travel

First motor-driven energy-chain can travel more than 1km

13 July 2022

Igus claims to have produced the world’s first driven energy chain, almost eliminating limits on travel distances, which can stretch to well over 1km. The… Read More

Remote maintenance gateway cuts the need to travel to sites

26 January 2022

Omron has announced a DIN-rail-mounting industrial gateway that can be installed in control panels to provide remote access for real-time servicing of industrial equipment without… Read More

Automatica show will become a ‘compact’ event in mid-2021

29 September 2020

Automatica, the German robotics and automation exhibition, originally due to take place in June this year, before being rescheduled to December, will now become “a… Read More

Levitating transport systems could be ‘a motion revolution’

19 December 2018

A revolution in production machinery design in which components float between workstations on magnetically levitated movers was unveiled at the recent SPS IPC Drives exhibition… Read More

‘World’s fastest’ elevator will hit speeds of 73.8km/h

11 May 2016

Mitsubishi Electric claims to have developed the world’s fastest elevator. It has designed and built a system that will travel from the basement to the… Read More

Light curtains detect direction of travel without sensors

1 December 2015

The Austrian automation specialist B&R has joined forces with the Italian sensor-maker Datalogic to develop a safety light curtain that can sense the direction in… Read More

Electrical cylinder ‘combines the best of hydraulics and electronics’

7 October 2013

Parker Hannifin has announced an “electro thrust cylinder” which, it says, combines the advantages of hydraulics and electronics, and can deliver thrust forces of up… Read More

Carbon fibre rope heralds the 1km elevator ride

25 June 2013

The Finnish elevator manufacturer Kone has developed a lightweight carbon-fibre-based lifting rope that will allow elevators to travel through heights of up to 1km –… Read More