Batch size one bespoke safety relays are ‘the world’s first’
The German machine safety specialist Pilz has developed a technology that allows users to configure and order ...
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►Teledyne buys Flir for $8bn to expand its sensing portfolio
►Yaskawa invests $4m in GaN firm to boost next-gen drives
Rubix adds repairer Knowlton & Newman to its portfolio
The industrial distributor Rubix UK has acquired Knowlton & Newman which provides electromechanical repair ...
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►Motor firm expands as part of $50m fuel-cell plane project
►Brexit-buying pushes UK manufacturing PMI to 37-month high
Motor material ‘could eliminate ten 1GW power plants’
Researchers at Toshiba in Japan have developed a new magnetic material that, they say, will deliver major improvements ...
►Pioneering process ‘prints’ sensors into plastic parts
►Drones and mics help to spot conveyor problems
►Edge app makes drives smarter and spots anomalies
Servo safety functions protect machines, people and products
Omron has launched a series of AC servomotors and drives with built-in safety functions that can help to avoid ...
►Wireless torque sensors promise ±0.1% accuracies
►Ready-to-run vision system will cut costs and save time
►$999 condition-monitoring kit uses Wi-Fi
SPS 2019 Show Exclusive Report
Last November’s SPS automation show in Nuremberg, Germany, was the 30th in the series and the firs ...
►Hannover Fair 2019 Exclusive Show Report
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►Hannover Fair 2018 exclusive show report
India's largest car-maker makes the connection
India’s biggest car-maker, Maruti Suzuki, is turning increasingly to the CC-Link open network to help it cu ...
►Automated tester puts the squeeze on tennis balls
►Robots help to give whisky barrels a new lease of life
►Etch-a-sketch artwork is up to scratch
Scaling up to flatten the curve
Before and after Christmas, I was in discussions with DFA Media about joining its experienced editorial team ...
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►Keeping up with the changing face of EN safety standards
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Servodrives can simplify functional safety
The IEC 61508 functional safety standard has made life much easier for machine-builders, as well as for ...
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►Preparing machinery for Industry 4.0 applications
►Applying the ErP Directive to motors and their protection