First bearings with bioplastic cages cut emissions by 91%
21 April 2022 NSK has announced what it claims are the world’s first rolling bearings to have cages made of a bioplastic material derived from renewable biomass sources… Read More
28 Aug 2026
|
AUTOMATION FOR MANUFACTURING
conventional
21 April 2022 
Electrostatic motors ‘will outperform magnetic machines’
12 March 2021 The US engineering innovation company Draper is developing a family of electric motors that operate on fundamentally different principles from conventional motors. It says that… Read More
Trough-free e-chain replaces busbars and slashes build times
7 May 2020 The German engineering plastics giant igus has come up with a new design of energy chain that does not need a guide trough, and is… Read More
Nema hazardous area motors ‘deliver 15% more power’
22 August 2019 ABB has announced a range of large Nema-frame AC motors for hazardous area applications which, it says, deliver an average of 15% more power than… Read More
Deep-learning machine vision opens up new possibilities
4 February 2019 The emergence of machine vision technologies that use “deep learning” is expanding manufacturers’ capabilities and flexibility, leading to greater cost efficiencies and higher production yields,… Read More
NFC-based time relay is ’50 times more accurate’
29 January 2019 At the recent SPS IPC Drives show in Germany, Schneider Electric announced the “first” time relay with built-in NFC (near-field communications), allowing it to be… Read More
Novel Hall sensor chip will ‘transform’ brushless DC motors
26 October 2018 A Japanese chip-maker has developed a magnetic sensor IC (integrated circuit) that it predicts will “transform” the development, manufacture and performance of brushless DC motors. Read More
‘World’s first’ 3D-printed motor can run at high temperatures
9 May 2018 German researchers claim to have 3D-printed an entire electric motor for the first time. The researchers, from the Chemnitz University of Technology, demonstrated their machine… Read More
Planetary motor-gearbox could raise power density by 50%
27 June 2017 Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have developed a novel motor with an integrated gearbox. Instead of a single rotor, four mechanically… Read More
AI machine control algorithm slashes set-up times
24 May 2017 Mitsubishi Electric has announced a deep-reinforcement algorithm for artificial-intelligence (AI) based control of machinery that, it says, needs just one-fiftieth of the number of trials… Read More
