POSITAL has launched its new WebShop for buyers of encoders, inclinometers, linear position sensors and related accessories. This service complements the company’s Product Finder portal enabling customers to explore POSITAL’s wide range of product options and to purchase products online. For more than 15 years, POSITAL’s ‘mass customization’ production processes have been at the core […]
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Celera Motion debuts ultra-small servo drives
Celera Motion’s new Denali Series are compact, ultra-fast servo drives designed for a variety of service robots, surgical robots, industrial grippers and lab automation applications. Denali is the latest addition to Celera Motion’s line of premium-performance Ingenia servo drives. “Robotics is a very competitive market, evolving rapidly and requiring best-in-class servo drive technology,” said Marc […]
Wiegand energy harvester enables new IoT technologies
UBITO, a member of the FRABA family of technology companies, has announced a development of Wiegand technology as an energy source for smart sensors. After more than two years of effort at FRABA’s R&D center in Aachen (Germany), a research team has demonstrated a prototype of a wireless sensor powered by Wiegand technology that could […]
Physik Instrumente acquires IBS Ingenieurbüro
At the start of 2023, Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG merged 53 engineers, software experts, and other specialists from the insolvent IBS Ingenieurbüro Dr. Klaus Schnürer GmbH to establish a new subsidiary within the PI Group. “PI’s engineering capacity will immediately increase by approx. 55,000 hours per year,” estimates Markus Spanner, CEO of […]
Heidenhain to exhibit at Photonics West
Heidenhain will be exhibiting at Photonics West, Booth #3053, from January 28 to February 2 in San Francisco. Heidenhain will showcase the latest Multi Degrees-of-Freedom (Multi-DOF) motion control components, offering manufacturers a better way to implement metrology designs. Photonics West is the world’s premier lasers, biomedical optics, and optoelectronics event. With Heidenhain’s recent release of […]
Bosch Rexroth opens new factory automation customer innovation center
Bosch Rexroth has opened a new customer innovation center near Austin, Texas. The facility will provide a unique technology development experience for Bosch Rexroth factory automation customers from multiple industry segments, including electric vehicle manufacturing, battery production, consumer packaged goods, and semiconductor manufacturing. The new innovation center is the latest in a series of expansions […]
Digital event to showcase HEIDENHAIN automation solutions
Running Nov. 28 through Dec. 16, 2022, HEIDENHAIN will host a worldwide digital event to view the latest automation drive system components from six of its brands as debuted at the recent international SPS trade show in Nuremburg, Germany. There will be opportunities to join online with appointments available for North Americans over four days (December […]
New VFDs from IDEC provide flexible motor control, energy savings
IDEC Corporation now offers a new line of VF1A Doesa variable frequency drives (VFDs), providing versatile control and efficient operation of electrical motors for a wide range of applications. IDEC VF1A Doesa VFDs are suitable for speed control of variable and constant torque applications ranging from fans and pumps to specialized equipment. The VFD is […]
Yaskawa America to introduce i3 Control at Pack Expo
Yaskawa America, Inc. will introduce i3 Control (“iCube” Control), their new single control technology, during Pack Expo 2022. Pack Expo is the biggest packaging and processing show in North America. Yaskawa will be exhibiting at booth #S-2776. iCube Control debuted in the European market earlier this year and is now being introduced in North America. […]
Celera Motion debuts new smaller, faster servo drive
Celera Motion, a business unit of Novanta Inc., announces the new Everest S, the latest addition to the company’s Everest Series, which is about 30% smaller than its predecessor. The EtherCAT and CANopen versions deliver bus latency reduced to 1 cycle. The Everest S includes all the best features of other Everest servo drives — […]
