Promess has announced the opening of a new Process Development Center (PDC) and Training Center on the company’s recently expanded headquarters campus. Available to customers at minimal or no cost, depending on individual test run volume, the PDC is equipped to support process development, part testing and technology application studies. The PDC is equipped with […]
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Inertia Dynamics launches new website
Inertia Dynamics has launched a new corporate website which provides detailed information about their full line of electromagnetic clutches and brakes, spring applied brakes, wrap spring clutches and brakes, motor brakes, controls and Moment of Inertia Measurement Equipment. The website, www.inertiadynamics.com, is easy to navigate and features a link to the Inertia Dynamics product Literature […]
NTN Bearing Corporation Celebrates 50 Years in America
NTN Bearing Corporation of America is proud to reflect back on its fifty years of success in the United States, providing world-class products to a wide variety of industries. Incorporated on this day in 1963 by Shungi Iishino and “Lucky” Itoh, the Japanese-based company opened its first corporate office in Lincolnwood, IL. Now, fifty years […]
Lenze Americas Offers Free Mobile App for Calculating Drive Systems
Lenze Americas has released a packaged collection of formulas now available as a free app for smartphone, tablet and mobile PC users. An easy-to-use reference application for performing basic physical calculations, Lenze’s Formulas and Tables app provides engineers, drive manufacturers and trainers a mobile tool to design drive systems while on the go. The new […]
National Instruments Expands in Austin
Recently, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced that National Instruments (NI) plans to expand its operations in Austin by investing over $80 million and adding 1,000 technical and engineering jobs in the Austin area. The company, with sales of $1.1billion in 2012 and employing over 6,800 people worldwide, will receive some help from the state of […]
Altra Holdings in 100 Best Small Public Companies in America
Altra Holdings Inc. was recently named in Forbes Magazine’s “100 Best Small Public Companies in America”. Altra, headquartered in Braintree, Mass., made the Forbes list for the second consecutive year. With over 3,400 employees located at manufacturing and sales facilities around the world, Altra has forecasted sales of $720 to $730 million in 2012, a […]
Yaskawa Europe to Acquire Majority Shares of VIPA
The Drives & Motion Division of Yaskawa America, Inc. announces that Yaskawa Electric Corporation (“YASKAWA”) has signed an agreement between its European subsidiary, YASKAWA Europe GmbH (“YEU”) based in Eschborn, Germany, and VIPA Gesellschaft für Visualisierung und Prozessautomatisierung mbH (“VIPA”), based in Herzogenaurach, Germany, whereby YEU will acquire a majority of the shares of VIPA. […]
Kollmorgen’s Automation and Motion Solutions Catalog available
Kollmorgen has available its Automation and Motion Solutions Catalog. This comprehensive resource guide details the features, benefits and specifications of the company’s broad range of innovative motion control solutions headlined by Kollmorgen Automation Suite™, an integrated system that includes the development environment, engineering services and best-in-class automation and motion components to help OEMs create a […]
PCI/104-Express Boards available for CAN and LIN interfaces
IXXAT (www.ixxat.com) has added two new variants to its PCI-Express portfolio. Based on the PCI/104-Express standards, the PCI/104-Express boards are offered with up to four CAN interfaces and an optional switchable high- or low-speed CAN and LIN interfaces, depending on the version. The new PCI/104-Express boards were specifically designed for compact industrial computers as well […]
Motion Control News Roundup: Acquisitions
First on the radar this week in the world of motion control is some big news about company acquisitions. AMETEK announced this week that it has completed its acquisition of the parent company of Dunkermotoren GmbH, a supplier of advanced motion control systems for a wide range of industrial automation applications. Frank S. Hermance, AMETEK’s […]