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
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
‘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
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
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
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
Scaling up to flatten the curve
Before and after Christmas, I was in discussions with DFA Media about joining its experienced editorial team ...
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►Keeping up with the changing face of EN safety standards
►Evolution v technology: influencing natural selection
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