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  • Yaskawa Signs DRV as Medium Voltage Drive Distributor

    DRV is an industrial automation distributor, systems integrator, engineering and field service provider founded in 1981. They serve the Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York area.
    By: Yaskawa Electric America, Inc.
    05 November, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • SKF introduces repair and rebuild capabilities for ball screws

    This support channel can handle virtually all makes and models (inch and metric) and return the reconditioned ball screws quickly to service.
    05 November, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Low Power AC Drives Market growing in India

    The growth in the market mainly comes from industries such as machinery, food & beverage, water & wastewater, electric power generation, automotive, and buildings.
    01 November, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Geared Products market to Expand by More than $1 Billion

    Revenue for gearboxes, geared motors and planetary axles sold for applications such as cranes, cement mixers and bulldozers is projected to reach $7.8 billion by 2017, up from $6.7 billion in 2012.
    29 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • BEI Kimco's VCA goes to asteroids

    The custom Moving Magnet Voice Coil Actuator (VCA) is going on the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-Rex) spacecraft.
    By: BEI Kimco
    25 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Siemens Automates high-bay warehouse at Audi

    Siemens developed the controller of the storage and retrieval machines and the conveyor system for the body buffer on the basis of its Simatic S7 controllers.
    By: SIEMENS, SIEMENS
    22 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Schaeffler publishes linear actuator catalogue

    Catalog covers tandem (heavy duty) actuators, clamping actuators, compact (miniature) actuators and telescopic actuators, as well as linear tables, drives and controls, and linear accessories.
    21 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Beckhoff Automation hires five engineers

    The engineers include Jeffrey Anderson, Calvin Anderson, Cameron Johnson, Martin Tato and Tristan McCormick.
    By: Beckhoff Automation
    18 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Rockwell Automation enhances free machine control software tools

    Rockwell Automation enhanced Connected Components Accelerator Toolkit (CCAT) and Connected Components Workbench software tools.
    By: Rockwell Automation
    17 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Rotary indexing tables expand robotic polishing processing

    SHL in Germany uses Weiss heavy duty rotary indexing tables for its automated grinding, polishing, and deburring systems for the automotive, medical, and processing industries.
    By: Weiss North America Inc.
    08 October, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • UK plastic bag Machine builders use Ethernet-based motion control

    Hartech Engineering and GPL Machinery built a plastic bag machine based on ABB's Ethernet Powerlink compatible motion control and an all-servomotor architecture.
    26 September, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Ulrich Spiesshofer takes over at ABB

    Ulrich Spiesshofer has succeeded Joe Hogan as chief executive officer of ABB.
    By: ABB
    18 September, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Integrated-Motor Market to Expand by 40 Percent

    Revenue for the integrated-motors market is projected to reach $553 million by 2017, up from less than $400 million in 2012.
    18 September, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Six BEI Encoders meet CENELEC/ATEX and IECEx specs

    BEI Sensors’ UL-certified nonincendive Division 2 encoders are now compliant to CENELEC/ATEX and IECEx non-sparking Zone 2 hazardous area standards.
    By: BEI Industrial Encoders
    12 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ABB to supply variable-speed ring-geared mill drive in Namibia

    ABB will provide four dual pinion high-speed ring-geared mill drive systems for the Swakop Uranium Husab mine, in the Erongo region in western-central Namibia.
    By: ABB
    11 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Manufacturing technology orders off in July

    July U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $351.21 million, down 23.6% from June and down 23.6% when compared with the total of $459.44 million reported for July 2012.
    10 September, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • B&R speeds up Woojin injection molding machines

    B&R servo technology and POWERLINK communication helped Woojin optimize the speed and precision of three different lines of injection molding machines.
    By: B&R Industrial Automation Corp.
    10 September, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Improving Cooling Water System Capacity

    PCT Engineered Systems' (PCT) cooling capacity needed to be increased dramatically to meet business demands and the company was able to quickly and efficiently meet this challenge using Siemens controllers and drives.
    By: SIEMENS, SIEMENS
    06 September, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • No Enforcement Slows Adoption of High Efficiency Motors

    Regulatory exemptions that allow motors of lesser efficiency to be produced beyond dates stated in legislation have slowed both annual sales and the global installed base of motors.
    27 August, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Bosch Rexroth updates GoTo Products mobile app

    Version 3.0 gives users better access to products from the company’s focused delivery program.
    By: Bosch Rexroth
    26 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
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