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The Supervisory Board of Ziehl-Abegg has appointed Wolfgang Mayer as the new Chief Technology Officer. The 50-year-old will take over the role in February 2024.
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The Supervisory Board of Ziehl-Abegg has appointed Wolfgang Mayer as the new Chief Technology Officer. The 50-year-old will take over the role in February 2024.
The Andritz Supervisory Board and the current Schuler CEO Domenico Iacovelli have mutually agreed on the latter's departure as of December 31, 2023. Dr. Joachim Schönbeck will take over as CEO at the turn of the year.

ebm-Papst is investing around 1 million euros in the expansion and conversion of its site in Singapore. The original headquarters of the Southeast Asia region will in future manage the entire Asia-Pacific and Middle East Asia region.

The global economic downturn is leaving its mark on the mechanical engineering industry. Although the VDMA is raising its forecast for 2023, a real decline in production of 4% is expected for 2024, according to the association at its annual press conference.

We are looking for the 'Product of the Year 2024'! We have published over 600 products over the past year and now they have been decided: We present the nominations in 12 categories in which you can vote for your personal favorite!

Posic launches a new version of the encoder kit 'IT5602C' with higher speed and finer resolution.
Gearboxes set the pace in production. Read the white paper "Cycloidal gears for electromobility" by Nabtesco to find out why a technological change is needed in production and how you can significantly increase the efficiency of your production with cycloidal gears.
Many control methods have been developed for three-phase motors, for which there are numerous terms. In order to bring clarity to the variety of terms and abbreviations, this article highlights basic properties using the Movi-C frequency inverter as an example.

At SPS 2023, Synapticon presented the completely new 'Somanet Integro' product line for the first time, which marks the company's entry into a new market segment: general mechanical engineering.

Despite the rail strike on the last day, SPS is approaching its pre-corona size again: Over the three days of the trade fair, 50,081 trade visitors made their way to Nuremberg.