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At the end of October 2017, LAS Lean Assembly Systems in Lorch-Weitmars, Swabia, took over Eccard Engineering from Kernen-Stetten. This means that the company can now manufacture key feeding technology components in-house.
read more...Two all-about-automation trade fairs are scheduled for the beginning of 2018: on January 24 and 25 in Hamburg and on March 7 and 8 in Friedrichshafen.
read more...Future investments, awards and new business models - the Bielefeld-based family business Boge can look back on a year full of highlights. One highlight of the year was the opening of the Smart Factory at the headquarters in Bielefeld.
read more...Tetsuya Horimoto is the new Managing Director
Tetsuya Horimoto is Managing Director of the newly founded Schmersal Japan KK, an independent subsidiary of the Schmersal Group.
read more...Following the takeover of the Laupheim-based plastics processor Fischer Kunststoff Präzision by the Röchling Group, the company now operates under the name Röchling Industrial Laupheim GmbH.
read more...Robotics specialist German Bionic Systems has presented an exoskeleton that is now going into series production and supports manual handling tasks. By making physical work easier, it helps to protect employees' health on the one hand and increase productivity on the other.
read more...Retrofit of a cab conveyor system. John Deere commissioned a new cab conveyor system for the production of its tractors at the Mannheim plant. Together with SEW-Eurodrive, a pioneering concept was successfully implemented.
read more...At SPS IPC Drives 2017 in Nuremberg, Lapp presented its own switches for Ethernet networks under the name Etherline@ Access.
read more...These trends will change the manufacturing industry in 2018: the Internet of Things and 3D printing are coming of age, while services are increasingly becoming a revenue driver. According to IFS, these three developments will shape the manufacturing industry in 2018...
read more...Together with system partner Klocke Engineering, Yaskawa is presenting a new training cell and a modular robot cell for palletizing workpieces on CNC machining centers at Nortec.
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