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The weakness of the automotive industry is also causing problems for the Franconian supplier Schaeffler. CEO Klaus Rosenfeld is glad that the Group has another important pillar where things are running more smoothly.
read more...With XPlanar, Beckhoff opens up new degrees of freedom in product handling: free-floating planar movers move over individually arranged planar tiles on freely programmable travel paths.
read more...Handling pipes is a major challenge. Especially when they are up to four meters long and space is limited. An application-specific handling and transfer unit with four Scara robots solves the problems.
read more...iC-RB from iC-Haus is an optical twin-scan encoder IC with an absolute resolution of 24 bits in the control channel and 15 bits in the safety channel.
read more...Siemens spins off its business with large motors and puts it on its own legal footing.
read more...How can cookies be packaged quickly without breaking? A fully automated packaging machine makes it possible: the individual components - from the digitalized drive technology to the control system - are perfectly coordinated.
read more...The single-stage worm gearboxes of the 'Vario' family from Groschopp are modular and have a hygienic design.
read more...iT Engineering Software Innovations
Industry 4.0 is driving the trend towards small batch sizes with high product variance. This puts different loads on drives in machines and systems and makes it more difficult to predict the right time for maintenance. IIoT Building Blocks help with predictive maintenance.
read more...The lifgo and lean SL rack and pinion gearboxes from Leantechnik are particularly suitable for applications in which precise synchronous positioning tasks need to be performed.
read more...The motion monitoring module PNOZ m EF 1MM2DO of the configurable small controller 'PNOZmulti 2' from Pilz also offers the functions cascading and delayed switch-off in the area of safe motion monitoring.
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