Bosch Rexroth is investing in the expansion of its factory automation business and has agreed to acquire the motion control specialist Elmo Motion Control from Israel. Elmo develops and produces electric servo drives and drive controls for industrial automation.
Bosch Rexroth is expanding its portfolio of linear robots for a wide range of factory automation applications with new axis combinations and sizes.
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Which drive technology is the right one for my transportation task? How high should the repeat accuracy be and what does the travel profile look like? Automation systems usually have to meet complex requirements. These can be easily defined and fulfilled with the Item MotionDesigner.
Sean Walters has been responsible for Captron North America LP as General Manager North America since August.
From product to solution provider
Customers are not looking for products, but for solutions to their problems. For companies, this means that they have to transform themselves from product providers to solution providers. Science divides this path into five evolutionary stages, whereby many companies have already left the first stage of pure manufacturer behind them.
ABB invests in Scalable Robotics
ABB is entering into a strategic partnership with US start-up Scalable Robotics to expand its range of robotic welding solutions.
The basic prerequisite for modern production is a comprehensive WLAN that is always available. Bechtle uses a central monitoring system for its customers to detect and rectify performance drops or failures of individual components in good time.
AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement
The AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement surveyed its approximately 450 members on economic developments in the second quarter.
The digital flow switch of the PF3A8#H series from SMC fulfills a wide range of requirements.
From the on-demand production of AM powders and degradable implants to robot-based post-processing: the international Formnext Start-up Challenge has recognized young companies from the world of additive manufacturing for their developments.
Together with the Chair of Production Systems (LPS), Schmöle is developing a new process for manufacturing spiral finned tubes for heat exchangers. In addition to an ergonomic improvement for the employees, the manufacturing process is to become more flexible, allowing the heat exchangers to be adapted more individually to their later place of use.
Three-point internal rapid action switch
Feinmess Suhl has expanded its product range with the new 8480 three-point internal rapid probe. The probe has been specially developed for high-precision internal measurement of through and blind bores.
Ger4tech has developed the Mobile Cobot G4T4, the first autonomous mobile robot with a 6-axis robot designed specifically for manufacturing.
3D printing is a manufacturing technology that offers unprecedented flexibility for the geometric design of components and significantly shortens delivery times. Additive manufacturing also offers far-reaching possibilities in the area of fastening solutions.
WeAssist from Werma is a cross-industry plug & play solution for the comprehensive and permanent monitoring of all production and logistics processes.
Acoustic inline quality control
Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme has developed a new technology for in-process quality control in machining under the name SonicShark.
6505 visitors and 378 exhibitors attended the machine vision trade fair in Stuttgart.
Cameras are now often more than just providers of images - they can recognize objects, generate results or trigger subsequent processes. IDS demonstrated the possibilities offered by modern camera technology at Vision.
In the world of Industrial IoT, the term digital twin is on everyone's lips. Dunkermotoren is working intensively on this topic in order to be able to offer its customers added value through its digital twin.
