Motion System Design News
Worldwide machinery production sees record year in 2011
2011 goes in the books as a record-breaking year for worldwide machinery production with overall growth at 10.2%, according to market analysis firm IMS...
Meet Robert Lindeman, 2012 ISA President
Tell us about your educational background. I grew up in Orange, California, and attended public elementary through high school there. I graduated from...
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ONLINE MOTOR MATCH Just a mouseclick away is a full-service engineering department and tools to create fractional horsepower electric motors, custom gearmotors,...
Prototyping holds promise at Pacific Design
When it comes to advanced design software, CAD programs such as ProEngineer, Inventor, SolidWorks, CATIA, Solid Edge, and others are the gold standard....
New alloy suits MEMS devices
A multi-institution team of researchers, spearheaded by a group at the University of Maryland, is combining new materials research with an old metallurgy...
New eBook series available for free download
Hello, dear reader! Did you know that there are now seven eBooks available for free from the homepage of motionsystemdesign.com and that more of these...
element14 Innovation Series
An element14 Innovation Series virtual event will take place Jan. 16 and 17....
Forest City Gear receives top honors
The Supplier Excellence Alliance (SEA) Aerospace & Defense Industry Supply Chain Award winners were announced at the 5th Annual Awards Event held in November...
Leveraging the inspiration of Nature
Nature has always been a source of inspiration and resources to mankind, because throughout the ages, the natural environment has optimized solutions...
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INDUSTRIAL REMOTE-ACCESS APP AutomationDirect's new C-more remote HMI application is available through the iTunes App Store for $4.99 and provides remote...
igus holds third cable competition
igus inc., East Providence, R.I., is holding its third vector award competition to reward challenging and innovative applications using cable carrier...
Linear motion market must diversify for growth
According to the newly released report, The World Market for Linear Motion Products, 2010 Edition from IMS Research, Austin, the combined ballscrew and...
AutomationDirect named great place to work
AutomationDirect, Cumming, Ga., was recently ranked Number Four on The Great Place to Work Rankings: 2011 Best Small & Medium Workplaces presented by...
Custom parts suit space-age applications
NASA's next Mars rover Curiosity took off for the red planet on November 25, 2011, and plans to safely land in the Gale crater area by August 2012. The...
Lockheed Martin hosts science festival
A report delivered to Congress last fall finds that the U.S. now ranks 48th in terms of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The...
Fighting friction in fluid power systems
It is well known that friction between lubricated surfaces is a chief source of energy losses in fluid power systems. Now, help is on the way due to research...
Save the date: CSIA conference
Control system integrators, take note: Mark your calendars for the CSIA 2012 Executive Conference, to be held April 25 to 28 at the Talking Stick Resort...
Motion Industries honors Nexen Group
Nexen Group Inc., Vadnais Heights, Minn., recently received the Operational Excellence Supplier Partnership Award from Motion Industries, Atlanta, a distributor...
Pent-up equipment demand spurs motion control market
The worldwide market for general motion control systems motion controller, drive, and motor is on the rise. According to a new study from ARC Advisory...
Biz bits
Manfred Wittenstein receives top honor On Friday, September 23, top business leaders were honored at Germany's prestigious 15th annual Entrepreneur of...
A gaggle of gearmotors
Most solar thermal installations built around a central tower are limited to research facilities but Gemasolar, located in southern France, in conjunction...
ISA announces 2012-2013 scholarships
The International Society of Automation (ISA), Research Triangle Park, N.C., is now accepting applications for its 2012-2013 ISA Educational Foundation...
Giant piezoelectric response enables nanopositioning
By integrating a complex, single-crystal material with piezoelectric properties onto silicon, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers can fabricate...
MRI drives a medical robot
Engineers at Children's Hospital Boston have demonstrated the ability to program the magnetic field generated by a clinical MRI scanner to motorize and...
In response
Thousands of readers are downloading the new Brushing Up eBooks series on topics such as physics, circuits, and magnetism. Why not join them? Thanks for...
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