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Moulding machine maker buys AMK’s automation arm
The German injection-moulding machine manufacturer Arburg has bought the drives and motors developer AMK Arnold ...
►Batch size one custom safety relays are ‘the world’s first’
►Fairbanks Morse buys motor control pioneer Ward Leonard
►Teledyne buys Flir for $8bn to expand its sensing portfolio
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Rubix adds repairer Knowlton & Newman to its portfolio
The industrial distributor Rubix UK has acquired Knowlton & Newman which provides electromechanical repair ...
►Half of UK industry feels opportunities outweigh risks
►Motor firm expands as part of $50m fuel-cell plane project
►Brexit-buying pushes UK manufacturing PMI to 37-month high
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‘Breakthrough’ robot can make decisions based on what it sees
Robotics experts at the UK’s Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Coventry have developed a flexible industria ...
►Motor material ‘could eliminate ten 1GW power plants’
►Pioneering process ‘prints’ sensors into plastic parts
►Drones and mics help to spot conveyor problems
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Vision system makes 3D inspection tasks as easy as 2D
Cognex has announced a “breakthrough” embedded vision system which, it claims, makes 3D inspections as ea ...
►Servo safety functions protect machines, people and products
►Wireless torque sensors promise ±0.1% accuracies
►Ready-to-run vision system will cut costs and save time
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SPS 2019 Show Exclusive Report
Last November’s SPS automation show in Nuremberg, Germany, was the 30th in the series and the firs ...
►Hannover Fair 2019 Exclusive Show Report
►SPS IPC Drives 2018 Exclusive Report
►Hannover Fair 2018 exclusive show report
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India's largest car-maker makes the connection
India’s biggest car-maker, Maruti Suzuki, is turning increasingly to the CC-Link open network to help it cu ...
►Automated tester puts the squeeze on tennis balls
►Robots help to give whisky barrels a new lease of life
►Etch-a-sketch artwork is up to scratch
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Scaling up to flatten the curve
Before and after Christmas, I was in discussions with DFA Media about joining its experienced editorial team ...
►EU: should we stay or should we go? A VSD repairer's view
►Keeping up with the changing face of EN safety standards
►Evolution v technology: influencing natural selection
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Servodrives can simplify functional safety
The IEC 61508 functional safety standard has made life much easier for machine-builders, as well as for ...
►Putting Industry 4.0 into Practice
►Preparing machinery for Industry 4.0 applications
►Applying the ErP Directive to motors and their protection
