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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Moog publishes Class 5 SmartMotor CANopen Guide
Manual explains the Moog Animatics Class 5 SmartMotor support for the CANopen protocol. -
Festo signs three Distributors
Festo signed distributors for Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Texas. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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." -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Servo drive boosts speed of friction feeders for packaging
Metronix's smart drive has allowed Pfankuch to increase the speed of its friction feeder by 50% while also doubling the positioning accuracy. -
Motion-control Market Revenues Fall Short in 2013
Global sales of motion control products recovered in 2013 to reach $12.2 billion, but growth was far too weak to overcome the 2012 market declines. -
ABB motion control system simplifies printing machinery
Rollem, a specialist print machinery manufacturer, is using a multi-axis motion controller and high level software development environment from ABB to control its modular finishing system. -
MISUMI announces Motion Control Webinars
The webinars in January focus on how configurable components can reduce design time, improve product quality and speed time-to-market.
