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With the Roby-servostop series, Mayr Antriebstechnik has small, powerful safety brakes in its range. With their compact design and low weight, they are tailored to the requirements of robotics.
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With the Roby-servostop series, Mayr Antriebstechnik has small, powerful safety brakes in its range. With their compact design and low weight, they are tailored to the requirements of robotics.
Today, microdrives achieve remarkable things in a wide variety of applications, and not just in industrial applications. In the kinetic sculpture "Project Anthozoa", which imitates the movement patterns of invertebrate flower animals, many small linear DC servomotors ensure fluid, dynamic and therefore lifelike movements.
Drive specialist realigns itself
Drive specialist Maxon Motor is transforming itself into an international group, which leads to several changes in management. At the same time, the Swiss headquarters is given its own local management.

With a customized chain instead of a standard solution, the total cost of ownership (TCO) can often be reduced, according to Tsubaki. The engineers are constantly developing the portfolio of their standard chains in order to keep up with the latest developments.

Ball screw drives play an important role in drive technology; the main area of application is machine tools, such as machining centers, on which workpiece or tool carriers are to be positioned.

At the Hannover Messe, SEW is using the assembly of the e.GO electric vehicle as an example to show how flexible automobile production will be in the future.

Wittenstein presents the smart gearboxes with "cynapse" for the first time. They have an integrated sensor module that enables Industry 4.0 connectivity. The innovation is initially available for the alpha Premium Line gearboxes, Wittenstein announced.

On February 25, 2019, Volker Waller took over responsibility for Framo Morat's operating business as the new Managing Director Operations.

The new products that drive technology company Maxon Motor will be presenting to visitors at the Hannover Messe include power-boosted flat motors, a new line of modular industrial drives and DC motors and right-angle gearboxes from Parvalux, the newest member of the Maxon Group.

At the Hannover Messe, Mayr Antriebstechnik is presenting new versions of the intelligent Roba-brake-checker module, which can monitor and supply safety brakes without sensors.