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Novanta buys Schneider Electric Motion for $115m
Novanta, the US-based industrial conglomerate whose businesses include Celera Motion and ATI Industrial Automation, ...
►$1.6bn start-up’s software will ‘liberate’ manufacturers
►Automation firm founder becomes Japan’s richest man
►Aerotech sets up precision metrology offshoot
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Schneider’s first UK smart factory pays for itself in under a year
Schneider Electric has invested £300,000 in its plant in Flint, North Wales, upgrading it to become its firs ...
►Belfast digital testbed will boost smart manufacturing
►Advanced Engineering show returns to NEC after two years
►UK could create 1.2m green manufacturing and construction jobs
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30-tonne rack-and-pinion is ‘world’s most powerful’
A Swedish manufacturer has developed what it claims will be the world’s most powerful rack-and-pinion drive ...
►Speckle-free laser doubles 3D image processing speeds
►Industrial edge 'first' will accelerate journey to I 4.0
►UK coil-winding tech ‘could transform motor production’
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Multi-carrier digital twins will speed machinery set-ups
Schneider Electric has announced a multi-carrier system for transporting, grouping and positioning products ...
►I/O module is first based on Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip
►Long-life plastic bearings avoid risks of explosions
►Coupling tackles misalignments and dampens vibrations
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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
►SPS IPC Drives 2018 Exclusive Report
►Hannover Fair 2018 exclusive show report
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Safety upgrade safeguards wet-wipe production
The soaring demand for hygienic products for use in the fight against Covid-19 means that machine utilisation ...
►India's largest car-maker makes the connection
►Automated tester puts the squeeze on tennis balls
►Robots help to give whisky barrels a new lease of life
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Scaling up to flatten the curve
Before and after Christmas, I was in discussions with DFA Media about joining its experienced editorial team ...
►EU: should we stay or should we go? A VSD repairer's view
►Keeping up with the changing face of EN safety standards
►Evolution v technology: influencing natural selection
