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Pilz has once again expanded its Smart Factory and is demonstrating Industry 4.0 in practical application: Thanks to decentralized control intelligence, mobile service robotics, intelligent diagnostics and visualization as well as cloud connectivity, various products can be manufactured in batch size 1.
read more...Pilz presents components and complete solutions for sensor applications at SPS IPC Drives. The PSENopt II light curtains for body protection will be making their debut.
read more...SEW-Eurodrive presents a new modular system for precision planetary servo gear units. Its drives are variably selected to meet demanding customer requirements in terms of installation space, capacity utilization and configurability.
read more...Combination of shaft and cycloidal gears
Sumitomo Cyclo Drive Germany is launching E-Cyclo, a newly designed family of particularly compact gearboxes that are ideal for high-precision applications such as handling robots and collaborative robots (cobots).
read more...The importance of drive technology is growing even more due to automotive technology. The basic structure of the individual drive consists of an energy subsystem and information processing.
read more...The RV-2800N is the world's largest and most robust precision gearbox. The compact solid shaft gearbox with a nominal torque of 28,000 Nm and acceleration and braking torques of 70,000 Nm.
read more...At the end of October, Wibu-Systems opened its subsidiary Wibu-Systems K.K. in Tokyo. The new company complements the existing subsidiaries in Europe, the USA and China.
read more...Zalando is currently testing how robotics can be used intelligently in logistics. Two robots from Magazino are being tested in Erfurt and are helping to store and pick goods.
read more...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.
read more...Vision Components offers 3D laser sensors with integrated electronics. The embedded vision systems in the VCnano3D-Z series use a Zynq SoC from Xilinx, which combines a dual-core ARM processor with an FPGA to calculate the point cloud.
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