22 December 2015 Bosch Rexroth has developed a range of synchronous servomotors which provide data on their temperature and saturation to the company’s IndraDrive controllers, allowing them to… Read More
4 March 2015 ABB is investing $30m to build a new manufacturing plant in the US that will produce low-voltage products, including circuit-breakers, soft-starters, switches and power distribution… Read More
5 January 2015 At the recent SPS IPC Drives show, ABB announced a series of enhancements for its ACS880 industrial drives, including a smartphone app that reads a… Read More
22 October 2014 The German motion control specialist, Trinamic, has developed a technology which, it claims, will cut stepper motor noise levels “significantly”. The patent-pending technology, called stealthChop,… Read More
15 July 2014 UPDATED: Australian researchers have used novel magnetic materials to design and build small motors with energy efficiencies of up to 90%, compared to 60-70% for… Read More
1 July 2014 The recovery in the Euro-zone manufacturing sector appears to be losing momentum, despite a twelfth successive month of recovery in June. According to the latest… Read More
2 April 2014 The Israeli motion control specialist Servotronix has launched a compact, high-power servodrive with a Sercos III interface, that is aimed at 15–48V DC bus servo… Read More
28 March 2014 Festo has launched a compact H-shaped gantry, which it describes as “the world’s first production, off-the-shelf handling gantry to feature kinematic technology”. The EXCM Mini… Read More
5 February 2014 The Israeli company ACS Motion Control has developed a range of switching PWM (pulse width modulation) servodrives that, it says, cost less than linear servodrives,… Read More
