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Siemens Serves Users by Adding EtherNet/IP
Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor The addition of an EtherNet/IP stack to the Siemens Sinamics drives offers another option and makes life easier for users and machine builders. The Sinamics S120 drive products now support Profibus DP, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, and Ethernet TCP/IP. -
Eastern Europe drives market booming
Frost & Sullivan says the drives market in Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS was $472.5 million in 2011 and will reach $652.1 million in 2016. -
Low Power AC Drives Market in Asia to grow 9%
The Asian region is the largest market for low power AC drives, representing around 42 percent of the global low power AC drives market. -
Parker Hannifin updates inPHorm hydraulic sizing software
Sizing software streamlines the process of specifying hydraulic accumulators by increasing efficiency and minimizing the engineering time required to design accumulators. -
IFR to host Robotics Automation Round Table at AUTOMATE
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) will host an exclusive press event for editors - CEO Round Table Discussion - at AUTOMATE in Chicago on 22 January 2013. -
China makes Global Motion Control Market drop
Sales of motion control products have decreased in 2012 in China as a result of overcapacity, and the global motion control market is forecast to decline by 1.9 percent compared to 2011. -
igus releases 2013 bearings catalog
The catalog covers new product lines, such as knife-edge rollers offering oil-free deflection for conveyor belts, and zero-backlash leadscrew nuts. -
Honeywell to upgrade printing at Nordic newspaper
Honeywell will provide new input/output modules, bring the safety system in line with current standards, and increase redundancy in the drive system. -
Heason Technology appoints Tom Wells Application Engineer
Wells has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering with specialisation in mechatronics and robotics from the University of Surrey and is continuing his PhD in Biomedical engineering. -
Precision Geared Product Shipment Growth Falls
The Eurozone economy and China’s decelerating economic growth will lead to a decline in precision geared product shipments in 2013. -
Schneider Electric Signs Kaman as distributor
Kaman is a distributor for Schneider Electric’s line of industrial automation and control products as well as select power control and protection products commonly used in motor control applications. -
Precision control for slow motion applications
By Mark Howard, Zettlex As the market demands ever more precise position and speed control, some traditional electrical control, actuation and sensing methods are being discarded and new techniques are emerging. -
U.S. manufacturing technology orders up 5.3% over 2011
AMT says with a year-to-date total of $4,753.68 million, 2012 is up 5.3% compared with 2011. -
Siemens to supply two VFDs to South Dakota power plant
Siemens will supply two Robicon Perfect Harmony variable frequency drives (VFD) to the Big Stone Plant, a coal-fired power plant in South Dakota. -
igus Sponsors 2013 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Students will design and construct Rube Goldberg machines, which are overly complex contraptions, for hammering a nail. -
PROFIdrive technology available in source code
PI welcomes the new basic technology as an important contribution toward the widespread use of drives with PROFIBUS and PROFINET in applications. -
Yaskawa Europe to Acquire VIPA
VIPA is a manufacturer of PLCs, I/O modules and HMIs in Herzogenaurach, Germany. -
PLCopen certifies Advanced Motion Controls
Advanced Motion Controls has been awarded the PLCopen Motion Control Certificate for its product Click&Move (C&M). -
Motion Control Shipments Up 2.3% in 2012
For the first nine months of 2012, motion control product shipments are up 2.3% over the same period in 2011, according to the Motion Control Association (MCA). -
Rockwell Automation to supply PACs and drives to US Navy
Rockwell will supply PACs, variable frequency drives, software and engineering support services for machinery control systems onboard U.S. Navy and Coast Guard surface ships.
