UK developer of rare-earth-free motors wins £23m of funding
21 November 2023 The British electric motor developer Advanced Electric Machines (AEM) has secured £23m of new investment which it will use to scale up production, establish a… Read More
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SKF and Amazon join forces to ‘re-invent’ machine reliability
28 April 2022 SKF and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced a collaboration to “re-invent” the field of industrial machine reliability and predictive maintenance. They plan to deliver… Read More
UK manufacturers want more support to help SMEs to grow
6 December 2021 Britain’s manufacturers are calling on the Government to improve access to funding for small and medium-sized firms to help them to boost their productivity and… Read More
SIL 3 safety controller will cut costs and boost productivity
20 July 2020 Rockwell Automation has expanded its family of safety controllers by adding a new device that brings the performance and cost-saving benefits of its Allen-Bradley Compact… Read More
Production transport system carries five times more load
9 August 2019 Rockwell Automation has upgraded its MagneMover Lite production transport system, allowing it to move heavier products and support larger-scale applications. The system, which uses independent… Read More
Controller is ‘first’ to bridge gap between DCS and PLC systems
14 September 2017 Emerson has launched an industrial controller which, it claims, is the first to bridge small and large control applications, allowing manufacturers to scale its use… Read More
Linear motor is ‘first with non-analogue magnetic encoder’
19 January 2016 The Japanese precision motor manufacturer Nippon Pulse has collaborated with the German encoder-maker Siko to produce what they claim is the first linear motor to… Read More
US awards $22m to support next-generation motors
23 September 2015 The US Energy Department is awarding $22m in funding to five projects aimed at merging wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor technologies, such as silicon carbide (SiC), with… Read More
US acquisition expands Yaskawa’s PV inverter business
18 July 2014 The Japanese inverter and robotics manufacturer Yaskawa Electric has expanded into the US solar energy market by buying the photovoltaic (PV) inverter manufacturer, Solectria Renewables. Read More
Linear axes have integrated inductive measuring system
16 April 2014 The German bearing manufacturer Schaeffler has developed an integrated system for measuring the travel of linear axes in machine tools and other precision machinery. The… Read More
