Fanuc’s £19m HQ brings UK activities under one roof
22 May 2017 Fanuc has brought all of its UK activities – robotics, machine tools and factory automation – together in a purpose-built headquarters in Coventry which has… Read More
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‘New approach to automation’ uses robots to control cells
9 February 2017 Rethink Robotics, the US company behind the Baxter and Sawyer collaborative robots, has developed a new software platform that, it says, can co-ordinate an entire… Read More
Italy’s ESA Automation buys drive-maker Selema
31 January 2017 Italy’s ESA Automation has acquired the drives-maker Selema for an undisclosed sum. Selema, founded in 1978 and based near Bologna, produces drives with current ratings… Read More
Industrial automation market ‘will exceed $250bn by 2024’
4 January 2017 A new report from Transparency Market Research predicts that the global market for industrial automation equipment will expand from $183bn in 2015 to reach $352bn… Read More
ABB buys Swedish robotic machine-tending specialist
10 May 2016 ABB has bought SVIA, a Swedish company that specialises in systems for automated machine-tending, using robots to feed components to lathes and mills, and to… Read More
Drive-on-a-chip is first to support digital and analogue sensors
22 November 2015 Texas Instruments (TI) claims to have developed the first drive control system-on-a-chip (SoC) that supports both analogue and digital position sensors. It says that its… Read More
System senses expansion inside machine tool spindles
23 February 2015 The German sensor manufacturer Micro-Epsilon has developed a displacement measurement system for that is small enough to fit inside the spindle of high-speed milling and… Read More
Automation suite helps to program multi-axis projects
22 December 2014 The German drives specialist Stober has unveiled a software tool for programming multi-axis applications using its MC6 motion controller. The AS6 Automation Control Suite is… Read More
Rebounding motion control market heads for a new peak
17 December 2014 After declining for two years, global revenues from motion-control products have bounced back, growing by more than 6% in 2014 to reach $12.2bn, according to… Read More
24-core industrial PC is ‘world’s most powerful PLC’
1 December 2014 At the SPS IPC Drives show in Germany, the automation manufacturer Beckhoff has unveiled a 24-core industrial server which it describes as the world’s most… Read More
