Stratasys has appointed Amir Kleiner as Chief Operating Officer. He will lead the company's Global Operations, MIS and Quality teams while continuing to lead the Customer Success team.

The Kistler Group will be presenting new, modularly adaptable quality inspection and assembly solutions. There will also be customizable combinations of automation and testing solutions, precisely controllable assembly solutions for complex processes and innovations in screwdriving technology.

Control will take place in Stuttgart from April 23 to 26. The trade fair highlights all aspects in theory and presents the current range of usable technologies, processes, products and system solutions for industrial quality assurance in practice.

RS Components has expanded its RS-Pro range with the introduction of 4,000 new products. The expansion of the product range focuses on industrial automation applications.

Sensor company Sick has continued its growth trajectory in a challenging 2023 financial year: Turnover increased by 5.4 percent to 2,307 million euros.

A future ban on gasoline or diesel-powered engines and incentive systems will lead to a redirection. One consequence of this is that more and higher-quality cables will be needed. Trends and highlights from the wire, cable and tube industries will be presented at the Wire & Tube trade fairs in Düsseldorf from April 15 to 19.

Kuka met and even exceeded its ambitious targets in 2023. In addition to Group-wide incoming orders (€ 4.0 billion, 2022: € 4.5 billion), sales (€ 4.1 billion) also exceeded the four billion euro mark for the first time. EBIT also rose for the first time to € 158.2 million. At 0.99, the book-to-bill ratio was below the previous year's figure (2022: 1.14).

A jury consisting of members of the Femworx Congress Advisory Board has nominated three young female experts for the Young Engineer Woman Award. The winner will be announced on April 26 during the Femworx Career Congress.

Enersys, provider of energy storage solutions for industrial applications, has announced the launch of its Nexsys Air Wireless Charger.

The RS brand, a global provider of product and service solutions for industrial customers, has added a new indoor air quality monitor to its range.

The AMR KMP 3000P from Kuka is always ready for operation thanks to its inductive charging concept. The mobile platform can transport loads of up to 3 tons. With the KMP 3000P platform, Kuka is bringing a real heavyweight to the market in the AMR sector.

More than 300 young companies with innovative products and business models present themselves at the Hannover Messe. The aim is to bring young and established companies together.

Nowadays, the topic of sustainability covers the entire life cycle of machines and systems. The plant manufacturer IMA Schelling therefore relies, among other things, on a special modernization offer and discontinuation management.

The opening ceremony of the Zimmer Group's newest production facility in Kikvi, near Pune (India), will take place on April 16, 2024.

The Embedded Park celebrates its premiere at the Hannover Messe. From edge computing, embedded vision, software solutions, components and modules to electronic displays, the latest embedded technologies and developments will be presented there.

In 1974, Hannes W. Keller, inventor of the integrated silicon measuring cell, founded Keller Druckmesstechnik in Winterthur, Switzerland. This year, the company is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Modern laboratories have been increasingly relying on the automation of processes for years in order to make repetitive and time-consuming work steps more efficient.

The efficiency of operational workflows can be significantly increased with autonomous intralogistics solutions. An expert in production logistics offers a new, customizable cobot palletizer for this purpose.

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The automation company Pilz welcomed the President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) Siegfried Russwurm. During a tour of the family-owned company's development, test laboratories and production facilities, he emphasized how important the transfer of knowledge between the individual trades is for strengthening Germany as an industrial location.

Good cooperation pays off: The Twin4Trucks research project, in which six partners from industry and science are working together, has reached the halfway point of its project duration. The milestone has now been presented at the consortium meeting in Ludwigshafen. The tenor: the team is working on the right topics to drive forward the future of truck production.