany is using TR750 rotary indexing tables in its EcoBinder paper-based binding system.
    By: Weiss North America Inc.
    20 January, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • Festo announces Online Technical Support Forum

    Forum topics include pneumatics, servo pneumatics, electric drives, software, fieldbus, process automation, sensors and vision, directives and standards, and more.
    By: Festo Corporation
    16 January, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Mining Automation in Europe and Russia needs motor drives

    Frost & Sullivan says the need to modernize automation in the mining industry will increase use of electric motors and drives in Europe and Russia.
    15 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
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