18 January 2022 Innovate UK has announced a £4.5m competition aimed at developing skills, talent and training in the UK’s power electronics, machines and drives (PEMD) sector. The competition,… Read More
16 August 2021 Rockwell Automation has announced a medium-voltage drive which, it claims, delivers industry-leading performance in about half the space. The PowerFlex 6000T drive accepts primary voltages… Read More
24 February 2021 ABB has extended its portfolio of collaborative robots (cobots) with two new easy-to-program six-axis models which, it claims, set new benchmarks and are up to… Read More
7 December 2020 A collaborative project aimed at developing a supply chain to manufacture an innovative electric motor in the UK is one of 21 projects that will… Read More
14 May 2020 The German PLC-maker Barth Elektronik has joined forces with RS Components to develop a simple self-build project to help implement social distancing. Their People Counter… Read More
22 December 2017 Nidec Control Techniques used the recent SPS IPC Drives show in Germany to preview a new generation of modular servodrives which, it claims, are the… Read More
27 November 2015 Schneider Electric announced a new generation of variable-speed drives aimed at machine-builders, at the SPS IPC Drives exhibition in Germany. The bookshelf-format Altivar 320 and… Read More
22 December 2014 Festo has developed a hand-like flexible gripping system that uses opposable “thumbs” to adapt to a variety of objects. The MultiChoiceGripper, aimed at robotic and… Read More
