Industrialists embrace metaverse, with UK as a leader
14 June 2023 The world’s technological companies are embracing the industrial metaverse with more than half (58%) of them saying they have already deployed or piloted at least… Read More
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Servomotors talk via wireless IO-Link rather than cables
3 May 2023 The Italian motor manufacturer Siboni has developed a range of servomotors that use wireless IO-Link links to controllers instead of conventional cable connections. The high-speed,… Read More
Users access cloud-based HMI platform via Web browsers
3 April 2023 Rockwell Automation has announced a new addition to its visualisation portfolio – a cloud-enabled HMI (human-machine interface) platform that allows users to design, test and… Read More
Microsoft and Nvidia deliver industrial metaverse via cloud
3 April 2023 Microsoft and Nvidia are collaborating to offer “hundreds of millions” of Microsoft enterprise users access to the industrial metaverse and to AI supercomputing resources via… Read More
Drives cut harmonics by 97% without needing chokes
3 April 2023 Siemens has announced a high-performance frequency converter equipped with a “clean power technology” that cuts harmonics by up to 97% without needing line harmonic chokes… Read More
UK-developed 400kW motor is ‘most power-dense’ of its type
2 March 2023 The UK powertrain developer, Equipmake, has unveiled an ultra-lightweight electric motor which, it claims, is the most power-dense of its type in the world. The… Read More
‘First force-controlled parallel robot’ senses forces down to 0.1N
14 February 2023 A Chinese robot developer has announced what it describes as “the world’s first force-controlled parallel robot”. Shanghai-based Flexiv says that its Moonlight robot will be… Read More
Kits provide a ‘recipe box’ for machine-builders
7 February 2023 SEW-Eurodrive is offering kits of parts for quick and easy implementation of machines for picking, sorting and handling materials, as well for palletising and gantry… Read More
‘First’ IO-Link smart incremental encoder opens up applications
6 February 2023 Baumer claims to be offering the first bearing-free, smart incremental encoder that supports IO-Link. It predicts that the EB200E encoder will open up new applications… Read More
World’s smallest servodrives get even smaller
3 February 2023 Just months after claiming to have set a new world record for the smallest servodrive, the Spanish developer Ingenia has produced an even smaller device… Read More
