Water-cooled servomotors triple standstill torque
26 February 2024 At the 2023 SPS show in Germany,, Beckhoff announced several new motor developments. For example, there was a series of modular servomotors with integrated water… Read More
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Old Rockwell had a hydroponic farm at its US headquarters
25 August 2023 Rockwell Automation has announced plans build an automated, indoor 7,300ft2 (6,780m2) hydroponic vertical farm at its US headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by the summer of… Read More
Compact water-cooled motors deliver IE5 efficiencies
7 February 2023 ABB has announced a new generation of low-maintenance, water-cooled motors that achieve IE5 efficiencies and are claimed to have power densities that are 50% higher… Read More
ICS vulnerabilities soared by ‘staggering’ 41% in early 2021
19 August 2021 The number of vulnerabilities discovered in industrial control systems (ICSs) hit a “staggering” level in the first half of 2021, with 637 new vulnerabilities being… Read More
Water-cooled motors deliver 40% more power than TEFC
30 June 2020 ABB has announced a pair of water-cooled motors that, it says, will deliver an average of 40% more power than fan-cooled designs. The constant cooling… Read More
Igus invests £4m in pioneering UK recycling plant
3 February 2020 The German engineering plastics specialist igus has invested £4m in a company that is building a first-of-its-kind plant in Cheshire, UK, that will recycle plastic… Read More
Now, a bionic cuttlefish takes to the water
18 June 2018 Just two months after it unveiled bionic spiders and fruit bats at the Hannover Fair, Festo has come up with another one of its mechatronic… Read More
Water-based gearbox lubricant is ‘the world’s first’
26 March 2018 Last year, the German lubricant specialist Klüber Lubrication announced that it had developed a water-based lubricant that, it predicted, could revolutionise the future of lubrication,… Read More
2MW aluminium-rotor LV motor ‘weighs 1,000kg less’
13 November 2017 ABB has developed its most powerful low-voltage motor to date – a water-cooled machine in a compact 500 frame size, that can deliver up to… Read More
Is your lubricant running low? Just add water
19 October 2017 The German lubrication specialist, Klüber Lubrication, has developed a water-based lubricant which, it predicts, could revolutionise the future of specialty lubricants. Its Hydro Lubricant technology… Read More
