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Haydon Kerk Offers Custom Lead Screw Nuts
Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions now offers customized nut designs for high-end motion control applications. -
Manufacturing Technology Orders Up 8.8% in 2012
June U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $462.95 million according to AMT. With a year-to-date total of $2,682.37 million, 2012 is up 8.8% compared with 2011. -
Franklin Electric Acquires Cerus Industrial
Cerus designs, manufactures, and distributes motor controls, motor starters, contactors, protection devices, and variable frequency drives. -
Kollmorgen publishes Automation and Motion Solutions Catalog
Catalog details the features, benefits and specifications of the company’s motion control solutions. -
Rockwell Automation To Acquire Harbin Jiuzhou Electric
Rockwell will purchase the assets of the medium voltage drives business of Harbin Jiuzhou Electric Co. for $83 million. -
European dilemma: Fix or replace Electric Drives?
Frost & Sullivan says end users may opt to replace older drives with new advanced ones at little extra cost premiums rather than spending on the repair of old drive units. -
Europeans want ac drives
Frost & Sullivan says most direct current (DC) drive applications are being replaced by AC and servo drives in the European material handling industry. -
Kollmorgen publishes Stepper Solutions Catalog
Catalog covers stepper motors and stepper drives, AC synchronous motors, and XTRUE planetary gearheads. -
Automating a Donut Packaging and Labeling Line
By John Armstrong, Mel-O-Cream Donuts Mel-O-Cream used a PLC, VFD, HMI and Ethernet communications equipment from AutomationDirect to automate a donut packaging and labeling line that processes more than 40 different products. -
PI Ceramic publishes Piezo Actuator Catalog
Catalog covers standard actuators, custom capabilities and explains the piezo manufacturing process and background information in a detailed tutorial. -
Frost & Sullivan says demand up for Servo and Stepper Systems
Frost & Sullivan says the European market wants integrated Servo and Stepper Systems. -
Siemens Supplies Drives for Arizona Solar Power Plant
Siemens will provide 18 Robicon Perfect Harmony medium voltage drives for Solana, a 280MW facility near Gila Bend, Ariz., which will be the world’s largest concentrating solar power (CSP) plant. -
IMS says machine safety revenues grew in 2011
IMS Research estimates that world discrete machine safety component revenues grew by 17.5 percent in 2011, exceeding USD $2 billion. -
IMS says: Move Motor Control Suppliers Overseas
IMS says locating motor controls production closer to consumption is a rising trend in China, Brazil, and Eastern Europe. -
Beckhoff Automation opens office in New Zealand
The office is located in Albany, the new technology center of Auckland. Neil Pearce will manage the office. -
Video explains encoder feedback for step motor systems
Video by AMP shows how adding an encoder to a step motor system lets the drive monitor the motor’s position, closing the feedback loop and avoiding many of the limitations traditionally associated with stepper systems. -
NEMA publishes MG 1 Motors and Generators standard
The NEMA standard for motors and generators recently received approval from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). -
May Manufacturing Technology Orders Up 12.1%
AMT says orders were up 14.5% from April and up 19.0% when compared with the total of $398.10 million reported for May 2011. -
Solartron Metrology publishes catalog of displacement sensors
Catalog contains extensive information on linear variable displacement transducers (LVDT), linear encoders and magnetostrictive transducers. -
ABB to automate iron ore plant in Sweden
ABB will supply electrification and automation equipment to Swedish iron ore producer Northland Resources' new concentrator plant.