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New Orleans to Host Siemens 2013 Automation Summit
The Summit, being held June 24 - 27, will provide professionals with end user automation learning opportunities - from process and discrete to motion control and drives. -
Haydon Kerk publishes Linear Motion Catalog
The 250+ page catalog and design guide illustrates a wide range of products engineered for use as building blocks in sophisticated linear motion assemblies. -
Thinking Outside the Box
By Bill Lydon, Editor At PackExpo there were two innovations that really stood out as representing “thinking outside the box” creative solutions - one was Adaptive Robotic Tooling by FESTO and the other was the XTS Linear Carrier System by Beckhoff Automation. -
Frost & Sullivan asks if Mechanical Power Transmissions can compete
Limited innovation and product differentiation, paralleled by rapid advancements in alternative power transmission technologies like VFD, pose a serious threat to the market’s future. -
Lenze announces Mobile App for Calculating Drive Systems
Lenze’s Formulas and Tables app provides engineers, drive manufacturers and trainers a mobile tool to design drive systems while on the go. -
ABB automates Northland’s Kaunisvaara iron ore mine
ABB supplied embedded medium- and low-voltage switchgear, variable-speed drives and motor control centers, a plant-wide process automation system, and fiber optic network equipment cabling. -
PLCopen updates User Guidelines for Motion Control
User Guidelines contain easy-to-understand application examples and show how to create user-derived function blocks to add to a company specific library, improving the reusability of the application programs. -
China Motion Control Market will grow in 2013
According to IMS Research, the China market for motion control machinery shrank last year, but prospects will improve moving forward as the industry shifts focus to satisfying domestic needs. -
B&R adds Machine Control Group as distributor in Missouri
Machine Control Group, an engineering focused solution provider, will represent B&R Automation in Missouri, Arkansas, and western Tennessee. -
Early College EAST wins Nanoline Contest
The team designed and built the “Delian One Remotely Operated Vehicle” which uses Phoenix Contact’s Nanoline Controller and nanoNavigator software to remotely maneuver and explore an underwater environment. -
Control Techniques signs CP Automation as integrator
CP Automation is a specialist in the repair and replacement of automation equipment including electronic boards, PLCs and AC and DC drives.It will work in the UK cranes and hoists market. -
Sercos announces YouTube Channel
The sercos international channel offers videos on hot topics in the automation and machinery industry as well as interviews, exhibition films and introduction of member companies. -
Heidenhain offers Interactive CNC Training Online
Training is intended for those interested in CNC qualification, as well as students and teachers who are interested in obtaining expert materials on CNC programming and machine operation. -
Hydraulic Equipment Getting Smarter
Frost & Sullivan says manufacturers are attempting to attract additional end users by developing integrated hydraulic equipment products that are cost effective, compact and user friendly. -
U.S. manufacturing technology orders: Best year since 1996
December U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $499.43 million according to AMT, the highest order total in 13 years. -
Robots Create Jobs, Enable Small Companies to Compete Worldwide
By Bill Lydon, Editor The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) provided a review of industry growth and hosted the IFR CEO Round Table discussion at AUTOMATE in Chicago. The bottom line is...robots create jobs by enabling manufacturers to be globally competitive and grow more quickly. -
Growth of Medium-voltage drives mixed worldwide
IMS Research projects fewer instabilities in the US and Chinese MV drives markets in 2013, and predicts global market growth of 10 percent--despite a contraction of 4.6 percent in Europe. -
Galil updates GalilSuite Software
Enhancements in Revision 1.0 include an improved user interface, servo tuning capabilities with multiple tuning methods, real-time scopes, multiple device management and simplified communications. -
Association for Advancing Automation Updates Website
A3 is the umbrella trade association for the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), AIA - Advancing Vision + Imaging, and the Motion Control Association (MCA). -
Machinery Production Slows As Economic Uncertainty Continues
The continued global economic slowdown has had a severe impact on worldwide machinery production, with growth in all regions falling significantly in 2012 compared with 2011.