Festo: Rohrbach logistics location turns 50
Festo celebrates its 50th anniversary in St. Ingbert Rohrbach with a ceremony on September 26 with around 200 invited guests and on September 29 with the employees at the site.
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Festo celebrates its 50th anniversary in St. Ingbert Rohrbach with a ceremony on September 26 with around 200 invited guests and on September 29 with the employees at the site.

Timken Company, a provider of advanced bearings and power transmission products, announced that it has completed its recently announced acquisition of Rollon Group.

With the development of the Kunststoff-Düsseldorfer-Palette (KDP), Walther Faltsysteme completes one of the largest logistics orders in its 40-year history.

... to this year's Motek, dear readers, in our August issue. What can we expect to see in Stuttgart at the beginning of October?

Data networks in factories must be fast, real-time capable and standardized, demands Oliver Riedel, Professor at the ISW at the University of Stuttgart. But there is still some homework to be done before then. As a manufacturer of cables, Lapp is prepared for the changes.

Noax has developed a logistics terminal specifically for the needs of warehouse logistics. Based on the C12 series industrial PC, the terminal is designed to meet the requirements of industrial trucks, forklift trucks and sideloaders.

As part of the "Lean Factory Roadshow", Werma Signaltechnik is inviting managing directors, production and logistics managers as well as all lean and process managers to its own production facility from October 23 to 24, 2018.
Logistics solution of the future
For the "HyperPodX" project, students from Emden/Leer University of Applied Sciences and the University of Oldenburg have developed a Hyperloop as part of a competition organized by the American company SpaceX. The drive is provided by a high-performance belt from Continental.
It affects almost every industrial company today: Without organized order picking, processes get mixed up. System electronics provider Microsyst has developed the variable pick-by-light or pick-to-light system Mipick for this purpose.

In the new adhesive material plant, Herma will in future be using a driverless heavy-duty transport system to transport raw materials, semi-finished products and finished coated adhesive material rolls. The loaded trolleys have the dimensions of a Sprinter and weigh up to five tons.