
Controller communicates via EtherCAT
The devices in the Epos4 Compact series from Maxon Motor can now be integrated into EtherCAT networks. The new versions also comply with the CoE standard.
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The devices in the Epos4 Compact series from Maxon Motor can now be integrated into EtherCAT networks. The new versions also comply with the CoE standard.

The new industrial robot series from Mitsubishi Electric combines reduced cycle times with scalable safety functions and offers a wide range of connection options for easy integration into production systems.
With Eligopart, Attentra has developed a camera system with an autonomous setup assistant that makes it easy to implement pick & place applications without expert knowledge.

V7 is a high-resolution inkjet printing system based on piezo technology for real-time marking on moving or stationary objects with white, highly pigmented UV LED ink.

Omron integrates Microscan's automatic identification, vision and workpiece inspection solutions into its quality control and inspection product portfolio. Omron acquired Microscan in October 2017.
Baumüller sponsors the Strohm + Söhne Formula Student Team at Nuremberg Institute of Technology with financial and material donations as well as supportive cooperation. The new vehicle for the 2018 season, "NoRa 5", was used for the first time in Italy in mid-July.

If large workpieces made of steel or plastic are to be marked individually or retrospectively, mobile laser stations such as the mobile fiber laser from Bluhm are used. This workstation includes the marking unit and the controller of the e-Solarmark FL fiber laser as well as an integrated extraction system.

General Manager Central Eastern Europe
Omron Electronics, a specialist in industrial automation, has expanded the role of Dr. Klaus Kluger, who is now General Manager of the Central and Eastern Europe regions.
Students from the Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (Dare) department at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) want to recapture the European altitude record for rockets with their Stratos III on July 24. On board: a brushless DC servo motor from Faulhaber.

HMS Industrial Networks has acquired all shares in the German company Beck IPC. Beck IPC is a provider of technologies and solutions for embedded control and industrial M2M communication, including solutions for IIoT.