Lafert North America, a manufacturer of metric AC Motors, metric gearboxes and coolant pumps, has appointed Joel Fernandes and Jesse Sagoo to new positions. Joel Fernandes will fill the role of sales representative. Fernandes brings 9 years of sales experience to Lafert with time spent in the construction and power distribution industry. A graduate of the University […]
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Motion Trends: Drives benefit from more connectivity, integration
Some of the leading drive manufacturers tell us what trends they’re seeing in the industries they serve and what is new and coming down the road. What new design trends are you seeing in areas such as robotics, battery powered designs, automated vehicles, and safety in motion control designs? Tom Jensen SVP/General Manager AMK Automation […]
Motion Trends: Customized solutions drive gearmotor development
The driving force in gearmotor design and development in large part is the desire for customized solutions, which consists in large part of simplifying integration into mechanical designs. These trends are driving gearmotor manufacturers to offer their customers more simplicity. Along these lines, suppliers are offering their customers more in-house engineering resources to help them […]
Kuebler Sendix S36 motor-feedback encoders win first place SPS IPC Drives Automation Award
Kuebler recently won the first place Automation Award for its new Sendix S36 motor feedback encoders — getting 31.9% of all SPS IPC Drives show-visitor votes. The Automation Award is a leading prize in the international automation industry and is presented annually at the SPS IPC Drives trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany. Five products are […]
Dorner appoints new sales manager for Indiana
Scott Volk has been appointed Territory Sales Manager covering Indiana for Dorner Mfg. Corp. Volk will be working with sales channel partners and key accounts to grow the company’s industrial and sanitary conveyor business throughout the state. Volk comes to Dorner with more than 10 years of territory sales experience in automation, fluid power, and safety […]
Fortive selling Portescap, Kollmorgen, and Thomson to Altra Industrial Motion
Fortive Corp. — a 2016 spinoff of Danaher — has agreed to combine four operating companies from its Automation & Specialty platform (A&S platform) with Altra Industrial Motion Corp. to form a global leader in the power transmission and motion control market. The A&S business includes the market-leading brands of Kollmorgen, Thomson, Portescap, and Jacobs […]
Duravant acquires QC Industries
Engineered equipment leader Duravant expands material handling product offerings in North America with QC Industries acquisition. Duravant, a global engineered equipment manufacturer serving the food processing, packaging, and material handling sectors, announced it has acquired QC Industries, a conveyor systems manufacturer headquartered in Cincinnati, OH. The investment extends Duravant’s material handling product portfolio with in-process […]
Wireless condition monitoring prevents unplanned downtime with machine learning
Banner Engineering, a leading provider of technology for industrial automation, announces its wireless condition monitoring solution with machine learning for more intuitive predictive maintenance. The QM42VT wireless vibration monitoring sensor from Banner continuously measures RMS velocity, high frequency RMS acceleration, and temperature. This enables the sensor to identify machine problems before they become severe and […]
New autoclavable BLDC motor controller from Portescap
Portescap now sells an autoclavable Brushless DC motor controller — the CNT1530 — for driving large bone orthopedic handpiece motors. The controller leverages Portescap’s market leading autoclavable design capability and surgical application expertise to provide a reliable, customizable setup to the orthopedic market. This new controller will help improve surgical hand tool’s performance and reliability, […]
Distributor insight: Conversation with Warren Osak on motion-control trends
In a recent phone interview, we got to chat with Warren Osak, CEO of Toronto-based Electromate Inc. — a distributor founded in 1986 that focuses on electromechanical motion control. More specifically, Osak’s company sells primarily servo systems and stepper systems — often for demanding or challenging applications requiring high precision, accuracy, and bi-directional repeatability. Electromate […]