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Wittenstein cyber motor launches 'cyber kit motors' as individual drive solutions for servo technology applications.
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Wittenstein cyber motor launches 'cyber kit motors' as individual drive solutions for servo technology applications.

With a new wind energy competence center in Unna (North Rhine-Westphalia) and production sites in Lahnau (Hesse) and Shanghai, LTI Motion intends to expand its wind business into a strategic growth pillar.

Panasonic Electric Works presents servo drives from the 'Minas A6' series as SX with Advanced Safety. The company presents the prototype of a basic version of drive controllers with the twelve most common safety functions and nine integrated and safe inputs and outputs.

The Siemens Group is once again giving itself a new structure - with only three instead of the previous five divisions and a division into 'Operating Companies' and 'Strategic Companies'.

The Italian company Bonfiglioli has laid the foundation stone for its new headquarters in Calderara di Reno. In addition to the head office, the central plant for industrial drive technology, the group's traditional business area, is to be built there.

Following the construction of the first European robot factory in Kočevje, Slovenia, Yaskawa is continuing its expansion in Europe: The company is planning further production sites in Slovenia for the manufacture of frequency inverters, servo drives and servo motors.

Siemens has announced its figures for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018: Group-wide, comparable sales were on a par with the previous year. Broken down into the individual business units, 'Digital Factory' recorded the highest growth.
Bernecker + Rainer (B&R) / ABB
One year after announcing the takeover of B&R, the Swiss ABB Group will invest 100 million euros in Austria. The innovation and education campus being built at B&R's headquarters in Eggelsberg will create the basis for around 1,000 new high-tech jobs.
As production processes become more flexible, the number of servo axes and the need for easy-to-handle servo axes in the machine increases. In response to this, Lenze has now put together a scalable axis package.

The shareholder structure at Lenord + Bauer changed with effect from January 1, 2018: The company founders and shareholders Hans Look (80) and Dieter Westerhoff (75) have transferred their shares in the company to the Lenord family.