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Digitization is the focus at Item. The Solingen-based company has once again expanded its Motiondesigner selection and design software. This online tool now enables the reliable calculation of cantilever axes.
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Digitization is the focus at Item. The Solingen-based company has once again expanded its Motiondesigner selection and design software. This online tool now enables the reliable calculation of cantilever axes.

Dunkermotoren responded to the rail industry's call for an efficient gearbox technology that could meet the relevant service life requirements with the KG 90. This gearbox solution with a right-angled output is now also available for other applications.
Serbian mechanical engineering company Mashtronics develops and manufactures systems for the automated processing of wires. For a new machine for the production of reinforcing steel mesh, the company was looking for drive and control technology components that meet equally high standards of precision, quality and throughput.
Together with Mecklenburger Metallguss, the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Large Structures in Production Engineering IGP has developed a large-volume 3D printer that can be used to generatively produce positive molds for casting ship propellers.

At this year's AMB, Okuma presented the new Genos M460V-5AX, a beginner-friendly 5-axis machining center, for the first time in Germany.

Technical center rooms expanded
Viscotec has purchased a new Kuka robot for its Customer & Innovation Center (CIC), which opened in September 2017. It complements the pilot plant rooms for precise customer trials.

Electric actuators for automation
IAI Industrieroboter presents a new product generation of servo presses. They are based on the company's electric push rod axes.
New Scara generation. In June, Omron presented its new range of Scara robots to a wide audience for the first time. The i4 is characterized by its speed, precision and range of functions.

Seven-axis cobots. Robotics engineer Kristian Kassow and his two partners are an experienced founding team behind the start-up Kassow Robots, which was founded in Copenhagen in 2014.
Stratasys is showcasing new additive manufacturing solutions at Formnext to drive transformation in design and manufacturing workflows, including new material and application developments.