Patent advances maglev technology
MagneMotion Inc., Acton, Mass., a developer and manufacturer of linear synchronous motor (LSM) products and systems, was awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,448,327...
Biz bits
Moog acquires California Linear Devices Moog Inc., Blacksburg, Va., has acquired California Linear Devices Inc. (CLD), Carlsbad, Calif., a privately held...
EtherCAT adds safety profile
Because today's drive profiles do not cover functional safety, the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) is developing a new safety drive profile to close the...
Packaging profile enhances SERCOS III
Good news for the packaging industry: The SERCOS (Serial Realtime Communication System) vendor organizations have announced the development of a Pack...
Motion controllers aid space exploration
Exploring the deepest corners of space depends on savvy astronomers with access to the right tools, not the least of which are powerful telescopes. A...
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Fenner Precision enhances Buffalo facility Fenner Precision, Manheim, Penn., a developer and manufacturer of custom belts, pulleys, and rollers for paper...
Timely retrofit saves tissue-wrapping machinery
When Bologna, Italy-based Tissue Manufacturing Service S.r.l (TMS) needed an urgent upgrade for obsolete motion control equipment on its aged tissue wrapping machinery, it called Trio Motion Technology Ltd., Tewkesbury, UK, for some fresh ideas. ...
Gearboxes, bearings improve quarry uptime
At the Corcoran Concrete quarry located in County Mayo, Westport, Ireland, bearings and gearboxes were failing at regular intervals, severely impacting profits and throughput. ...
Replicating earthquakes, hurricanes for construction industry
Imagine knowing how well structural building components would stand up against an earthquake or hurricane without actually witnessing or experiencing the devastating loss and damage....
Bearing demand increases worldwide
Economic news has been pretty depressing lately, but when it comes to bearings, it’s a bull market....
Air motors give papermaking a lift
Germany's paper industry is the largest in Europe, and with revenues of approximately 14.9 billion euro, it is fourth worldwide behind the U.S., China, and Japan....
Humanoid Robotics Institute unveils new robot
STMicroelectronics (ST), Geneva, Switzerland, a semiconductor manufacturer, and the Waseda University Humanoid Robotics Institute (HRI), Tokyo, Japan, a robotics research facility, recently announced the development of a two-wheel inverted pendulum robot called WV-1 (Waseda wheeled Vehicle-No.1), the first product of a collaboration to develop humanoid robots and medical care robot systems....
Electric monorail system gets smart
By combining contactless power supply, drive-based controls, wireless Ethernet, bar codes, and software, engineers at SEW-Eurodrive (Lyman, S.C.) have developed an electric monorail system (EMS) that is more flexible, cleaner, and requires less maintenance than traditional overhead material handling systems....
Industrial computer guides tunnel-driving vehicles
Tunnel-driving machinery is no place for sissies, or sensitive computers....
Driverless vehicles undergo drive makeover
Unmanned vehicles are reaching new levels of sophistication, to perform a wide range of chores that humans would rather not do: hauling, transportation, disposing and disarming of explosives, and surveillance....
News
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed software for police robots that will save precious minutes during bomb-displacement missions...
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