Elevator drives eliminate the need for contactors
19 January 2024 The Brazilian motors and drives manufacturer WEG has announced a new series of lift drives that, it says, “redefine elevator technology”. The ADL500 drives use… Read More
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Siemens simplifies motion engineering to tackle skills crisis
18 November 2023 At the recent SPS exhibition in Germany Siemens announced several software and hardware developments designed to make motion programming easier and thus to tackle the… Read More
Family of six-axis cobots can handle payloads up to 18kg
9 August 2023 Schneider Electric has launched a family of collaborative robots (cobots) in five sizes, with payloads from 3–18kg, working radii from 626–1,327mm, operating speeds from 1.5–3.5m/s,… Read More
‘First’ NFC encoder avoids the need for set-up cables
12 June 2023 The German encoder-maker Wachnendorff has developed what it claims is the world’s first incremental encoder that can be configured wirelessly from a smartphone using NFC… Read More
AI navigation ‘transforms’ the performance of AMRs
2 May 2023 ABB Robotics says it has transformed its AMRs (autonomous mobile robots) by adding a technology that allows them to make intelligent navigation decisions in challenging… Read More
‘Digital reality’ helps to solve production problems
2 March 2023 The UK-based Manufacturing Intelligence division of the Swedish Hexagon group has launched a “digital reality” platform that uses cloud technologies, co-engineered with Microsoft, to unblock… Read More
Chainless drive gives a novel spin to e-cargo bikes
1 March 2023 Schaeffler has partnered with the German drive specialist Heinzmann to develop a chainless electric drive system for cargo and utility bikes that achieves efficient power… Read More
Vision sensors identify objects without experts
21 November 2022 The German sensor-maker SensoPart has developed an image-processing system which, it says, can detect and differentiate items reliably without users needing to be machine vision… Read More
UK manufacturers battle with the City to attract digital skills
26 September 2022 UK manufacturers are having to compete with the financial sector and other high-paying parts of the economy to recruit the data specialists that they need… Read More
New ballscrew technology could double service lives
28 July 2022 NSK has developed a ballscrew technology that, it claims, can double service lives compared to standard ballscrews in some applications. The new ballscrews are aimed,… Read More
